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How do you explain people's spiritual experiences scientifically and in the absence of god? have you had one? is it meaningful?
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>>8459321
evolutionary coping mechanism for the banality of life
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>>8459321
Stop looking to science to justify your atheism
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>>8459369
why do you think im atheist?
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can someone settle something for me 2016-11-06 12:27:14 Post No.8458850
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can someone settle something for me
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if there are 10 teams in a league and each team plays 8 times in a season do they play a total of 80 games or 72?
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plays each other 8 times
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>>8458850
72
a team cant play itself, also
>pancake tits
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>>8458850
No, they play 40 as each match requires 2 teams.
Could /sci/ help me with my maths, q8. iii) and q13 are evading me. If ur interested this part of the fp1 module for A-level further maths.
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Q13
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Let's see, it specifically says we're not here to help you with your homework. If you really can't understand what step 3 wants you to do, maybe you're not ready for further math?
Here's the obvious hint: Set 1=Z^3 = (a+bj)^3 and solve, using the facts from I) and ii).
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>tfw humanity is smart enough to know how to ruin the planet, but too dumb to save it
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>>8458716
Save it from dumbposters?
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>>8458716
>tfw to intelligent to save humanity
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>>8458716
I am a pessimist, but there are scientists out there who offer solutions. It requires a different way of viewing the world and a restructure of our social system.
I do fear that the people and politicians will not listen to these scientists. Additionally, some politicians and cooperation might try to stop any change from happening.
I am projecting some major crises and blow-ups in the future if nothing changes, but I am not entirely sure how. I can't visualize it.
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Find a flaw
> protip: you can't
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>not using Haskell
Wow, it's like you don't even program.
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We have common names for so many parts of the body, is there one for the inner side of the bends at the knee and elbow?
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>>8458483
elbow = olecranon
inside of elbow = antecubital region
knee = patellar region
inside of knee = popliteal region
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Ok, but I'm asking for a common name for that area, if you are trying to describe the action in red dwarf where Rimmer slams his hand down on that spot on his arm in an way that simbolizes "up your's", how would you describe that spot in say a book if you want to have a character repeat that action?
"He slammed a fist down on his antecubital region" just doesn't have a good ring to it.
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>>8458503
"Crook"
Also, why are you here?
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Connect all the dots using only 4 straight lines and without looking the answer up
You may not rearrange the dots
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>>8458474
was that supposed to be difficult?
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>>8458475
I'll take my fields medal to go.
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Waterloo University 2016-11-05 23:39:02 Post No.8457738
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The University of Waterloo in Ontario may be closing down due to severe under funding.
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[citation needed]
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>>8457738
Proof?
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Yeah, they've been accepting too many applicants recently and took a loan on a building which defaulted.
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Starcraft 2 AI research environment coming soon. 2016-11-05 22:51:38 Post No.8457630
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Starcraft 2 AI research environment coming soon.
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DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/
will be open and available to all researchers next year
StarCraft II team to develop an API that supports something similar to previous bots written with a “scripted” interface, allowing programmatic control of individual units and access to the full game state (with some new options as well).
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>Create Neural Network for research and put in in a combat-war environment for its evolution giving it the need to kill those it deems not one of itself
Nothing can go wrong.
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>>8457630
Enders Game
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>>8458110
oh shush. pass the popcorn and lets watch. surely this will never end badly.
What do you think of thunderf00t?
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>>8456900
gay and likes dicks
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>>8456900
Theres worse people and theres better people.
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>>8456900
Too much dry jokes, unfunny TV/movie clips and repetition.
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You are nothingness that has gained temporary awareness. A small piece of the universe that experiences itself through a biological window. Think about who you really are. You have been indoctrinated from a early age by your family and friends into believing you have an identity, that you dreams and hopes for the future mean something. You are literally nothing.
We will all fall into the yawning void. Consciousness will cease.
No sight
No sound
No colours
No feelings
No "you"
This is the truth.
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>be insecure enough to require certainty
>picks a depressing dogma
Poor anon. I prayed for you, just now. Really.
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>>8456380
Depression is a subjective experience anon. Meaning it is inherently worthless and has no value.
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>>8456369
More like you are a hivemind of neurons in your cerebrum that work together in such a way a single mind is possible.
