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ITT: Predict what year a human will first step foot on Mars and what race and sex that person will be.
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Chinese. 2050s. Could be a man or a woman. China will be woke enough in 30 years that it could go either way honestly.
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>>16452676
SpaceX is the only dog left in the race in terms of the new space race. The rest of the fucking planet including NASA doesn't have even 10% the lift capacity of SpaceX.

Elon will pick a White or Asian man to set foot on Mars first because he still believes in meritocracy.
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>>16454706
China had a GDP per capita less than Poland. The one thing they had above that was sheer numbers, which is declining at much faster rates than anywhere else on Earth bar South Korea.

China won't collapse, but it's gonna be Japan tier at the very best case scenario in 30 years (currently their GDP per capita is half of Japan's).
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>>16454196
i would bet every penny i have that the scenario will be a craft mostly staffed by white (or maybe asian) men but with one token powerful Black womxn, who will be purposefully designated as the first official person to step out onto the surface. screencap this post.
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>>16454718
fuck off mutt

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q-analog edition.
Talk mathematics

Previous thread is >>16397584
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>>16454636
isnt it like lebeyg where bey is same as baby
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>>16454636
https://voca.ro/1idgmywHBlgk
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if [math]a=o(\rho^{n-1})[/math] where [math]\rho=\sqrt{h_1^2+h_2^2+\dots+h_m^2}[/math] how is it that [math]a\cdot h_i=o(\rho)[/math]
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>>16455116
[math]|h_i|\leq \rho[/math]
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Are there transformations of some vector or covector, or tensor that preserve entropy, i.e stretching, shrinking, or padding an image while having the relative/entropy btn the original and new unchanged?

Computers are black magic and I want to know how the fuck they work.
I'd like to at least have an understanding of electronics on the same level as an undergrad EE student.

My current understanding of electronics is very basic. Mostly just learned from messing around with game consoles and some entry level physics courses in college. I'm a bit rusty on the physics and math too...
Where do I start and what resources should I look at?
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>>16451389
>>16451391
cool books
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>>16451383
The downside is MIT lectures are bloated as fuck and don't teach actual useful skills
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Not OP, but I would like to get more into the mathematical and physics in the field of EE as an electrician.
I know the basics but as an electrician it's mostly about following the codes rather than a full theoretical basis of it. I would want to expand my theoretical knowledge on the subject. Not in digital circuits but more of a general understanding of forces, electromagnetic fields and such.

What kind of books should I get to learn the physics and mathematics of a equivalent EE degree?

I hope my formulation is not much of a hassle to read through as english is not my native tongue, though my reading comprehension is quite good.
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>>16451389
>>16451391
I clicked this and instantly got a weird rash on my lips. Did you give me cyberherpes, Anon?
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>>16455031
look up "Advanced Engineering Mathematics" by
Erwin Kreyszig, that's all you'll need for the math side
physics books are much more specific unless you're looking at high schoo/some of the undergrad ones, you're better off tbinking about what you need specifically from the EE side and supplement using something like hallidays physics (and the math book above)

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How true is this data/information?
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>>16450480
If levels are so low how the sea level didn't rise?
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>>16450538
>>16451671
>>16452993
>Muh cherry picked data points are more important than averages or the rest of the data!
ISHYGDDT
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Scott Adams says that the climate scientists are all lying about the reliability of their climate models, how accurate is his assessment?
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chlimate deniers are just russian bots and/or MAGAtards?
>surprised and astonished inhalation, widened eyes
who would have thought.

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Back in the 19th century people didnt know that light speed was constant in all reference frames.
People didnt know what a proton was.
You know this and many more things, making you objectively wiser than Isaac Newton.
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>>16455122
If newton didn’t even know these things what chance do I have? I probably do not know of the existence of protons or of inertial frames and neither should anyone at first.
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>>16455122
>Back in the 19th century people didnt know that the universe was made of 95% invisible unicorns
>Back in the 19th century people didnt know what a transbian was
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Newton was dumb doe

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Can you believe this man is only 47!? He doesn't look a day over 65!
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frankly i don't give a shit if he looks younger, if what he's doing makes him FEEL younger healthwise then that's pretty dope knowledge.
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>>16453849
This shit diet paired with him staying at a low body fat percentage is why he looks like crap! As another anon said, he's a 60 year old twink.
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You need to take something that safely multiplies your stem cells, because you start to lose them (hair loss) with valid DNA copying. Then take calorie restriction memetic or exercise memetic (which are similar I believe). Doing this without significantly screwing up the cell cycle in different systems.
You also need to worry about lymphocytes and clean up, because if those go bad I guess they start putting waste into your organs (age spots), making the organs garbage.
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>>16454642
>eating completely clean
>shit diet
Shut up faggot, go shovel some fries into your fat fucking hole
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>>16452597
>almost 70
>still working
your dad is a loser

