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Yesterday, while I was going to sleep, I was thinking about life purpose and I had a spark in my mind:
What about if the goal of humanity is to create a superior mind, involving all human minds and maybe the minds of all creatures?
Or maybe the purpose of human life is just to end itself. (Me and my friend are already thinking about this option => small black hole)
And maybe, at the end, the two sentence listed above are pretty match the same.
Would you do some brainstorming? Also black hole tips?
Sorry for my bad english (I`m italian, pizza, mandolino)
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>>8949302
Why does life need to have a reason, why dont you just simply think about it as a consequence of how the universe works?
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>>8949316
Have u ever seen "True Detective"?
there is a guy with a strange concept:
Consciousness is just an error of the nature, something that shouldn't exist, and the most honorable thing humanity can do is stop reproduction: go together to the end of humanity.
If life has a purpose, so why live with the illusion of having a choice?
This lead to the second option, small black hole.
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>>8949331
I think anti-natalism is wrong because no matter how hard you try you will never eradicate all life, and so intelligent life is likely to arise at some point somewhere in the universe, or if not in this one, certainly in some other one. We actually have no choice but to exist, and so we're better off trying to preserve life and making existence better.
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Too early for futurism
Anyone else happy we won't live long enough to upload our consciousness to the cloud? To become immortal? To have brain implants that augment our mental capacity?
This stuff is cool. It's amazing. And it will happen. But I don't want to take part and quite frankly I don't want the risks of these technologies existing to be forced upon me
There are new existential horrors awaiting with the advent of consciousness uploading.
Nowadays the worst that can happen to you is that you are kidnapped and tortured until you die
With consciousness uploading you could be kidnapped, uploaded to the cloud in some sort of permanent computational ledger like some abstract blockchain, and trapped in an infinite loop of terror and incomprehensible pain. It would probably just involve changing a few simulated neurons to transmit constant pain and fear. This would be a reality and it's existentially horrifying, moreso than anything that exists right now
I don't want to live in a world like that and I'm glad it won't happen before I die. Anyone else?
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>>8948617
Yeah, conscious uploading might not even work with digital values. The brain relies on analogue signals to run. I would be OK with biological argumentation, like eliminating ageing or enhancing our cognitive abilities, but turning ourselves into robots is something I never want to see happen.
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>>8948617
>uploading consciousness
>implying it wont merely make a clone but nobody will know
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>>8948685
This.
And most people really overestimate the freedom of movement being an AI has. You could never leave your hard-drive. Ever. Copying something involves deleting it and recreating it elsewhere, which is OK for a word document, not so much for a person. This assumes that a truly conscious AI can actually exist.
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Human Genome Project: Wait, what does this mean? 2017-05-31 11:59:59 Post No.8948062
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Can someone explain?
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>>8948062
centromere and telomere dna is basically useless
telomere is what gets cut when the cells divide continously
centromere is where the chromosomes bind to eachother when the cells divide
you can basically put anything in those sequences
don't worry about it
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What happened to being able to have one's personal genome sequenced for under $1000? A few years ago it was projected by some to even be as low as $10 by now. Did progress stop?
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>>8948138
I payed a 100 usd Ca. for one of those heritage tests.
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ITT: We post the books we want to read this summer. I'll start
>Introduction to Linear Algebra - Strang
>Probability Theory: The Logic of Science - Jaynes
>The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems - Levi
>Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information - Marr
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>want to
You won't with that attitude
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>>8948026
Why is every book in every pic similar to (and including) the one OP posted a fuckin meme.
No one but edge lords trying to circle jerk each other reads that shit.
Just fuckin dog shit.
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>>8948057
What the fuck do you read? Head first design patterns in java?
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Is Math a discovery or invention?
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It's a discovered invention.
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>>8947579
it's an extrapolation
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>>8947579
It's God's invention
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"So wait anon, you've graduated with a degree in math and only make how much? LOL you should have went into the trades"
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Is it possible to get into trades in your mid 20's? I'd rather be an electrician or plumber than stay in acamemeia tbqh. It's too stressful and competitive for me.
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>tfw you will never graduate 9 months after high school from your local community college to be a apprentice lineman
>tfw u fell for the college meme too hard and are now an EE PhD student focused on applied electromagnetics and RF circuits, still in school 7 years after high school and never once having a real job
Feels FUCKING bad man when will it ever be my turn to have a job?
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>>8950536
>tfw you forgot to feel
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Republicans getting out of the paris climate accord 2017-06-01 07:37:43 Post No.8949623
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Republicans getting out of the paris climate accord
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It's not just Trump, its the entire republican party responsible for this.
I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life to destroy the republican party.
I fucking swear, i won't rest until i see their complete destruction.
Btw, this study is the source of pic related:
http://www.jamespowell.org/
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>>8949623
>Republicans getting out of the paris climate accord
and that's a good thing
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>>8949623
lmao, fuck the US. Let the end come.
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>>8949626
You retarded piece of shit, open your fucking eyes.
Climate Change shouldn't even have been a political issue. it's republicans who made it political by deciding to stick a middle finger to the scientific community
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Why is logic so goddam difficult? 2017-06-01 04:49:57 Post No.8949323
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Why is logic so goddam difficult?
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I can't warp my head around the subject.
I become hopeless, feel physical weakness and have to curl up on my bed.
On the other hand other mathematical subjects feel mindless doodling.
