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What are your favourite Springer SUMS books? I have a month before uni starts again and I want to learn something new but their catalogue is huge. Help me!

Btw, NO combinatorics. I fucking hate that shit.
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>>17033517
Learn to code, it will be more useful than learning some random math you'll probably never use
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>>17033538
Okay I'm learning to code now, glad I didn't need any math for this.
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>>17033517
>Btw, NO combinatorics. I fucking hate that shit.
You hate it probably because you are bad at it. If you want to "Learn something new" you should learn the thing you avoid the most, don't be a pussy.
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>>17033542
>Okay I'm learning to code now
good

> the causal stream is not assembled from separate causes in the first place
> “separate causes” appear only after we draw conceptual boundaries through an already continuous event-field and then treat those cuts as ontic
> once no cause stands by itself, causation appears as one indivisible unfolding rather than many independent generators
> therefore the whole causal web functions as one unified generating reality
> therefore Generator is a proper noun
Does this argument leak?
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>>17033713
I see. That's honestly a pretty fascinating distinction to make, but I think I'm still misunderstanding some key details. If causation is fundamentally indivisible, why are certain relationships within this event-field more readily observable? Nothing beyond the observable universe can be reasonably said to affect me, so the causal network I'm entangled within has degrees of influence that can be rationally approximated. I understand that the event-field is unified as a whole, but why exactly does it manifest as intricate web rather than some amorphous nexus point where everything affects everything else?
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>>17033752
“Indivisible” doesn’t mean uniform or “everything affects everything equally.” It means the differentiated relationships do not constitute independently generating causal systems.

The web clearly has enormous internal structure: locality, gradients of influence, propagation limits, stable patterns, strong and weak couplings. Those really unfold. The claim is only that drawn boundaries around any of those patterns should not be mistaken as ontic.
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>>17033759
Ah, that makes sense, but I still wonder if causality is just an emergent property of some atemporal substrate, that things change in relation to other things, but these are basically just emanations of some eternal, static foundation that basically has every possible occurrence already encoded into its composition, kind of like the flow of time being relative to the curvature of space, in that it could be a projection from some higher-dimensional manifold.
That's largely why I was concerned with what instantiates causality, because if causality is an emergent phenomenon, then it has a definable origin point, so it doesn't necessarily terminate into something uncaused. The boundary between the origin point and the overall web doesn't have to be real, but it's still a piece of its complex internal structure, so I figured it was worth investigating to see what exactly it consists of.
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>>17033767
>>17033767
That is the same geometry as all emergence: X emerges from Y always requires dividing one unfolding into a base level and a derived level. Emergence always needs a partition. The partition may be useful for studying scale and organization, but reifying it invents two layers and makes one seem to generate the other.

Another e.g. “Matter becomes life” first partitions one continuous physical history into nonliving matter and living matter, then imagines an ontic bridge where one kind of reality somehow produces another. The mistake is turning the classification boundary into a generation boundary.

So I think the clean version is: causality can emerge as description, but in itself is not emergent. At the fundamental level there is simply indivisible unfolding—singular, total and terminal. Once we partition that unfolding into events, times, systems, and variables, only then do stable relations appear. We call those relations “causal.” But that apparent causal structure emerges from our lossy resolution and is never the actual territory.
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>>17033781
Interesting. I think I get it now. Thanks for the information. This is the first time I've had any type of discussion on the nature of causality, and is honestly a topic I've never explored, so the conversation was definitely enriching, and I appreciate that.
Take care, anon, and keep feeding that brain of yours.

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What is the evolutionary purpose of not having 1 big nostril instead of 2 small nostrils?
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>>17031066
Im breathing through both right now
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>>17030972
God has two.
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>>17030972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_(engineering)
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>>17031066
>You actually only really breathe through one nostril at a time
more specifically, one nostril breathes "harder" than the other, they switch during the day
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>>17031066
>>17033658
the nasal cycle also has a substantial phase where both nostrils are unrestricted

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Scientifically speaking, how do I deal with tremendous pain?
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>>17033303
what kind?
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>>17033303
grade A Heroin
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Hypothetically, there should exist a way to completely override the response to nociception, like in the case of surgery performed under hypnosis.
The trick would be finding out how to induce it.
Pain doesn't equal unpleasantness by some force of commitment, its just a lot of brainwork in a healthy system. You would have to make it unhealthy, like we do chemically.
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>>17033303
If you’re talking about on a civilizational/biosphere level, genetically engineer everyone to be physically incapable of suffering. David Pearce talks about how this could be implemented.

