Is "transgender" a mental illness? I'm legitimately curious. I have no point of reference to align my views on transgendered people (or even gay people, but I guess that's a different topic).
What can science tell us about the LGBT phenomena?
go back to /lgbt/ with this bullshit faggot. stop advertising the concept of "transgenderism" like it's worth talking about it or something, especially on a science board.
>>7663112
If you're asking whether gender dysphoria is a thing then yes
Psychology is (in most cases) medicine at best and a pseudo-science at worst. Terms like "mental illness", "mental disorder" and "personality complex" are entirely unscientific.
If you had a traveling salesman problem with 1000 points, what's the first thing you would do to solve it?
greedy
>>7663110
>what's the first thing you would do to solve it?
I would solve it.
>>7663158
/thread
>tfw :Hume destroyed induction
>Nietzsche destroyed reason
>Russell destroyed set theory
>Wittgenstein destroyed language
>Gödel destroyed completeness
>tfw science will never answer your questions
Problem /sci/ence ?
>>7663094
I'd rather have no answers than no questions
>>7663097
you're gay
>>7663098
And you're probably from straya
Hello,
I've been developing a bot for a game, which helped me to earn some money, but as of recent events, I've noticed, that other players using bots(not the same kind of mine), have been started to be banned massively.
Becouse of that, I figured that I should update my antiban system. As of now, I'm not using anything fancy, just some old randoms, though, it does appear not so bot-like.
Any ideas how to get this system better are appreciated. I know that I didn't give you any context, but I figured that there may might be some ideas, that...
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wat
I don't know if you played the latest mods of counterstrike source, but the bots they modified act nothing like bots. They taunt, they coordinate with other bots, they anticipate your moves and cunningly trick you. They are modified to imitate the actual behaviours of pro players.
I'd say research into that, see how they made it so.
>>7663108
Thanks for feedback. I think it's not so bad idea to record movements and behavior of a player depending of state in game(doing task, not doing task) and then analyzing and then somehow applying those settings. I will look deeper into that.
Let's assume for a moment that abortion is morally wrong. At what stage does preventing the birth of a child become ok?
Is using the morning after pill ok?
What about condoms?
Is masturbation ok? That glob of semen you leaked onto your moms kitchen tile floor has sperm in it which could have fertilized an egg.
What about doing nothing? The sperm in your body dies after 2 and a half months, that's wasted potential too.
How about an egg cell that's discarded before it's fertilized?
Please don't use "muh fingernails"...
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>>7662975
but anon, abortion IS morally wrong
the legalization is just a pragmatic necessity in order for the society to have a control over it, since it obviously existed since forver
>>7662975
You forgot IUD.
>>7662975
>Let's assume for a moment that abortion is morally wrong
Ok.
>Is using the morning after pill ok?
Grey area, leaning towards no.
>What about condoms?
Effectively the same as masturbation, see next answer.
>Is masturbation ok? That glob of semen you leaked onto your moms kitchen tile floor has sperm in it which could have fertilized an egg.
This is terrible...
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Will software engineering ever truly be engineering? Will there ever be an empirical measure, or mathematical proof for the correctness of the architecture of a software system?
>engineering
>mathematical proof for the correctness of the architecture of a software system?
also
>2015
>no user friendly all purpose dependently typed language
Is religiousness a trait that is being selected for?
Is not believing in evolution theory an evolutionary advantage?
>>7662883
It could well be that religiousness increased inclusive fitness at the expense of individual fitness, by strengthening group cohesion and by making altruistic acts towards the group and spiteful acts towards competing groups seemingly rational even on the individual level (through blessings or an improved afterlife).
A bit like how psychopathy increasing individual fitness at the expense of inclusive fitness, would explain why we aren't all psychopaths.
religiousness is appeal to majority and has its benefits.
>>7662901
Wouldn't having a lot of children be an example of its benefits to individual fitness?
Can a person with a high IQ learn art faster than a person without?
Now before you dismiss this as shitposting, please keep in mind that traditionally whenever some qualitative value is assigned to art it usually falls back on some aspect of pattern recognition, color theory, proper anatomy or other some other system that if you break it down enough it can be turned into a science.
In other words, if you map enough patterns of what people consider sounds "good", and program something that can arrangr those patterns in ways which couple together according...
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>>7662812
It could and it will.
For the same reason why computers can get high scores in an IQ test.
