Being a psychopath is the most logical way to live.
If the ultimate goal of a human being is to pass on his genes, killing your parents and collecting insurance money will greatly improve your quality of life and chances that you will have offspring.
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Better chance of spending life in prison lol
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>>8339166
Actually killing yourself as quickly as possible is the most logical way to live because you never chose to be born and don't personally benefit in any way from having your genes persist on the planet in the form of offspring.
It's neat and all, but does it have any noteworthy application?
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Engineer philosophy in a nutshell.
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back to your dumb /mlp/ thread, brainlet
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>>8339099
You know how much of reality can be modeled accurately with sine waves?
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the psychological suffering
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Is there a biological purpose behind the psychological suffering, the one that you feel when the people that you love dies, or when something really bad happens to you?
Wouldn't it be easier to survive if we didn't feel despair?
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>>8338976
It's more of a meme thing than a gene thing. It has to do with the perspective that one is raised in.
If you we're genuinely convinced that your dead loved one was living it up on cloud 9, than the despair would probably not be there. You would probably still suffer from not seeing them anymore, but that's a product of the value you placed in their company for reasons which are again more psychosocial than innately neurobiological.
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>>8338993
That said, there are many innate biological factors which lead to a tendency in our forming such values. It's highly adaptable to value relationships with kin and like-minded people.
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buddhism
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a motorist drives south at 20 m/s for 3 min, then turns west and travels west at 25m/s for 2 min, and finally travels n/w at 30 m/s for 1 min. for this 6 minute trip, can someone help me how to get the average velocity, vecto displacement and average speed
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>>8338674
Give up, Physics is not for you.
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>>8338674
damn b it's only the first week kill yourself
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>op
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What's your favourite /sci/ non-textbook book?
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Non-textbook book... You mean a book with only pictures then?
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>>8338650
A science-related book that's not a textbook.
>textbook
>n.
>A book used in schools or colleges for the formal study of a subject.
'Measure Theory' is a textbook, 'I Want to Be a Mathematician' is not a textbook.
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>>8338637
annnd I've got to fap now thank you OP
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>Chance of Carrington Event sized solar storm happening in next 4 years
>1 in 8
>nobody expects it'll happen
>no money spent preparing for it
>Chance of winning the powerball
>1 in 292,201,338.00
>everyone thinks they'll win it
>America alone spends $70billion every year on lotto
Can we talk about this /sci/?
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>>8338604
it seems like theres no reliable way of predicting it, and no one gives it enough attention because of that, so no one gives a shit.
All of these doomsday scenarios, no matter where they fall on the spectrum of credible or not, seem to share the common trait of being entirely unpredictable. If we cant predict when its going to happen and someone just keeps saying "soon! soon! whoops, no not this time, but soon! its only a matter of time!" then these claims have little more weight that someone declaring the second coming of christ.
Most well known was the polar shift that everyone was crazy about in 2012. never happened. People have stopped giving a shit.
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>>8338604
Where do you get the 1 in 8 figure from?
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This is why we need Trump in the White House. To answer these deep questions.
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Prove to me that everything happening right now isn't happening within a Boltzmann brain that was formed due to random quantum fluctuations.
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>>8338599
Burden of proof is on you
Sage
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>>8338599
This is what happen when you lose God's sight
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>>8338603
Statistics is on my side, it's vastly more likely for a boltzmann brain to for than it is for a universe to form in which there are galaxies that contain stars that through physical processes create minerals and other shit that's essential to life which then form planets which are able to host life if the chemistry is right leading to me and you talking at this moment.
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Let's say you have a computer program that counts natural numbers from 1 to infinity. Between printing the number [math]k[/math] and [math]k + 1[/math], it waits exactly [math]k[/math] seconds.
It's clear that it would take [math]1 + 2 + 3 + ...[/math] seconds for the program to finish the counting. Any sane person would now argue that this would be infinite amount of time, i.e. the program never finishes its task. A mathematician would claim that the program only needs [math]-\frac{1}{12}[/math] seconds, i.e. we would immediately get the results out.
