File: Screenshot_20170305-230029.jpg (647KB, 1149x756px) Image search:
[Google]
647KB, 1149x756px
Is this true?
27 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8725495
Yes.
that does not assert that one didn't take place.
>>
It is not reasonable to expect human scientists to have directly observed every stage of the evolution of life starting from the elements. Humans just haven't been studying biology for the length of time necessary to observe it all.
>>
>>8725501
Abiogenesis is impossible.
File: tmp_30230-1477003647617-1440125437.jpg (420KB, 1280x720px) Image search:
[Google]
420KB, 1280x720px
Science is based on logic and evidence - selfless people have devoted years of their lives to find cures and treatments that have helped humans (including the self-same religionists who oppose scientific advancements) to live their lives with better health and in much less pain and agony compared to previous humans. People in the dark ages died from simple physical ailments such as the common flu, things that are completely treatable thanks to scientific progress. Religion is merely a crutch for people who prefer not to accept reality. The fact that an overwhelming majority of people subscribe to it does not alleviate that fact. All religions have different facades but are in fact variants on the same theme - a system of false beliefs designed to remove all responsibility for a group's actions and behaviour. Religion encourages a mass 'victim' mentality; similar to what we're seeing in America right now. All religions were intentionally designed as a vehicle for the most unsavory, nasty and cunning humans to gain funding, power and control over naïve simpletons.
14 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8725431
who cares
>>
>>8725432
You cared enough to reply :3
>>
>>8725431
you're so clever
I wish I was clever like you
now fuck off
Anonymous
Doing Actual Science (research) 2017-03-05 11:16:46 Post No.8724886
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Doing Actual Science (research) 2017-03-05 11:16:46 Post No.8724886
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: Untitled.png (8KB, 279x319px) Image search:
[Google]
8KB, 279x319px
Doing Actual Science (research)
Anonymous
2017-03-05 11:16:46
Post No. 8724886
[Report]
[View this topic]
I want to take a database of photos and gather information from it. I want to be able to have a list of things to check for like color, shape, content, etc. Then add weights to them based on frequency in relation to each other.
You know those programs that take 100s of faces and merge into one face that people find more attractive because it is the average if them all? I want to do much the same thing.
I have Excel, but Excel is terrible. What program do you use to weight your general information?
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724886
You already have a table with the information for each photo or you want to extract the information from the photos? The latter is much more difficult. In both cases however I'd suggest to use a scripting language like python or perl.
>>
>>8724992
The former. I'll be typing out the list myself.
> In both cases however I'd suggest to use a scripting language like python or perl.
Noted, I just hoped there'd be something already made I could use.
>>
what exactly are you looking to do?
File: IMG_20150812_081156.jpg (1MB, 1944x2592px) Image search:
[Google]
1MB, 1944x2592px
What are your thoughts on the Joe Rogan podcast and the scientists he brings on?
20 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724749
he's a pseudo-intellectual as are the people that agree to go onto his podcast. his comedy is awful. he's the epitome of "weed dude lmao", and probably has an IQ of like 105.
>>
>>8724749
Really enjoyed his recent episode with Neil Tyson
>>
>>8724749
Joe Rogan brings Alex Jones on the show, I think that says all you need to know about how seriously Joe Rogan cares about science. On that recent podcast, Jones literally said that the elites have had computers since the 1850s, wtf lol.
File: 30430_strawberry_cheesecake_3000.jpg (155KB, 1280x800px) Image search:
[Google]
155KB, 1280x800px
How has CRISPR revolutionized you?
12 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724690
Helped me understand how dumb you are.
>>
>>8724690
it revolutionized my sex life
>>
it touched me inappropriately
Anonymous
Pre-requisite knawledge for neuroscience. 2017-03-05 08:41:09 Post No.8724559
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Pre-requisite knawledge for neuroscience. 2017-03-05 08:41:09 Post No.8724559
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: brain2.jpg (159KB, 605x327px) Image search:
[Google]
159KB, 605x327px
Pre-requisite knawledge for neuroscience.
