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Quantom immortality. Is it real?
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>>8920991
No.
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Impossible to test.
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>>8920991
isnt it necessary if many-worlds is correct?
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We play a game, you flip a coin, and you keep fliping untill you get tail.
If you get tail on 1st flip you gain 2$
if you get tail on 2nd flip you gain 4$
if you get tail on 3rd flip you gain 8$
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if you get tail on nth flip you gain 2^n $
How much would you pay to participate in a round of such game ?
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>>8919391
This method is better and works great on roulette. Profit.
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>>8919397
this has nothing to do with roulette or martingale.
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>>8919391
Well my expected winnings are 1+1+1+...
So I'd say it's worth about -1/2$
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Hello /sci/!
Can you give me some arguements for the use of advanced mathematics,chemistry and physics in our everyday lives?
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>>8919133
>advanced mathematics
cryptography
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Nope. Gotta keep our wages high, so keep the normies from knowing our craft.
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>>8919138
>high
They are not high. They are at above poverty level. And we better keep it there because if we get to poverty level then fuck mathematics, I'll be a stripper.
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how the fuck do you prove this without truth tables? algebraically isn't this as simple as it gets?
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Its a definition. It doesn't require a proof.
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>>8918260
my prof said to prove it algebraically though.as an exercise.
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>>8918261
Truth table method is the only way I can think of proving this.
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How do you come to terms with the fact that you're a brainlet? Bad memory, takes you more explanation before you get the concepts than others, trouble linking between different concepts until someone points it out.
Is this just falling for the meme that when everyone else in the class is silent they get it, when in reality everyone's like this? Or am I a /brainlet/
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>>8918162
Sit down and oractice whatever youre doing more than everyone else does and eventually you will be better than them, assuming you are at least one standard deviation above the norm as far as IQ is concerned.
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>>8918162
You're a brainlet, I was in exactly the same position as you, and I thought the same.
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What does /sci/ think about the... Hyperloop.
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Absolute bullshit.
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>>8917488
If it works well, a money making machine.
If it doesn't work, a crime against humanity
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>>8917488
civil engineer here...
building the track for this thing to run on would be an absolute nightmare costing a mind staggering amount of money, assuming you could even get the route permitted over the objections of every single land owner between start and finish.
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Low-Nutrient, Vertical-Farming Foods Could Pose Serious Health Risk To Vegans Hell-Bent On Saving Planet
http://notrickszone.com/2017/05/13/low-nutrient-vertical-farming-foods-could-pose-serious-health-risk-to-vegans-hell-bent-on-saving-planet/
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>random blogger who couldn't parse a freshmen level plant physiology textbook
not even vegan, you're just a retard
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Socialism: People are starving because 0 food
Capitalism: Poor people are unhealthy because cheap food is complete garbage with 0 nutritional value
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>>8912543
I've ordered "roof top" vegetables before and they clearly sucked. I wasn't duped into trying to sustain myself off these vegetables. If you aren't a moron you will recognize low nutrient food and simply not continue to buy it. Pretty simple.
My dudes! Is this tier list correct?
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>>8905439
>Elder
Stopped reading there.
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>>8905439
No, Philosophy is dead. Anything of value has been salvaged by the field of Mathematical Logic.
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>>8905442
>E
I stopped there.
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Why are practically 90% of all scientific, math and engineering tutorials on YouTube uploaded by poo in loos?
Not being racist but their accent really makes it hard to take them seriously
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>>8921019
there is billion and half of them and some are actually are clever
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>>8921021
>there is billion and half of them and some are actually are clever
OK I acknowledge that.
But some of the stuff on my course is only covered by these guys and buried in 32 hours of lectures...
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they aren't as big of elitist shitheads as people from the US/UK and are willing to share their knowledge
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Question about IQ:
There are people with high iqs but who have not studied much of anything and are largely ignorant of many important things, physics, economics, philosophy, politics, biology etc.
Then there are also people who have modest iqs but have deliberately studied these fields, have a broad knowledge and have leveraged thousands of years of past knowledge.
Which of these is the ubermensche...? The over man...
Lets assume both are middle aged, and the high iq is still unworldly, and unsophisticated.
Then a further question, is which is it better to be, at middle age.
*these are hypothetical options and not meant to be representative of any particular population.
Tl;dr:
Is it better to be:
High iq(2std dv): low education, low knowledge.
Moderate iq: high education, high knowledge.
Which is the ubermensche?
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I want myself to lean toward the educated moderate, because he can apply his intelligence better and is using formulas from geniuses and their theories.
But then, the high iq could be auto processing and "seeing/perceiving" things that are conceptually beyond the moderate. And in a specialised labor market the moderates broad knowledge is less useful as most things can be outsourced
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In what way is this question related to science or mathematics?
Attempting to quantify the 'quality' of a human is a philosophical question.
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>>8920967
A humans value is their economic output, that is a question for mathematics.
Iq is part of psychology, which is a science.
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How many months could someone learn pre-algebra, algebra 1/2, & geometry?
>pic unrelated
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>>8920695
Four months seems like a very achievable goal if you put in eight hours a day.
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Like one, dude.
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I'm writing a sci-fi thing about transhumanism. What are ways people might upgrade their bodies besides genetic augmentation and cybernetics?
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>>8920676
artificial symbiosis between humans and some microorganism
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>>8920676
obviously teliconesis, lazier eyes, flying, shirnking, cool gadgets, ice breath, radeoactive spiders, cat ears.
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>>8920676
putting a magnet on your finger.
putting some vibration implants inside your dick.
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Is STEM the only path to concrete truth?
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>>8919899
No, only math is.
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>>8919899
No, but it's a great path to underemployment and suffering.
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>>8919899
Depends what you mean by concrete truth. Do you mean the observations we can make about the phyisical world and the interactions in space and time? Then yes, STEM is the tool to discover these truths. Are you talking about, absolute Truth? Then no, as it is not empirical.
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Hello /sci
I recently came across this code, and am having the utmost difficulty cracking it. Anyone here think they have the cryptographic experience?
81763282726251151425278882201928362526388583726242637382910184596694
I have reason to believe whatever it translates to might be latin. Hope that helps.
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>>8919436
This isn't really paranormal, as it is just numbers.
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>>8919428
Code? That is just a number man what the fuck.
Some of its prime factors: 2, 137, 279806561, 2120109671
Lets have a real scientific thread, just for once.
Upper picture is an AFM microscope image that depicts electrostatic forces from atoms/molecules by a nano-sized needle, taken from nature mag. Shows different configurations depending on the distance between the needle, ie. penetration depth.
Lower picture depicts the intensity distribution of gaussian laser beams, and the first few modes.
Shroedinger stationary wave function describes the top configuration, helmholz wave function the bottom one.
The underlying mathematics of solvinge laplace's equation with different boundary conditions is the same.
Keep in mind that field theories or quantum theories are just that - theories. The same goes for photon, which is a theoretical concept best described by "the thing that hits the one-photon detector".
So what is really going on? Why do theoretical physicist go on and on about String bullshit or GUT if they have not yet developed a consistent theory of light/matter interaction?
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>>8919033
>they have not yet developed a consistent theory of light/matter interaction?
I don't know anon, QED looks pretty consistent to me. You started off so strong as well. As to why you can get two different distributions to look the same of the top of my head I'd guess it was because the equations describing them are pretty similar, so then it's just a case of tweaking until you get similar looking pictures.
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>>8919033
Link the paper
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>>8919033
lol it says "HOMO"