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Is there a way to completely burn any trace of empathy out of your brain?
It has zero benefits and feels like a burden instead.
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Have you tried a bullet?
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>>8497722
become a nigger
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I'm good with math, computers, logic, and even linguistics, so I've always figured I would be good with programming. Not as a job, but as a hobby. But no beginners tutorials I've ever looked at caught my interest. They always amounted to
>type this to make plain text appear
I've also got no clue what language to learn and don't know what any of them are for. Anyone have a good place to start?
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>>8497703
get a python game book so you will not get bored
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get this programming shit off my board REEEEE
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>>8497713
Do you have any recommendations or places to look?
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Daily reminder that this is the GOAT mathematician 2016-11-25 08:15:39 Post No.8495723
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>but, but muh von neumann
>muh gauss
>muh euler
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Muh Ramanujan
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>>8495723
Groth did boring math, Von Neumann did exciting math.
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applications?
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>>8497320
biosemiconductors(?)
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>>8497320
SUPER SOLDIERS
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Let's build a better electoral system with math 2016-11-20 16:14:04 Post No.8486009
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Let's build a better electoral system with math
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Okay... no shitposting about the election. This isn't about being butt-blasted about >muh popular vote or anything else like that. I want to start a serious think-tank about using math to design a better electoral system in the United States.
I've been curious over the last several days if there is possibly a more efficient and "fair" voting system in America. A lot of people are seriously considering abolishing the electoral college in favor of a purely popular vote. I believe /sci/ can think up some more logical, fair systems based on simple mathematical principles.
Is there a better system out there? There are a lot of smart people on this board, so let's get a brainstorm going. The main concerns so far, at least the ones I can see, are:
-How to make sure every vote gets counted. For example, republican votes in California mean literally nothing.
-How to make sure every state and county within is weighted fairly, regardless of size.
Note: feasibility can be thrown out the window here. Obviously some systems that might work could never be implemented due to complexity/resistance from political parties. Let's focus purely on the most fair system possible and the maths behind it.
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A state's electoral votes are proportionally divided according to the proportion of votes a candidate received.
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>>8486009
>"fair" system
You know there's only one thing that is fair in this world.
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in a dictatorship, every citizen's vote is of equal worth
so clearly it is the best option
https://youtu.be/ZdhyM5jHu0s
A wired interview with Obama on AI. He talks about a danger of AI controlling and winning the stock exchange as well as how near it is to conquer the world and change life as we know it
I don't like wired or its propoganda, but how likely is it that AI will completely take over? How soon?
I know it's in its infancy but this video already made it sound like we are completely fucked.
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How can natural intelligence EVEN compete?
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>>8500339
There is still a long way and plenty of hurdles.
The thing we should be concerned currently about is the uses of AI in the wrong hands (Big data, intelligence, economical spying, politic agendas, abuse) And our economy failing to adapt to informatization.
A real AI breakthrough, I doubt it would even be in the following decades
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>>8500342
Good one
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I can't wrap my head around this subject comfortably. I'm failiing miserably figuring out how to calculate population growth and isotope half-life.
Uni-level, but somehow I managed to forgot most about logarithms
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>>8499986
just think of log(1) = 0. Then play around on your calculator and you can get all laws from there. Thats how I remembered to start with, back in ye olde high skool
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>>8499986
Had the same problem until someone explained is this way:
Logarithm base 2 of 1 million = amount of times you can divide 1 million in two
like 1.000.000/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2...
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The way I think about it is, "This base to what power will give me the answer (that's already given)."
Once you grasp that, play around and find the rules.
Hint: Logarithms follow the same rules as dividing and multiplying exponents. (X2 • X3 = X^5)
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Is it normal that I have to keep reminding myself that you are all humans and not just words to be read on a monitor?
If that isn't normal, then I don't know what's wrong. Is it a lack of empathy?
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>>8499331
uhh, why do you need to keep reminding yourself this in the first place?
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>>8499343
When I get into an argument or heated discussion it always crosses my mind.