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>>8949323
Logic? You consider muthaphuckin' logic difficult?
"~T V F" is hard these days?
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>>8949323
What do you need help with anon?
t. Philosophy major
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>first order logic
>hard
what
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This person claims MTF trannies experience menstruation.
http://archive.is/nz9vz
What's going on here?
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>>8948981
It's literally all in their heads. It's impossible for then to feel the real pains and real features that go along with a period purely because they don't have a uterus or ovaries or anything.
They can't feel the pain of swelling because there is nothing swelling.
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>>8948996
Wrong
>>8948981
People pump their bodies full of drugs and hormones for years on end for what are essentially vanity reasons.
And you think these people wouldn't develop issues? Could be fake, could be a coincidence, but I can't imagine that these folks get off Scott free, because their bodies keep combatting the substances they inject themselves with. Maybe they experience a monthly shutdown/reboot of their hormone production system because it's overloaded.
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>>8949061
>People pump their bodies full of drugs and hormones for years on end for what are essentially vanity reasons.
They pump estrogen into their bodies, not progesterone. They don't put it on a cycle either. Lack half of the hormones, and it's not going in the cycle that causes menstruation in the parts they don't have.
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>tfw you draw a perfect integral sign
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>>8948179
>anno domini two thousand and seventeen
>not using the far superior rational trigonometry
>using "continuous" "functions"
i bet you don't even know that the fundamental theorem of calculus is just a dream
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>>8948179
>being autistic about drawing your sloopy thing with the perfect slant instead of paying more attention in class
Why don't you use a fountain pen you you can make it thicker in the middle, too?
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/r/-ing sexily drawn triple integral.
Something I can print out and cum on.
>be me
>15, in high school still
>not challenged by school, decide to pick up a side project
>pulled out some antimatter from my freezer
>photographed it
>boring
>decided to manipulate it
>ask mom
>"Mom, can I build a 2.3 meV atom smasher betatron accelerator in my garage?"
>stares.jpg
>sure why not
>and don't forget to take out the trash
>later
>go to westinghouse
>buy 400 pounds of transformer steel
>22 miles of copper wire
>use football field to wind huge transformers
>set up my betatron using this formula:
[math]\iint_{\Sigma}^\infty e^{\pi}\cdot x \text{ d}x \lt \phi(t) - 2[/math]
>blow out all the fuses
>mom comes home after hard day at work
>she works a lot to afford my autism meds
>fuses are all blown
>housefire imminent
and that's how I because a >130 IQ genius
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>>8948104
calculus isnt even mathematics it's more like physics because in mathematics you don't have change
but that "formula" isnt even real physics so gtfo
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>>8948104
one hand clapping
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Nice try, anon, we all know that you literally just spewed out what Michio Kaku did and took the credit
Can someone take a look please. Is this the correct solution?
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>>8947684
Looks good
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>drawing arrows for vectors
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>>8947695
Thank you
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Is it just me or this book is really really dense to understand and get into?
Some of the parts get too abstract to properly comprehend.
Anybody ever used it?
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are you a fresh man? i marathoned that book in a few hours
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>>8946289
What? no I am not studying math, but came across it and decided to give it a look
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it's a halmos book so he expects that you have an iq of at least 150
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Hi guys. Will you watch fireworks with me?
http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va237/
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>>8950260
>Stéphane Israël
OY VEY
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I could never dig into watching sports. But I still want bread and games - this is my games.
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Do you think the Indians from the jungle come to watch?
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What happens with Geometry? 2017-06-01 10:30:52 Post No.8950165
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What happens with Geometry?
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For most school education, it's Euclidean plane geometry in middle school/secondary school. Then when a math student enters undergraduate, it's a few semesters of Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Real and Complex Analysis, Abstract Algebra, and Differential Geometry. Some electives include undergraduate Topology, PDEs, Set Theory, Discrete Math, etc
In most math departments and uni libraries that I've seen, I see the majority of literature being in Algebra, Topology, and Analysis. I understand geometry is used in all these fields, but why is there such an absence of non Euclidean geometry in undergraduate? I really can't say I even know how geometry is used anymore or what mathematicians even mean now when they say geometry, since I can't connect it with any uni courses that I've taken or literature that I've read.
So my question is, when is a math student supposed to enter the field of geometry beyond differential geometry, or how is the general order of geometry classes structured? And what are good books to study in order to be familiar with the most common/used theorems in geometry? I know Algebra has DF, Hungerford.. Analysis has Rudin, Anton.. Topology has Munkres, etc, but I've never heard of "starting books" for geometry.
I'm a bit clueless on the issue so I'd appreciate any info.
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Lobachevskian geometry is 3rd year material in Russia desu.
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>>8950165
> why is there such an absence of non Euclidean geometry in undergraduate
My school offers a non-euclidean geometry class in 3rd year (as well as more normal geometry class and a differential geometry class).
for non-euclidean geometry it requires complex variables, which requires calc 3 and real analysis 1.
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>>8950186
I've seen some third or fourth year courses in some non euclidean geometry in the universities around me, but these courses spend a lot of time on Euclid's postulates, axioms, etc, and leave the non-Euclidean material in the last few weeks of the term.
I do understand some complex analysis is required, but there's other kinds of subjects in geometry that I've read about on Wiki and other sites that started my curiosity. These include studying the algebra of isomorphisms between projective spaces and other algebraic structures like Hilbert spaces, for example that I was curious to know more about