Hey /sci/ does anyone know a way to find the vertex of an n-dimensional paraboloid?
I think it exists but I cannot find it.
Thanks /sci/
>>7663344
Help me sci you are my only hope.
What is your argument for the existence of that vertex ?
>>7663374
>I haven't taken calc III yet
There's this schizophrenic bully I know. Doesn't directly affect me but a lot of other people are getting really sick of him. Any way I can corrupt his already fragile mind?
>>7663295
Have you tried bullying him?
>>7663298
He's a big motherfucker, 6ft5 at least. However, he has a short temper and an unstable mind. This I can work with, I just need a method on how to.
>>7663295
Throw a mattress in his pool.
It takes a crane to get it out.
Sup /sci/. I came here because I heard that the smartest people on 4chan dwell on this board. I come with a question. Can climate change realistically be stopped? And if so, how?
Not looking for an argument, every rational being knows that global warming exists, and it is obvious we have contributed to our problems. However, I am looking for any solutions people may have. Pitch.
climate change ≠ global warming
>>7663234
Global warming leads to climate change, doofus.
Now put an idea out or leave.
If you stop the emissions the climate will normalize on its own.
Is "transgender" a mental illness? I'm legitimately curious. I have no point of reference to align my views on transgendered people (or even gay people, but I guess that's a different topic).
What can science tell us about the LGBT phenomena?
go back to /lgbt/ with this bullshit faggot. stop advertising the concept of "transgenderism" like it's worth talking about it or something, especially on a science board.
>>7663112
If you're asking whether gender dysphoria is a thing then yes
Psychology is (in most cases) medicine at best and a pseudo-science at worst. Terms like "mental illness", "mental disorder" and "personality complex" are entirely unscientific.
If you had a traveling salesman problem with 1000 points, what's the first thing you would do to solve it?
greedy
>>7663110
>what's the first thing you would do to solve it?
I would solve it.
>>7663158
/thread
>tfw :Hume destroyed induction
>Nietzsche destroyed reason
>Russell destroyed set theory
>Wittgenstein destroyed language
>Gödel destroyed completeness
>tfw science will never answer your questions
Problem /sci/ence ?
>>7663094
I'd rather have no answers than no questions
>>7663097
you're gay
>>7663098
And you're probably from straya
Hello,
I've been developing a bot for a game, which helped me to earn some money, but as of recent events, I've noticed, that other players using bots(not the same kind of mine), have been started to be banned massively.
Becouse of that, I figured that I should update my antiban system. As of now, I'm not using anything fancy, just some old randoms, though, it does appear not so bot-like.
Any ideas how to get this system better are appreciated. I know that I didn't give you any context, but I figured that there may might be some ideas, that I haven't thought about.
Thanks in advance.
wat
I don't know if you played the latest mods of counterstrike source, but the bots they modified act nothing like bots. They taunt, they coordinate with other bots, they anticipate your moves and cunningly trick you. They are modified to imitate the actual behaviours of pro players.
I'd say research into that, see how they made it so.
>>7663108
Thanks for feedback. I think it's not so bad idea to record movements and behavior of a player depending of state in game(doing task, not doing task) and then analyzing and then somehow applying those settings. I will look deeper into that.
Let's assume for a moment that abortion is morally wrong. At what stage does preventing the birth of a child become ok?
Is using the morning after pill ok?
What about condoms?
Is masturbation ok? That glob of semen you leaked onto your moms kitchen tile floor has sperm in it which could have fertilized an egg.
What about doing nothing? The sperm in your body dies after 2 and a half months, that's wasted potential too.
How about an egg cell that's discarded before it's fertilized?
Please don't use "muh fingernails" or "but it haz a hart!!1!!" as an argument. All of the above methods would create a life just the same as the sea monkey growing in a womb.
>>7662975
but anon, abortion IS morally wrong
the legalization is just a pragmatic necessity in order for the society to have a control over it, since it obviously existed since forver
>>7662975
You forgot IUD.
>>7662975
>Let's assume for a moment that abortion is morally wrong
Ok.
>Is using the morning after pill ok?
Grey area, leaning towards no.
>What about condoms?
Effectively the same as masturbation, see next answer.
>Is masturbation ok? That glob of semen you leaked onto your moms kitchen tile floor has sperm in it which could have fertilized an egg.
