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How do you brain damaged experience grapheme → color projective synesthesia?
I notice the colors only vaguely and they're so faint I cannot say whether there's any consistency.

Also, can you please order in space your favorite boards?
/pol/ is on the left, /x/ in the center and /sci/ on the right.

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Can I put "Completed all exercises in Knuth's Concrete Mathematics" on my resume?

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I like the appearance of a certain girl but her personality is intolerable. Can I somehow clone her body and put in a different personality?

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What if magnetic gimbals were used so that whenever they aligned in a parallel configuration they were physically close enough to repel one another and correct the problem?

Any of you guys thought up other solutions to the ancient problem of gimbal lock? It continues to bewilder engineers even in the 20th century:
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/e-1344.htm
>gimbal lock almost caused failure of the Apollo 11 mission because they couldn't navigate with locked gimbals and had to manually re-align them.

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At what age is it too late to get good at a complicated field? I wasted my high school years doing stupid shit, and have big gaps when it comes to physics and math as a result.
I did good in biology/chem/extracurricular biotech because it was interesting at the time, now pursuing a bachelors in mol. biology.

I'm 21. Is it too late for me to get good at maths and physics, so I can become a theoretical physicist?

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Hello /sci/ I am a math major and am about a year away from graduating with a Bachelor's Degree. I would like to start to organize everything that I have from my text books and books i've bought into an organized collection. How should I go about that.

3 books on Calculus
3 on Differential Equations
2 on statistics
Euclidean Geometry
Abstract Algebra
Books on Proofs
2 on Number Theory
and one book called Math 1001 by Richard Elwes.

How should /sci/ approach doing this?

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Explain on what would martians would look like? Give your best example.

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Reminder that meth is unironically the greatest stimulant of all and has been proven to (temporarily) increase your IQ by a factor of 20 points.

Reminder that everything else is just placebo

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I'm sick and tired of seeing videos and reading about this stupid fucking eclipse. Every time I go to google news there's 2 or 3 articles about the eclipse, like it's never going to happen again. Millions of fucking people going to the path and fucking up all the roads and hotels and airports. Buy welders glasses so you can look at the eclipse. It's an eclipse! You don't need welders glasses if the fucking sun is covered! I wish the moon would just hit the sun this time instead and end it.

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According to our present state of knowledge, the universe is flat, which means the heat death is the most probable scenario for its end.

But, wikipedia's article "Timeline of the far future" states:

Around this vast timeframe, quantum tunnelling in any isolated patch of the vacuum could generate, via inflation, new Big Bangs giving birth to new universes.[102]
Because the total number of ways in which all the subatomic particles in the observable universe can be combined is {\displaystyle 10^{10^{115}}} 10^{10^{115}},[103][104] a number which, when multiplied by {\displaystyle 10^{10^{10^{56}}}} 10^{10^{10^{56}}}, disappears into the rounding error, this is also the time required for a quantum-tunnelled and quantum fluctuation-generated Big Bang to produce a new universe identical to our own, assuming that every new universe contained at least the same number of subatomic particles and obeyed laws of physics within the range predicted by string theory.[105]

If so, what happens to our old and cold universe? Does the new one expand inside it? How does this work? Wouldn't there be a problem with this?

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How would you like to be able to say for real that you once volunteered your time and dedication to solving one of the most important problems in societal progress: the assimilation of computers!

this would be relevant each and every time a new type of computer is made, since the contents of old computers would need to be translated to a new system in order to be received by the new ones, correct?

so what i say is this: why don't we make a framework for DATAMAPPED MEMORY so that filetranslation is easy and quick, since for image files, we could just map the data 1:1 to a condensed memory system that implements continuous and non-discreet math [physical indicators wherein the range of error for the data storage is lower than the acceptable range for the use of the information, although by mapping together different points we could lower the range of error indefinitely using modifiers and the continuous type to create more and more plot points to connect ranges of margin [i believe? not a math, more of an engineer, this just seemed reasonable to me but someone else could probably have a more accurate representation so we know what we're working with for that, but that would literally just be a new property of memory, only available through our framework [i believe, though could be possible in simulation but that would probably take up way more data than just doing it actively in physical space.]

and then we take it, and slap it on our wrist with some gyroscopes and accelerometers and call them pip boys and start the tech priests.
or we could start a business where we teach people to use them, for the emperor and the inquisition!
although i expect to make all of this tech to be made publicly available by making it open source under its own license and then also using the memory system to set up repositories of information in libraries in the form of a quickly-transferrable digital copy of the entire library with technology for librarians to copy in new books.

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If we manage to create a simulation that is perceived by its inhabitants to be as complex as we perceive our own universe to be, will we effectively prove the existence of (or at least provide the reasonable grounds for) a god?

I do not personally believe it would ever be possible to create a simulation that matches our own universe's complexity, even in terms of our own perception of its complexity. Therefore, I don't think it would be possible to achieve this, but maybe humans have a much lower grasp of the possibility for complexity of a universe than I think.

Discuss.

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>do good on solving tests and problems, find logical solutions based on accumulated knowledge and relations
>stop doing tests
>my mind becomes a blank slate and i feel like i don't know shit

Anyone else get this? Is it a form of brainletism?

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So as I see it:

>Either there's only one universe/finite universes

>Travel between universes is impossible

Because if there are infinite universes, wouldn't every single universe be flooded by interdimensional travelers?