Archived threads in /sci/ - Science & Math - 1503. page

i really, really like asian women

>>8239718
That's just the exotic effect. Asians feel the same way about white people. It's foreign so it's fascinating. We already knew people were curious creatures.

Mindcontrol Hiro and make him delete 4chan.

>>8246927
Then there is the fact that no rocket is cheap enough to build the colony ship in orbit. It just doesn't work economically speaking. Even the biggest and cheapest of rockets would still make the project way to costly for any non-emergency scenario (i.e. extinction event and people stop caring about money cause they wanna save themselves). To circumvent this I added a space elevator to be built on the equator. It would allow for cargo to be transported up 24/7. Maybe completing the trip to geosynchronous orbit once every 24 hours, and could carry maybe 2 tons each trip.

Already that's a pretty penny to pay for, but it's nothing compared to the ship itself.

I will admit I just went ham and threw numbers at the wall until they stuck (I calculated how much energy the elevator consume in dollars to carry the cargo up, and multiplied that number by 6 to account for the cost of the cargo inside it and workforce building the ship in orbit). I came up with a very big number.

TL;DR I calculated a cost to build such project at about 2 trillion dollars (2016 dollars that is, no idea how much in 2099 money). Does that make sense or am I massively underestimating? Also, feel free to call me a faggot and tell me that I forgot to account for “x” thing

>>8246928
What's your math?

>>8246940
Im gonna be honest, I don't remember. The numbers got so big and mixed in the end I just remembered the 2 trilion mark. However, as I said, I got to it by:

>calculated how much energy the elevator consume in dollars to carry the cargo up, and multiplied that number by 6 to account for the cost of the cargo inside it and workforce building the ship in orbit

So maybe I can re-do it sometime. I also think I assumed the elevator had it's own nice nuclear reactor on each end of it to reacharge at a cheaper price.

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>>8247712

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>>8247712
>notoriously difficult

>pass me please!!!
>meritocracy is evil!!!! waaaa!!!

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>>8247712
>the notoriously difficult college math class, Calculus I

LOL.

>>8246003
Literally a meme uni for oxbridge rejects

>>8246003
Can you ask if I can get political asyl to study there ore somewhere else? :D I cant go back home to my country to print my diploma

>>8246121
No anon, that's Warwick.

>>8229624
I'm willing to wager that there isn't enough trapped in the ice. Having little atmosphere isn't as big of a deal as the Microgravity problem, as well as the lack of a magnetosphere which would mean constant bombardment of harmful solar radiation during the day. The magnetosphere also would help keep the atmosphere on the planet, as the sun is stripping the atmosphere away, albeit very slowly.

>>8229624
>How would we go about terraforming Mars?
not science, please fuck off

>>8229624
>How would we go about terraforming Mars?
Slam another planet or decently sized moon into it then wait thousands of years for it to settle down. By then we likely would have better technology which could terraform other planets in other solar systems.

>>8241062
>study biology for 3
>random mutation

Most evolution doesn't involve random mutations. What school did you go to?

>>8241062

Let's do this.

Give an example.

>>8241062
>simply
Care to show your simple math?

>>8243175
Space colonization and resource exploitation.

sexbot

sexbot

define intelligence

>>8242474
>social cohesion
back to >>>/his/

It's not that, it's that everyone had the chance to test to see how intelligent they really are, instead of being judged by their benefactors

Also consider that most adults with docked mental ability have it from a disease or injury they're kids won't be born with

grothendieck

imb4 Neumann, Turing, Kolmogorov, Grothendieck

>>8238912
My big sister. She taught me how to math when I was only three years old.

>>8243083
All abstract subjects seem inherently unnecessary to all but the practitioners of that discipline. For the same reason that a modern mathematician might scorn archaic disciplines, while the practioners of those discplines viewed their own abstractions as usefull and simple.