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is global warming real?
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The global temperature average is rising, therefore global warming is occurring. Whoa that was hard.
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I'm confused by your image. What is it supposed to show?
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>>8456250
The tide came in.
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Can radioactive waste be immobilized in glass for millions of years? 2016-11-03 21:43:46 Post No.8453488
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Can radioactive waste be immobilized in glass for millions of years?
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How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment?
It isn't easy, but Rutgers researcher Ashutosh Goel has discovered ways to immobilize such waste -- the offshoot of decades of nuclear weapons production -- in glass and ceramics.
Goel, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is the primary inventor of a new method to immobilize radioactive iodine in ceramics at room temperature. He's also the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI for six glass-related research projects totaling $6.34 million in federal and private funding, with $3.335 million going to Rutgers.
"Glass is a perfect material for immobilizing the radioactive wastes with excellent chemical durability," said Goel, who works in the School of Engineering. Developing ways to immobilize iodine-129, which is especially troublesome, is crucial for its safe storage and disposal in underground geological formations.
The half-life of iodine-129 is 15.7 million years, and it can disperse rapidly in air and water, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If it's released into the environment, iodine will linger for millions of years. Iodine targets the thyroid gland and can increase the chances of getting cancer.
Among Goel's major funders is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which oversees one of the world's largest nuclear cleanups following 45 years of producing nuclear weapons. The national weapons complex once had 16 major facilities that covered vast swaths of Idaho, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington state, according to the DOE.
The agency says the Hanford site in southeastern Washington, which manufactured more than 20 million pieces of uranium metal fuel for nine nuclear reactors near the Columbia River, is its biggest cleanup challenge.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161103091233.htm
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Hanford plants processed 110,000 tons of fuel from the reactors. Some 56 million gallons of radioactive waste -- enough to fill more than 1 million bathtubs -- went to 177 large underground tanks. As many as 67 tanks -- more than one third -- are thought to have leaked, the DOE says. The liquids have been pumped out of the 67 tanks, leaving mostly dried solids.
The Hanford cleanup mission commenced in 1989, and construction of a waste treatment plant for the liquid radioactive waste in tanks was launched a decade later and is more than three-fifths finished.
"What we're talking about here is highly complex, multicomponent radioactive waste which contains almost everything in the periodic table," Goel said. "What we're focusing on is underground and has to be immobilized."
Goel, a native of Punjab state in northern India, earned a doctorate in glasses and glass-ceramics from the University of Aveiro in Portugal in 2009 and was a postdoctoral researcher there. He worked as a "glass scientist" at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2011 and 2012, and then as a senior scientist at Sterlite Technologies Ltd. in India before joining the Rutgers faculty in January 2014.
The six projects he's leading or co-leading are funded by the DOE Office of River Protection, National Science Foundation and Corning Inc., with collaborators from Washington State University, University of North Texas and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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One of his inventions involves mass producing chemically durable apatite minerals, or glasses, to immobilize iodine without using high temperatures. A second innovation deploys synthesizing apatite minerals from silver iodide particles. He's also studying how to immobilize sodium and alumina in high-level radioactive waste in borosilicate glasses that resist crystallization.
At the Hanford site, creating glass with radioactive waste is expected to start in around 2022 or 2023, Goel said, and "the implications of our research will be much more visible by that time."
The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.
"It depends on its composition, how complex it is and what it contains," Goel said. "If we know the chemical composition of the nuclear waste coming out from those plants, we can definitely work on it."
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>>8453488
what makes you think glass is so special?
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Was he right?
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Math was a mistake
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I read his manifesto, wasn't that impressed. He put a lot of his effort into his new book, talking of self-propagating systems and so on.
Going to read it and see what he has to say.
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>>8451537
He was a brainlet.
When he realized all the effort he put into mathematics couldn't award him the Fields medal he withdraw from society and became a terrorist.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8
Is he right?
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I couldn't make it after 1:23. This is even more embarrassing than Hopsin.
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>going through highscool is like trying to make a fish climb a tree
sasuga black people
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>>8447317
>No
The point of high school is to get students ready for college and in college you get nothing but LECTURES and LABS. If you want to change public education, change colleges first.
Also, fuck students that come to school just to disrupt the class.