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They did it again and not just once, but 9 more times.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem
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This is their article btw:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2024.2370240
and I'm confused. Perhaps I'm understanding this incorrectly.
They're saying there's a distinction between cyclotropic and trigonometric definitions of sin and cos, because trigonometry uses triangles and triangles always have positively measured lines. But that's not true, I can draw a triangle in the complex plane and yes, the length of each line is still a positive real number, but the extent of a line can be negative or even imaginary. That way, both definitions are equivalent and their reasoning becomes circular again.
Where am I thinking wrong?
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>>16455120
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/meet-the-child-genius-from-sheffield-with-a-higher-iq-than-einstein-446853

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/kian-hamer-mensa-high-score-test_uk_56e930c9e4b096ed3adc8ad7/

https://worcesterobserver.co.uk/news/genius-teen-iq-higher-einstein-7004/

Tell us the race and sex of the kids in the above links anon.

>b..but they're from the UK! I..it doesn't count.

They I raise you Jacob Barnett if you want one from the US.
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>>16455114
sine, cosine and tangent are just social constructs, if nearly all children weren't brainwashed with cartesian coordinates and instead taught noneuclidian geometry then there would be no popular notion of sine, cosine and tangent
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>>16455201
>non-Euclidean geometry
woke trash. You can clearly see that parallel lines never meet.
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>>16454192
Blacks HAVE a lower average IQ, and doing something of note being black DOES make it more amazing than if a rich kike does it, whether you like it or not

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What’s outside the universe? Mega space?
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>>16454654
Jewish hands did not make existence, golem-kun.
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>>16452534
>outside spacetime
mac n cheese
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>>16454672
Reality is shaped like a wet noodle
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The grue
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>>16452534
why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahah! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! :) hahah

ITT: Things outside The Universe - my answer is, of course, my peanus weenus :D

hahaha!

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Philosophy is the study of studying.
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>>16452365
philosophy is the love of wisdom. studying doesn't have anything to do with a "love of wisdom." you can gain wisdom simply from observation of nature and getting feel of your surroundings.
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>>16453362
You are extremely dumb if you think wisdom is as easy to attain. Wisdom is what you know mastered. It's not as simple as going outside 'and getting a feeling for the world'. It takes a lot of time and energy to become wise of the world. With age comes wisdom, as they say. To conclude, you and everyone else who posted in this thread is retarded, including myself.
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If you're reading this thread, bad news, you're retarded. You can't know nothing faggots. YOU CANNOT KNO NUFFIN
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>>16452439
FPBP
/sci/ big brains still can't figure out what philosophy is despite many having philosophical degrees(PhD). Such is the intellectual cancer our society is inflicted with.
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>>16452439
pistolmoglogy

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chat what's the science behind procrastination?

everyone who procrastinates understands that it's completely irrational. so then why is procrastination such a universal struggle?

do other intelligent species procrastinate as well?
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>>16451505
Briefly, an anxious, stressed person will make a decision to delay work on a project that they feel will be difficult or unenjoyable in order to take on another task that they consider to be easier or more enjoyable. This temporarily lessens their stress and anxiety.
It's not a successful long term strategy and can spiral into depression.
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>>16451259
people usually procrastinate because they dont know how to do something.
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>>16451279
Can you elaborate on this?
>>16451388
>>16451554
Terror management theory is retarded
>>16452856
Simply not true
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>>16453136
There’s not much to elaborate. If you procrastinate on essential needs, then you just fucking die. Even something like sex leads to your species dying. But if you procrastinate on non-essential activities, you’re just fine. The only thing you don’t satisfy is your intrinsic psychological need for progress on a goal that was evolutionarily wired into you due to the essential needs above. Since our technological system has essentially eliminated the urgency for essential needs, nearly 100% of your time is spent doing surrogate activities. But deep down we realize that it’s all a trick, just bread and games, which leads to feelings of procrastination, boredom and emptiness. Ironically, the less of a hiveminded bug you are, the more you feel like being unproductive in the current system. This is why Ted makes such a big deal about leftists and their tendencies in his manifesto. He pities them for essentially getting so buckbroken by the system (oversocialized as he calls it) that they pay no attention to getting tricked and just do as told.
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>>16451505
i will not do this

