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Is it possible to be immune to alcohol? I am pretty sure I can't get drunk.
>>7720773
"Whenever I drink, I can't remember being drunk! I must be immune to alcohol!"
>>7720773
No, it's impossible.
Your brain cannot function properly without oxygen.
There are factors that can mitigate its effects.
If you're a big guy, for example.
If you really don't think you can't get drunk just pick up a pint of rum and drink it very quickly.
>>7720780
But I do remember everything and never behave any differently.
Hey sci. My friend wants to take an online program (on java) at a local university but I fear that he's getting ripped off. I've showed him Coursera and EdX, but he replies with: "Those lack continuity, here it builds on itself and it's a whole integrated program."
Here's the program: http://www.algonquincollege.com/ccol/program/enterprise-java-developer/part-time-online/
Is getting ripped off? Are there any similar/better alternatives? If instead of doing the program, he looked at each class and found a similar course on eg: EdX. Would this be as valuable?
Any help? Any programming people?
>>7720691
What's the problem? There doesn't seem to be anything out and out wrong with the program and the certificate might (emphasis on "might") be worth something to a potential employer.
Yeah, sure you can learn all that stuff on your own or through Coursera but if he wants something more structured, there's nothing wrong with that.
>>7721059
You don't need help. If he is getting charged to learn java, which has a lot of free resources online then he is getting ripped off.
Even if the online class is good, even if it is really good, even if it is so good that he will get out of it as the best programmer in the history of manking, it is still a rip off.
Tell him to fucking learn online like every sane person does.
Why do you think we make fun of CS majors? They pay 40 thousand dollars a year to learn Java. They are getting fucked...
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What does /sci/ think about technology singularity? Do you think it's just a meme? And if not, do you look forward to it?
It's definitely a meme and I doubt anything abrupt will happen.
>>7720683
BRUH ARE YOU STOOPID GOOGLE JUST CREATES A
QUAAANTUM COMPUUUUTER
THAT GOES 1 TRILLION TIMES FASTER THAN THE FASTEST SUPER COMPUTER WE HAVE. THE SINGULARITY IS ALREADY HAPPENING BRO
>>7720674
It's meme if your implying a Kurzweil tier singularity where AI jesus will magically solve all our problems, but our technological progression will keep progressing on the current exponential for a while I think (obviously the implication of an infinitely fast expanding technological progression at the "singularity" point is impossible though).
Depression
I have been depressed since i was a child and never got treatment. Should i just kill myself?
>>7720567
a heavy dose of shrooms might change your perspective a bit. otherwise, see a doctor and get a prescription for an ssri, people take them like candy these days.
NSI-189
Meditation and science, discuss.
>>7720495
No meditation, just science.
>>7720497
What about all the studies on meditation?
Finding something to do that keeps you grounded and relaxes you is great. If that's meditation, cool
are fingernails organic? just wondering
>>7720364
Nope, synthetic.
I believe somewhere around 3000BC some guy under the alias 'God' discovered it's composition
>>7720364
>>7720388
I bet you cant even reason why. Go ahead i am waiting here
Why am I me? Why I am living from this particular perspective, not some other or all of them?
Why of all possible moments of the timeline I appeared exactly then, not some other time?
I'm not trying to sound edgy or something, and I know there is no definite answer, but I want you to share your thoughts
>>7720357
Why are you such a faggot? Why do you think it's a good idea to post your pseudophilosophical dribble here? What exactly do you want to hear? Pop philosophers spewing shit and trying to act smart?
Your question is senseless. Any answer will be even more senseless.
Any answer other than go away.
>>7720366
I'm a software engineer, family
>>7720374
Yeah, so? Fucking code monkeys fucking the board up.
Seriously, this board is wasted potential. Why can't there be a AI general discussing computer vision, machine learning, artificial neural networks, game theory, etc. instead of literally only shit threads and meme threads? Front page right now features threads such as "why are women dumb whores", "what is a good haircut that is chill and also academic", and meta threads about degrees.
Anyone into AI? What are you working on? Are you on ResearchGate? Any papers/books/MOOCs/resource that you found amazing?
>>7720002
Because that'd be computer science, and everyone here is a physical science person. Machine learning is related only in a tangential sense, since it's applied math.
Also, within forty seconds it'd turn in to "arguing about conscious AI" and armchair-machine-superintelligence general, instead of actually discussing real mundane machine learning techniques.
>>7720002
fuck the AI btw
>>7720002
because that requires people to do math.
gonna take my final in 10 minutes
Electricity and magnetism is the worst fucming class i ever took.