This is terrible argument and you know it.
>What about doing nothing? The sperm in your body dies after 2 and a half months, that's wasted potential too.
>How about an egg cell that's discarded before it's fertilized?
Now you're trying to argue that the body's natural processes are morally wrong, as opposed to an artificial abortion.
0/10. See me after class.
Will software engineering ever truly be engineering? Will there ever be an empirical measure, or mathematical proof for the correctness of the architecture of a software system?
>engineering
>mathematical proof for the correctness of the architecture of a software system?
also
>2015
>no user friendly all purpose dependently typed language
Is religiousness a trait that is being selected for?
Is not believing in evolution theory an evolutionary advantage?
>>7662883
It could well be that religiousness increased inclusive fitness at the expense of individual fitness, by strengthening group cohesion and by making altruistic acts towards the group and spiteful acts towards competing groups seemingly rational even on the individual level (through blessings or an improved afterlife).
A bit like how psychopathy increasing individual fitness at the expense of inclusive fitness, would explain why we aren't all psychopaths.
religiousness is appeal to majority and has its benefits.
>>7662901
Wouldn't having a lot of children be an example of its benefits to individual fitness?
Can a person with a high IQ learn art faster than a person without?
Now before you dismiss this as shitposting, please keep in mind that traditionally whenever some qualitative value is assigned to art it usually falls back on some aspect of pattern recognition, color theory, proper anatomy or other some other system that if you break it down enough it can be turned into a science.
In other words, if you map enough patterns of what people consider sounds "good", and program something that can arrangr those patterns in ways which couple together according to other patterns, then why shouldn't a computer be capable of composing an opera?
>>7662812
It could and it will.
For the same reason why computers can get high scores in an IQ test.
>>7662812
Im pretty sure a super computer will produce an opera that sounds amazing but the thing at its core art is about expressing YOUR emotions and thoughts that's why music sounds a lot better if you know the context which was written for.
Hey /sci/
So I have a test today and I need a little help with some precalc.
Pic related, i combined my logarithmic expression into one, now this is what i was left with.
Wanted to ask you guys, is there anything else I can do here, or this would be my final answer?
Thanks /sci/
if you really want to do more you can use Euclidean division to simplify it, but other than that i dont think you can do anything
>>7662816
So yeah, that will probably be my final answer. thank you anon!
I have another question is its okay,
Am I allowed to ln this ine and solve for x? Or because there is a 0 ln is out of the picture here?
(Exercise c)
wow, feynman's syntax is appalling
>>7662780
lol every time i've heard of anyone interacting with wolfram they've all said he has an enormous ego
An excessive use of hyphens when commas, semicolons, and colons are more appropriate (or at least would have created more visible segmenting), but otherwise it's fine.
Feynman has clearly mental problems, as in, he doesn't understand common English.
What scientific evidence is there for this?
>>7662770
Clinical trials.
>>7662773
What kind of intelligences do you need to execute clinical trials competently?
>>7662770
The evidence indicates that there are high correlations between the different 'types' of intelligence; people who are good at math are often good at spatial reasoning and given the proper resources can learn to write better than the average pleb. This is just a wishy-washy theory to make proles think they're smart.
Life isn't a fucking RPG where everyone gets the same amount of points to distribute, some people are just bad at most things because their neurons myelinate and repair slower and some people are good at most things.
How come we don't have lifelike androids yet?
Why are we stuck with the same uncanny valley shit from 50 years ago?
Because something went very wrong with american education. Where are all the geniuses from last 50 years? I mean actual giants like Einstein, Feynmann, Bohr, Oppenheimer. They just not there. Where did they all go? I'm not even saying education became hierarchical, conformist bureaucracies where all people who can't color in the lines are kicked out. There are deeper underlying issues. Also highly commercialized higher education with tuition rising much faster than inflation rates, but that's just since 1970.
And rest of the world is irrelevant since 1945.
>>7662799
And because now there's geniuses that never get to go to college or get recognized because of the capitalistic education system. The best robotic engineer in the world probably lives off Ramen and gets his resume rejected because his only experience is as a burger King manager.
>>7662799
Scientific advancements always have lulls (varying from field to field). Physical models remained both stagnant and inadequate to explain new phenomena for over a hundred years before Einstein.