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Dark matter really doesn't have to exist.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3807495/new-theory-of-gravity-passes-first-test-could-explain-dark-matter/

I mean, that's up for debate of course. But, I really think dark matter and dark energy is just a big gaping hole in our understanding of the universe, rather than dark energy and dark matter actually existing.

>>8551538
Dark matter is not the same as dark energy.

The masses bending a sheet is an analogy, you cannot conclude anything from analogy.

The post is either bait or stupid.

>>8551728
>inquisitr
wow, stop posting any time.

>continental philosophers
>great

pick one

>>8551441
dafuq are you talking about. i think you mean analytical philosophers, theyre more mathy than continental ones. plus, the continental philosophers don't like the maths because of its restraints and rigour.

>>8551441

Would failed literature writers solve a math problem? No.

>>8550452
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science_and_Engineering#Natural_Language_Processing.C2.A0

I just borrowed "Mathematical structures of language" by Harris. Can't attest to how good it is, I haven't got too far into it, and this isn't really my specialty (I have more background in math and logic). I just hope it's not too dated

>>8550452
I have a bunch of resources lying around somewhere. Will drop them after work.

90% of writings on the area are literally just counting ngrams and boring machine learning techniques 101, the part which crosses over with logic and grammar is more interesting.

>>8550221
your imagination is less precise than math, so basically your imagination is like a really shitty physicist

I suppose it's true you could visualize physical phenomena without math. But in many cases you'd need to understand the math to understand why those phenomena are the way they are.

Why merely visualize physical phenomenon when you could create computational physics simulations using the magic of mathematics? Food for thought.

>>8549083
feels pretty good

>get <80% on every homework
>homework is 100% of grade
>get 82% in the class
i love grad school

>>8549093
>Dumb but motivated
>Not smart but lazy
GET OUT REEEEEEE

>>8548979
He is one of the less retarded cranks out there in that as far as I can tell (I haven't watched everything he puts out) he does have actual math experience and nothing he says is really _wrong_ if you accept the premises he starts from

the problem is that his premises are retarded, for example he thinks that if representing your number as a big pile of 1s takes more 1s than the number of planck volumes in the observable universe, that means your number isn't a valid number

>>8548990
>he thinks that if representing your number as a big pile of 1s takes more 1s than the number of planck volumes in the observable universe, that means your number isn't a valid number
What the fuck?

>>8548979
>someone sum it up for me pls

AXIOMS

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

bookzz.org

>>8548462
Pretty damn stressful desu. My SLs were geography, physics and french, while my HLs were math english and chemistry.

Math was god-tier. So much more rigorous than any of the math classes. Physics was ok. It's a little disappointing that IB designed the physics curriculum to accommodate math studies student. Chem was pretty good. All the other subjects were ok. English was my worst subject

>>8548462
Going to a top rated AP school in the US is a better option, had to do a bunch of idiotic bullshit for my ib program like ToK(theory of knowledge), CAS(creative,active, service), HL english &c.

>>8548462
The content is pretty good, could do without CAS, I just faked all my community service. ToK is babby's first philosophy class, but still I'd say it's a good thing that they include it for everyone.

>emotional warmth
Ehhh whe?

>>8550170
It's true for me ;(

I think you're looking fort more than just emotional warmth if you're craving warm and wet hugs.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20160819_TNA50SexualityandGender.pdf

stealth eugenics

you think you're really a girl? sure u r, right this way we're going to remove your genitals because we're so progressive :^)

>>8544285

There exists a natural phenomenon called "genetics." The vast majority of humans are born with one of two sets of chromosomes: either XX or XY. If you have XX, you're a male. If you have XY, you're a female. If you have something else, you have a genetic disease.

This is science.

Ball cancer.
Semen loss.

>>8552417
The hazards are different depending on whether you wear tight pants or pants meant for men.

>>8552419
There is no evidence this happens

I mean, are they still there, or they dissapear due to the attractions between sodium and chlorine ions and the water molecules?

Keep in mind the polarity of water requires that the sodium is bound to the oxygen atom and the chloride is bound to the hydrogen atoms. It will disrupt hydrogen bonding to some degree, but it won't eliminate it entirely unless you form a defined complex in which no hydrogen bonding is likely.

>>8552214
A high-schooler will tell you "nothing, they are still there", a chemist will tell "they assume a slightly different energy state/orbit", a physicist will tell you "we don't know" and a researcher computational quantum electron theory will simulate an approximation for you.

tl;dr: Your question is loaded and non-trivial.

climate scientist here

global warming isn't actually happening

Neutrons "magically" have energy but not matter: Not.
Photons "magically" travel the same speed: good little photons.
Most people are severely ignorant: the ones who believe pasta grows on trees, people en mass overdosed on pot.
Having an opinion is ok: it is believing absolutely that identifies the severely mentally damaged.

>>8552203
Explain?
is the 93% a meme or are you in the 7%?

>>8551294
>Poker seems like it would be saturated with people that got to it first.
There are already bots playing online, but I don't know how sophisticated they are, probably not very. They play winning though so that's one way to earn money. I know heads up limit holdem is a solved game, but state of the art bots can't beat top level holdem players heads up with deep stacks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudico, so there's plenty of stuff to accomplish still.

Poker is not smart.

Your bot will basically just learn to play the odds of its hand, unless you do something really sophisticated.

A smart human player will be able to pick up on this after enough hands, and will bust your bot.

Sports is doable, but machine learning may be overkill. More traditional statistical methods would probably be more appropriate.

>>8551313
well machine learning is how you implement the statistics

>>8551310
i've read that as well. some people seem to disagree that it was "solved".

and i wouldn't need to beat top-level players, just the average online poker player