What is the possibility that a creature like Godzilla could exist?
0.0000000000000006327
It could exist on a large enough planet
I'm shit, you're shit, we're all shit
but if you can get in the top 5% you're slightly less shit
cmon fgt you can beat me
https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english
>>9090770
I'm half drunk anon, you suck. What does this have to do with science or mathematics?
147 WPM, and I only use four fingers on my left hand and two on my right. I've thought about learning proper touch typing form but I don't know if it'd really speed me enough to justify the effort. My mangled technique puts me above anyone else I've met.
Why didn't you idiots tell me about this earlier? I knew there was no correlation with arithmetic and abstract thinking. Fuckin morons on this board I swear. Shout out the one anon who showed me this, much respect.
http://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/dyscalculia-in-an-award-winning-mathematician/
>>9090668
>one example disproves observed trend
ok buddy
>>9090711
Maximum kek. You're a pseud. For the millions of kids who can count fast, how many are special? Barely any. Dipshit. This is science and you don't even accept it becuase you're too much of a brainlet to understand.
>>9090796
>op has dyscalculia and is trying to feel better about himself and his aspirational attempt to be "le xd bazinga mathematician" despite his clear disadvantages in such an endeavor
>calling other people pseuds
k
Does anyone on here know what I can do to the function in the image above (graphed in orange) to make it look more like the function graphed in black, or in an extreme case, graphed as blue?
I just want to model the graph from the bottom of the picture, and I'm close, the only thing I need is to make it "steeper".
Alternatively (it's the same problem), I need to find a way to make the graph in orange here more like the graph in blue, black, or as a ridiculously extreme case, red.
Please /sci/ I need your help ;_;
Is there an exponential fit equivalent to the polynomial fit? Because the polynomial fit doesn't work for shit in this case and this appears to be all exponentials with constants somewhere I don't know where and what amount.
I think the black part looks like a logistic sigmoid
Will we achieve immortality soon? Stopping aging, that is.
>>9090303
I would say no, but that would be wrong. The correct answer is NEVER.
when we can transfer all the data of a human mind to a computer with out data loss. then able to copy that over and over again with error checking and repair.
>>9090388
But muh futurology article said in 5 years!
What are /sci/'s thoughts on this? Basically the argument is that mutation and natural selection can't account for a lot of the things we see in biology and uses sources to argue that organism self gene regulation is just as important.
>>9090179
>mutation and natural selection
There is a lot more to these things than first surmised. Evolution is still being refined today, it will continue. Unless this person is familiar with the latest work, I doubt this book will be insightful. More likely it will largely be born from ignorance of what Evolution is.
>>9090179
>evolution
brainlets claim humans came from amoebas
yeah right lets see the evidence, oh it doesnt exist
>>9090179
>https://aeon.co/essays/on-epigenetics-we-need-both-darwin-s-and-lamarck-s-theories
Any advice on the upcoming world robot wars?
Is there any way to protect oneself against the silicon based life forms?
I'm learning computer architecture and coding right now.
Dig a moat around your house, and have chicken netting around the windows.
>>9089949
Actual battle station thread
>>9089939
get yourself an EMP cannon
Are video games and virtual reality going to be the downfall of our society? I suspect all young men are going to become defensive of the technology and immerse themselves in it in a way that we haven't seen before
Imagine if you can just put on the VR headset and immerse yourself in the virtual world in a way that is far more believable than a 2D computer monitor. It will be way more addictive. Imagine if they get skin attachments that make you feel blows coming from behind. Imagine if they get brain implants
We WILL enter "the matrix" which is in other words just a virtual reality world, soon, and it is going to be the biggest philosophical issue to have ever plagued our society, and NOBODY seems to be talking about it. They think "lol they're just a dumb stoner who watched that matrix movie and that's what they talking about" yes that IS what I am fucking talking about, it doesn't matter if it was just a movie.
They think it's all a joke and they think it's not a big deal. I think it's a big deal, I'm profoundly scared for the future, especially when you take into account the general disenfranchisement of men in particular from the traditional life of getting married then raising a family
People are already glued to their television sets sitting on the couch all day. Imagine what will happen when we get cheap immersive VR. They will become glued to their VR because it's so superior to television
I think this is an issue, a REALLY big one.
>>9089935
Slippery slope fallacy.
>>9089935
VR is far far far from being at the stage were it could even come close to replacing reality.
I heard my m8 talking about taking off his vr headset which he put on after dinner and then it's dark outside and the lights in his house aren't turned on, pretty depressing desu.
But on a fundamental level I don't think it's much different from regular games or TV. In the end you're just sitting in a chair consuming media.
I have been learning about some astrophysics from my dad like how we can detect what the surface of the sun is made of by looking at the black spots between the colors when you split them in a prism. we had a convo last night talking about what gravity was (im not completely retarded i know we dont know what gravity is) and we ended on the topic of what the universe is made of and relativity between space and time like when a supernova occurs a small ripple in the fabric of space time occurs. But yeah i just wanted more insight on what science thinks gravity is and the shape of the universe.
>>9089731
kek my dad only has a bachelor in astrophysics so dont get mad at me for being a little bit off
Gravity is a spook. The earth is flat and constantly speeding upwards.
