For an election re-count of, say, 1 million people, what would be an acceptable discrepancy between counts?
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why can't americans count properly? is it because of common core?
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Do it right the first time. No voting machines, paper only.
>>8511576
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It should be done using paper ballots and hand counting it infront of cameras on live TV, in front of a live audience that must pay no admission to get into the event.
What the hell was Einstein talking about here? Is the field the wave function? If not, what field is it
>>8511551
spacetime
rather than express gravity as a definition for matter, einstien preferred gravity to be an inherent property of the field of spacetime. by doing so, the definition of matter crumbles and all that's left is "the field" of spacetime
>>8511565
Why is that? How can I conclude that matter is made up of fields by saying gravity is s property of space-time?
Also, I have another question, I heard somewhere that the wave function is a field, hence matter is a field, is this true? Thanks in advance
>>8511619
>Engineer
I am assuming that you are an engineer.
Math is the language that physics is spoken in. The more math that you understand, the more physics will make sense to you. "Field" has an entirely different meaning in this context. And your question about matter illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding of both.
What I'm getting at is I'm not equipped to answer your question until you know more math.
I love this thing.
Calculator appreciation thread.
>>8511446
>>8511449
how do you cube roots etc on it
When I'm not using Excel
Crazy how it all works together, huh?
>he forgot to add aristotle to the list
HA
>>8511392
>Crazy how it all works together, huh?
>implying it all works together
>>8511392
>Dark Propulsion
Don't do this anon
Well?
Atheists have only 1 argument for evolution. You ready?
"There is no God. We are here".
Brilliant.
>>8511319
Can you really expect a theology student to write a science report? Doesn't seem fair.
I agree. I read The Origin of Species the other day and I was baffled by how many people blindly believed in that rubbish. What really upset me was the story of the first two humans. LOL Dont they realize how inbred and deformed the population would have become? Charles Darwin did NOT walk on water and theres no evidence for a great flood.
Its insane that Darwinism runs this country.
Dump your ideas
>>8511046
Mix Potassium and Water, guaranteed laughs
>>8511052
nice try anon
>>8511046
Do you want experiments, carnival attractions, or DIY chemistry to make products?
The first one you should read textbooks and journals.
The second you can find an online article for.
The third is probably not going to be an improvement in your life in any way but is fun to think and talk about.
Is there any scientific evidence for Jungian archetype theory/collective unconsciousness?
>>8511034
not jungian but you might find this interesting.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/02/28/brain.awq010.full
>>8511047
I'm mainly curious about Jung because Jordan Peterson talks about him a lot.
>>8511034
No. The US Army did an exhaustive survey of the theory, and found it had zero (0) predictive power or correlation with other known psychological traits.
The more you hate on it, the stronger it gets. Python, C++ and Java are false religions. Only Bill Gates (PBUH) is the one true prophet. There is no other programming language but Excel :^)
Stay butt hurt /sci/ ;^)
>>8511020
*VBA
>>8511020
>Excel
Staff Engineer here. Use this for literally everything.
Make design tools (no VBA) distribute them to old people who don't do computers well. They can just open the file and plug in the variables in the correct color coded boxes and the rest is history.
Super user friendly, accessible, can do pretty much anything if you know the programing language of it. Good stuff.
I do most of my data analysis and exploration in R but there are still lots of cases where Excel is the superior tool.
What do you guys think about this?
>pic related
It didn't appear to provide a scientific basis for morality, which was disappointing.
Additionally, what are your thoughts on whether science can address ethics?
>>8510927
Science ensures the accuracy of predictions. When we propose actions in a negotiation, we do so believing that these actions will result in something satisfying some values we hold. In this way science helps us negotiate.
Also basis of morality don't real.
Never read it but I hate when books do that.
I think science can address ethics to a degree if you base arguments on sociology, animal behavior, and evolution and consider these as scientific foundations. Otherwise, I don't think "hard" science is anywhere close yet to tackling human behavior.
