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I have a question, /sci/. Suppose you have an unfair coin with probability of heads p.
You flip this coin n times in succession. A "heads" counts as "success" - unless the previous k flips were all successes, in which case the given coinflip is "overridden" to be a failure. "Tails" always counts as failure.
Let X denote the number of "successes" after n flips. Given n,k, can one write down the density function for X?
Obviously, if we ignore the "overriding" caveat (or if k >= n), this is just the binomial distribution.
What is the
This isn't homework; I was just wondering out of curiosity for applications in video games or gambling.
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>What is the
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Well the answer is
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Consider that binomial distribution counts how many ways you can get a number of successes in a given number of trials. If I understand correctly, you just need tl consider one case when it doesn't count.
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Conveying Transhumanism/Singularity 2016-11-21 20:16:28 Post No.8488569
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Conveying Transhumanism/Singularity
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How to convey transhumanism or singularity to normies/low IQ/ bad thinkers?
I was thinking of this thought experiment example.
- Imagine you wake up and your brain now thinks 1,000 times as fast. Watching a three minute commercial feels like 50 hours.
- Just move your finger to touch your nose and go slow enough it takes an hour to understand how damn bored you would be with a much faster brain.
- You would seem more intelligence just because everything in the world would be in incredible slow motion.
- Now realize that the difference in speed between your biological neurons and optimal speeds is in the millions.
- Once we even recreate a single brain in a computer accurately it would be operating at this millions of times faster thought rate.
- Now imagine thousands of these and ones modeled after something more intelligent than humans.
For a physical example, if they could move as fast as they thought, they could build an entire modern city full of mansions that millions could occupy in under a day. All human creation and work could be recreated on an empty earth in a few days. Of course it will mostly be mental and technological advancement.
For another example, a few thousand AAA video games could be created by them in a week.
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>How to convey transhumanism or singularity to normies/low IQ/ bad thinkers?
Those concepts are already for popsci low-effort pseudointellectuals. It would be very hard to dumb them down even further.
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>>8488569
instead, convince them they are living in a simulation
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>>8488569
Why would they want to listen to the crypto-religious confabulations of bloated juvenile sub-normies?
I hope you did your homework, /sci/.
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>what is the collatz conjecture?
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at least write the question down properly brainlet OP
a real number can't be even or odd, only integers
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Kurisu is a dumb worthless whore, just like all females, real and fictional.
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How unhealthy is it to breathe in flatulence? Compared to say, second hand smoke.
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Funny tho, those were exactly the choices in the 2016 election.
Flatulence won, so there you go.
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Shit particles in your nose won't give you cancer over a given period of time. It's just gross, especially if you keep intentionally sniffing farts.
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>Shit particles in your nose won't give you cancer over a given period of time.
How do you know that?
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Virtual Reality: To Boldly Go 2016-11-23 01:53:32 Post No.8491039
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Why do I get the feeling that virtual reality technology will continue to advance enough to where it could replicate this world in almost completely? If this ever happens then how might society in the real world adapt to accommodate virtual reality addiction? I get the feeling some advent capitalist will get a spark of inspiration to invent a new system that literally holds your physical body in place and plugs it up with tubes, as if you're in a hospital bed, that allows you to continue to remain well nourished while you engage with your fantasy world.
I am reminded of what Karl Marx said about religion being the opium of its time and how the media in general has more or less replaced this notion that religion is the distraction. I cannot help but feel like there will come a point where virtual reality will become that opium by itself. Why do I feel this way when it comes to virtual reality and how come I am not necessarily dreading it like most people probably would?
Am I too much of an optimist? Do I have too much faith that society will change to accommodate such new worlds and belief systems to where everything will be perfectly okay? This still freaks me out at the same time. How is this possible? Double-think? Cognitive dissonance?
Maybe I am hopeful that I could one day get to have a life in various different time periods or even in a completely in-depth fantasy world.
Anyway, if such things came to pass, just what might our society look like in the initial world?
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It'll never advance to that state, due to the limited processing power of computers that are accessible to the public. QC machines are too expensive and currently in their infancy, not to mention, they'll never be domestically priced.
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You know everything you just said was more or less what people said about personal computers before every home had one, right?
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>>8491039
We're already in VR, OP
Ayy
How do you cope with the fact that no amount of hard work can change the fact that there are plenty of people who can accomplish in weeks what it takes you years to accomplish due to being more fortunate than you in the genetic lottery?
Good thing i'm intelligent.
