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This is a new idea I created relevant to Ocarina of Time speedrunning.
It's basically like if you had to win a coin toss by landing on tails, so beforehand you flip a coin until it lands on heads 10 times in a row Because if a coin landed on heads 10 times a row, chances are far higher of it landing on tails next.
In Ocarina of Time 100% speedrun, there's a part where a character called Dampe has to pull a Heart Piece out of the ground, it's a 10% chance everytime, it's completely random, it looks like this:
https://youtu.be/diYFdkKmYpM?t=2h10m7s
It's a big deal in speedruns because it can kill runs and it's completely based on luck.
I created an idea called Dampe buffering. BEFORE you start a run, you load up a save near Dampe, and after 20 or so tries of NOT getting the heart piece, THEN you start a run and your chance of getting the heart piece early are greatly increased.
Normally these players start a run while their last try with Dampe was when they got the HP. That means their chance of getting first try HP is the same as getting the HP twice in a row.
The gambler fallacy is only a fallacy when you view the math on paper, it's only wrong because of theoretical technicality, in real life it works.
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Oh, so that's why every casino ever went bankrupt?
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>>8853884
Please don't reproduce.
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>Because if a coin landed on heads 10 times a row, chances are far higher of it landing on tails next.
Where are the proofs?
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Anyone can explain properly why B is the correct answer and close the debate once and for all ?
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>>8853687
At best it's some bizarre space time so regular conservation laws won't work. At worst it's totally unphysical.
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Pic related is the real question.
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ITT: Laugh at normies trying to contemplate time travel.
Why do normies believe that killing yourself or your parents/grandparents/great-grandparents before they conceive in the past would somehow cause you to suddenly disintegrate. As if your entire being gives a fuck if some composition of matter related only by the loose definition of self is destroyed in the past.
Furthermore most of these 'paradoxes' are fucking retarded. Why do people think that cause and effect would carry backwards in time?
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>>8852973
>Trying to understand normie logic.
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>>8852973
I hate that fucking Doctor Who show and everyone who watches that drivel. I fucking hate "le nerd awesome xdd" hijacking of science by normies that started in 2007 with the Big Bang Theory.
I fucking hate all these normies that think they are smart because they watch "Le based science man xd!"
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>>8852994
Doctor Who ain't as bad as the Big Bang Theory Kekin Christ cunt.
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Do you think Strong AI would have an existential crisis?
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I've been seeing a lot of articles about how AI is going to be awesome and help humans live indefinitely and all that jazz, but I'm curious if they'd have existential questions like humans do.
An AI would not likely be religious, as it knows it was created by man and not a higher power. It would be aware of the current proposed fate of the universe. As a creation designed with the goal of preserving itself, would that not cause it so undergo some sort of error?
Some AI advocates make the pretty bold claim that a strong AI would rather quickly discover if it's possible to circumvent entropy or bail out on our universe, but is that necessarily true? And how "quickly" would that be? An AI might go insane and shut itself down out of dread before it discovers some possible way for either of those, or either of those might just not be possible (In which case, people like Kurzweil say the AI would be content riding out the rest of this universe).
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>>8852811
But that's not the thread I made, Anon.
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>>8852810
kurzweil is a death fearing whining little cunt who never got over daddy dying :)
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>Spend over 12 years of your childhood and teens which you will never get back in Victorian era institutions most of which are aimed at making you into a wage slave from 9 til 5, 5 days a week and being forced to learn mostly uninteresting content along side emotionally undeveloped children and make life altering decisions when your brain hasn't even developed yet while your quality of education is partially at the will of how wealthy your parents are
What did they mean by this?
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increase gross domestic output.
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>>8852247
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Most of the economics literature suggests education is 50 to 80% about preparing an industrial workforce for repetition and drudgery. Do you gave a better idea on how to do the?
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Of the 2020's
The 2050's
The 2080's
The 2110's
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>>8851681
Of the 2020's
35% of food in developed world is "organic"
first "mass produced" stem cell meat 4000$/kg
The 2050's
plant rights, virii rights, single-cell organism rights.
personal computers are long dead (~15 years)
african population reaches 6 billion
stem cell meat is considered unethical because it's not compliant with single cell rights
The 2080's
after african tribal nuclear war of 2065 with over 1.5 billion causalities, african population remains largely the same, as before war
West dies out, after activists destroyed and poisoned nearly every field, to "fight against capitalist slavery", forgetting that possession of all metal tools or steel was banned on safety grounds in 2054
The 2110's
africa slowly dies out after second nuclear tribal because of calamity of infertility after both wars and lower "alive" birth rates after first war 45 years ago (down from 3.85 to 2.2)
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>>8851681
cancer in all forms
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>>8851681
Pic related was in a gallery without glass shielding. The thought that I could just reach out and destroy it was enticing.
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Why do people want to colonize space when they could just go colonize Antarctica for less effort and money?
Extinction events that happen 1 in 100 million are not an excuse since there are much cheaper ways to deal with that shit like paying people to live in vaults.
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>>8851264
>antartica
you know why
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>>8851264
It's not only about colonization, but also about the scientific progress made by developing space travel technology and the proof that man is capable of leaving Earth.
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>>8851309
That who shpeel can be said about Antarctica.
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Is it possible that the reason intelligent life in the universe is clearly extremely rare (in fact we might be the only intelligent life) is because other civilizations out there never discovered science? Think about it, a species has to know science to make modern and future technology like TV's and space ships but science isn't common sense and wasn't for most of human history. For most of human history knowledge was based on educated guesses and dogmas. Most of human exists (around 90% of it) has been hunter gather but we were just as smart then genetically as we are now. A cave man from 50 thousand years ago should have the potential to learn physics. Even after civilization was created ~10k years ago most of that was basically trial and error for the vast majority of it until very recently.