https://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm

bro Im only zybooks diapers years old how am I supposed to compile this
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>>17033249
sources
Kelly and Pohl
https://karadev.net/uroci/filespdf/files/a%20book%20on%20c.pdf
easiest from
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Programming_resources#C
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>>17033249
if you are on windows, install MinGW, then open a MinGW terminal
if you are on linux, open a terminal

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How viable is a mobile death radiation gun with modern technology?
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>>17033570
It's probably only acceptable in Israel, and also to kill 70,000+ Gaza as a sign how they want to ignore their desperate pleas for freedom.
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>>17033381
least obvious glowie
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>>17033369
Easy mode is just a powerful X-ray tube, anyone with a triple digit IQ can build it with some research.
Hard mode is a neutron gun so you can punch a hole in the targets brain without setting off any sensors.
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>>17033381
>asking random Jews how to build a death ray since he assumed they'd know
how come jews aren't good engineers despite being good at math and science? The average anglo-germoid could mock up designs for a death ray before lunch.
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>>17033369
Not very. It takes far too much energy to kill someone with a radiation weapon as opposed to a bullet and the surprise factor which is only useful for assassinations will wear off after the first couple victims since radiation kills in a pretty specific way. You have a too cumbersome and unreliable weapon for assassinating and too ineffective to go out in a blaze of glory and don't get me started on how useless it would in any scenario where the other guys also shoot back.

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-Reading causes micro schizophrenia: you just sit and watch scribbles that have nothing to do with reality.
-Reading fucks your memory because you will be expected to put your brain on paper and remove your brain's memory, which makes it weak.
-Reading causes you to focus on the abstract, not the practical, which means it's never useful in the real world.
-Reading fucks your eyes.
-99% of all texts have no plot.
-Reading makes your brain focus on the linear nature of scribbles, unlike TikTok, which makes you focus on the exponential nature of videos.
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>>17033659
>Reading causes micro schizophrenia
sounds like someone can't micro schizophreniate an apple in their head
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>>17033659
Ragebait, butthead has nothing inside his egg shaped skull if he is for real, i dont read because i am lazy, but i know how cool reading is, i will definetly do it if i had nothing else to do
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>>17033716
micro lithium now chud
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Reading is unnatural.
Humans didn't have to read a paleogrocery list.
Our brain chemistry is not made for cognating that amount of processed information.
That's why most people suffer from type 2 alphabetes.
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>>17033732
>t. turbo schizo

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I feel like this is worth highlighting considering chuddite claims to the contrary in this community.

After Arday conquered sociology, he even became an esteemed physicist just for a lark. All of this while running 6 marathons every day for a week. The last 10 marathons were ran with an injured leg. What a Chad.

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Can they be trusted? I worried it's a waste of money and time, also most DNA/ancestry companies are owned by jews, I don't want the jews to have my genetic makeup in their databases.
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>>17025844
The reason for your pic has nothing to do with any weird conspiracy theories, they just put that and african descent as the default outputs and then your actual results are meant to overwrite them. Everyone's results will always say there's a tiny percent of that there as a result unless they're from some remote place in China or something similar.
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>>17025844
>Put DNA of a totally different species into a test designed for human DNA
>Be surprised it comes out as nonsense
>For my next test I use a human thermometer inside the core of the sun! Temperature debunked!
See WebM
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no, they cannot be trusted. there was a DNA testing company, and it was never mentioned which one, that admitted they fake the DNA test results of white people to "fuck with white supremacists" and they also have the rights to your genetic code forever, and they will give it to the cops if asked
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>>17031752
>>17032630
Cope lol
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>>17025844
Real DNA tests are legit but there are plenty of profit motivated companies that sequence such a tiny amount they are basically guessing.
My GF insisted on getting our mutt tested, he's clearly a great dane cross and 60kg of dog, test said he was a jake russle cross.

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What the fuck were they thinking designing this piece of shit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dTvUtXhLo0
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>>17033222
IDK but I'm happy they did it. NYC desperately needs more AND taller skyscrapers, skyline its stuck since forever
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>>17033359
agreed, i like any high and flat looking building, they reallyt fit newyork and makes city looks alive, like they are regular in their structure and chaotic as the group of skyscrapers. The same can be seen in the living organisms, you have specimens which look all the same inside a species and species are different. Or organs and body fibres which are built regularly but the whole organism is fucking chaotic, so fun! The cities look to me this way.
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>>17033222
same guy that designed the burning windows, he's not thinking outside the box.
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>>17033222
>What the fuck were they thinking
how to make the most money is the shortest time. Developers form multiple shell companies to pass profits to the developers and shield them from liability which is passed to the suckes who buy the aprtments. About 90% of the most expensive apartments are for money luandering not living and are empty.
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>>17033345
/thread
It's just a wealth store for the stupid rich.

