https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ&feature=youtu.beI'd never heard of this guy until watching this Joe Rogan episode just now. His ideas sound interesting, but he doesn't back up most of his elaborate claims with hard evidence. It just seems like a lot of conjecture and divergent thinking.What does /sci/ think of Paul Stamets?
>>9355743bump
>>9355743He's a pretty cool guy doing quite a bit of good. He has all the science. His best trait it to motivate people and to get scientists connected with new discoveries. All the talks and interviews can't really be what you base him on since that is just the popscience aspect.
>>9355774>All the talks and interviews can't really be what you base him on since that is just the popscience aspect.Good point. I guess he's playing up some of the off-the-wall ideas a bit to appeal to the Joe Rogan pop sci crowd. I should check out some of Stamets' publications or books to try to understand his assertions more completely.In the meantime, here's an older but more down-to-earth presentation by Stamets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
>>9355790Here,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8DjeaU8eMs
In b4 "i have a 170 iq but it doesnt actaully mean anything other than i can tease out patterns"Whats your iq?What do you study?And what is your parents IQ?
>>9341583My IQ is 1e-69.I'm a vexillologist.My parents' IQ are over ten thousand billions.
Welp, actually gave 133, other 146. I'm extremely lazy though so I might as well be in the 2 digits.
I am not sure of my IQ and dont care enough to test (not very important).I studied EE/physics dual major and now in 3rd year of PhD for EE (photonics) at a top 10 US uni. I think I couldve done better but had no research experience in undergrad (didnt realize I wanted to go to a PhD until it was to late) so had to step up to MS and then PhD.Not sure of parents either but both my grandpas were in Mensa. Both parents went to college late and my mom doesnt seem too smart to me. Ive always thought my dad was smart even as Ive gotten older. He hasnt really done anything but like precalc for math but is like a sponge for info so I think he could do well in most anything if he wanted. Only person I know personally that I believe could win something like jeopardy with no practice
I am 135 in mechanical engineering.My mom's measured IQ is 140 (materials eng/metallurgy). My dad is probably somewhere around 120 (chemical eng).
>>9355052That is a very small numberYour parents are disappoint
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>>9355253Well, I'm sorry if our nomenclature tickles your balls, but we still had to learn some pretty hardcore theory. Complex Anal was pretty chill though.
>>9355242Fugg I'm jelly. I assume you came out of HS knowing calc?
>>9355332Nope. I actually came back to uni from work and this shit just anal perturbed me for life. I never expected it to be this hard.
>>9355374guess there's a reason why its called ANAL ISIS huh
>>9354930That's just a standard Calc 3 course.
all right, /sci/, let's get down to itis gravity an entropic force or fundamental interaction?
>>9355546Gravity can be seen as minimizing the distance between two points. This suggests a probabilistic interpretation that only tends to minimize the distance in the most common case. However, absolutely any physical situation can be described in such a way.
Assuming that there is an interstellar civilization spread out across a volume of ~100 light-years, how could it communicate with itself?
Easy:Just forge a 100 ly long iron rod and use morse code to transmit information faster than light.
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>>9354482Thanks for the pic here's a lol something back for you
>>9353380>>9353370Yeah, assuming scifi fuckery is scifi fuckery and nothing is ever actually built that's better than Orion Drive at accelerating mass, it's a ~36 year voyage to Alpha Centauri.You could round up a few thousand people in a city ship to go there and start terraforming a rock, but why the hell would another group of people ever sacrifice the better part of their lives just to see what the first group has been doing?
>>9353282Constant lasers and other information transfer. It's not like there's two locations with 100ly distance. It'd be like a gradient of information spread. Everything constantly and automatically updating.
I still don't get it.
>>9355554please tell me that they aren't placing microwave resonance cavities in orbit around the earths magnetosphere for the purposes of accurate timekeeping....
>>9355554Excellent analysis! Won't shut up certain know-it-alls but the links are useful for the rest of us.