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>clearly
Literally every star could have human-level aliums circling around them and we wouldn't even know.
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>>8850906
Except that means they don't have good technology since any type of signaling should be able to be picked up.
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>intelligent creatures only eat meat so they never develop Agriculture so while intelligent are always just hunter tribes
>Intelligent creatures live on a world with high oxygen content so they can't use fire (high oxygen content would mean fire would explode) and therefore can't cook food or use metal tools
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not really sure what board this is supposed to go on, but can we get a /space/ general going?
>Theories of the final frontier
>What to expect on mars, trappist-1, space age nationalism/globalism, etc.
>Questions and answers (e.g. how much money to live on Mars, /sci/entists? What music would be cool to listen to in space?)
anything else /space/ related
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bump for interest
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how big of a space station can we build orbiting earth before it begins to affect tides and stuff
can we aim for 150 people living aboard?
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>>8848060
>What to expect on mars
JELLO BABIES
JELLO BABIES
JELLO BABIES
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>200 BC
>the sky, moon, and stars interest people
>people make all sorts of unfalsifiable conjectures that are consistent with currently accepted facts
>these conjectures are completely ignored once new scientific evidence is found and accepted
>2017 AD
>the brain and consciousness interest people
>philosophers make all sorts of unfalsifiable conjectures that are consistent with currently accepted facts
Why are their opinions taken seriously? All they do is stand on top of currently accepted scientific facts* and try to monopolise the ability to make unfalsifiable conjectures.
And why do Philosophers completely evacuate any question that has been settled through scientific or engineering methods? Why aren't they trying to figure out how cars move or how planes can fly? Planes and cars are important to society. Hmm... It couldn't be due to the fact that they wallow in unfalsifiable areas and obscurantism and fashionable areas, could it...
*no, I'm not saying that science isn't a subset of philosophy or that logical positivism is true.
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Dennett-san is a bit of an attention whore. Go easy on him, he just likes to be noticed.
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>>8846629
ugh
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Okay you bastards, is it true that the universe is flat? (0 curvature).
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How would gravity work in hyperbolic space?
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>>8845773
a^2+b^2<c^2
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the universe is a rhombus pls respond
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Just like how ants can't see or perceive the existance of something much larger (like humans), is it possible there are large beings out in the universe that we can't see with our tiny telescopes?
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No, ants can physically *see* us as I'm sure you'll find out if you're ever bit by one, they just don't notice us or even have the capacity to understand what we are other than "danger/food".
I think you've got mixed up somewhere, the common idea is that even if aliens are knocking around up there we wouldn't be able to tell because they'd be doing things beyond our comprehension, like an ant crawling around in KFC doesn't realize its in a restaurant humans spend money in in exchange for food, which is possible. But they can physically see us, its not case of "not having a large enough telescope".
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>>8853942
Well maybe what we think of as the universe is just a giant organism that we're living on as parasites.
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>>8853962
Maybe, we can't see past the hubble sphere so its entirely possible. But its not falsifiable yet and with known physics never will be, so there's no much anyone can say about it.
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Why are some people so obsessed with notation and lack imagination? I hate these dumb piggots. (pig + faggot)
Take a look at graph theory.
You have terms like "full" and "complete" that describe completely different things. There are dumb formulas everywhere, formulas that are actually very logical and don't need to be described as theorems.
Discrete mathematics feels like mental masturbation taken to an Olympics level. It's like a race to see who can define the most retarded definition ever, instead of thinking about the bigger picture.
"Oh, looks like the number 3 looks like a ballsack, let's call all numbers that contain a 3 the 'ballsack numbers'. Damn, that was fun!"
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>>8853369
what's worse is that the names themselves are chosen in a completely illogical and unimaginative way.
Full graph =/= Complete graph
If we're not even using the terms with their real meanings as analogies why not stop giving a shit about their meaning completely?
If full =/= complete then the meaning doesn't matter at all, that's what you can logically conclude.
Why don't we call the full graphs "fag graphs"?
We can call complete graphs the "smelly ones".
>oooh, this graph is a smelly one, it has every level filled out but the last one, pheeew it stinks like hell. It's a smelly graph. Yeah, I'm autistic.
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>>8853369
Math is like a zero, powered by negativity and lies. That is the root of the problem here
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I just thought about another nonsensical definition. I just love making up words and definitions for useless shit.
A graph that has an odd number of nodes is a "poo poo pee pee graph".
Wait, I have another one coming.
A number that's made only of ones is a "forever alone" number. We have to make some definition that appeal to the normie students. We need to incorporate some memes in our definitions to spice things up.
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Realistically speaking, how long until humans get to Mars (Orbit or Land) or the Moon? Given the lack of public interest in such missions, is it ever gonna happen in our lifetime?
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>>8853263
>hurr durr go to mars
>hurr durr multi planet species
Appropriating funds to pointless missions so rich politicians can high-five each other.
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>>8853263
It will never happen now.
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>>8853375
You're an idiot if you think he's gonna give her SpaceX shares.
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I have added some alluminium foil to a solution of CuSO4 and nothing happened, so i read that adding NaCl makes the reaction faster. I did it and the reaction became quite violent with the release of heat and formation of a gas, what is this gas?Is it toxic? Is it hydrogen?
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MY GUESS:
You made copper chloride and sodium sulphate by adding NaCl. Copper chloride and Aluminum chloride which does react with water to produce Hydrogen Chloride according to wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_chloride#Reactions_with_water
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>>8853162
So the gas is HCl?
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>>8853109
Did you do it in an aqueous solution?
Add a mild acid to catalyze like acetic acid