I remember a probability question posted here, I think the solution used Bayes' theorem to solve it,
It was basically this: Suppose you have 2 bags, one of them contains 10 red chips and one of them contains 50 red chips and 50 blue chips. You take one bag and pour out 10 chips, they all happen to be red.
What is the probability that you picked the bag with blue chips in it?
What is the probability that the next coin you take out is a blue coin (assuming you still don't know which bag you have)?
>>9108196
one of them contains 100 red chips*
>>9108196
At one time I probably would've been able to solve this.
Is it the probability of getting ten red chips out of the bag with blue chips times the probability of choosing the bag with blue chips (50%)?
so like 0.02967%?? for the first question
>>9108229
yeah, first one is easy, just use the F.C.P. and multiply your events. Basically you have 11 events. The first is the .5 chance you even pick the right bag, and then you'll have the probability of pulling out a red chip each successive turn. Easy.
For the second one just multiply (.5) x (50/90), since there's still a 50% chance you have the right bag and then just multiply the P(blue) if you do have the right bag
Outsider here, is khan academy good to start learning maths and physics?
I'm a single electrician, I have a lot of free time.
I want to learn.
Khan Academy is good if you want a very interactive experience. The main downside is that it just kind of scratches the surface on most subjects. I prefer using pdfs and epubs of textbooks that are shared on sites like lainchan. Khan Academy is a great way to get your gears moving, but to oil and even replace them use textbooks and other sources. Diversify yo shit.
>>9108175
thanks!
Khan academy is a great start and very good for beginners or those who are struggling with a topic. However, it is not the end-all to self education. It does not offer everything you need to know to become efficient in any one subject.
>hands on experience
>practice problems
>challenges
>motivation
>full explanation or definition of a subject
By all means, use khan academy as an aid, but do not use it as a source.
Take your average run of the mil jet.
ionise the leading edge of the wing.
My question is? How much extra lift and speed is produced? Would higher altitude in an airplane be possible? Can you use this technology to perform thrust vectoring? Are we talking u.f.o scale performance and rapid flight path transitions?
>>9107928
Possibly a good reason to research airplane portable nuclear reactor engines.
Fine, enjoy the spoils of a ten year old post http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=756185
More bread http://www.eagleharbortech.com/research/nasa-sbir-plasma-drag-reduction/
Are our thoughts merely linguistic constructions? Or are our thoughts made of a different substance which gets translated into language when they enter our consciousness?
gorillas can think
pre-linguistic children can think
ergo thoughts aren't linguistic
>>9107837
>ergo thoughts aren't linguistic
If we accept your first two lines as true, it follows that some thoughts can be non-linguistic, but it doesn't necessarily mean that all thoughts are non-linguistic.
>>9107837
>gorillas can think
lol
I made this thread to check up on EM-Drive anon! is he still working on it? or lost hope or he is dead?
also, Discuss the meme drive I guess...
Want to know the real meme drive? The Universe. Where did all this energy come from to start with?
How do I build a meme drive?
I have several magnetrons and several mains ->10kV+ transformers.
>>9107742
Aim magnetron at fancy-looking bucket like OP's picture. Now you're part of the meme
I've been studying most days since July and now I've got the test to see if I know enough to be qualified for higher tier maths (C - A*) is there anything more I can do? I've been studying the following:
Fractions
Percentages
Decimals
Basic Four (+-x/)
Is there anything more I can do? I have access to mymaths.
How old are you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-algebra
I dont quite understand the context, but if you are in highschool or early university "maths", get into Khan Academy and read "A modern survey of modern algebra" to develop abstract thinking.
Why should I learn C++ if I'm not a computer scientist?
what course?
> Why should I learn C++ if I'm not a computer scientist?
There isn't any. Go with a higher level language if you just want to fuck around
>>9107612
The Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup has the PHENOTYPE.
Hey I was wondering what is this called and what it's the cause of it
>>9107602
Its lupus.
>>9107602
>Hey I was wondering what is this called and what it's the cause of it
It's herpes, basically your mother is a fucking bitch.