>Le just beliebe it teaching method
Fuck this class. This class never made any sense
All physics and engineers who are good at this kind of classes must he the biggest spergs or autists that will never get laid
Never took it m8. Dont plan to so that must mean I get a lot of pussy.
>>7719796
this a required class you dumb fuck.
>inb4 american education
and learn to reading comprehension before posting on sci
>be too stupid to handle a babby tier freshman E&M class
>lash out at the world and come to /sci/ to cry about it
Fucking kek
I'm starting to reliase that all majors except for mathematics and physics are vanity majors or wageslave majors. Either thye're like enigneering: designed to act as a conveyor belt for unfortunate youths from school to wageslavery such as engineering / finance careers, or vanity stuff like english, biology, chemistry, huamnities, arts: a 4 year country club experience where a pretense of learning is instilled yet nothing rigorous ever takes place.
I'm unsure where to put computer science. It ranges from maths / physics tier to wageslave tier, depending...
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>chemistry
>vanity
I don't understand
>>7719756
ok, maybe wage slave if you go in to rgaduate work, but it's vanity. It's like the dumbest people go in to it in the hope of seeming like smart stem people.
I did math because I'm literally too stupid to do anything else
Is this a suitable scale for a linear regression line? The minimum of the mean weight is 0.1275 and the maximum is 11.6140.
It just seems far too big for how small the minimum is. Minitab wont let me show the exact values for the mean for some reason
>>7719494
why are you using a linear fit on something that appears to be exponential?
>>7719516
We were told a liner regression line was meant to be used. We were given the weights of fish caught on specific dates in the year.
I decided to make a scatter plot of the data of the mean rather than the all of the data because it looks like a mess.
>>7719522
so you were told to use linear regression and I guess you used some sort of built in matlab function to get the regression line....
why are you doubting your result?
Is Psychology really a science?
Don't be a penne.
>lmao! who the fuck would believe the thousands of psychologists and psychiatrists with thousands of combined experience and lab time?! obviously someone like me who has taken phys 1 and 2, and organic chemistry knows psychology ISNT a real science! fucking pseudo idiots! xD
>>7719524
The only valid thing to come out of psychology is approaching neurology from the top down. Testing for cognitive heuristics, ways people tend to respond and what that indicates about what's going on in their mind and driving their behaviors, finding hardwired bottlenecks, like those with linguistic processing, thinking about memory subsystems, etc.
But that's the beginning and the end. All the rest is "mental illness", the belief of which is itself is a delusion of the mentally ill. The more...
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Let's say I have a perfect sphere with a mirrored interior surface (PSMIS). Then let's say that I have a light-emitting photovoltaic cell (LEPVC) that's is also a perfect sphere. I insert the LEPVC into the exact center of the PSMIS.
Would the LEPVC generate more energy than it expends? The further away the PMSIS walls are from the LEPVC, the more surface area there is, and more surface area means more points for the light to be bounced back to the LEPVC.
Is this not a source of infinite energy? Of course you wouldn't be able to run wires into...
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>>7718725
The mirrors can't be perfect so they will absorb some. Sorry.
>>7718725
no
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>>7718728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
we're close now, and with the prospect of infinite energy, it seems like a smart goal to work towards.
What if the moment after you die, you reincarnate into another life form in an alternative universe, and you can't die; you are sitting in the middle of a fire and you simply feel constant pain for eternity. How does it feel knowing this is possible?
>>7718592
What if you tried to kill yourself by tying yourself to a heavy weight and jumping into a river, but as soon as you did, all the water in the river suddenly turned into pizza-cheese?
BUT, there's a catch, you also suddenly really, really hate cheese. Also you can now breathe cheese, so you won't drown or die.
How does it feel knowing this is possible?
>>7718592
What if you can actually never die.
Since you've never experienced death, how do you know that everyone around you isn't a figment of your imagination and that you are immortal
p.s. near-death experience doesn't count
>>7718592
Constant pain for eternity? Then I guess I'd have enough time to simulate an entire universe where on some planet intelligent live eventually forms and creates various religions that all make various assumptions about what purpose me, their Creator, made them for. The truth is, I was just bored and burning for eternity really sucks HELP MAKE IT STOP PLEASE I BEG YOU
Is vsauce smart or just some faggot spouting sci fi bullshit?
>>7718528
He has a PhD and he really knows what he's talking about.
He doesn't need to be smart, he is making a channel for people who are interested in science in a non-professional way, so it's naturally pop-sci. I don't know how good his research is but it doesn't seem terrible.
>>7718532
In what?
Also that last video made me hyped as fuck that humans arent gonna get stuck on this rock forever
