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What are some graduate-level fields other than math which use rigorous proofs? I know of statistics, economics, and physics. Is there anything else?
>>7644347
philosophy
>>7644416
Anon... Philosophy is literally religion but with even more spooks.
>>7644416
I know there is a lot of convergence in research at the most abstract levels of philosophy/math/CS/econ, but I assumed the average philosophy graduate student is just doing heavily qualitative research or basically just reviewing old literature.
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Is there a scientifically perfect way to play Age of Empires 2?
Checkers is a solved game.
Connect 4 is a solved game.
Chess is soon to be solved.
How long until a videogame like Age of Empires 2 is solved? Is it possible to play a "perfect" game of it?
>>7644113
If you have a defined ideal, with no regard for internal ambivalence, then it is always possible to do something perfectly.
>>7644113
I saw this on sale on steam, did expect so many posts about it
>>7644113
Answer from an actual game programmer. Look at it this way AoE2 runs at 30 frames per second. So it's actually a turn based game with a finite grid. So you could solve it for each turn/frame in the same way you would solve chess. You could give all the variables and relation between all variables a cost. Then recursively you could iterate between all possible outcomes of the turn. Then choose the best outcome. For that frame and calculate this for all upcoming frames. It would be computationally very heavy but not impossible.
Can you id this insect?
Pic unrelated
So basically I see only small dots of red in the room flying as if it were an insect, but it's not alight all the time, also they illuminate a bit when close. but it is a brief flash, not continuous.
They are poisonous, I slept a lot when bitten and have been dizzy for quite a while, though I am better now.
Not sure what else can I say, some bits of my face were kinda paralyzed, hard to move more precisely, a part of my upper lip for instance.
>>7644063
are you sure that you don't drink a lot of diet sprite? because those are the side effects of drinking too much diet sprite
>>7644160
Not OP but that's extremely worrying is it the artificial sweeteners?
It's diabetes senpai.
The small dots are hallucinations.
Can someone explain in an intuitive way how newtons laws tell you that a particles trajectory is determined for all future time? I.e. that if you specify a position at t=0, you know where that particles going forever?
[math]\frac{1}{m} \sum \limits_i \int F_i\ dt^2 = x(t)[/math]
Second law: F = ma.
The first law is a special case where F = 0, meaning that a = 0. The third law doesn't matter if you are thinking about a single particle.
The second law says that if you know the force on a particle at all times, then you know the acceleration at all times. If you know the acceleration, then you know how much the velocity is changing. If you know the velocity, then you know how much the position is changing.
It's just a cascade of information.
That's it, really. So you need to know the original position and velocity,...
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Dude, the world doesn't work In such a deterministic way. That's why quantum mechanics was created.
So does mean we have to reformulate the standard model?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3177449/Nasa-s-impossible-fuel-free-thrusters-work-German-scientists-confirm-viability-super-fast-space-travel-slash-journey-moon-4-HOURS.html
>>7643986
>Daily mail
Also, there is already a thread
>>7643986
>daily mail
Stopped reading there.
> space travel that could slash a journey to the moon down to 4 HOURS
sounds too good to be true. But if it's real, I truly believe that we were born in the perfect time to witness the golden age of technological revolution of humanity.
What is fire?
what is google ?
>>7643872
It's the souls of starving children being vented from the gates of hell.
hot gas
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Also, suggest other seminal textbooks.
>>7643861
never heard of this one but I'm a combo guy.
Concrete Math is reeeeeeeeeally good. Pretty much the classic discrete math book for mathematicians.
Generatingfunctionology is a cool next book to read. If you're into graph theory get anything by Bollobas.
If you want to study some "offbeat" combinatorics, check out Combinatorial Designs by Stinson. Best introduction to that field that I've seen.
>>7643854
>a foundation for computer science
Then why does it have mathematics in the title? Is it not a "Learn Python in 20 days" book?
ITT: boner inducing sights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6OvHofcoo
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What are the neural substrates of racism?
>>7643640
Most human faculties that allow for higher reasoning afford the presence of racism. It's a very natural thing.
>>7643640
Many animals have a way of identifying family members, to avoid breeding with them; and a way of identifying things which are too different and thus that they shouldn't try to breed with (like other species). Racism is just the latter such mechanism being triggered.
>>7643650
Humans love screwing exotic things.
What is /sci/'s opinion on qualitative research?
I used to think that it was incredibly weak and the reason why people (unfairly) thought of social science as being soft and non-scientific. However I'm currently doing an MSc at a university where they have a strong tradition of qualitative research and they've pushed it pretty hard, and I can now see that it has some value and can answer some questions that quantitative research can't. If I do a PhD, I might look to do it using qualitative methods because it seems easier and more interesting. What do you think?
Qualitative research isn't necessarily bad
Might even be better than sociologists misunderstanding statistics and using it incorrectly
Social sciences aren't sciences though.
Are you really saying things like history, law, and economics are sciences?
>>7643701
Graduate level econ at a good school is nice
Many of them have undergrads in math
Your typical undergrad "economist" is dumb as a rock though ("why must I learn calculus? waaah waaah")
Brain uploading is the Great Filter, you cannot pass it without an uploaded civilization.
You'll die in world war 3 or watch modern society unravel under misguided policy if you stay human.
As an upload you escape the human condition, population densities can be magnitudes higher and everyone can live like a billionaire which ensures social cohesion. Biowarfare immuniy, chemical warfare immunity, food safety a nonissue, the integrity of he biosphere a nonissue. You quitely upload and secede from normal society, storing the hardware in a remote secured location,...
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>>7643600
>you
Replace this word with "clone" "identical child" or "knockoff" and your post becomes coherent.
You are you. And it is it. Any other definition of "I" results in disjointed ideas.
The first generation of brain uploads would be designed by meat brains, they would try to replicate meat stuff like emotions and individuality, but the computer brains would quickly realize there's no point to these limitations and would redesign themselves to be a single hivemind processing unit.
So basically humanity would be dead anyway.
>>7643609
Then we are back to the classic Theseus' paradox.
What makes "you" you? The cells in your body are being constantly replaced by newer ones.
Maybe the constant flow of electrical impulses and memories are your identity, but that can be carried over too.
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>>7643567
> implying
Nearest galaxy ~500 Light years
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS FOR THE SPEED OF LIGHT
>implying it fucking matters
>>7643637
Light years is for measuring time not distance you moron.
It's 500 light yards.
Perusing through old pics, and I found this.
I have not been in a Calculus class in five years, and I've forgotten damn near everything I know.
I know it has something to do with integrals; can someone give me the short-and-sweet version of what the hell this is?
>>7643530
Partial integration senpaitachi
>>7643530
Integration by parts, it's a formula for (most of the time) solving integrals which are products, like x(e^x)
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcII/IntegrationByParts.aspx
Very useful thing to remember desu
More sauce for learning: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~park/Fall2011/integration/Integration%20by%20parts.pdf
>I do math because it's beautiful
>>7643505
/sci/ in a nutshell
now piss off
>>7643505
Who are you quoting?
What's wrong with that, OP?
Ah the wonders of the arctic Southern Lights
>>7643468
that seems calm
I want a calm vacation now
iceland anyone?
IF the sun has a magnetic field, why can't it deflect its own solar wind?
>>7643500
fuckin' coronal heliomagnetism, how does it work?
