Do you get more retarded as you get older?
I know most of here are in our twenties, and we've never known a time when we had less mental acuity than we have now, so we believe we will be just as capable of learning new things as we get older. But I keep hearing from older people that they "just can't remember things as well they used to" or they "just can't pick up on things as well as they used to." It's a pretty scary thought that I won't always be as smart as I am now. The idea that there is a time limit, and that I must learn as much as I possibly can before my brain goes to mush - before I become practically incapable of learning new complex ideas.
>>8531687
Eh, it doesn't seem too bad. My dad is over 60 and he has trouble remembering things, but he's clearly still smart and can still learn. There's a big difference between mild senility like most experience and Alzheimer's.
>>8531687
I would guess it comes with age.
Say as a species we provide the best offspring naturally in our late teens to late 20s. As children we retarded because we're still learning life skills until we mature in our late teens onwards having those said skills to survive and find mates. We reproduce and our biological purpose is now fullfilled.
We get older and because we;re no longer needed to ensure the human race goes on, nature doesn't bother itself about how we end up dying. Our purpose is spent so no longer need the cognitive ability needed to survive against predators and rivals to breed. We get sluggish in them and hence because retarded again.
That simple. The species gets what it needs out of the individual and then abandons them to go senile and croak.
>>8531723
but a better question is why we have to die anyway if we exclude overpopulation issues?
If I'm not mistaken we only break down and age badly because our cells lose their ability to replicate or mend themselves over time with age. So if science provided a way to ensure those cells always replicated perfectly each time, would we never die of old age?
Which subject is harder to study?
General medicine?
Dental medicine?
Neuroscience?
Neuroscience
For M.D you just need to memorize
General medicine and dental medicine are two of the least intellectually demanding branches of medicine, next to psychiatry, so neuroscience wins by default.
>>8531681
Why are doctors so praised for their shitty title?
>musk literally admits to doing cocaine multiple times
>reddit fans think he's just joking
why do they want an innocent golden boy so badly
>>8531516
>musk does crack
So ?
It's just cocaine
>When your teacher asks you to solve x2 + x + 1 = 0 and you answer x = 0 because they didn't specify where to solve it and you chose the trivial ring.
>>8531340
how to spot someone who never had sex in his life: the post
>not making assumptions based on context
>>8531342
This has nothing to do with the fact I am a virgin.
Well? What's your answer?
NaN
>>8531151
Easy shit 100
If a have 50 ml of hydrochloric acid and and I put 50 ml of sodium hydroxide, can I use the resulting product to cook my pasta ?
>>8531147
If they are the same concentration, then yes.
>>8531147
Practical solution, mix and check pH, adjust pH to 7 with vinegar and sodium bicarbonate
How can one prove this conjecture, /sci/?
>>8530728
If anybody knew it wouldn't be a conjecture
>>8530728
By analyzing many similar functions but which are much easier to prove.
Maybe start with the hypothesis that the will eventually reach 1 and then build up from that and then see what we find.
Then after studying all these trivial functions we need to make a theory out of them that allows us to analyze them and then go back to the collatz conjecture.
>>8530728
This is the incompleteness theorem in motion.
Clearly this is more than a conjecture, and I would bet all of my fortune that it is actually true, yet it is so random and nonsensical that it probably isn't in the realm of things that are provable.
1. Electromagnetism tells us that electromagnetic waves changes its velocity of propagation according to the medium it is propagating into.
2. Special relativity tells us that massless particles must propagate at c
How the hell aren't these 2 statements inconsistent? I mean they can only be consistent if there is a process of interaction between the photons and the matter that ends up delaying the photons (like being absorbed and emitted again), is that what happens?
Tldr: Explain to me how does photons interact with matter in a way that makes it seem to be propagating at speeds lower than c
>>8530534
>massless particles must propagate at c
Lrn2vacuum fgt pls
>>8530534
c is the speed of a massless particle specifically in vacuum (different then the speed of a massless particle in a non-vacuous medium) you dense twat.
>I believe in microevolution but not macroevolution
>>8529490
More like:
>I can deny macroevolution but I'd look way too dumb if also I denied microevolution
There is strong evidence of macro-evolution. For example we use it to describe the blow holes of whales or the wings of bats.
There is also evidence of the eye forming independently 50 some odd times from primitive eye-spots.
Why is everyone dumb?
How will we deal with job scarcity in an automated world?
Should the permanently unemployed be put on the dole, or be left to die?
why does this board have such a hard on for killing and death?
>>8526382
Thinking about death is therapeutic.
By pondering the vast nothingness of death, you can find solace in living an unfulfilling life.
By being smart enough to know how to trade stocks in an automated fashion and sitting around while your autism machine learning checks roll in
>doesn't learn combinatorics, graph theory, and knot theory
How does it feel to be a boring fuck of mathematics?
>learning meme maths
>knot theory
Can't math use non-sexual words? HOMOmorphism, ANALysis, KNOT theory.
I'm a mentally 12 year old, in the body of a 16 year old who is 27 years old.
Feels bad man.
How do I get into combinatorics. For some reason I don't get it.
Can you guys help me solve 1.4? How the hell do I do this if 3 does not have a base in common with 2?
>>8534269
[math]4^{x-1} = e^{x-1*ln(4)}[/math]
[math]2^{1+2x} = e^{1+2x*ln(4)}[/math]
Can't this help ?
turn 4 to 2, relate what you get to the other base 2 value, you get a + 3*8*a = 50
( with a = 2^(2x-2) )
which must equal to 2 then x = 3/2
>>8534298
But how do you come up with ln (2) in the fourth step? And why do you multiply it with those things in parentheses? The answer is 3/2 by the way as the other anon pointed out. I also don't get ln50.
Why does /sci/ hates CivilE?
"Engineering" that does not belong to the following categories is comedy gold-tier meme:
>Mechanical engineering
>Electrical engineering
>Computer engineering
>Optical engineering
>Acoustic engineering
>Telecom engineering
I don't hate them, really I don't even have a problem with their dicksucking habits
>>8531905
>Nuclear not on the list
Sure thing
>at first there was nothing
>then all of existence exploded into reality instantly
This is bullshit
>>8534234
>clearly religion offers a better answer
nobody really knows how reality was created dipshit
>>8534239
Take DMT friends. You'll understand then.
The molecule is a coded message from something significant. Almost everyone from the tribes in the amazon to urban businessmen see the same shit when they take it. That's not a coincidence.
Here's the context:
What on earth does this say? I cannot read this writing to save 5 lives and a bucket of fish.
>>8534077
Are you the student or the grader?
Both of them have painful penmanship.
I'm guessing student-kun thought that writing T in standard matrix form is sufficient to prove that it is linear. Which is technically correct, but probably not what sensei-chan had in mind when setting the question, given that that's what (ii)(b) appears to be for.
For full marks student-kun would have to demonstrate that the property in (i) holds for the map T.
t. neither a teacher nor a student
>>8534114
In this case the same person wrote both the solutions and the marks. They're the ideal solutions to past papers. I agree with what you said about showing the the property holds. I don't get why this is a solution. But also don't even know wtf it says. Do you have any idea?