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>>8371617
Taylor Series. I could say Eigenvectors/Eigenvalues, but my Linear Algebra class was not Calculus-based.

>>8371617
I just use basic arithmetic for my 250k Consulting job so not much lol

>>8371617
>Four colours problem shit along with fucking inter-universal teichmüller theory
>cohomology being "genius" level as well as fermat's last theorem
>fractals and homeomorphism TERMS are among serious math
>...
cringe

>>8374258
>whiteboard

How to spot a shit uni.

dear diary

>>8374281
This is the 21st century, not the 1800s

>>8377081

Ignoramous

>>8377072

It's difficult to separate genetic and cultural differences. Nature vs. nurture. The only way to answer this question would be to look at adoptive children of various races being educated by a control group (for example, rich white people).

As far as I know, this has never been done. It certainly hasn't been done systematically, but I also don't think there have ever been any meta-analysis done on existing adoptive children to try and answer this question.

Instinctively, I believe there is probably no quantifiable, purely genetic intellectual difference based solely on race.

>>8377095

It's rather nice that this is the case. I think a lot of people don't make the distinction between culture and intellect too. I mean of course there's more criminality within the black community (at least in the U.S), but it's been less than 200 years since the abolition of slavery. Blacks have only recently (1960-70s) received an acceptable level of equality, and even then conditions haven't been the same in some cases.

Anyways my question was wrongly asked. I'm more interested in the measurable "intelligence". I know IQ tests are very limited, but is there evidence there is a significant difference in IQ between races?

When will cancer be cured?
When will stupidity be cured?
When will that thing I don't like be cured?
When will that thing when my older brother tells me I will turn into a millipede if I touch an a millipede be cured (I really don't like it when he tells me that. I cry and I scream. Why is life so cruel?)

>>8372978
When Harvard stops being bribed by food corps to cover up the effects of sugar on health.

Take some ipecac 3 times daily on a full stomach and your obesity will be cured.

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>>8357149
because they're basing their politics off feels instead of science and nuclear energy was introduced to the world in bomb form instead of power plant form.

>>8357149
Because the average person, regardless of whether he is liberal or conservative, is largely lacking in basic scientific education.

fukushima?

inb4 someone posts that bait graph

>>8379683

Smartest: None

Dumbest: All of them

>>8379683
Smart end would probably be:
/Biz/
/Sci/
/Lit/
/Hi/
Average
/Mu/
/Out/
/CK/
/G/
Dumb
/Mlp/
/B/
/V/

Not as senseless as your thread, OP.

>>8372175
What is so senseless about this thread?

>>8372167
Yep sergio ramos is an atractive gipsy.

I like chow mein

>>8372638
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on China's intentions. To me all their projects look like pure prestige projects to me, i.e. taking things from the west and making them bigger. Whether actual science will come out of it depends on much more than just the machinery. You need to find people who are willing to work in China to operate them, and not just any people, the best. And believe me, Geneva is probably a far nicer place to work at than any place in China. Though granted, China is WAY cheaper.

>>8372651
Well the truth is scientists will migrate where the work is, and where the equipment to do it is. If China has equipment which opens up avenues of research that Geneva can't accommodate, naturally they'll go where the research is even if there's other reasons why they prefer Geneva.

>>8370518
no, git gud

>>8370518
Usually no but you just made me do it so fuck you

Yes, there's a word for it and it fucks up your reading speed as a result.

4*atan(1)

[math]\pi[/math]

the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter

>>8367917
Maybe we should have thought about the potential consequences of telling people dietary fat is evil.

>>8367925
What's the best way to find the truth? Common sense?

>>8367930
Personally I'm of the opinion that a species' normal diet in the wild, at the very least, is an acceptable diet for that species. You can say that natural != better all you like but natural is certainly sufficient, and that's better than being obviously detrimental.

Cool image.
[regurgitation] no silicon or atomic limits [/regurgitation]

To answer your question I don't know.
Bump.

>>8367193
Transistor based computers can already exceed the brain in terms of calculations per second. But that's missing the point because what makes the brain special is its architecture, not how "fast" it is

>>8367198
>computers will never be as smart as humans, dude limits lmao
>"then how are humans so smart with limited brain volume and shitty hardware?"
>lol, who knows lmao, immortal soul and stuff

erry time

An astounding 10% of old people see hallucinations.
The ability to distinguish them from reality depends on where in the brain the problem is.
Most have no feeling that the hallucinations are real, since the glitch is in the visual processing part only, not the part that deals with emotions.

Sacks gave a lecture on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations

>>8365642
It sounds like you're describing "delusions" rather than hallucinations. They're ambiguous in nature and are perceived to be very real, not like a generic hallucination brought on by drugs or Charles Bonnet Syndrome, where cartoonish faces/figures are seen in areas of low-light and immediately distinguished as non-real by the individual.

Schizophrenia is a hallmark disease that produces delusions in patients.

>>8365802
>It sounds like you're describing "delusions"
No.
>delusion
>an idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder.
>Google.

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I'll just leave this here.

>>8374410
You really can't hate him

What he is doing is pretty fucking great

Well, that was beautiful.

Are they short on funding again?

>surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa

Cant see the surprise

>>8359632
maybe there isnt any evidence of subsurface oceans