>High School Biology
"Plants feed off of Carbon Dioxide. They convert this into Oxygen and improve our living conditions. It's good to have more plants!"
>Politicians
"Global Warming will be terrible for the environment, increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere will kill the planet"
Explain.
>>8576864
Fun fact:
>Plants actually love a carbon dioxide rich environment and our planet is currently in the lowest amounts of airborne CO2, ever.
Not get me wrong, whilst we are damaging our environment and need to be more careful, CO2 isn't the demon here.
> Exercise is good for you
> Anorexia athletics
Explain.
Just so we're clear, 3D printing is a meme, right?
>>8572555
It's real and non-trivial anon. What's your issue with it?
No, 3D printing is the future, because in the future everything will be made of flimsy plastic.
>>8572555
No
No one has been able to afford it well and has many potential to get more benefits from it or cause lots of damage as well
Are they the smartest people on earth?
>>8579815
They have a better chance at applying to be the most ugly
>>8579815
a challenger appears!
>>8579815
the flag says it all
If heat rises then how come space is so cold?
>earth highest point in known universe confirmed
Heat is just Jewish propaganda.
>>8578099
Probably because there's a LOT of space between objects, there's actually a theory called "big freeze".
>>8578100
Is that why so many of them have risen to the top o' society after being in the oven?
How i make a time machine ?
>>8581554
To go into the future, just make a ship that can approach the speed of light and fly around for a bit.
>>8581554
Wait for somebody from the future to bring you one
>>8581554
Wait for your future self who has already made it to show up and tell you how. Also you will need him to let you borrow the machine since the materials to make it no longer exist and you'll have to travel back in time to get them. However, the reason they no longer exist is because you went back to harvest them.
So are they cults or what?
>Give us millions of dollars or AI will kill everyone.
Seems like a death cult.
>>8581521
>Give us millions of dollars or malaria will kill many hundreds of thousands of Africans
Does that sound like a cult to you? How is this different?
>>8581521
>cult
Shallow pattern recognition
Shit tier thinking.
Read his books and his papers. He has thought and worked hard on important issues.
>>8581521
>>8581553
See http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/plan.html#vision_memes where he lays out his vision of the Singularity as essentially a global coup, bypassing politicians and reporters by recruiting a crop of super-rich "believer" CEOs
>We need to worry about the reactions of CEOs, Greenpeace, politicians, TV reporters, teens, journalists, televangelists, honest religious fundamentalists, the middle class, truck drivers who've lost their jobs, "disadvantaged youth" and the "urban poor".
>We need ... CEOs who don't object to using AI and are even attracted by the sparkle, supercomputing vendors who either believe or turn a blind eye when the time comes to run the Last Program, no interference from politicians, no fad television programs about the Singularity, and citadels of technophobia worrying about something else.
>We should emotionally accept the possibility of government interference, and be prepared to move against attempts to regulate the development of AI, or evade those regulations if they are successful.
>With O($100M) to O($1G), or more ... We could engage in large-scale evangelism. We could "meddle" in things like independent patent agencies, government hearings on biotechnology, and so on.
Literally has been planning a planet-wide coup for decades. Not a cult how?
please help me understand this problem, lads.
thanks
Find where f(x) is equal to x by replacing f(x) with x, then solve for x
>>8581423
Just let x = -2x+2 and call it a day.
Is this a joke?
If you could drive a car straight up, how long would it take to reach the International Space Station, driving at 60 miles per hour?
>>8580938
the space station is about 50 miles high. driving at 60 miles per hour it would take about 2 hours
>>8580943
I thought it orbited at 249mi high.
>>8580950
it orbits like the earth orbits the sun so it's a little closer during winter
How much force does this shotgun shell yield when it fires at a target 5 feet away?
Assuming all 15 pellets hit their target as well
Shotgun shell link here: http://www.halopedia.org/Soellkraft_8_gauge_magnum
>>8579054
I dunno dude, why don't you find the mass of each pellet and the muzzle velocity and do some fucking middle school physics.
>>8579064
That's why I'm coming to /sci/ because I don't know how to do any of that.