>>9089740
but from what force
How does one become emotionally strong/resilient to the point of absurdity?
That is, you would feel completely fine and not suffer despite being put through the worst physical pain and tragedy.
Like not being in mental anguish from pain of having both of your legs broken.
Or still being happy, despite being in an accident that killed your entire family and turned you into a quadriplegic.
How does one get to this level, or at least near it?
>>9089314
Work as a hitman, watch horror movies(Both the disgusting and terrifying ones), have at least some military experience, do some animal hunting, work as an animal executioner(The kind that kills puppies and kittens that are too sick/unwanted by society), have an extremely abusive zen teacher(The kind that slaps you around when he notices that you arent present in the moment), sometimes do some collaboration with those Jackass guys, etc.
Theres literally so many things you can do that its absurd.
>>9089326
Are you retarded, he asks how to become resilient in terms of controlling his brain not being a complete retard who wastes his life
>>9089314
simply recognize emotional reactions are unreasonable. Which entails a whole lot of not giving a fuck about anything or anyone.
What do you think of this picture generated purely out of primes?
its gay
>>9089167
>number theorists
L O L
>>9089178 >>9089167
OP should try to apply it.
Pro tip: OP can't
>
Pic is unrelated. It's just a book on Applied Number theory. Applied. Ap...Ap...Ap...plied. Applied?
>
Never mind. In fact You can apply it.
>This methane pool is subsequently consumed by aerobic, bacterial methane oxidation at the SLW sediment–water interface. Bacterial oxidation consumes >99% of the methane and represents a significant methane sink, and source of biomass carbon and metabolic energy to the surficial SLW sediments
http://www.newsweek.com/methane-eating-bacteria-antarctic-ice-645570
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v10/n8/full/ngeo2992.html?foxtrotcallback=true
Can i now eat beef without worry?
you shouldnt have been worrying in the first place
>>9088145
Can we fart now without worry?
Oh shit, here comes the grey goo.
Issues:
1) In the attached image you have two distinct beam paths: l1 and l2. If you have variable aether modifier k you end up with the travel times t = (l*k)+(l*(1/k)). In each case the scalar k cancels itself out precisely by having the beam inverted for each moment of time. This is to say: whether there is aether motion relative to an observer or not, this experiment CANNOT possibly detect it.
2) The issue is that it presume relative aether motion from the viewpoint of an observer. This, while not necessarily wrong, is fucking dumb to assume for two reasons.
2.a) We're traveling at about 30km/s through the solar system, which is moving about 230km/s through the galaxy, which is moving at about 600km/s through the universe. This adds up to an expected ~860km/s we're moving through the universe, at variable rates in different directions. If there were ANY kind of aether drag (i.e. anything capable of influencing matter) it would have to be undetectably small (even by the difference in momentum light would impart on surrounding matter.)
2.b) If there were any detectable aether drag we've been flying through the universe for some 13.8 billion years. The photon has an incredibly small amount of inertia it imparts when emitted or absorbed, but it is nowhere near small enough that we would not have come to a stop by now.
3) If we're floating in an aether which carries with it inertia in any degree (i.e. capable of AT LEAST impacting the speed of light to a detectable level) then we would have developed a pressure bubble of aether by this point (remember the whole idea is based on waves traveling in water - waves by nature have pressure associated and there is no reason to suspect that giant waves don't exist just as tiny photon-sized waves would.) There would be no relative motion on Earth, or even in the solar system at a detectable level because we would be effectively sitting inside an aether pressure bubble of uniform motion.
>If you have variable aether modifier k
Define your terms. If you're going to make up a concept you need to a lot more explaining.
>If there were ANY kind of aether drag (i.e. anything capable of influencing matter) it would have to be undetectably small (even by the difference in momentum light would impart on surrounding matter.)
Aether drag was a way to explain the lack of the aether wind from MM. If you claim it is small (by logic which is not clear) then you just disproved your own argument. Secondly if you believe your first claim that MM doesn't disprove an aether then any talk of aether drag is completely redundant. Your argument makes no sense, your other two points are equally impenetrable to logic.
>>9088079
sweet jesus, the amount of stupid in this post hurts my soul
>yfw aether theory was right all along
So what's your sleep schedule like anons? You see all those meme articles about how intelligent people stay up late and have messy rooms, but from what I have actually seen, night people are fucking losers and lazy.
I'm intelligent, a night person, and a lazy loser. So, fuck yeah, evidence. I would love to get it together to get up early, enjoy the dawn (from the right end), do stuff, etc.
I'm awake until 4am wake up around 9-10 usually and repeat. Terrible sleeping schedule but I've grown to be use to it.
>>9084878
I am a skelly so I basically never sleep due to my metabolism. I used to smoke to help but now I can't
Give it to me straight, will humans ever go interstellar?
>>9087670
No, not as living humans. Maybe as robots.
>>9087670
If we don't kill ourselves, sure.
I know it seems like an obvious answer but I think it's pretty dope that we can be pretty certain that our technological advance is practically indefinite I'm principle.
That said, we are almost certainly going to kill ourselves.
>>9087670
I'd rather give it to you gay if you know what I mean