>>7662812
Im pretty sure a super computer will produce an opera that sounds amazing but the thing at its core art is about expressing YOUR emotions and thoughts that's why music sounds a lot better if you know the context which was written for.
Hey /sci/
So I have a test today and I need a little help with some precalc.
Pic related, i combined my logarithmic expression into one, now this is what i was left with.
Wanted to ask you guys, is there anything else I can do here, or this would be my final answer?
Thanks /sci/
if you really want to do more you can use Euclidean division to simplify it, but other than that i dont think you can do anything
>>7662816
So yeah, that will probably be my final answer. thank you anon!
I have another question is its okay,
Am I allowed to ln this ine and solve for x? Or because there is a 0 ln is out of the picture here?
(Exercise c)
wow, feynman's syntax is appalling
>>7662780
lol every time i've heard of anyone interacting with wolfram they've all said he has an enormous ego
An excessive use of hyphens when commas, semicolons, and colons are more appropriate (or at least would have created more visible segmenting), but otherwise it's fine.
Feynman has clearly mental problems, as in, he doesn't understand common English.
What scientific evidence is there for this?
>>7662770
Clinical trials.
>>7662773
What kind of intelligences do you need to execute clinical trials competently?
>>7662770
The evidence indicates that there are high correlations between the different 'types' of intelligence; people who are good at math are often good at spatial reasoning and given the proper resources can learn to write better than the average pleb. This is just a wishy-washy theory to make proles think they're smart.
Life isn't a fucking RPG where everyone gets the same amount of points to distribute, some people are just bad at most things because their neurons myelinate and repair slower...
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How come we don't have lifelike androids yet?
Why are we stuck with the same uncanny valley shit from 50 years ago?
Because something went very wrong with american education. Where are all the geniuses from last 50 years? I mean actual giants like Einstein, Feynmann, Bohr, Oppenheimer. They just not there. Where did they all go? I'm not even saying education became hierarchical, conformist bureaucracies where all people who can't color in the lines are kicked out. There are deeper underlying issues. Also highly commercialized higher education with tuition rising much faster than inflation rates, but that's just since 1970.
And rest of the world is irrelevant since 1945.
>>7662799
And because now there's geniuses that never get to go to college or get recognized because of the capitalistic education system. The best robotic engineer in the world probably lives off Ramen and gets his resume rejected because his only experience is as a burger King manager.
>>7662799
Scientific advancements always have lulls (varying from field to field). Physical models remained both stagnant and inadequate to explain new phenomena for over a hundred years before Einstein.
how do i prove given any integer X that X,X+2 or X+4 is always divisivle by 3?
>>7662724
think about what numbers are divisible by 3 and their relation to each other.
By way of contradiction, I'd wager
>>7662724
Given an integer X, we can consider its remainder when divided by 3. This remainder can only be 0, 1, or 2. That is, there exists an integer k such that X = 3k, X = 3k + 1, or X = 3k + 2.
Case 1: X = 3k
Then X is divisible by 3.
Case 2: X = 3k + 1
Then X + 2 = 3k + 3 = 3 (k + 1) is divisible by 3, as desired.
Case 3: X = 3k + 2
Then X + 4 = 3k + 6 = 3 (k + 2) is divisible by 3, as desired.
I'm about to fully submerge this (glass) bottle of chocolate milk into boiling hot water for 20 mins.
Is it safe?
yeah, for a bit at least
>>7662681
Are you looking to heat it up for a good reason or are you just having a larf?
>>7662686
I'm trying to replicate the taste of Cocio. They claim that they submerge their bottles, caps on, in 100 degree water for 20 mins.
The boiling point for milk is higher than that of water, am i right? (=will it even cause pressure inside the bottle?)
What is the relationship between intelligence and creativity? Which is more important to an engineer? Can one be successful as an engineering, in the sense of creating something novel and functional, without being a top student?
Every developed discovery has been entirely novel. Newton exhibiting great creativity during the synthesis of observation and mathematics during his development of calculus back in mid 17th century England. Especially during the bubonic plague.
Ask all engineers and you'll find a mix of answers.
Depends on what success means to you bloke.
>>7662642
Creativity is the rafined form of imagination that is necessary for some fields, other than that it's absolute useless as imagination is.
Intelligence does not have a direct relationship with your creativity, with your imagination.
You can live all your life in the cold reality as it is without imagining anything and still discover something that will change out the course of reality.
Imagination is really a disease of human brain.
>>7662675
Lying to these people.