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>>8499346
classic schizophrenia prodromal symptoms. the worst bit is psychiatrist tend to not want to see or treat you until you go full blown psychosis.
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I cannot bring my self to create visual images no matter how hard I try. I've seen some practices where I need to visualize something with closed eyes and all I see is darkness. Is there any science for why its simply not working for me, I've been contemplating maybe that my serotonin is low or something since Im depressed as well.
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Maybe you're better at other things besides visualization? Or maybe you're just retarded.
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>>8498507
saw an interesting article about this on bbc. ill find it for you.
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>>8498507
maybe you are and you just think there is something more to it
it's not like you can close your eyes and "see" images as if your eyes were open and looking at it
even when you're dreaming you dont see with your eyes
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Is this the last technologic generation? 2016-11-26 02:22:28 Post No.8497335
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Is this the last technologic generation?
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I recently saw some infographs and articles online talking about how we will run out of the resources necessary to power our machines and electronics in just over 50 years.
Is this true, or is it junk science? Am I going to have to tell my grandchildren about all the wonders of science they will never behold as we sit by the fire we made by rubbing sticks together?
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>>8497335
What resources are they referring to? As far as I know, the biggest resource issues that face modern humanity are climate change, access to fresh water, energy production, and precious metals. All of them have at least somewhat feasible technological or infrastructural solutions. How the future will pan out will be heavily decided on how we act over the next few decades.
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>>8497380
Basically yes, all of that.
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Yes anon, soon we will run out of sun.
The only actual limitation we have is budget, and radiation exposure.
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Neural Nets, post interesting research 2016-11-22 03:28:20 Post No.8489329
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Neural Nets, post interesting research
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https://youtu.be/5aogzAUPilE
>We observed that the professional lip reader is able to
correctly decipher less than one-quarter of the spoken words
(Table 5). This is consistent with previous studies on the
accuracy of human lip reading [26]. In contrast, the WAS
model (lips only) is able to decipher half of the spoken
words. Thus, this is significantly better than professional
lip readers can achieve.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05358
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DeepMind WaveNet:
https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/
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https://youtu.be/VG68SKoG7vE
https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware-neighborhood-long?redirect=no
1 month of training, there are plenty of issues with driving and false labelling
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All of this stuff seems to be a meme.
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Is there any scientific proof of a gender other than male or female existing/transgender?
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No.
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Yes, there are loads and loads of Apache attack helicopters you sexist fuck
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>>8500000
nice quints
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Is this thing testing the EM Drive?
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>>8500005
EM drive isn't working. What's so hard to understand, brainlets?
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>>8500005
No. All the needed testing could be done on earth. This is for changing orbits into unpredictable paths and doing sneaky stuff with enemy satellites while they are behind the horizon.
>>8500009
So you just spam every topic with no worthwhile contribution in miserable attempt to coin another stupid made up internet word?
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>>8500020
But it changes direction so much for the amount of fuel it has? How is it doing this?
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okay guys, colombian here.
I'm planning on entering college here and study software engineering.
Is possible to finish my degree and then seek a scholarship in an unrelated field like literature in let's say Texas (trying to migrate legally) or it has to be a post bachelor degree on CS?
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>>8499759
>study software engineering
You're wasting your time. Just learn the material on your own.
>literature
You're really wasting your time. Just read books on your own and shitpost about them on a blog.
>finish my degree and then seek a scholarship
Scholarships are only for people seeking their first degree. If you want them to pay for 2 you have to double major or dual degree at the same time.
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>>8499761
no idiot.
I mean finishing first my SE degree here and then seeking a scholarship to study literature in maybe texas or florida.
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u should work as a spicy hispanic rentboi and get gay marriage sponsored to some old fag in florida
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What is fruit made of?
im having trouble finding an answer to this. take the banana for instance, what is the white part, the part that you eat, made of? cells? or what?
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anime desu
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What a noggin jogger OP
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>>8499507
Banana isn't a fruit you faggot, it's part of the flower