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If an extremely small amount of brain trauma or chemical inbalance can completely change a person's personality, fuck with their senses (or completely remove them) and so on, would it be plausible to say if a person were to completely destroy their head via diving head-first off of a building, between the period of contact and completely destroying the brain, could a person inside of their own mind experience an indefinite period of unimaginable agony?
To everyone else it would be over instantly, however people perceive time differently and this would be taking it to extremes
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>>8741058
No. Why would you even think this?
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This picture is awesome.
I don't give a shit about your question.
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>>8741058
Head-down terminal velocity: 90-100m/s
Average brain height: ~0.1m
Synaptic delays: 0.5-3ms
Won't have enough time to experience anything, my dude.
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how pleb would you have to be to use a solutions manual? i want to properly get into integrals from stewart, but im struggling with definite integral stuff like utilizing sum of squares proofs to use the limit form of the Riemann sum. my prof said just to skip it but i wanted to know if it was worth going over than just doing the FTC integral methods, hence my thought of using the solutions manual to see how they did it.
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>>8740852
I use the solutions manual so I can get assignments out of the way quickly and get back to more cerebral activities like posting on /sci/
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>>8740859
this
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>>8740852
>be me
>reading solutions manual
>already did problems, just want to check work
>please read first letter of every line
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How is general AI supposed to understand what is and isn't real? What are factual recounts of history and what are stories?
Even humans struggle with this very hard
See: Religion
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See: Bayesian inference
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>>8740700
The same way we do, presumably.
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>>8740711
That's the problem. We are shit at it
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So these names confuse the fuck out of me still, is reduction a gain in electrons because the loss of oxygen leaves oxygen's electrons, while oxidation is oxygen coming in and stealing those electrons?
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>>8740528
Reduction is lowering the formal charge of an element
Oxidation is raising the formal charge of an element.
It's called "oxidation" because oxygen reduces the formal charge of just about anything it forms a compound with. But other elements besides oxygen can act as oxidizing agents as well.
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>>8740528
Just remember "LEO GER"
its stupid as fuck but its easy to think "Lose electrons Oxidation, gain electrons reduction"
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>>8740552
How does it gain electrons when it lowers the charge though? Our book only talks about the gain and loss of electrons, that's why this is so grindy. . ..
>>8740593
I like that
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Are ideas energy or matter? If everything is either energy or matter, it has to be one or the other right?
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>>8740388
Energy
You should philosophize it yourself...
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Ideas are a specific arrangement of matter in the form of a specific arrangement of a brain. They are a human meme, not a physical thing.
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Well, if you consider ideas as neuron impulses then yes, but that doesn't really says anything special about it. You said it yourself everything is energy or matter so it's not surprising that they are energy or matter. Now fuck off.
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Should all non-STEM majors be defunded and their students not be allowed to take out student loans?
I ask because my friend graduated with a degree in criminal justice. He wanted to become a cop and I assumed this was how you did it.
I was shocked to find that to join the police academy, the only requirement to join was 60 credits. You had a better chance with a bachelors, but it didn't matter which one.
I looked into other jobs such as victim advocacy, case management, etc. They again, only asked for a bachelor's didn't matter which one. What fucking use is requiring a degree if you don't care what you learned?
In fact, after some research, I found that this was the case with literally every non-STEM profession, excluding things like law and rare examples with accounting, but even those were extremely open ended.
Whole were burying our heads in books trying to retain information accounting develop problem solving skills, these people write a piss easy 500 word paper then go party. The difference between what STEM majors do I'm college and others is astounding. You want to know the number 1 hire of non-STEM majors is?
Enterprise rent a car. They require a bachelor's for their entry level, 40k position that has you working 50 hours a week at the front desk and cleaning cars.
These places know they can do this because milquetoast IQ norm is are able to take out loans for information they will never use in their life, and then are desperate to pay them back afterwards so will take any job that pays a salary, further cheapening the Bachelors degree.
Trump needs to put his foot down now and suspend all federal loans to non-STEM or law degrees.
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>>8740169
>>>/reddit/
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>>8740169
I could have just said "university is full of niggers and socialists" but I chose to explain myself. This is an important discussion.
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Try dividing the numbers one through ten into two groups. Then multiply all of the numbers within each group. Is it possible for the sums to be equal? No. Why? One of the groups contains a seven, so the sum will be a multiple of seven. But there's no seven in the other group, so the sum can't be equal. Which makes seven a very lonely number.
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I'm doing poos right now
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There are an infinite number of numbers between every two numbers
Okay, so we have 1, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, 0.00001, ... you can repeat this process infinitely
So, I can just divide the groups up so I have an infinite amount on both sides and get
infinity = infinity
checkmate, OP. Shouldn't have specified real numbers or integers
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you mean product
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Is Category Theory just a big meme?
