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Why on Earth would they want such a horrendous piece of shit? Give them something useful, like an A-10 or F-15.

>>7682802
Hahaha

The F22 is single most capable fighter in the world to date.

>>7682822
>The F22 is single most capable fighter in the world to date.

>plagued by mechanical problems and a bloated development and unit cost
>capable
Only of failing at the worst possible moment.

>>7682782
no, thats exactly what it is. the curvature.
whats the problem here?

Just because it LOOKs like it's 0 in a wide range doesn't mean it actually is. That's just the limitations of visuals. x^4 is only 0 when x = 0.

Anyway "curvature" is a rather nebulous description. The derivative of a functions more often explained as the slope of the curve at a certain point (in which case the points near 0 would be CLOSE to 0, but not exactly 0 except at 0). Or, more generally, the change in the value of f(x) with respect to the change in x (which is actually its definition).

>>7682786
My problem is that I don't see how x^4 differs from x^2 in terms of curvature.
Both tend upwards both ways from x=0.
So how can the curvature of x^4 be 0 (when that of x^2 isn't)?

>>7682770
Dawkins is dead dumb when it comes to talking about anything that is not biology.

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>>7682770
Media is disgusting.

This is what I like most about Unreal Tournament. Their hypothetical projection of the future seems entirely accurate. Eventually media will devolve into an informal mass of disjointed heavily skewed critiques. Then it'll become emotion driven sensationalism for the obvious political and economic advantages. Then it'll devolve further to the equivalent of dog fighting. Then reality TV and other such shit will be about killing each other. Two of those re already done. "CNN reached out to blah blah for comment via his verified twitter account."

"We reached out to this 14 year old kid so he could fight Dawkins publically." Grand.

And "the world is becoming more peaceful!" they cry out, as though if saying it will make it so. No. Its viciousness and aggression is just becoming more homogeneous and isotropic. This bomb is primed to explode.

>>7682770
No he caved into pressure within a day

>>7682545
How come meme scientists back in the day were actually smart, and now we've got black science man and Bill Nye?

>>7682548
>Nobel prize winners
>Meme scientists
Yeah, totally. Being somewhat personable makes you a meme.

>>7682548
>How come meme scientists back in the day were actually smart, and now we've got black science man and Bill Nye?
Back in the day only the top handful of a percent even went to college, let alone graduated.
More people have PhDs today than the number who did some college a century ago.

>engineers literally take a stoichiometry class

>>7682551
well, it doesnt looks easy as that

bumperino

No, i think your just autistic

>>7682473
I feel you op. the more you cut the quesadilla the more places it has to lose heat

>heat loss
>cheese solidifies faster
>essence of quesadilla decays quickly

I bet those fking plebs didn't even stack the two six inch ones

that's just the problem I see, are there more ?

>>7682477
it's okay if you don't understand. no need to call names.

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Do not ask what can mathematics do for you,
instead ask yourself, what can You do for mathematics!

>>7682439
Are you really a mathematician?

>>7682410
>What has mathematics done most for you?
Irritation, depression, and even outright rage has stemmed, at least indirectly.

I know the basics. A bit of algebra and small bits of what calculus can be supported by that framework hacked in here and there. But as a whole, I never really learned it. Most of my thinking about "math" and "numbers" has been philosophically oriented.

Nothing gets more tiresome than disagreements with people who are more mathematically minded. Their tendencies when framing and modeling the world are all fucked up. They place massive amounts of faith almost blindly into bad ways of predicting and describing natural processes, and worst of all, it simply doesn't work.

I don't like feeling this way, but I really am becoming more polar in my viewpoints. People who've spent a good deal of their life on math practically act brainwashed. They're frequently myopic, overly confident, and wilfully ignore "quantization error" when its existence doesn't suit them, despite that they should understand it best. And don't even get me started on probability and statistics. What utter abuse. Fucking braindead delusion. "Durr it's blatantly in front of my nose and the likelihood that trusting this path of least resistance will result in error is quite low, but this equation says the true nature of reality must be something else, so I'll use this broken logic and ignore everything else! I've tapped the mind of God!!"

I'm learning calculus and want to learn some trigonometry. I really don't know how it happens. Is this what they are all along, or was it done to them. Just don't know.

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>>7682302
>software engineering
>not just shitty program design or a worse version of CS
Kek

what's /sci/'s issue with CS? Actually curious about this because I've seen a lot of hate for CS on here and I'm not sure why.

>>7682259
nihilist GTFO

mars is cute

>>7682259
>life originating on earth
If you mean, by supposing another question instead of addressing the original question - yes.

>ever being colonized
Why though, like you said it'll take time.

>why now?
Because plebs - honest to god truth
Most of the people who want to go do it based on a pathological desire to: be an
• astronaut/explorer
• get away from the unclean/doomed earth
• be free of 'x' conspiracy

I've never seen a rational argument for it, and I've heard about 5 very intelligent people advocate for it ( check out David Saintloth if you want an approaching passable argument )

>>7682248
2ac is part of the discriminant.

2ac is still alive

>>7682248
neither
>>7682252
4ac* (the discriminant is b^2-4ac)

>>7682221

... Woah.

>>7682261
What?

What is the max speed the pitcher can through?

are you a skeleton?

>>7682133
Lemme guess, you go on /fit/ and call people manlets?

>>7682133
Taking into account your weight I'd say about 2 feet wider. Should be good to go after that. Stream your test if you can for making history.

immortality is coming in a few years

>>7682132
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>>7682140
do you have a single fact to back that up? We still don't understand ageing, it will require major cellular reengineering. At best, we'd have to genetically modify human embryos to make immortal people.

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>>7682132

Sooner or later, reddit will pass

Continue...

>>7682057
your thread: the least interesting thing in nature

>>7682012
>can be a law if it can be violated?
ask criminals

Several physicists have presented calculations that show that the second law of thermodynamics will not actually be violated, if a more complete analysis is made of the whole system including the demon. The essence of the physical argument is to show, by calculation, that any demon must "generate" more entropy segregating the molecules than it could ever eliminate by the method described. That is, it would take more thermodynamic work to gauge the speed of the molecules and selectively allow them to pass through the opening between A and B than the amount of energy gained by the difference of temperature caused by this.

>>7682018
And it may not even be possible to do