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>>9352026If entropy is the arrow of time and reversing entropy is time travel back in time then how does that make sense with respect to space-time as dimensions?
>>9355649>If entropy is the arrow of time and reversing entropy is time travel back in time then how does that make sense with respect to space-time as dimensions?or thermodynamics.
Could ecosystems be seen as living organism? Is there any art that pertains to this sort of idea?
>>9355160no it's a description of the qualities that something needs to have in order to be considered alive, which is why i listed it. >my point was that both ecosystems and biological systems have nonliving elements.just because something has something in it doesn't make it the same thing. Eating candy does not make me candy. I have living and dead things inside me, sure, but that doesn't mean the house I live in is alive. You need to meet the standards of life to be defined as alive. Even if you considered all the elements of an ecosystem alive then it's no longer an ecosystem, by definition. >>9355170I'm not even sure what you're saying.
>>9355237>no it's a description of the qualities that something needs to have in order to be considered alive, which is why i listed it. this is a very problematic posit. Its actually high school biology tier.read over this issue https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3>ecosystem alive then it's no longer an ecosystem, by definitionwhat in the god damn hell are you talking about, its painfully obvious you have almost no understanding of ecosystems, systems biology, or complex systems in general.
>>9355283>what in the god damn hell are you talking aboutI'm talking about this in a scientific way, not a philosophical way. If you want to toss around what you think about the definition of life then that's fine but it doesn't change what it currently is. An ecosystem is literally the system that exists between the living and nonliving components of an environment. Also the current definition of life isn't problematic. If everything is alive in the ecosystem then it doesn't fit this definition any longer and you're talking about a community because it's a bunch of interacting populations rather than any abiotic factors.
>>9355333I model ecosystems for a living you fucking retard, are you a child or something? And no, you are still speaking of ecosystems in philsophical terms, what you are talking about is metaphysical and you dont know it. You must have copypastad a definition of an ecosystem from wikipedia or cambell-reese and assumed it to be semantically accurate. furthermore you are still missing my point entirlely >Also the current definition of life isn't problematic. there is no current defintion of life
>>9354936https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
"According to the poll, just over half of scientists (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God, while 18% believe in a universal spirit or higher power. "What do you believe /sci/ ?
>>9354399https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#StatisticsAbout 79.2% of the population in the U.S.A is religious.If 51% of scientists are religious that means that 28.2% of scientists switched from religious viewpoints to irreligious ones.>>9354900>>9355138Images are haram in Islam.
>>9354399I thought it was 40/60
>>9355480>If 51% of scientists are religious that means that 28.2% of scientists switched from religious viewpoints to irreligious ones.And atheists think they're intelligent...
>>9355492https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyifuNC0MT8
>>9355341what a shitshow, ill rgue with you, though the only point of contention you have made clear is that you do not know what you are talking about>The sign can be deconatructed further into simpler more useful ideas.it literally cant, I linked you proofs of pierce's reduction thesis for a reason.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220923402_Two_Instances_of_Peirce%27s_Reduction_Thesis To try to show you that if there is a relation of an "inference" on a "signal", it can not be idenitfied(and thus used for cogntion) without a ternary relation, a thrid point identifying what that relation is. Which is why the triadic sign structure, object-representamen-interpertant as used in biosemiotics must be for any infernce to occur. Also why pierces catagories are such usefull tools.Pierces theory of signs is used in biosemiotics because it encompasses how everything that means anything to anything does so, it is not a lingustic tool, it was devolped to be the most basic account of 'reasoning', that and as it has been elborated on in contemporary semiotics is excatly what it is accomplishing.>>9355364yes, FIP autist I remember you well, you still have no idea what semiotic in the sense of the strand that follows from pierces theory of signs even is. For this reason you are stil impossible to have a conversation with.