>Math has a defined wrong or right answer when we start out, which always motivated me to improve.
That is neither what math is about nor would any sane individual be motivated by solving baby practice problems.
>I got more questions wrong than I did right, but I didn't care because I was learning. However, I propose that most people see failure not as something to learn from and recognise as a usual part of development, but as a measure of some fixed quantity now and forever. Personally, I think intelligence can be improved, and I think the more I worked at complex problems the more intelligent and able to deal with novel concepts I became.
You don't like math, you like the ego boost you get from associating yourself with it. This is the typical behaviour of kids who were never successful at anything in high-school and need to cling to identifying associations to perserve their ego.

>However, if you don't believe you can improve these most basic set of attributes, you will fear the subject because you will say, "if my intelligence is fixed, failure measured me forever".
>Why do you guys think it is?
Did you seriously just associate mathematical maturity with fluid intelligence? Fuck off retard, go see a shrink, don't study mathematics you'll be terrible at it and end up killing yourself in your early 20s when you realize how little being a fanboy matters.

why do manlets hate basketball?
people don't like what they're bad at and math-savvy is like its own athleticism

>>8243115
>All abstract subjects seem inherently unnecessary to all but the practitioners of that discipline.
Excellent explanation as to why most people are fucking idiots. Brilliant.

>>8242796
>be hostile as usual, attack it
>give me valuable input

I don't even know what your point is. Can you clarify?

>>8242809

I will.

This text is part of a solution I used to get the full time job I wanted.
Mostly it was just a matter of how a person should behave among other people.
So it turned mostly into calculating a simulation of a fictional personality in different scenarios, that eventually I'd run through using my own body. And, those calculations were correct, since I managed to reach the goal.

What I mean attack, valuable input, could you make those calculations even better, more accurate?

Even to the point you are capable of using it yourself, understanding it.

>>8242796
>those "papers"
Looks like another schizophrenic wandered in from /x/. Nothing to see here.

>>8244750
Whenever I steal money from the register at my job as a Walmart cashier I use imaginary numbers to cover the discrepancy.

Works every time.

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>imaginary
>not complex

>>8244772
how?

Serious question, what are you on about?

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>>8244366
Free will isn't nonsense. Free will isn't incompatible with determinism. If you think free will is incompatible with determinism, consider this:

Would you have MORE or LESS free will in a non-deterministic universe, where gorilla butts can speak English & bananas can peel themselves when you softly finger them?

If you think about it, a sense-making (i.e. deterministic) universe is the ONLY type of universe where any semblance of free will could possibly exist.

>>8244366
Our languages (at least, western languages?) have this assumption of free will in the way they build subjects in sentences. Well.. if you say someone (3rd person) made a lot of effort, that just means he made effort for whatever reason, as a response to whatever impulse his environment sent his body.

>>8244366
the mental/physical time, thought and energy they've invested into something. Got nothin to do with free will?!

>>8239056
>Simplification ahead
Linear algebra basically deals with planes, lines, and spaces.
Matrices are vector spaces. Everything is Euclidean geometry.
Euclidean basically means that right angles are 90° and that, given a line, only one parallel line can go through a point.

>>8239056
it's 'non-linear' not 'curvy'

linear algebra is rooted in the study of systems of linear equations, i.e. all exponents on variables are equal to 1

x+y+z=1
x+y=1 etc.
non-linear is stuff like
x^2=1
x^2+y=1

[math] (2·X) + (2·Y) = 2·(X + Y) [/math]
linear

[math] (2·X)^2 + (2·Y)^3 = ? [/math]
non-linear

>>8238725
>>>/adv/

Sue you parents.

I agree though. It is ridiculous. Infants here get circumcision and scrotum reduction. It makes sex less feeling and lowers the sperm count due to increased heat since the testis can't lower properly.

>>8238725
It doesn't decrease sensitivity. Enough with this shitty persecution complex.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23937309

>>8238738
Adv sucks. Besides, political science is a legitimate field, right?

And man, I don't want to sue my mom - she was an ignorant signee who was coerced into it. She's not a medical professional, she shouldn't be expected to make that decision. That's like telling parents to decide at birth whether their child should have nipples. And being fed a bunch of bullshit about why nipplecision is preferable and that many people do it.

Honestly, I believe our period of history will be regarded with ridicule for our systematic infant circumcision.