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Evolution "likes" to try every trick in the book.

Wanting to have sex with an animal, or having someone take a poo on you before sex, or wanting to be degraded before sex, etc. may not have an evolutionary advantage, but then again, who knows?

Coming down out of the trees seemed like a bad idea for a bunch of apes in a continent filled with lions, but look how far we got...

>>8499283
dopamine doesnt code reward bitch, thats a fucking 30 year old meme.

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>>8499292
>Wanting to have sex with an animal, or having someone take a poo on you before sex, or wanting to be degraded before sex, etc. may not have an evolutionary advantage, but then again, who knows?

Natural selection works through removing traits which prevent the offspring from successively reproducing, if the trait doesn't prevent successful reproduction there will be no reason why it won't be passed onto the next generation.

>pic related

>>8499029

Don't bother learning quaternions, they are useless. Litterally. Absolute garbages. The most useless field in maths.

>If i = sqrt (-1) and j = sqrt (-1) and k = sqrt (-1)

Thats your problem right there. The condition i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1 is strong, thats how that quarternion units are defined, similar to how the i is defined with i^2 = -1, or some equivalent form, with the complex numbers.

>>8499037

Use matrix.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Quaternion.html

>>8498848
Cuz they didnt side with the Vaegirs, m8. Perfect mixture of brains n balls.

here there be brainlets

Maybe some people are truly retarded but hardworking.

>>8498102
The only thing considered a measure for intelligence is the intelligence quotient, there are tests for that. If you want to determine the intelligence of a poster by their posts, you need labelled data to train a regressor. You don't have that. Everything else is just guesswork.

Anyway, if you want to look at interesting quantities by themselves you may look at features such as:
>Number of different words per thread
>Length of posts
>Number of misspelled words
>Number of unique posts
>Number of original posters per thread
>Number of "meme words"
>Number of images posted
>Number of unique images (images that haven't been posted so far)

It would be interesting to do the following by the way:
Look at only the OP and train a classifier and judge whether the post will reach its bump limit (or a regressor and determine how many replies the thread will have.

>>8498115
Yeah, I already got half of those you said.
A really cool one would be something along the lines of keywords, words that are not on the list of 10,000 of the most popular English ones, but the most popular on the board. I wonder what the outcome would be for different boards. I also want to include plotting graphs. And I don't want to do anything with machine learning just yet.

>>8498102

You should include a function to quantify the dankness of memes posted.

>>8498069
Drink bleach and you'll never have to worry about dying again.

>>8498073
Don't do it OP, this will kill or seriously injure you (this is worse because then you'll have a life of suffering from knowing that you listened to some idiot on the internet and hurt yourself because of it) and be crippled.

He wants to NOT die, not to NOT worry about dying.

And the solution to that is simple, just eat well and avoid dangers to your life and you'll live for a reasonable amount of time just like everyone else barring incredibly poor luck and/or a freak accident that kills you.

>>8498069
Don't worry about death, it will literally be peaceful bliss.

>>8498053
What type of education does a technician need?

>>8498133
About the same as the scientist, although bachelors degree is enough.

Lab technicial here, me and most of my collegues are just sort of scientists in training.

>>8498140
>scientists in training.
are you pursuing a masters or phd in the future?

>>8498053
>scientists shouldn't be allowed in the lab
why?

>>8497834
>What future tech are you most looking forward to?
The 'tech' that cures our brains of the need for stupidity like 'religion' and 'spirituality' and 'racism' and 'sexism' and all the other stupid ass-backwards shit that keeps dragging us back to acting like animals and stalling our overall evolution.

>>8497852
Nice fedora nigger

What you're saying is the biology equivalent of
>make paper airplane
>go to the moon

Not really. All it entails is that some life forms are adapted as shit to their environment.

>>8497724
Yea, evolution doesn't guarantee an advancement from simple to complex.
It can go fowards, backwards, or nowhere at all. There is no end goal, only adaptation.

>Evolution works toward a teleological end point!

>>8497582
>Trying to predict the unpredictable.
He must be 'so' smart. :^)

>50/50 chance

Either it'll happen, or it won't

Those are pretty high odds, compared to the ones we'd been fed before.

Let's hope that's enough time for us to figure out how to control this stupid place.

>>>/x/18366984

Hope I linked it right

>>8497576
What is it, OP?

>>8497591
http://acdca.appliedchaosdynamicscontrolassociation.net/
We're not exactly sure. Some anon on /pol/ had googled the digits from his get and this came up

>>8497478
>>8497478
Please don't bring ancestral dna circle jerking to this board; we had threads that got deleted and people banned left and right from /pol/ and /int/. Let's not shit this board up with these kinds of matters.

To answer your question, there's been studies from the other side that Europeans didn't come from Africa but rather everyone started in a different continent; rather than the WE WUZ AFRIKANZ meme perpetuated by the lefty scientists.

Your thesis is possible. It's also possible that certain parts of Africa evolved and everyone else just were degenerates or became degenerates due to degradation of culture and life.

It's also possible you, the OP, may be an artificial construct and that I'm just a dog slobbering all over his computer smashing his head to make this coherent and educated post. Who the fuck knows, anything is possible at this point.

I think the real question is not to ask whether Africa has idiots or not but rather how can we help terraform the continent. The biggest issue there is the lack of irrigatable crops and almost no biodiversity in the desert areas in middle of the continent

>>8497484
This desu.

>>8497478
>realising that it was a good idea to leave africa
no way for them to know that

Just go to the physics page of any university and read their curriculum.

>>8497372
It's too hard to navigate their shitty websites.

just read Gerard t Hoofts page on how to become a good theoretical physicist
Google it

it's hard for some, not hard for others. high IQ isn't a necessary nor sufficient condition to be good at math

>>8497267
kek

>>8497267
>high IQ isn't a necessary nor sufficient condition to be good at math

how many successful mathematicians have 2 digit IQs?

>>8497114
try meditation.

>>8497131
isn't meditation nonsense and pseudoscience?

>>8497421
Depends on how you approach it. For most of it it's a pretty simple, but difficult exercise. But obviously new age retards take it as some voodoo shit.

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>>8497113
>must have a good sense of humour
>tfw my humour is all black and that's basically the extent of it

Would get me fired if they even heard a whiff of it, definitely off-putting - can't tolerate normie """humour""" Although most find mild black comedy funny, but the good stuff is something not many would find amusing.

>>8497113

If you don't like reddit, you are under no obligation to visit reddit.

>>8497246
Examples?