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I know this is a dumb question and I'm pretty sure the answer is no but I need confirmation quickly.
Can a qubit in a quantum computer be an atom?
Do quantum computer "harness the power of molecules"? whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
No to both
I'm a fan of science fiction shows, but they often stretch the bounds of my suspension of disbelief. I also hate when they use meaningless strings of scientific words to explain away any plot holes.
>>Pic related
Are there any SciFi shows that are more scientifically accurate?
Best I know of is Battlestar. The spaceships actually act like they're in space when they're fighting, instead of behaving like boats on the ocean. Plus they use good old guns and nukes instead of photon torpedoes.
>>7777949
>wanting scientific accuracy
>from TeeVee
fgt pls
Hey /sci/, sorry to shit up your board with this, but this is what an autist has been thinking:
If intelligence emerges from a network of more elementary entities, can intelligence emerge from a network of sentient beings acting as elementary entities?
Two things I want to think about:
1. If we had 100 billion people arranged in such a way that they each acted as a single neuron, networked exactly the way the neurons in our brains are, could that entire grouping of people as one entity be sentient?
2. Could intelligence of varying levels emerge from...
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>>7777898
1. Society is an example of this. Each person does their own thing and has their own life. But as a whole society has an overall opinion, flow and effect on each other, other societies and cultures, and on the world. The internet has really helped this along too.
2. Not sure what you mean by this.
>Could our world seen as one entity exhibit intelligence?
All for one and one for all. While we are all single beings we are all of the same race and a single persons achievement...
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>>7777908
>2. Not sure what you mean by this.
As far as I naively know, the network in our brain is mostly static - neurons do not add new connections and cut off old ones, other than during development and through trauma of course, but it's mostly static. The communication between persons is extremely dynamic. Basically, in the analogy of people to neurons, I was thinking that that was a discrepency that argued against the analogy, and wondered if that would prevent a network of humans...
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>>7777916
neurons do write and re-write connections constantly and that's why you forget things, or never learn them. Brains that are better at making and maintaining connections are the ones we call "smart people". Such an immense amount of connections are made that they're only usually noticeable after development or trauma
On the other hand, human activity is neurotic and repetitive enough that these kinds of "society animals" do exist. It would be a psychology problem though, like how...
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Can you solve this code or give information about it?
The next number in the series is 34
>>7778060
Thanks you.
What is the pattern?
>>7778074
There is no pattern to be had from a finite sequence.
In an optimum universe, what degree of study would your gf/wife have so you can work on epic scientific projects that enhance your relationship?
>>7777708
Dicksucking studies get.
>>7777720
>720
Nice try
But lets not get too materialistic here.
>>7777708
computer engineering or theoretical physics
>guess what im trying to do/make
Am I still natty if I take Ritalin?
>>7777665
Kill yourself stupid frogposter.
Go back to /b/. Someone posted a thread there saying to get our 777777777
>>7777665
>posting le reddit amphibian
Anyone here in O&P?
What do you think of the field?
>>7777460
BioShock.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIstpPXKWng
>"There are some superb papers written that in fact discount the idea that we should ever use j on the grounds that it conceals some structure that we could explain by another means"
Well, /sci/? Is there a better mathematical system out there that solves the same problems imaginary numbers do without resorting to imaginary numbers?
>>7777355
who the fuck uses j instead of i for an imaginary number
>>7777391
engineers
>>7777391
>o
>>not using i, j, and k
can you even quaternion?
Hey /sci/ can someone who knows a lot about physics and science please explain to me what parallel universes and multi verses are? How do they work and have they been proven?
>been proven
Alright, sir
>>>7777212
Pretty much a parallel universe is just the opposite of , well, everything really in short terms
>>7777212
http://youtu.be/IcxptIJS7kQ?t=24m40s
While we eagerly wait...
What scientific epiphany will post
>>7777777
Offer to our community?
>>7777148
It's going to be either /pol/fags telling people to go to Reddit
Or /sci/entists telling the /pol/fags to go to /pol/
I'm calling it
>>7777148
If space is quantized.
is it autistic notation to list the set of integers from 1 to k as Z+n[1,k] or will people accept t?
it really pisses me off when people use notation like {1,2,...,k}.
those "..."s have no place in a mathematics text you dick
>>7776986
just do
[eqn]
\bigcup\limits_{i = 1}^{k} \{i\}
[/eqn]
I've seen [n] denote the integers 1 through n in combinatorics
>>7776986
How about [math] {\mathbb{N}_{ \leqslant k}} [/math]
Thank you David Bowie for being dead,
Thank you Chris Hadfield for this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
which ultimately lead me to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGP6Y0Pnhe4
>omg, ids full of thinkpads!
>>7776966
>that comfy sleeping cubicle
>>7776966
>all the laptops on the space station are think pads
>all the laptops in the control room are iMacs
why is this?
>>7778628
>IT department gets told by management to procure equipment.
>"Don't be stingy. I want only the best, most expensive stuff for our boys."
>By which he means most expensive.
>No one in requisition understands specs anyway, so the highest price tags would do.
This is why Apple was able to compete against IBM in the first place; retards.
So I know how to do basic function composition from R → R ( essentially, f(g(x)) ), but how would you do it with more than one variable and output? Say f: R2 → R2, and g: R2 → R3, then how would you compute f ∘ g?
>Say f: R2 → R2, and g: R2 → R3, then how would you compute f ∘ g?
You wouldn't, because the domains don't match.
>>7776823
>CS major detected
>>7776838
fair enough, then how would you do it if the domains did match?
![funny-math-alphabet-formula[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GyaFBQd.jpg "funny-math-alphabet-formula[1].jpg")
Hi /sci/
I need some examples of use of math in STEM that is fun and interesting (to high school kids).
I'm really struggling here as I can ream off shit loads of areas where math is vital and show them all sorts of shit that's interesting to me, but from a high schooler's point of view would probably bore them to death.
Any ideas /sci/.. must be a few teachers on here?
>>7776731
Limits
But show them the examples in pasta differences
>>7776731
If you're going to go this route, how about you show them "maths in action", so take some idea and then show how it's used in STEM. That's really the only thing I can think of.
>>7776731
Toy rockets.
Fuck their shit up with deltaV n shit.
The Tension of Shadow
As a system that relies on an infatuation with the digression of the speed narrating the supplement of 'physical', the tightness of that which is the field that is devoid of fields is a conundrum of what it is that is creating the obstruction of the dilation from vacuum to the furthest paradox of effervescence, the likeness of where all things exist in the finest state of both round and straight, but only from the statistics to the point of which it is being compared to... if a diamond were to melt in water and the two refracted something...
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>>7776730
Now once might ask what cuts these lens, ironically, it's the space they're travelling into....
Now the philosophical conundrum of this is that when that which is complete is reduced, does the fabric that it is being reduced into change; or rather 'When complete then encountering lack, is there a true position', to which the metaphor of every girls best friend and that thing that has supplied the compilement of life comes to bare, that the fragment of what we know of what can be said, is that existance is comparible to exponentially heated glass, and to continue the explanation, in where the lens heated from the relative side of the 'glass' will move in, when gravity is applied, to the opposite version of which of the elementary proposition of the condition of existance that has been reviewed here, fulfilling the natural origin of of space of simultaneously being first and fourth dimensional and naturally egoless; and with this piece we can also review a rendition of the ego frame of what can be considered sentient by the means of not what you could consider 'free action', but by the it's 'total action', and it's potential applicability being the more innate function and by such means does its dialation of applicability becomes a more virtuous thing and by such means does the narration of existance become a structure more applicably accountable for that which matters least and the other being that that can exponentiate the variance in the given system.
