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Is computer software made out of atoms?
>>7739100
Thanks for the gif
Y yes, but it also has electrons
>>7739100
Computer software is non-physical
>>7739100
Computer software can be anything, like holes in a punch-card or a certain voltage or squeaks and whistles. It's really more of a process or series of steps than the thing it's "written" with.
So, what are the EE fags here doing? Which sub"genre" are you learning? Gonna go to university starting 2016 and need inspiration.
>>7737506
>Not being already inspired to do what you just signed up to do and haven't even started to do.
You a shit anon.
>>7737512
I do w6e in my free time, building stuff w/ MCUs, analog and so on. Just no idea what you do in the industry
started EE a few months ago. so far just toying with arduinos and preparing for my DC analysis/mag. circuits exam
If I want to make AI in 10 years should I go into
Math
CS
Neuroscience
>>7743193
Math (after the obvious incursion through discrete maths), and specialise in topology. CS or CE depending on what you need, biology.
Neuroscientists would not be making the AI. Their research would be used to make the AI.
At the degree of complexity such that advanced machine learning and neural networking are the subject matters, computer science and math are interchangeable. Theoretical computer science is pure math, read any complexity theory lecture notes to see.
>>7743193
All 3 you lazy nigger
What's the sum of all real numbers?
Is it infinite or undefined?
How do I express 1+2+3+4+5 as a function f of x where x is how many times you've done it. So f(4) is 1+2+3+4.
Is this an exponential function? I mean the rate of change is constantly increasing. But I guess since the rate of rate is only increasing by one each time it no exponential.
Sorry for English and math. I am farmer using internet to learn math.
Infinite
Don't think this can be written as a function without using sigma notation
>>7743141
[math]
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n
[/math]
Through analytic continuation, this can be determined to be -1/12
>>7743146
Bullshit
I have a question, let's say I can make a metal can that will never leak no matter how you abuse it, then can a normal can of soda drink be compress to half its can size with extreme pressure?
>>7742883
>I have a question
No, I'm pretty sure you don't.
Oh, there's a question mark at the end, but you didn't actually ask a question at the end.
>>7742883
Yes you retard. You could compress it to a solid.
Half its size? You'd need some fucking enormous pressure for that, and it sure as hell isn't going to be a liquid at that point.
Is it possible to run out of space in your brain? ie: you're trying to learn new things and your brain is like...yea nah, this data storage is full? Or could that be something else?
So I have about 1 terabytes worth of music, books, some films which I should be sorting through, also about 1200 bookmarks, and it'd be nice to learn Spanish or Dutch. (I'm mostly done with English) I'm a NEET so I do have the time admittedly.
But what really happens is.. I'm just sitting in my armchair in front of my PC and whenever I'm trying to study, put...
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>>7742639
Pretty picture, anon. There was a time when I could simply look at it and generate dozens of branching possibilities, ideas, inspirations. Tie it in with existing macro ideas, distort it, pull individual elements, change it, manipulate it.
No longer. It's just a tree. Pretty, but just a tree. I'm not sure why it happens. I'm not if it has to happen. I'm not sure if it's temporary and reverses when some deep is identified and resolved, or if it's just one's frame of life in...
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>>7742639
You're just lazy
>>7742639
These sort of questions are now, to me, some of the most annoying questions anyone can ask, because they show that the person asking didn't bother criticizing their own question to begin with. They don't bother with null hypotheses. They just think something, and because they thought it they think it's deep and profound shit.
It's not.
What is data storage? What is compression? What is lossless compression?
Are memories lossless? Are memories compressed? Does it matter what...
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Will Denmark ever flood completely?
Anything I read about sea level rise keeps telling me how countries like Denmark will flood completely long from now.
Does this have any merit?
Somebody with education in this area please respond I am terrified of flooding
>>7741969
Nah man just build some dikes. Source: I live 2m below sea level.
>>7741955
If the Dutch can deal with it so can you.
>Hawking and Mlodinow, in the chapter of their book called “The Theory of Everything,” quote Albert Einstein: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” In response, Hawking and Mlodinow offer this crashing banality: “The universe is comprehensible because it is governed by scientific laws; that is to say, its behavior can be modeled.” Later, the authors invite us to give ourselves a collective pat on the back: “The fact that we human beings — who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles...