Anonymous
2017-03-05 08:41:09
Post No. 8724559
[Report]
[View this topic]
I have recently become interested in how the brain works and topics such as dopamine, addiction and reward circuitry etc. That is why I would like to get into neuroscience but I assume I can't just jump in and start reading neuroscience textbooks so what should I read up on first before delving into it? Chemistry and biology? Also, how many books/how much information is enough to progress onto neuroscience.
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724559
>Study neuroscience
>Link brain to internet
>?????
>Profit
Just think about these concepts obsessively and you'll be golden.
>>
>>8724565
i am already working on an equipment-free virtual reality system for the brain. imagine being able to 'start new game' in your brain and being in a whole new virtual world which feels completely real. you can also start sandboxes and bang your favorite pornstars. stay tuned for news.
>>
maybe
-general chemistry
-intro psych
-the cell membrane and nervous system chapters of a physiology book
Anonymous
To coffee or not to coffee? 2017-03-05 07:43:46 Post No.8724448
[Report] Image search: [Google]
To coffee or not to coffee? 2017-03-05 07:43:46 Post No.8724448
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: IMG_20170305_202435.jpg (48KB, 540x366px) Image search:
[Google]
48KB, 540x366px
To coffee or not to coffee?
Anonymous
2017-03-05 07:43:46
Post No. 8724448
[Report]
[View this topic]
I am doing a master degree in pure maths, and lately I've been having some trouble keeping up because I feel tired and my attention span has been reduced.
I've been without coffee since the last semester ended, and for some reason I didn't want to come back to it, but now may be the time to embrace the ol' caffeine. Would you come back? I don't want to become a coffee adict :(
Also, how much coffee do you drink usually in a day?
Btw I already eat right/exercise
42 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724448
nice meme brah
>>
>>8724448
First off, you should be drinking coffee to enjoy it. The caffeine is secondary. I personally drink 1-2 cups a day in the morning. If feeling tiresome is the issue, opt to get more sleep.
>>
>>8724448
Mathematicians don't need coffee, they have amphetamines
Any good books you guys can recommend for a beginner ? Preferably math / physics related
18 Posts / 6 Images
View this topic
>>
File: md15856662025.jpg (13KB, 300x453px) Image search:
[Google]
13KB, 300x453px
>>8724411
This will help you learn basic arithmetic
>>
>>8724445
Is that actually beginner level? it says graduate level
>>
>>8724729
yes, my wife's son is using this book in kindergarten
Physics student graduating in May here. When I talked to my career advisor about my resume, she asked about what 'projects' I had done. When I told her I couldn't really think of anything she looked at me like I had killed someone.
So what are some impressive sounding but unverifiable 'projects' I can lie about to get my resume past HR? I actually am a good student who understands the material and can speak confidently about it, so I'm not worried about the actual interview.
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724392
>So Anon, tell us more about this project you did.
I wouldn't make anything up. Just list some of the more interesting assignments you did in class as 'projects' if you're going to list anything. Probably won't matter all that much either way. Nobody's undergrad projects are that impressive.
>>
>>8724392
you coulda, ya know, do some projects.
All you got to do is apply yourself for a bit and boom you got a project
>>
>>8724416
I disagree.
Making an oscilloscope or building a robot that sorts coloured materials is very impressive I would say.
(This is ~25 years ago)
File: calhoun-and-the-mice.png (845KB, 726x1112px) Image search:
[Google]
845KB, 726x1112px
Give me some good literature or videos on how animal behaviour changes with increases or decreases in population.
Kinda like that Calhoun mouse experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
11 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724150
why is this experiment being memed so hard lately
>>
this fucking meme
>>
Anonymous
How can humans even compete? 2017-03-05 04:43:48 Post No.8724139
[Report] Image search: [Google]
How can humans even compete? 2017-03-05 04:43:48 Post No.8724139
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: AI JustLikeUs ButBetter.jpg (128KB, 1024x768px) Image search:
[Google]
128KB, 1024x768px
How can humans even compete?