>>8510946
It's one of his better books, Sam is highly educated. Not sure if it was one of his books or some other books but morals and ethics in modern society are just an extrapolation from the original tribal hunter - gather life, family first, friends second, tribe third. Religion just took it all to the next level for better or worse, I am thinking worse since I like to think independently and outside the box a lot. Sam shits on the Abrahamics a lot but I find people who do this were usually indoctrinated with one flavor or another as a child and grow to be butthurt over the years like Dawkins for example. I like Sam though and not sure about his childhood and don't really care but he is well spoken, his audio books are great where as Dawkins has an irritating squeaky voice.
I don't know if this is the right board, but I'm trying to get good at chess. Does anyone know any tips and tricks to help me improve? Or good chess books / tutorials?
>How do I get good at X
Do X.
Play chess.
Play a fucktonne of chess.
>>8510843
Tactics. Everything else comes easily after that. Beware that tactics require you to work hard.
>>8510843
There are no shortcuts, if you want to get gud you have to put in the time.
>he uses i instead of j for the imaginary unit
>>8510694
Fucking layman man.
>there are people on /sci/ who use superscript and subscript
fucking children
j is used only in EE.
Are you retard OP?
Anyone here in epfl? Did you take the admission exam route? Is it worth the hussle?
Math major at EPFL here, I did not do the CMS (the "exam" route) myself but I have two friends who did. They're now second year chem majors and they're doing quite well. What section do you want to get in OP? It really depends on what you want to get into. It's worth it though, the university is very good on multiple levels. Of course you will still get a few professors who obviously don't want to teach, but it's generally very good. If your plan is architecture, I suggest really thinking it through, because it's insanely hard.
>>8510976
I'm not completely sure myself. I was thinking either chem, CS or EE. Did you friends take a prep course? They seem pretty expensive(10k+) and not entirely necessary.
>>8510976
>architecture is insanely hard
more like extremely time consuming, those fags are always stuck in their workshops. But if you look at their actual courses, (like math courses for example) the difficulty is pretty fucking low compared to other sections.
pic related, it's the distribution of passing and failing student during the first year, yellow means "passed", dark grey means "failed exam", grey means "abandoned", light grey means "abandoned before failure" (i.e soon enough for it not to count as a failure) and black means "waiting".
AR isn't much worse than the other sections
AR = architecture, GC = civil engineering, SIE = environment engineering, IN = CS, SC = communications engineer, CGC = chemistry and chemistry engineering, MA = maths, PH = physics, EL = EE, GM = mechanical engineering, MT = microtechnologies, MX = material sciences, SV = life sciences
What's the most mathematical programming language?
I think it's Haskell.
Prolog for logicians.
Maybe Python
>>8510556
this
haskell is for failed mathematicians and failed programmers
prolog is long ded
matlab is for dying professors
python is the future
scipy tensorflow theano pandas matplotlib sklearn keras skimage etc
can't fight the power. rip everyone else
besides R which beats python in data visualisation
>>8510569
OP's "mathematical programming language" is super vague, but I'm pretty sure he didn't intended it to mean the language most practical or useful to do some work that involves some stuff labeled math. Like statistics with the pandas package.
One could argue that (assuming I'm right about what OP meant) a "mathematical programming language" is one that has semantics within a common setting taught and/or understood by mathematicans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_(computer_science)
Then he goes on mentioning Haskell. Historically, Haskell was cooked up by American CS people in the 80's because they wanted to research the lazy paradigm and couldn't get the right to...I think to the ML language.
As opposed to Haskell, ML actually has formal semantics, I think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML
Is creating a sentient android possible?
>>8510431
define sentient
define android
>>8510433
>sentient
able to perceive or feel things.
>android
a robot with a human appearance.
Don't see why not. We know sentient beings are possible, so all we need is a way to implement it using the hardware we have.
Which is your favorite aminoacid?
Mine is glutamate
glutamate is the best
I like glutamine
glutamate is for idiots
i prefer gaba