>>8579138
we wont help you. plz go to that /v/ thing
So I'm trying to get into computational linguistics, I'm almost finished my undergrad in mathematics, with a CS minor and some linguistics classes under my belt. I'm probably gonna try getting into a masters program eventually.
What I'm really wondering, though, is whether anybody here does work in this field? What type of work does it entail? I enjoy the theory and the actual study of it, I've recently been going through an NLP course on Coursera, but I don't know what it's like at the professional level.
>>8573565
How is linguistics? I know many comp sci people who chose it as an elective and are pretty disappointed by how boring it is.
>>8573833
I actually enjoy it a lot. To be honest, I think a lot of people who study CS today aren't interested in the sciences or even math all that much, they just want to program; I'd take their opinions with a grain of salt.
That said, you might find parts of linguistics boring, there's a lot of subfields and people definitely find their preferences. I tend not to like any of the stuff that relates to sociology, which is I think a growing field but really isn't the same kind of study as the rest of linguistics, though my intro to linguistics professor seemed pretty big on it.
compling in the industry boils down effectively to NLP/MT in a very specific domain and rarely does it deal with any of the theoretical content that the degree generally touches on. i am going to get a compling degree sometime soon, but if you enjoy the theoretical part then i recommend following through and getting a PhD.
also the only interesting places to work (I have heard) are google/MS/facebook/apple/amazon, any other place you are doing some really garbage tier programming work for some dumb shit application. i recommend if you cannot work for these places out of your masters program, you should just take a regular software engineering job.
What's your favorite equation/theorem/science fact /sci/?
Mine is the generalized Strokes' theorem
Voronin's Universality Theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_function_universality
the riemann zeta function approximates any nonvanishing holomorphic function in the right half of the critical strip infinitely many times and arbitrarily well
Triangel have trie angle who add at 180
>>8573301
That picture is not stokes theorem.
Previous thread: >>8556735
How much prior physics do you need to start in on studying quantum mechanics (not just the memes, but serious study) ?
>>8571619
No prior physics.
Lots of prior math.
Is it possible for me to swap uni's during the bachelor years?
If not, would it be possible for me to do my masters in a different uni after I've finished my bachelor in one uni?
kinda starting to get it
wouldnt mind a bit of clarity though
https://youtu.be/EJsD-3jtXz0
Go to 49:39
SCI BTFO
>>8581187
A marxist post-structuralist continental Ecole Normale Supérieure professor and feminist activist was teaching a class on Martin Heidegger, known hermeneuticist.
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Nietzsche and accept that his genealogical method was the most highly-evolved theory the continent has ever known, even greater than Hegel's dialectics!”
At this moment, a brave, rational, positivist analytic philosopher who had read more than 15000 pages of Popper and Wittgenstein and understood the raison d'être of empiricism and fully supported all modern hard sciences stood up and held up the constitution.
”How universal is this text, frenchfag?"
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “It's not universal at all, fucking positivist, its 'truth' is rooted in our shared understandings about culture, the subject and the nexus of power and knowledge”
”Wrong. It’s been 225 years since human reason created it. If it was not universal, and post-modern relativism, as you say, is real… then it should be regarded as a myth now”
>>8581210
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of On Grammatology. He stormed out of the room crying those ironic post-modern crocodile tears. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Michel Foucault, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than an AIDS ridden sadomasochist interested in fisting. He wished so much that he had some kind of truth to hold on to, but he himself had written to disprove it!
The students applauded and all rolled into American universities that day and accepted Wittgenstein as the end of philosophy. An eagle named “Formal logic” flew into the room and perched atop the copy of "Principa Mathematica" and shed a tear on the hardcover. The last sentence of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" was read several times, and Karl Popper himself showed up and demonstrated how dialectics is nothing but a means of justifying contradictions.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and his "books" were disregarded for all eternity.
>>8581187
charge your phone
Need to solve it, any help?
Hope this helps, otherwise just google non-inverting amplifier
>>8581014
There should not be ohm in the last "sentence", my bad.
>>8581014
>>8581018
Thanks very much, I would be grateful if you could help me with this last problem
I'm thinking about starting to educate myself on how to buy and sell stocks. Advice and conversation about this would be great. Thanks
>>8580774
>>>/biz/
>>8580774
Use probability theory
>>8580774
buy low sell high.