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it falls into the meme category
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>>8739593
It is.
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Not more than numbers are a meme.
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yea so it might sound weird, but planets are actually just older/evolved stars that have stopped shining and lost the majority of their mass and hydrogen.
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>>8739509
yea so it might sound weird, but stars are actually just older/evolved planets that have started shining and gained the majority of the mass and hydrogen.
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>>8739515
And people are just planets that didn't get big enough to become spherical.
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>>8739509
Someone who does statistical analysis should analyze the likelihood that one of the oldest stars in the universe is 140cy from Earth.
http://www.space.com/20112-oldest-known-star-universe.html
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Puzzle for you guys. There are 20 people in a room. Assuming no one was born on a leap year, what is the variance of the number of pairs people who share a birthday. To be clear, if 3 people were born on christmas and 2 people were born on st patricks, this is considered to be 4 pairs of people who share a birthday.
Variance is defined as E[X^2] - E[X]^2, where E[X] is the expected number of pairs of people who share a birthday. So finding E[X^2] and E[X], where the random variable X is the number of pairs of people who share a birthday, yields the desired quantity.
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What is the distribution of birth dates? Should it be uniform across all dates except leap day?
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>>8739510
yes
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There should be 1-3 pairs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDxyRGrAVGo
Yup. Just watch a few minutes of it. I'll let you all decide what do do about this. But he is a fool masquerading as a scientifically gifted individual.
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>>8739427
>"The actual volume in picometers of every atom is magnetism"
A truly incredible sentence. The guy's a legit retard.
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>>8739427
I agree, this bald fuck is completely wrong. Steber on the other side...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFjkYhNXkE
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I know posting this won't lead to any major scientific breakthroughs or even yield any sort of breakthrough at all but... It just upsets me that people like him can get away with spreading such falsehoods. Because let's face it, not *everyone* studies this stuff enough to know that he's full of shit. And it seems as though a lot of those people are believing the sort of stuff he says because it "sounds scientific". He has a video in which he claims the Aether to exist, and calls light "a coaxial circuit consisting of longitudinal compression and rarefaction along with transverse electrical and magnetic divergences" (paraphrased for corrected spelling and use of grammar). He *also* keeps referring to "dielectricity" which isn't a force at all, he's just bastardizing the term "dielectric".
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Anybody with a background in DNA synthesis, CRISPR, and gene sequencing in mammals wanna form a supergroup to breed neanderthals back into existence using human female volunteers?
Also Neanderthal general.
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No, why would you want to bring back this outcompeted trash of a subspecies?
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>>8739377
They were a superior race.
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>>8739393
>translation: they had autism
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>Taking Mutlivariable Calc
>Occasionally ask the prof a question about a problem
>She keeps insisting we just punch things into Mathematica, Wolfram, or just have our calculators solve the integrals for us
>"I really wouldn't bother to do these by hand"
Am I in the wrong for thinking that's a really fucking bad attitude to have when learning maths?
Like, sure, once you know how to do it by hand save time by having the computer do it, but she insists I not do any of it. Just punch in the equation to a computer.
Or is she just a lazy teacher?
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>>8739036
that is a shit attitude for a teacher to have
shes a lazy fuck, find a new class m8
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>>8739036
HAHAHAHA IS YOUR TEACHER AN ENGINEER
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>>8739045
No she's one of those doctorates-turned-teachers because getting a real career is too hard after spending so long in academia
>>8739042
there's only like 6 weeks left in the semester at this point, unfortunately.
i'm gunna handwrite a letter and send it in to her boss about how bad of a fucking job she does though, god damn
Scientifically speaking, what determined the parameters of your genetic lineage, i.e what phenomena or entity or variable determined under which species/ancestry you would be born to? As opposed to some other genetic lineage. etc.
Was it random chance or the big bang itself or something prior?
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God designed you, my friend. DNA and stuff was invented by the antichrist to fool us humans and to walk away from the creator. Be strong and resist!
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>>8738712
>ultimately what determined your genetic ancestry?
>your DNA and genes and stuff, test tubes and richard dawkins.
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>>8738690
Time.
>/thread
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How was this used to teach multiplication? Or, was that what it was used for?
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>>8738687
https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-multiplication-wheel-that-was-discovered-on-old-chalkboards-at-Emerson-High-School-in-Oklahoma-work
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>>8738687
>jew stars
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>>8738687
it was obviously used in satanic rituals to summon the answer, just look at the pentagrams above.