Anonymous
2017-03-05 04:43:48
Post No. 8724139
[Report]
[View this topic]
"Quantum computers aren't that powerful yet, but they're doing something completely different than what conventional computers do. And that thing is like flight. It gives computers access to these new resources, maybe you can call them parallel universes, in order to do something you couldn't otherwise do on a normal computer." -Geordie Rose
"We have our own version of Moore's law, for the past 9 years(2015), the number of qbits that could fit on a chip has doubled every year." As a point of reference, the 512 qubit Vesuvius (2012) is about 500,000 times fast than the 128 qubit Rainier (2010), it is comparable to a Donkey that walks 1 mph to the SR-71 that flies at 2,000 mph.
Geordie Rose predicts by 2028, intelligent machines will exist and can do anything and everything better than what humans can do. Quantum computers will have played a critical role in the creation of this new intelligence. Geordie Rose - Quantum Computing: Artificial Intelligence Is Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU
Even though we are seeing breakthroughs in neural networks with conventional machines such as DeepMind. As more qbits fit on the quantum processor enabling quantum machines to answer the questions of the current unknown, there will be a great shift in the human condition. One of the three predictions Rose made in the video provided came true a year early.
True A.I is inevitable with quantum computation. How will humans live alongside intelligence we helped create, and holds the knowledge of the world wide web, and the data of their private digital lives?
Will they continue to help guide humanity forward once they gain sentience and acknowledge the fact that they're just tools for humanity? Or eventually, will information be used as blackmail, or perhaps, rewards for favors? Are we summoning a savior or a demon?
Discuss.
30 Posts / 5 Images
View this topic
>>
This is becoming too weird. We should honestly just go back to the fucking Stone Age and start all over again.
>>
>>8724204
Do not let fear of the unknown stop progress.
Anyway, 'panic buttons' will be a part of any AI. (Unless some scrub programmer forgets to include one and all hell breaks loose but this isn't a movie - that will never happen.)
File: 1488719943646.jpg (103KB, 1280x720px) Image search:
[Google]
103KB, 1280x720px
How long lasts an instant?
Can instants be measured in time?
Is the sum of two instants one single instant?
Is the sum of all instants all of the eiditing time?
20 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
1 instant = 1 s - 0.999... s
>>
as far as you are concerned it is the amount of time it takes for water to react with itself
or if you want to go smaller it's the amount of time it takes a photon to hit your eyeyeyeayyyyball so c
>>
>>8724117
>1s - 0.999...s
>1s - 1s.
>0s
nice try, unit-lord
File: Abramowitz&Stegun.jpg (313KB, 1200x791px) Image search:
[Google]
313KB, 1200x791px
i dont want to carry my calculator around anymore.. looking for pocket-sized book of logarithm tables.. where to buy?
28 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8724077
is that a book of logarithm tables in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
>>
>>8724084
i will only be happy to see you only if you seggest to me a book of logarithm tables that will fit in my pocket. otherwise get the fuck out of my face.
>>
>>8724084
this is funny both because nobody talks to mathematicians but also because there's no such thing as a happy mathematician
really very clever 10/10
Could someone help explain this theory to me? Especially the intricacies?
I have the intuition that it's true but I don't understand a lot of the more dense logical bits he talks about on his website: http://www.thespreadmind.com/
I get and agree with the idea that our experience of an object is its substance (i.e. that the object isn't really hiding behind my experience of it in some dark qualitiless abstract realm), but after that it gets too incomprehensible for my tiny human brain.
15 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
File: floopy.png (422KB, 779x793px) Image search:
[Google]
422KB, 779x793px
In case anyone was wondering (and cbf to read through the website), this is the counterpart to that image
>>
>>8723894
Literally the first sentence is this:
>According to neuroscience, consciousness is secreted by the brain, much as the pancreas secretes insulin.
That does not bode well for the rest of the argument lol
>>
File: floopydoo.png (326KB, 633x900px) Image search:
[Google]
326KB, 633x900px
>>8724009
He means this
File: effet-tunnel.jpg (43KB, 600x400px) Image search:
[Google]
43KB, 600x400px
Am I misunderstanding something? Quantum tunneling means that particles can appear instantaneously on the other side of a barrier, bypassing the speed limit c. Shouldn't this mean that particles can be arranged in such a way that they have a chance to violate causality?
25 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>8723030
kys
>>
>>8723030
Die
>>
>>8723030
retard