It's obvious that the mathematician is wrong with this one -- Anyone can test this out using a simple script.
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>>8338590
Actually, -1/12 means you got the result in the past
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>>8338590
Sorry op, I actually ran the program and got it all printing a fraction of a second before I started it.
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>>8338590
clearly this is incorrect, because there is no computer that can count up to infinity, so there is no computer that can execute such program.
but could imagine a settings where gods solve problem that require infinite time to calculate with this trick of making the computer wait k seconds each operation, it would be pretty rad actually
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Question About Tidal Locking
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Hi /sci/, I have a question about the moon.
So the moon is tidally locked to the earth and the orbit is synchronous. We only see one side of it.
How come we see the side we see? Why it oriented the way it is and not some other way?
It seems like it must have to do with the mass/gravity distribution of the moon. Which side of the moon is heavier? Would one side being heavier mean that side is oriented toward the earth, or away?
Is the side we see the one with greater mass, closer to the earth because it is being pulled more?
Or is the far side the one with greater mass, farther because of centrifugal force?
Something else entirely?
When engineers want to lock a satellite in a specific orientation towards a body, what to they do to it to ensure it is in the desired orientation?
Thank you for any help. This is confusing me quite a bit.
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OP here bumping in the hopes a lunatic will come along
Nasa's GRAIL mission gravity maps seem to suggest the near side is heavier
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A better question
How did meteors hit the side of the moon facing the earth?
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>>8338936
that is a good question
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How statistically likely is it for me to die in my sleep?
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50/50 since asleep/awake is a binary option, either its one or the other
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1/3 chance for the average person.
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1/2
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Black Panther member criticizes Isaac Newton
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start at 13:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-hxmZNG70
he mentions that the text books say Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity and says thats wrong, it was the first conscious man that discovered gravity
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WUZ
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Hi /sci/
I graduated with an engineering degree from UWaterloo and I'm looking to go back to school to complete a Stats-based masters.
Being from engineering, my prob & stats repertoire is quite weak and I'm looking to improve my knowledge greatly before applying. My ultimate goal is to break into Machine Learning in order to switch my job from development/programming to data science. I also want to go over linear algebra and a little bit of calc (even though calc is my strongest math skill).
If anyone has experience in this field, what would be the best masters degree to pursue (in Canada, I'd like to stay here if possible).
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>>8338272
>If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.
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>>8338274
kys yourself
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>>8338274
It's more about me asking...
> what is the best approach to learning probability and statistics?
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I know that there are 3 dimensions, but have heard that there are more than 3 dimensions, which is the fourth dimension ?
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There is only one dimension. Human brain just likes to organize things into different categories like "object A is in front of object B" or "event C was before event D", so that the reality was easier to grasp.
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X - left/right
Y - up/down
Z - back/forth
W - across
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>>8338114
It's called the outside your mom's basement dimension, but usually /sci/ don't care about this dimension.
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What are Senior Engineering Seminars/Projects like? For people who have social anxiety or at least have a degree of phobia to public speaking how are they? I feel like I'm really gonna need some xanax and beta blockers to get through it.
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You should get more content to your picture folder. Now I recognize you as the guy who was earlier advertising his shitty forum, and thus I'm unable to respect you enough to post a decent reply.
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>>8338130
Nope that wasnt me I probably saved his picture
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>>8338102
Not bad, just practice
Anyway, even if you present like a complete retard, they won't fail you
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What does it truly mean to be an educated person?
>Pic not related.
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Either have at least BS in Computer Science or alternatively a phd in some other STEM field. Studying non-STEM subjects does not compute as getting educated since it's like reading the Twilight books.
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Know enough to know how little you actually know
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>>8338078
I'd argue that a MSci is the very minimum as you get to do some actual research and come up with new ideas rather than just learn other peoples'