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>[Citation needed]
Though, I'm an Asperger with an IQ of 165 and therefore learn logic based topics in a short space of time.
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eventually life beats you down to the point where you simply accept your lot in life
less self aware people never realize how much they suck and spend the entirety of their lives blaming external factors
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>they can do sometting better than you, but probally cant do everything better than you
>you may tend to become very skillfull and expert in some body of knowledge you have even give a try
>the possibilities are so big that everyone gets lost in it, deluding oneselves into thinking they have vast knowlegde in something just because they have time, study and some autism level to use and abuse
Basically everyone is a retard in some topic or another. Try to discover some way to learn faster and stop being a fag.
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Why do we still use decimal system and haven't found a superior one to achieve comprehension of anything we can't do with decimal yet?
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Because it's perfect and only non-autists use it
I'm looking at you USA, you autistic fags
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>>8490862
fractions are superior to decimal
base 12 is superior to base 10
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>>8490874
fractions are good for certain things of everyday life
But why change it scientifically? It's like if we put a new rule worldwide and we never use the order of operations, it would fuck up a lot of historical problems, methods and math and/or physics theories
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Construct the bisection of this angle. Rules are you can only draw lines that pass through points of intersection. This is a level of an android app called Pythagorea.
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I believe this is correct, but I did in in 30 seconds in paint. Red are the setup lines and green is the bisection.
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Here's what I know so far. this line is perpendicular to the top line of the angle. The radius of the circle is sqrt(5).
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the app doesn't take that solution..
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Can somone explain this to me
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Yes I can.
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Ok how do I do this
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Which part needs explaining?
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Genetics. Famous "There's more variance within human races/ethnicities than between them" statement. Explain or refute.
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Lewontins fallacy.
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That's true, but there are still different races.
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How is it true?
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If I have 3 parallel wires of equal length, equal distance apart, and all of current "I", what would the direction of the force be on the middle wire?
The top 2 wires have their current going to the right while the bottom wire has it's current going to the left.
I'm not sure how the right hand rule applies with 3 wires.
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Same directions attract and opposite repels
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Top and bottom wire cancel each other out at the middle wire
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this isnt the right hand rule its another rule which is wires with current in the same direction attract and wires with current in the opposite direction repel, this is the formula for the force between two wires. K is the magnetic force constand, d is the distance between them, L is the length of wires, I1 and i2 are the currents in the wires
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Do you guys ever draw shapes in Paint and then think about them 3-dimensionally? 2016-11-22 19:01:08 Post No.8490337
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Do you guys ever draw shapes in Paint and then think about them 3-dimensionally?
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I think you should try it. It's fun.
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Post some of your creations
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KEK ! xDDDD
this made me laugh m8
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I just proved time travel. All while giving a visual representation of how the timeline works.
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ok.
i think what you actually did was prove that it's theoretically possible to travel linearly in a circle
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Circle implies and "end", god or something turning it all off. Remove the circle, repeat lines infinitely. It was easier to show an end.
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Yeah, ok, no. You didn't prove shit. Drop the shrooms, you're just tripping balls.
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I want to get good at Mathematics 2016-11-22 05:58:10 Post No.8489547
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I want to get good at Mathematics
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Sup /sci/. I really love pure mathematics but fuck it's the single most hardest and excruciating subject to master, but I love the feeling of finally proving a theorem all by myself and then actualizing the concept. I make A's in my math classes but I don't feel like I'm doing jack shit, sometimes I will get to a single exercise and work at it for hours, no lie. Is this how it's suppose to be or am I just slow?
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>I really love pure mathematics
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No you don't love it that much, OP.
Yes you love to learn but you don't feel like you're doing anything maybe because you're not applying what you're learning
Consider some AppMath courses or something, you might like it a lot since it's the same as Pure but you apply that shit and get lots of cash instead of less than 40k/yr
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>The derivative is just acceleration
What's wrong with this one
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>What's wrong with this one
Why not the velocity?
Physicist ruin mathematics by goofily trying to apply it to the real world.
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What the fuck is this shape called? 2016-11-22 05:53:57 Post No.8489540
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What the fuck is this shape called?
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I'm gonna go with triangular prism with concave sides.
Either that or extruded ninja star.
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We'll have to start by figuring out what a concave triangle is called, and how it is constructed. I propose it being the space formed by 3 reuleaux triangles touching tip-to-tip, so one of the vertices touches another triangle's vertex and another vertex touches the other triangles vertex, and so on.
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the 3d model is too ugly to tell.
It looks like an extruded curved triangle with curves as ugly as you face.