>AI can’t actually magically become intelligent as humans without massive compute and tons of quality training data
>we can’t actually travel through space, let alone colonize Mars
>genetic engineering will never be greenlit for ethical reasons, and even if it were, it would still take tens of thousands of years for humans to meaningfully evolve beyond our current state
>humans aren’t evolving since the gene pool is so diverse that new beneficial mutations for intelligence are eliminated within a few generations because monogamy and inceldom don’t propagate the genes sufficiently enough
>our particle accelerators will never be big enough, we will never understand black holes or dark matter or even gravity
it’s over..
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>>16449056
>man won't fly for a million years
New York Times, december 8,1903
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OP gay
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>>16449056
it cant reason beyond the training examples

>quality data

somewhat but its just creating shit load of biases in the network so it outputs better queries
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>>16449056
>ai intelligence
we're giving it massive compute and training data. quality? no, who cares, let it make its own data
>travel through space
sorry to burst your spacetime bubble but im travelling through space right now
>our particle accelerators will never be big enough
just ask the government for more money, it will work this time, i swear
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>>16449056
we know

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What exactly is the "fabric" of space-time?
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>>16451167
why can't we talk about distance?
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>>16447728
Space (or rather space-time) isn't necessarily a vast void of emptiness, per se, but kind of like a substance in of itself, where being inside it is (sort of) similar to being inside a body of water, where whatever object moving within it pushes the water (or space) around it.

I don't know if you've ever dived deep to the bottom of a swimming pool that had bits of dry leaves resting at the floor, but you may have noticed how your movements are able to push those leaf bits around, even if you were only inches away. Or if you've ever try grabbing them, and see how some of them squeezes out of your hand.

Space *kinda* works like this (at least, they're conceptually similar ). Objects (or rather: massive objects) push and distort the space and gravity around them. Which may not seem like much, but you can observe it in areas with extremely high gravitational fields, like black holes, where the gravity is so strong, it can even deform (and trap) simple light rays.
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>>16447728
a flat circle.
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>>16451600
because there are negative proper times (pseudo-distances) and two points in spacetime can have a zero proper time between them (when they’re on the lightcone).
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>>16447728
me

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Then we can forget about having all those lunatics writing nonsense about them.
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>>16453035
use one of your own bombs glowie
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>>16453035
>there are aliens in the pyramids!
now
>there are pyramids in the aliens!
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>>16453035
yeah haha

pi only belongs in 2D
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>>16455118
apologies, I thought we were being witty. as I never added the "in flat spacetimes" to the phrase "pi only belongs in 2D"

warning, it may be more schizo now, (as it rests on playing with a mathematical coincidence that the volume of 3-sphere 1 has a radius close to the 1/phi . and the blackbody radiation curve looks like the volume of n-ball per dimension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball


I find it quite intriguing it stemmed from following a simple mathematical coincidence in pic related, in the amusement of a mathematician, i would assert this https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=radius+of+ball+of+volume+1 indeed have a radius exactly equivalent to [math]\phi^{-1}[/math] and let [math]\pi[/math] float.

The intensity of the procedure deepened and lo and behold does a n-dimensional series emerge. Lets consider the 2-d case.

[math]A = \pi r^2[/math]
[math]1^2 = \pi r^2[/math]
[math] \sqrt{\frac{1}{\pi}}= r[/math]
now, setting r to [math]\frac{1}{\phi}[/math] we infer pi from this mathematical coincidence
[math] \sqrt{\frac{1}{\pi_{new}}}= \frac{1}{\phi}[/math]
we find that, this new pi for 2d is
[math]pi_{new} = \phi^2[/math]

now,

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>>16455119
Well that's wrong though. It's a series of all zeroes, of course it converges to zero.
>>16455130
>blackbody radiation curve looks like the volume of n-ball per dimension
That's no coincidence.
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>>16455138
so many computation edge cases with the nothingness

>That's no coincidence.
the insinuation to me is rather striking, could it be that the the egyptian interpretation of the ultraviolet catastrophe was that radiation would poor into these unseen spatial dimensia?
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>>16453612
Whats the video?
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>>16455169
the solar lens pyramid movie
https://youtu.be/KMAtkjy_YK4?t=3024

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>>16440439
he's had sex and you havent, so he technically has more value to society than you still because he can produce fields hands whereas you cant produce anything of value
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>>16449925
What a surprise
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>>16444371
>he received an assisted death.
AKA he was murdered
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>>16449925
I live in Israel, i think i saw a slave once. No proofs.
I just went into this used car parts yard, very dirty and with a concrete hovel for an office. There was a man giving orders to another man, i dont remember words being spoken. It was like addressing a dog.
Was that a slave? He could have just walked outside. Perhaps slaves are just blackmailed people rather than literal legal slaves, and would rather be slaves than to be deported or have their dirty secrets known.
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This incident has prompted people to quit the organ donor programs en masse. Thousands of people have changed to opting out of organ donation as a consequence of the greed of the doctors involved.
If at some time in the future you need a liver or a kidney and none are available, now you know why


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