I want to be able to start creating apps and maybe do software developmen and dab into machine learning and artificial intelligencet. What path should i follow? What programming languages should i pick up? At the moment i only understand the basics of python and haven't done much other. I really want to excel in this field and do a lot. I am ready to spend at least 6 hours a day on this along with school work. Any advice is welcome.
>>9355587i also go to a pretty sht school for software engineering, so yeah. there aren't that many universities that offer it in my country, only 1 has a really good program. so this was the latter as i didn't get in.
What is the difference electrical engineering and electronic engineering? I know some places do 'electrical and electronic engineering'.
>>9355023Depends on where you are. Electrical Engineering is synonymous for Electronics Engineering in Burger Land.Electrical might just refer to power systems, electric machinery, antennas and radar, etcElectronics might just refer to analog electronics, power electronics, VLSI, pcb design, etc
>>9355081I'm a UK guy.
>>9355084In the UK as an undergrad, none whatsoever. Most unis worth going to offer E&E Beng courses like you said anyway.
>>9355241So there won't be any content difference in the UK? Sheeeet.
>>9355067PLC programming is the most lucrative from what I saw.
How do you feel about Quantum Mechanics?
>>9353498Well I ain't calling him a dumblet.
>>9353474>>9353498Lol, never change /sci/. I'll look for a torrent, thanks.
>>9353440Don't it's harder to unlearn wrong intuition than it is get good intuition from a proper book. Zeilinger or Shankar, both are appropriate if you succesfully finished high-school.
>>9348250hi hank
>>9339289yes my man, this is the shit.good stuff
You should be able to solve this.
>slatestarcodex.comIs there anything cringier on the Internet than so called "rationalist community"?
>>9355421Is this somewhere in the US or Canada? I know we have multiple of all those cities.
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anyone know where this came from, classmates and i are trying to find an electronic copy
>>9351741Literally any Maths text book for high school pupils
>>9353615It LITERALLY says IB in the fucking picture.Who the fuck do you think you're fooling?
>>9354303I'm always shocked at how Europoors are so uninformed about the American education system When they tried to talk about it they just sound like retards>"B-b-b-but youOu ddin't have Diffwential equatiows in HS b-b-brainlet" Yes anon. As you should know American classes go into much more depth in a single topic we may encounter that material as a breif aside in a calculus BC(*sigh high* school) or calculus 2(*sigh* college **sigh** university) course but in college there is a 1 semester ode course that goes into far more depth then what most Europoors will ever see. But the eurofag attitude of "If I take the most basic shit from every course and teach it in highschool we can convince the students that they know differential equations" just ends up making you look retarded when you talk too an American.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By83v5TWkGjvdEN4VmJUcnVxbkE/view
>>9354786/thread fuck off eurofags
If evolution dictates that the most fit organisms are those which survive long enough to reproduce into the next generation, wouldn't the most fit organisms be those which reproduce the most rapidly? Of course overpopulation becomes an issue and there's only enough resources to consume, buy shouldn't evolution produce an organism capable of consuming any and all resources?
No. Consuming resources if a competitive affair. It is not enough to be able to consume anything; you must also make sure you actually get to consume it before anyone else does. And there tends to be a fundamental tradeoff between flexibility in having lots of targets, and specialization in being able to hunt down a particular range of targets more efficiently than anyone else.tl;dr being able to eat anything doesn't do you any good if for each individual type of food, there is a different organism that will eat it before you do, or successfully fight you for it.
>>9355383There a bunch of animals that do pursue that strategy though. Lots of insects do that.One thing is that you need a lot of food to produce offspring.See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
>>9355383Lichen. You're thinking of lichen.>Can comfortably grow on fucking rocks>Pretty much all it does is reproduce
>>9355383depends
>>9355383Sometimes raising one child very carefully increases their survivability more than pumping out babies and hoping one of them ends up okay. Look up R and K selected species.
If 0 is in Z, then 0 is always 2DTrue or not true?
Point 0 isn't 0?
0 is 0D you fucking retarded piece of shit
