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Hello, /sci/
/agdg/ here. I'm developing a mech game and want to see what sort of technology would be somewhat realistic within the next 50-100 years. I have almost no experience with robotics, so maybe you all can lend a hand.
What sort of technology can I add in my game to add believability/plausability?
For example: Say we achieve a room-temperature superconductor. What impact would this have and can it be applied to a large mech?
>>7697377
hi there aggydaggy
you're a programmer with no robotics experience? what are you 17?
>i am not a robot
>>7697380
I have a rudimentary understanding of servos, actuation, etc. But not much beyond that.
I'm in need of information in topics like weaponry, jet propulsion, materials engineering (alloys, etc)
Mechs will never be realistic because the concept is massively impractical.
If you want a semi realistic 'what if we did just cause lol' you probably dont have to do much, just stay away from 'energy weapons', set some limits that allow you to still have the robots about how much metal the relevant robotic bits can move with how much ease in your world, and keep in mind weight and volume concerns for decently realistic weapons on top of a big humanoid robot.
What does /sci/ think of this?
>pic related
http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf
written by an edgy spergmaster, but fundamentally has a point. It heavily relies on the definition of 'bullshit' from an outside source, yet the problem with a word such as that is that it's definition can change and has changed.
it also tries to use common features in scientific articles, and use of 'big' words to masquerade as anything other than an opinionpiece.
>>7697363
>>7697363
How about actually read it instead of just peeking at the abstract?
I'll give you $5.
>not having a graphic calculator
are you poor or something?
>>7697203
I don't believe you but give me the derivatives anyway. Doing math helps me forget my shitty life.
wolframalpha you lazy piece of shit
What can /sci/ tell me about these freaks and their supposed scientific achievements?
who are these people ?
>>7697121
oh I should mention these are the Bogdanov brothers, french 'scientists' specifically "physicists"
>Pure People
I postulate that everything we know or think we know about the universe, is wrong.
Discuss.
it is partially true
>>7697104
I hate being alive, but am engineered for ambivalence and self doubt.
How do I find the way out if it looks like none exist?
>>7697129
Realize you're already exactly there.
What topics is /sci/ willing to debate about? Will /sci/ discuss philosophy of science and epistemology? What about ethical questions that largely involve epistemological and scientific considerations?
Also, if I made a set of rules that only I would have to follow which I thought would accelerate the process of agreement (just impartial things like 'no parodying your interlocutor', and 'prioritize agreement with your interlocutor rather than entertainment of your audience'), would it be characteristic of /sci/ to appreciatively and/or respectfully reciprocate?...
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Is mathematics created or discovered?
Is mathematics a social construct?
>>7697053
>Will /sci/ discuss philosophy of science and epistemology?
There is nothing to discuss. You can repeat your "u cannot know nuffin" mantra ad infinitum, but don't ever expect scientists to care. We just continue to use the scientific method because it works regardless of whether some autistic "philosopher" fails to understand it.
>>7697084
>There is nothing to discuss.
I think there is a lot to discuss. What is scientific, and why should I trust scientific things? What about 'scientific authority'? What are the limits of peer review, and what should I do if we reach those limits?
>You can repeat your "u cannot know nuffin" mantra ad infinitum, but don't ever expect scientists to care.
Breaking out the strawmen already?
>image...
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Is physics just pure applied mathematics?
pic unrelated
>>7696948
>Is physics just pure applied mathematics?
No, physics is just applied pure mathematics?
>>7696948
No, it makes several additional hypothesis such as the causality principle.
>>7696948
why is eric raymond in this picture?
post bullshit statistics
>>7696916
>b-but only 50% can give more or less than average
>doesnt understand weighted averages
come back when you graduated high school
>>7696920
or the difference between mean and median
>>7696916
100% of statistics are bullshit.
Hey /sci/, /tg/ here with a hypothetical question. Imagine magic existed in this world, how would you explain it? How would it work? What are the risks and possible applications of it?
And what exactly IS it? Another form of energy? A force like gravity? Something else?
If "magic" existed we wouldn't call it magic, it would just be part of the laws of physics.
>>7696828
/thread
Just like magnetism can seem like magic to someone uneducated.
>>7696828
Taking that into account then, or imagine that magic just came to the world suddenly, how would you imagine it working, what would you call it?
Okeee boys my friend has made a formula for working out the probability of a particulate outcome to do with this picture, the rules are:
Each missile card will fire 8 times not 3, the fire one at a time so theirs 24 total shots fired.
There are 8 targets each missile can hit the hero or one of his 7 minions. Each minion has 3 health points, once it reaches 0 It dies. The minions will ALSO multiply if its hit and not killed while there is space to do so (7 is the max)
What are the chances with your 24 fired missiles that you will wipe the board clean?
He...
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>>7696773
.000793
>>7696784
No working out and no contact info Im dumb i need the working out.
i simulated the situation n times for k=1 000 000 and k=100 000 000, my laptop almost melted while doing so
k=1 000 000
0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 436, 73988, 925573
k=100 000 000
0, 0, 0, 1, 278, 42438, 7403501, 92553782
nth number corresponds to the number of simulations where (n-1) patrons stayed on the field
using interpolation it's visible that the probability of no patrons staying on the field is approximately of the order of 10^(-15) or lower
I've found a way to generate all primes, now what do?
What are primes?
>>7696689
Put it in the pile next to the 10000000 other algorithms we know for generating primes?
>>7696697
Oh well, I figured people would have already come up with something so simple
Psychology question.
I tried to ask this on Reddit and was banned.
So my thoughts on this are connecting:
A. Why take the files?
B. Why such an aggressive prosecution
C. Why kill himself
A. My thoughts are that he said he was trying to compile data that may prove biase and/or skewing of statistics and information leading to scientific consensus supporting c02 as the cause for global warming. The rest writes it's own story in connection to B and C.
Also, would there be a way to "carry the torch" and try to complete what aaron seemed...
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>>7696664
This is nonsensical on many levels, go see a psychiatrist.
My psychiatrist is who suggested that I vent this on 4chan
>>7696708
I highly doubt that, why would your psychiatrist want to subject you to ridicule. First of all, the idea that there is a massive conspiracy to promote global warming among scientists, and that the government prosecutes or kills people because they are looking at the statistics of global warming research (which is widely available information), is absurd on its face and indicative of a paranoia complex. Second, Aaron Swartz was very liberal and actually campaigned in favor of reducing fossil fuels.
Help me out here.
[math]\textup{Prove that in any topological Hausdorff space all subspaces consisting of one element are closed.}[/math]
Now, say I take the discrete topology T consisting of all subsets of X, then (X, T) is a Hausdorff space. However, for every element x of X, {x} is open with respect to the discrete topology, as is the complement X-{x} of {x} in X. So {x} is both open and closed in X. How can this statement still hold?
"Prove that in any topological Hausdorff space all subspaces consisting of one element are closed."
>>7696603
Great job, OP. You disproved topology.
Let x be any element of X.
For every y unequal to x there exists an open neibhoorhood U_y that includes y but not x.
The union of all those U_y is X \ {x} and since it's the union of open sets it must be open too.
Therefore {x} is closed.
What is the hardest field of science to be successful or knowledgeable in?
Women
>>7696381
Social science
>>7696383
this thats why women studies is the hardest field
WATCH: https://youtu.be/3XpQ6MehInc
>>7696358
is it from some show?
>>7696369
flying horse commical
>>7696358
seems like someone took that gravity-cat theory pretty seeriously