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Without them rules there would just be chaos, therefore no humans. Anthropic principle I'd say.
>>7741838
bold
>>7741834
>>muh philosophy does not give us computers
just because you mock it doesn't make it any less true
>Ph.D in mathematics
>I want any job
>$300k in debt
>>7741439
>not taking up actuary
>gets fuckin cockblocked by specialists in jobs
Enjoy ur fuckin bankruptcy and toilet papers
>>7741463
>hasn't killed self yet
Top pleb
Why do you have debt? Are you too stupid to get your education for free?
Is our current level of technology sufficient to create bio-engineered monsters like deathclaws or tentacle monsters?
finding ways to post hentai in /sci/, i like it. it's a very welcome switch up.
OT: yes, i believe so, but i don't think they would be as realistic as you would like
>>7741417
why is that?
>>7741371
More or less yes, but there is a severe lack of knowledge. I've been working on increasing mitochondrial output but it's slow going. If you don't know how at all, you can't really do it even if you have the technology and skills to do so.
what the dick?
how come the cheese didnt melt?
Because you're gay
>>7740899
the pizza is undercooked.
>>7740899
Ask /ck/. It'll give them a break from Jack whoever threads if that's still a thing.
According to news reports, the temperature in one part of Colorado has dropped to -51F (-46C). While much of the east coast is experiencing short sleeve weather, the drop to -51F is rather extreme even for high altitude Colorado.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/22/A-cold-day-at-Antero-Reservoir-51-below-in-Colorado/6451450804077/
Am I missing something in the news reports as to why it can be that much colder at this location other than altitude? Is there perhaps a microclimate that reinforces the low temperatures? According to Wikipedia, the area in question...
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>>7739863
>Fahrenheit
Why?
>>7740159
(F - 32)/1.8 = C
>>7740159
Because it sounds so much better.
I'd rather hear 80 degrees than 27 degrees. It sounds so much comfier.
Same with feet and inches. I'd rather hear "X foot X" than "X cm"
This is why Europoors are always upset. They lack the comfiness.
So, I recently heard about the EM drive and how it seems (as I understand?) it actually work and scientists are baffled by it and it might actually open the door to a new spatial era.
Is it true or is it just a buzzhype and I should rather talk about it on /x/?
>>7738095
There's a reason it's called the meme drive on /sci/
>>7738109
I don't often go on /sci/ Is it just called meme drive because it's a popular discussion topic and/or cause lot of shitpositng?
>>7738095
It's real, just depends on when the world will take it seriously enough to put it to good use.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. Nick Bostrom posits that eventually a species will create a simulation advanced enough to be confused with reality by the people within.
Some say that we will have created such a simulation within 30 years, some say within 500. Anyway you look at it, that's a small chunk of time.
He posits 3 possible outcomes for such a species;
1. The species for some reason refuses to create such a simulation.
2. The species dies before the simulation is created.
3. I am absolutely, without a doubt, 100% living...
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This process couldn't recurse forever. Each succeeding simulation would have a much, much smaller universe than the one simulating it. We would not be able to accurately simulate a universe as big as our own
>>7735575
>If just one planet in one solar system in the universe created a simulation which could be confused with the real universe, then there are trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of such simulations
Uh no? There is exactly just one simulation on one planet in one solar system in the universe?
>>7735584
Why not?
![2710466-agentsmith[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/z6w6www.jpg "2710466-agentsmith[1].jpg")
> le simulation meme
go back to bed Mr Anderson
Are my calculus tests easy?
Hi /sci/, these are samples from my tests/quizzes from Calculus 2 and 3:
http://imgur.com/a/I8huZ
I'm a student in a community college in New York. I got A's in Calculus 1, 2, and 3. I'm worried that the tests were too easy -- I'd often walk out of class to get food, and bring it back to eat while browsing my phone right in front of my professor. The tests all seemed like they took problems from the shitty James Stewart text, and changed the numbers.
Pic unrelated.
*The pic actually is related. I forgot to edit that out lol
>>7742381
Holy shit these are disgustingly easy lol...
If you plan on transferring to a decent uni to do anything strongly math related, prepare to get fucked in the ass.
They are not that easy, but there are no applied questions.