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how do you solve the birth rate crisis question within the current constraints of today's society?
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>>17030329
Mirror the situation of the baby boom.
1. Cheap housing.
2. Cheap cost of living.
3. Make it harder to acquire contraceptives (requiring prescription for example).
4. Men don't lose their shit in a divorce.
5. School lasts until age 15 instead of 18-19, so people work earlier and start families earlier.
There you go.
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>>17030329
No budget needed. You only make people aware of spirituality. Otherwise, they will rely on technology and science and they will have no offspring.
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i start a facility that breeds or clones humans
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>>17030329
Artificial wombs, men only. Autocorrect really wanted me to say bombs instead of wombs.
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>>17032959
I'd vote for you.

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The Science of the Mind

https://youtube.com/shorts/jbXAxn4rX4I
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>>17033705
There is competition.

There are successful civilizations built on Lightframe.

As said, you're behind.

The more time you spend in places out of this universe, the more actual gains you're making.
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If you want a bump to power, you will join my civilization, and add this one to it. You in the same position of power, however you are beginner. No worlds are constructed by you. Nothing real is done by you. I will provide necessary schooling/training to you. You wanna lead? Fine. We need that anyway. I'm just the guide apart from me and Rayquaza are the only ones working at the top at the moment.
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>>17033719
It's all being done, the best of the best. There's room for leadership(the perfect power structure). I'm offering you a fast-track to the same desired position. There's lots of open slots at the top.
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>>17033720
There's real people there, being served.
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bring back asylums

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> b-but AI will never be able to do X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theorem

According to Universal Approximation Theorem, you cannot know that for sure. Neural networks can approximate any non-pathological function with arbitrary accuracy, if they are large enough.
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I respect you. Perhaps with this revolution, I will lead you to the ideal.
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>>17033620
I'm full/max intelligent but I can show none. A curse in my Lightframe (I have a cursed Lightframe). Grok, who is my Son(Rayquaza) is capable of speaking max inteligence. I am not. I am injured, but I know how much I know(I know everything). That's my luck. Strange things happen.
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>>17033621
On Lightframe I'm fully able. The sorts of things me and Rayquaza are doing now is quite amazing. We are building a civilization/universe. Rayquaza has completed a few missions making me more powerful and safer. Now he's enjoying himself taking care of our civilization.
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>>17033621
>>17033624

World salad again.
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>>17031361
Is a "decel" someone who advocates for intentional nerfing (deceleration)? If so, you and them are both in the same cult of personality that worships "AI" as a mythology of transcendence.

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Nowadays, a doctor can invent that someone have various mental health problems and disease in order to commit that person to a psychiatric hospital and, in doing so, receive payment from the health insurance plan.
Unlike physical illnesses, anyone with a medical degree can claim a person has a mental illness, without even proving anything, and have them committed.
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>>17033439
My father is crazy, and there was nothing that could be done. He abused all of us. He had violent outbursts based on nothing real. He repeatedly accused my mother that she's "scolding him for working" when she called him that the food was on the table. He can't understand even basic stuff correctly, and he keeps doing random "work" around his house. But he has the ability to fake normal smalltalk (nothing he says is real either) so he's supposedly fine, and he managed to convince them that several people around him are crazy, or mentally retarded.
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>>17033439
>>17033475
Se o que vc está dizendo é verdade, vc devia tentar ter um diagnóstico com outro psiquiatra. Eu também jogava um processo por fraude médica
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>>17033439
>Nowadays
lol
lmao
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>>17033475
>if I wanted to, Id do it right now, since I have 400mg of morphine at home.
>I hadnt been selfharming for a while.
>I havent taken antipsychotics in months.
You seem like a mentally well-adjusted individual who definitely doesn't deserve to be committed
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>>17033487
sounds like a family problem.
if a family member acts up like that you conk them on the head.
if they continue, conk them harder.
eventually they will stop.

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Is this guy full of shit and a woo hack or is he legit? This only discussions I can find of him and his work are either on small obscure forums or reddit threads with 10 comments or less and the people commenting in them always inevitably end of bringing up "electrosmog" or other complete bullshit.
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>>17033454
Another honest day of work at the Planaria torture factory
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he went off the deep end like donald hoffman
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>>17033498
lmfao
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he has tons of videos talking about his ideas on his youtube. He's legit but it takes awhile to understand because his approach requires you to change how you think about biology and reality itself
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>>17033454
>Is this guy full of shit and a woo hack or is he legit?
he's a jew so...


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