If I keep lifting, eventually I'll be able to lift heavier weights easily. If I keep solving problems, will I eventually be able to solve harder problems easily?
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I have this problem with something that is hard if you understand your oral physiology and vacuum mechanics well enough.
Isn't science actually a delusional mental illness?
It factually has a great deal in common with autism, borderline personality disorder, etc:
- Inflexible adherence to rules
- Mindless repetition
- Lack of compromise
- Black and white thinking
- Brings people into conflict with tradition and populism
- Disregards societal norms and obedience to authority
I think that Soft Sciences like psychiatry and psychology have finally surpassed the "hard sciences", and in fact disprove the theory of them being rational or even healthy.
I'm glad the DSM is constantly expanding to catch all of these behaviors before they start to influence thinking.
What's ridiculous is that if you disagree then you also probably don't believe in rationality, evolution, etc... and probably are a mental illness denialist.
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Fuck, you're dumb
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what kind of a shitty troll is this ?
cum on OP step it up
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Can someone explain to me how Quantum teleportation works ?
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>>8274869
It doesn't
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I believe you mean Quantum Entanglement, and yeah, I'm also kinda stuck. So, bumping for interest.
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The possible locations that matter can occupy are a factor of the amount of matter and Planck length. Matter can exist as a possibly cloud that condenses when observed. The cloud is smaller for larger and more massive quantities of matter. For something very small, the cloud is large enough to allow it to extend beyond a container that would normally keep larger particles within it. Sometimes the cloud condenses outside the container. That is quantum tunneling.
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Are Planck units the smallest possible value for a specific physical quantity? Could something be smaller than one Planck length, or is that just the smallest theoretical measurable distance? What about Planck time? Could there be smaller intervals of time?
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>>8274725
>Are Planck units the smallest possible value for a specific physical quantity?
Probably not.
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Nothing can be smaller than a Planck length in diameter. something can be closer than one plank length to something else.
Time is a bit beyond m knowledge.
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Planck is the smallest unit we can measure, not the smallest unit that can exist
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wrong
NASA LIVE STREAM.
WATCH THE EARTH FROM SPACE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njCDZWTI-xg
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I'm still not convinced the earth is round. Nice try NASA shill.
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>>8274705
>I'm still not convinced
... aaand not a shit was given.
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>>8274697
I'm wondering when the hell are they gonna fix their fisheye lenses. People keep confusing and thinking the earth must be round because of it.
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My microwave-oven's top is missing. Are microwaves leaking out and giving my family cancer?
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>>8274551
If the big white metal box the food goes into is still completely intact then no. (Ie if the "top" was decorative) Otherwise maybe cancer but certainly blinding and sterilising them.
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>>8274551
no, the inside box is reflector shield. call us if the door falls off.
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>(Ie if the "top" was decorative)
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How is it that nominalism is mathematically unsound? Can anyone provide an example? 2016-08-16 04:38:40 Post No.8274525
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How is it that nominalism is mathematically unsound? Can anyone provide an example?
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I was reading some Bertrand Russell and he casually mentioned that according to some nominalists, numbers are only useful fictions, and that there are no real particulars. And that left me confused. How can numbers be anything but computation? How can models be anything other than the domain of minds? (computers).
I'm not a Platonist, but I'm not a pure empiricist either. I think that arriving at truth is possible in a rationalist sense, but only of events which require no evidence. In this way, I view math and logic as pure computation which requires a mind.
I don't even understand what it means to say that math can be independent of a mind, so I find it difficult to phrase the question in the title correctly. Saying that there is computation independent of a computer sounds like a white black, a North South, an existent nothing, or a left right.
I don't mean to say that the universe is not ordered in a predictable way that can be understood through mathematics.
I mean, how can there possibly be numbers, values, or computation independent of minds?
I'm really only interested in hearing of examples of math independent of minds. (no matter how complicated or difficult the example is, though I'd prefer the example is presented in its simplest form for my own limited understanding and for the sake of discussion.)
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Give me one good reason to read this post.
Sell it to me, anon. Convince me to spend my time-money on your word-products. I'm a highly discerning ideas-consumer and frugality and shrewdness are part in parcel with that.
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>make a computer run Coq
>don't look at it
>?????
>math independant of a mind
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What is the science behind shitposting? This is not even a troll. I just want to understand the mechanisms that undergoes through a person minds when shitposting on 4chan.
