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I remember one really stamp collecty course in fourth year that I really fucking hated and realising that other fourth year students at a good university, doing maths or physics, would be learning almost cutting edge secrets of the universe stuff. I knew that it made no difference whether I did well or not, I would still have achieved literally fucking nothing.

Some more depressing randomly picked highlights):

Putting in literally zero effort in the last 1.5 years (3 terms), where, apart from attending lectures, I probably did less than 2 weeks worth of 9 to 5 on weekdays work.

My senior thesis where I quickly realised that a maths or physics degree would have given me 50 times better preparation, my lack of mathematical maturity left me as a type of illiterate (which was a brutal feeling), I didn't give a shit about the topic and procrastinated like a madman.

Being "that guy" in a major group project in my final year. I never thought it would come to that but I really was. I remember there was another all nighter but I actually couldn't stay up all night due to a lack of interest / willpower, even with tonnes of coffee.

Being at a job interview at canary wharf (that I failed and was surrounded by people from actually good universities) and then in my university the next day. It was like a brief jolt in everyday life where I could look around and see that everything was shit.

The old library that was too small yet always half empty, being knocked down for a shiny new library constantly filled with normies that opened after my first year. In my first year I literally overheard two people talking and one girl saying that only weirdos go to the library. These are the types of people that people like me are supposed to go to university to get away from (not that I thought that, but it should be true).

I could go on but I won't.

Or maybe the issue is you.

>>8623729
just earn money. if you want to study more do it then.

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>addition

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>>8623567
It's not uncommon.

t. oklahoman

>>8623572
I wouldn't live in Oklahoma unless my house was underground to be honest.

>>8623567
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/tornado.htm

dark matter is retarded and will never exist nor be relevant
t. bio major

>>8623098
https://youtu.be/7UNLgPIiWAg?t=5m

>>8623098
Actually Einstein showed that the Hindenburg Uncertainty Principal implies the existence of Dark Matter.

>>8622595
AGI will be done via deep recurrent neural networks.
All the current """""deep""""" learning stuff is primarily focused on image recognition with feed-forward neural networks, because they are the easiest to implement GEMM with.
Recurrent neural networks are the only thing that is turing complete and are the only form of AI that has the potential to do abstract "logical" thought and planning.
However, the best recurrent neural networks that are being used today rely on LSTM which is woefully limited when you consider the importance of synaptic topology. I think the best recurrent neural networks will be topologically generated via evolutionary algorithms, selected for using a competitive/co-operative fitness metric via forcing the neural networks to compete with eachother and work on teams. Also there needs to be a form of communication between the neural networks where they can encode their own language.

If you can do that, and throw a few tens of millions at it, I think you would be close to getting an AGI.

It's gonna go like this:
- some stupid high schooler writes an even stupider piece of code
- code can write code
- he leaves it running accidentally
- it improves itself exponentially
- achieves strong AI status
- boom skynet
I had a wet dream like this in high school

>>8622613
What do you think is the minimum computing power necessary for strong AI or to start building itself like a human brain?

>>8622581
>memedrive

>>8622581
Its plausible. We still can't even decide on what special unitary group we should use to describe fundamental physics. I would be skeptical that we even grasp whats going on in the universe

>>8622581
No, see graphene.

>>8622090
mentos + coke = nuke

>>8622090
uranium

>>8622090
Buy Jewranium.

Cause if we had chemistry that advanced we could do a lot more than just make synthetic fossil fuels

>>8621768
So we can't?
I mean we can make hydrogen pretty easily by electrolysis, but hydrogen is not easily stored...

They do, just not in the way you think they do.
I forget what the process is called, butt for a hundred years we've made ling chain linear hydrocarbons by heating up inorganic CO and H2. The thing is we get these from burning fossil fuels.
So really the reason why it's not done is that we would produce less energy than it would take to maje the fuel, such as using that electricity to provide power to the user. The only reason would be to make fuels that have niche requirements and are of limited supply.
If you're interested, there's lots of research on how to take the CO2 effluent captured by power plants and turn it into products, I believe they recently made it economical for ethanol as the end product.

>>8621478
This is a redpill, you'll never understand it unless you actually get a degree and study them.

>>8621478
Why would anyone who cannot comprehend math be interested in quantum mechanics?

>>8622171
You know exactly why.

>>8618438
>nanobots

Viruses are better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpT4Hv-VlZs

They're not as efficient as this video makes it seem though.

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>>8618438

Have you seen T4-phage? It's basically the picture that you posted except smaller and more efficient. It's a virus.

We use viruses like it as vectors to target cells and inject biomaterial (usually DNA or RNA).

Lots of bioengineering relies on commandeering the nanotechnology that has evolved in biology rather than building nanotechnology from scratch.

Human engineering is very far away from evolution's product, but the lines get blurrier every day as bioengineering, nanotechnology, etc. continue to advance.

>>8618438
their all stuck in phase II

it boils down to more than just that

but it does boil down

>>8615741

it does boil.

all the way down

>>8615741
can't figure out what's after that

what's next?

I'm actually organic.

>>8611157

I did pre-med. I hated biochem. Occasionally I see organic chem gurus on here, but I think they are much rarer than the mathfags and csfags.

>>8611157
i had 4 weeks of organic lab experience. but no im no organic chemist.

Yes, because 2 is prime.

>>8623457
I said made up, numbnuts

>>8623458
If 0 is prime

The logical conclusion is growing up and realizing how retarded it is to be obsessed with this kind of waste of life.

>>8623259
reread the question, dweeb. thought you would have learned that lesson after failing out of your first calculus class for not doing that very thing.

>>8623262
You're the dweeb. End of thread.

>>8623205
Because the idea violates the law of thermodynamics.

>>8623207
What law?

>>8623213
2nd 3rd