I want to be immortal /sci/. What are the chances of it being made possible during our lifetimes? What can I do to increase that chance?
There is zero chance it will happen in our lifetime, and also it would require genetic manipulation of your fetus. You will die.
>>8576568
>it would require genetic manipulation of your fetus. You will die.
Care to elaborate? Also, what about freezing myself in a cryopreserver?
>>8576568
but i dont wanna die :(
put them here
Can anyone explain this?????????!!111
>>8591463
Second to third line is wrong. We do not generally have root(ab) = root(a)*root(b) if root a or b is complex.
>>8591463
[math]\displaystyle \sqrt[n]{ab} = \sqrt[n]{a} \sqrt[n]{b}[/math] only works for positive real numbers.
>You're studying mechanical engineering?
>Fix my car! XD
>>8586538
> You have a chemistry degree?
> Can you cook up some meth?
> You have a degree in agriculture?
> What's the best way to grow weed in my basement?
>>8586548
Yeah, but those are the only ways to pay for those degrees.
Can anyone show me how this is true?
[math]\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\mu)^T \Sigma^{-1}(x_i-\mu) = (\bar{x}-\mu)^T(n\Sigma )^{-1} (\bar{x}-\mu)[/math]
You can use the fact that [math]\sum_{i=1}^n x_i = n \bar{x}[/math]
>>8596014
what is sigma^{-1} and (nsigma)^{-1}?
>>8596014
you got some serious notational issues to address first OP, before we can help out.
That "you can use the fact" makes no sense
>>8596018
im not op but x bar is likely the average of all x_i, so it does make sense
Allow for a suspension of disbelief before answering this next question.
Say AI can do your job way better than you, faster, more creative etc. Now say that we have enough surplus to provide you with a 300k per year check just for existing.
What will you do?
OP here.
I would probably try to get AI to meticulously create an indistinguishable virtual reality in which I could suck as much virtual cock as I want.
>>8595690
Read more books.
Go back to school.
Hire a chef (robot).
Hire someone to shock me every time I go back on /sci/.
>>8595701
Yeah but why would anyone want that fucking job if everyone is making 300k bottom line?
Also be more creative with your answers. Really think about what life will be like after jobs are abolished and the human no longer has any real purpose.
Would you go on a killing spree?
Would you build a castle and wage war?
Back to a point no earlier than the creation of the wormhole, could humanity abuse this time to buy itself more time while figuring out how to reverse entropy or escape to another universe?
wormholes don't exist man, they might exist in theory
>>8595662
One thing I can guarantee: No one on this board knows. Period.
>>8595662
No. There is no consistent theory in physics that allows for time travel back in time.
If you roll a ball down the stairs, does it get to the flag faster than if you just roll it along flat ground?
>>8595516
wtf why?
>>8595520
going over the corners accelerates the ball.
Can I get some recommendations on some textbooks on cryptography, both advanced and introductory? I already have a basic understanding of discrete mathematics.
Pic is the third google image for "cryptography".
koblitz - A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography
>>8595356
Theoretical or applied?
>>8595948
Hmm, I suppose when I made this thread, I was thinking of applied, but both sound interesting. Do you have recommendations for either?
My sixteen year-old brother wants to hop into math. He's covered geometry and algebra 1 +2, as well as trigonometry.
Calculus is the next step, correct?
>>8595326
I'm lurking with interest and I have to teach my son at some point.
>>8595326
yes get stewarts 7E or 8E book or find a pdf of it
>>8595343
Is that something he should focus on for a long while until he moves onto calculus II?
/sci/ me and my friend are in an argument right now. Does it go against the laws of physics for something to go the speed of light?
>>8595273
no. light travels at the speed of light
>>8595275
no but I mean for anything else to travel at the speed of light?
>>8595277
Nothing with mass can travel the speed of light. No inertial frame of refrenchanting for it exists
help /sci/, iq confirmed 127, why do i suck at math and how can i unsuck?
>you can't do a math PhD if your iq is lower than 140
127 may be good for physics or engineering, but in maths its way below brainlet tier
thanks guys, i was planing to do nanotechnology in uni. well firstly how can I improve my IQ then?
How does a person actually become immortal, and what is the best someone can do now to extend your life long enough to achieve revolutionary technologies (OTHER THAN diet and exercise, because everyone already knows that and it doesn't actually extend life, just prevents you from dying early)?
Also, let's dispatch with the "hurr upload mind into robot" shit too. This isn't about that. Nor will it be considered. Go play p zombie elsewhere.
>How does a person actually become immortal
The most likely avenue, to me, involves the ability to regrow human bodies and minds from scratch, with the brain contents of an earlier stored copy; an ability to create these copies, with a nondestructive brain scan of some sort; and regular backups.
>and what is the best someone can do now to extend your life long enough to achieve revolutionary technologies
Cryonics, I'd think.
>Also, let's dispatch with the "hurr upload mind into robot" shit too.
Why? Is there a real difference between improving your body in conservative ways, and just replacing it with an all-round better-engineered thing?
>>8595181
>with the brain contents of an earlier stored copy
Ah, I see you're retarded, yet clever. You decided to avoid the "upload muh brain into a robit" argument by simply going with "upload muh brain into a clone". A for effort, F for IQ.
>and just replacing it with an all-round better-engineered thing?
You mean with someone else? Yeah, it's called reproducing. That's not immortality.
>>8595186
Oh, I'm sorry. I mistook this for a thread where OP might be interested in actually discussing possibilities. But it turns out to be just another thread to bait for, and then shit on, ideas that OP doesn't like.
I wish your shitposting thread the best of luck, OP.
Where's the evidence for this?
>>8595043
Evidence for what exactly ?
>>8595043
Under your fucking feet
>>8595043
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy
?
How many of you here have attended a private school? How many people in top Unies usually have?
>>8594916
Frankly, I don't think /sci/ attend fancy schools in general. We are a bunch of rejects. Failures.
>>8594942
>>8594945
Great job.
Looking to learn electrical engineering in my spare time, particularly in the power sector. I have a physics degree and an MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering. Working in renewables for a large global company but my electrical engineering knowledge is poor at best. Where do I start?
>renewAble energy engineering
Hehehehehe. Where's that degree from, anon- itt tech?
Mit ocw has a few basic courses up, but for higher level material really only books are available.
>>8594910
UK?
Do a distance learning course in Open University perhaps.