What happens at the brains that makes people do ironic, baity, sarcastic posts? Is it related to pleasure and attention seekism?
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>>8274403
Yes.
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>>8274403
Eliciting an emotional response from people is entertaining, thats it
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>>8274427
How can people even be sure about it? I can pretend to be mad and not even be.
What are the underlying psychological mechanisms that makes shitposting manifests?
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what the fuck does this even mean
so did I get rid of my gingivitis through proper flossing or switching to an electric toothbrush (a crutch, but fuck brushing the "correct" way with a manual one)
I actually do get like a couple teeth every night that I was able to remove food clumps stuck in between the gums with flossing which would otherwise have contributed to gingivitis
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>>8274387
What if food particles between the teeth don't contribute to gingivitis? What if they're actually protective?
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they want you to use the more expensive interdentbrushes that hurt your gums
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it definitely helps
it removes plaque from the teeth
replace floss with a very thin piece of hard clear plastic and move it between your teeth after not flossing for a week
you will find plaque smeared all across the plastic
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if you were able to travel back in time millions of years, could you breathe the air from the dinosaurs and the cambrian (or wathever) time?
how would it have smell back then?
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>>8274324
>if you were able to travel back in time millions of year
Mathematically unlikely.
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>>8274374
>he doesn't have imagination
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>>8274324
I cant answer that question but i can tell you that in some point of earth history there was a lot more oxigen in the air and it allowed to insects to get giant sizes like centipies 3 or 4 meters large. Dunno if that air could have been noxious for us. Hope someone anon tell us.
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Physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature 2016-08-15 23:09:37 Post No.8273955
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Physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature
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>Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature
>If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-physicists-discovery-nature.html
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Tfw they discover gravity
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What if the re are infinite forces?
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>>8273964
Then statistically after-life is possible.
Even a sort of Deity that pulls the string.
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>that kid who always put edgy shit on his exam.
Professors must be cringe proof
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Who else adds detail to their drawings when they finish?
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>>8273919
>Take midterm
>"solve problem," I know it is wrong
>write down on a midterm
>I know this answer is wrong : (
get exam back, grader wrote
>You were close : )
mfw
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I almost always draw or write something on my exams. It's probably boring looking at exam after exam with the same shit on it, so I try to be just a little tongue-in-cheek with them. Usually a snide comment, something sarcastic, or a little doodle that's applicable to the subject material.
Sometimes, it's actually a question about what's being asked, though.
>"Solve."
>"What, for X? Because it's ANSWER."
>"Yes, for X. +5."
My friend really likes rocks, I say friend cuz our dating is... Complicated...
Anyway I got some really cool rocks for her and I'm thinking about giving them to her on her birthday, I know that seems lame to most people and maybe to all but I would like a geologist oppinion.. I can upload pics...
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>>8273438
>I say friend cuz our dating is... Complicated...
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Dating Complicated Hahahaha Nigga She Just Doesn't Like You Like Nigga Stalk Someone Else Haha
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>>8273445
First of all that doesn't answer my question... Secondly, the situation is complicated but we ARE dating.
You can fuck off though
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>>8273479
upload your rocks friend
we will judge their worthiness
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Is the current way we teach mathematics broken? How come we don't teach mathematics through a formal language such as Lambda Calculus or a programming language based on Lambda Calculus? Why do I need to know how to solve a differential equation by hand when I can write a program to do it for me? Every professor I have had can't even use summation notation correctly, I wouldn't mind having a compiler around to tell the professor that they are full of shit.
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>>8273369
Voyevodsky pls.
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>>8273369
How the hell are you going to write a program that solves diffeq for you if you can't?
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>>8274004
This.
>inb4 import "diffeq"
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I really enjoyed this series.
It was so informative on so many subjects.
While still being very interesting and entertaining.
I am really interested in astronomy and history.
Sure some of you might see this as pleb docimentary. But i really liked it.
Anyone who can recommend anything similar?
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Sadly, there is a significant shortage in scientific documentaries about space and astronomy. Cosmos is okay but I think people around here don't like it so much because it's appealing to a very wide audience including the children, which means it's quite a dumbed down documentary.
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>>8273360
Seems silly you cant enjoy something just because its been simplified alittle.
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>>8273343
You should definitely see The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowsky and Connections by... another guy
I also love The Story of Maths