Disregarding all other factors like the extreme cold and lack of oxygen, would staring at the Sun from the surface of Pluto or a moon of one of the gas giants put you at risk for blindness the same as Earth, or would it not feel discomforting at all?
>>9107505
it wouldn't, power per sqaure meter will have dropped off immensly at those distances from the sun
>>9107505
The sun as seen from pluto is 250 times brighter than a full moon.
Not sure if that's healthy to stare into for too long.
>>9107505
The glass visors on Astronauts Helmet & Space Ships block the harmful UV & Gamma radiation coming from sun.
In Pluto, sun is too far away from Pluto that the radiation from sun is too weak to worry about.
Although we should protect our vision in Mars. Because on Mars the sun radiation is strong enough to damage our vision.
Could you survive a nuclear holocaust if you were living on some remote island?
probably
>>9107435
> remote island
Like Guam.
>>9107485
Topkek
On topic
Would a nucleur winter affect your ability to sustenence farm on a pacific island?
If you had wildlife could you just eat enough from the boar population to let them breed?
>nutritionist puts me on 10 supplements twice a day
>does fuck all except raise my testosterone marginally
>slowly start becoming stupid
>short term memory gone, low 60s on two of my finals
>can no longer process peoples' words in conversation
>WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
>look up "manganese memory"
>neurotoxic
>mfw doctors got me to take 10-40 times the neurotoxic dose range
post your supplement regime
DMAA+Phenylpiracetam. Works perfectly, i should try.
my supplements from memory:
zinc
b6
b12
"t5t"?
nicotinamide
manganese
vitamin c
vitamin d
folic acid
biotin
I'm going off them all because fuck these clowns
Nutritionists are a joke, research these things yourself or don't bother
How to get the blue current?
Ban me or whatever but tell it to me before please.
I've been 30 minutes thinking about it and I have no clue
What a strange looking commutative diagram
What does the blue line represent ?
If Americans really are too retarded to change to the objectively superior metric system which NASA used to go to the moon, why doesn't the United States gradually and very slowly phase out the Imperial system for everything but speeds and distances?
They could start by making every new measurement instrument like measure cups require a metric scale next to the imperial scale to help people convert between and then over the next couple of decades phase out imperial and making metric the standard for measurements. Getting the help of the industry is also a plus.
Measuring systems are arbitrary. It really doesn't matter which one we use so long as its internally consistent (measures based only on the human body are retarded and inconsistent, obviously).
even though the metric system is superior it doesn't really matter which one you use almost 100% of the time so it's not really worth it to change it
it doesnt fucking matter lmao
How in the fuck am I supposed find time for 8-10 hours of extracurricular clinical volunteering garbage per week when I'm a full time student and work 30 hours a week? I could maybe find time to be a physician's slave for 3-4 hours a week, but fuck me.
>>9106946
Eazy, create time traveling machine and you will have time for your bullshit.
What, you dont know how to create time traveling machine?
It must suck to be brainlet.
why are you working in college? just take a loan like everyone else
>>9106967
why are you taking out a loan for college? just get a merit scholarship like everyone else
STEM is a waste of brainpower in most cases nowadays. I get that Math is very important, but most of it's practical applications nowadays can be done through a calculator. Aside from the theoretical math stuff, it just seems like a middleman-task that humans really shouldn't bother themselves with. I don't udnerstand how people find it "beautiful" or think that they are more intelligent than other people for being better at what is essentially just following instructions rather than actually solving anything, again excluding the most advanced mathematicians who use it to develop stuff like game theory and whatever.
I dunno, I'm definetly biased against it, but it just seems like boring drudgery compared to all the fields and disciplines that require abstract thought and creativity rather than pure computational power. Someone saying they are interested in math, to me, is like someone saying they are more interested in laying bricks than designing a brick hosue.
Also, fuck off STEMfag, you're ruining modern society with your materialism and science-worship.
>>9106884
>I get that Math is very important, but most of it's practical applications nowadays can be done through a calculator.
So how's Calc 1?
>>9106884
>bail
Please back to North Korea or Cuba.
>>9106884
Mods!