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What is Game Theory and where can I learn more about it?
Study economics.
Especially cybernetic economics.
Read Schelling
>>7634911
Isn't Game Theory math?
Libgen is going down.
https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-shutdown-of-libgen-bookfi-and-sci-hub-151102/
Download all the books you want to while the time is ripe.
If someone can download everything, that would be nice. Download as many books you can.
>What is libgen
suck a dick.
>>>/g/51164312
Elsevier is to science and human progress today what the Church was to science and human progress in medieval times.
Why is libgen not hosted on some Tor website so that it can't be taken down?
Is gender primarily conditioned rather than biological? Should men act masculine and females act feminine? Are there innate differences between the two?
>>7634756
>Are there innate differences between the two?
Look in your pants and ask yourself if the opposite gender have the same kit.
>>7634756
>not science
Yes.
Not necessarily but there are advantages to doing so.
Yes.
Is everyone on here just a popsci faggot that memorises fancy-sounding phrases without understanding the actual science?
I, for one, am not.
>>7634711
Fuck you!!
I'll have you know I've read Stephen Hawkings a brief history of time. I understand science, even if its just popular science. You elitist faggit OP
>>7634711
I'm a researcher that actually works on a University but I'm also a pop sci fag largely because of easy accessible knowledge in other fields which might benefit my own field.
Fact: Everything in the universe can travel no faster than the speed of light.
This also includes the propagation of fields like gravity.
If I were to suddenly remove our sun from space it would take 8 minutes before the Earth would hurl into the depths of space.
So since gravity is not instantaneous, it needs time to propagate. Imagine we had a very massive object moving at relativistic speeds through an infinite vacuum.
The object is producing gravity, but because the object is moving at some fraction of the speed of light and gravity travels at the speed of...
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>>7634304
Also, is this similar to the Alcubbiere drive?
>>7634304
http://www.sparknotes.com/physics/specialrelativity/dynamics/section3.rhtml
Accelerating to c requries an infinite force
>>7634304
FACT: three posts on /sci/ have this asshole as thread image and it's partially your fault
What do you think about the Roko's basilik? do we need to fear a strong artificial intelligence or can we just think a minute to realize that this is non sense. I mean, we have to make so many guess to admit that artificial intelligence will spontaneously *pop* in our existence, to admit that this IA will make those decisions, to admit that a perfect replica of a human IS a human (a least have the same value). And finally we have to guess what wiil think an IA who is more intelligent than all the human brains put together. That makes a lot for me... What do you think?
>>7634215
is bullshit to think about.
just like free will vs predestination.
2 options:
1. it exists - you do nothing differently.
2. it does not exist - you still do nothing differently.
either way you wont do anything different. and hence it would not matter.
why bother thinking about it if its not actionable?
>>7634215
>>7634218
I'm not thinking about Roko's basilik,in my opinion that's bullshit as you said, I just wonder what people think about this, that's what interesting, how people cope with the IA question.
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Whats the difference between Dark Matter and God ? Why do scientists support one and despise the other ?
>Dark matter
>Tested, observed, conclusively proven
>God
>Fairytale
Dark matter does one thing. God does everything. When you directly invoke God to explain something, there is no more physics.
Most scientists don't despise God though. Only famous ones seem to, and that's primarily why they were made famous. Atheism is hip and cool these days.
Should advanced math be taught in school or should we teach people how to vote and get a job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0
>this again
People who don't see the purpose of school are working class scum anyway. No need to teach epsilon minus semi-morons anything advanced beyond paying taxes.
I'm at work can someone sum up this video pls
>>7634054
I'm incapable of doing basic tasks and need to be told how to do them despite having the greatest amount of easily accessible knowledge available to me ever in the history of mankind, they should teach it in schools!
I've heard of tokomaks and ITER but I never heard of a stellarator or the fact that a large prototype was constructed till now.
Can someone briefly explain how this differs from the tokomak in ITER and what the Wendelstein-7X will accomplish for fusion research?
>>7633724
You have to twist plasma so that it won't collide with the walls. Tokamaks do this by inducing currents into a plasma. This is difficult, and if the plasma get's fucked(which fucks up the currents that stabilize everything), you reactor can get rekt. It's also not a continuous process to set up these currents, which makes it possible for there to be instabilities that can wreck everything.
Stellarators put this twist in with geometry avoiding these problems at the expense of making the reactor...
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The main advantage of stellarators over tokamaks is that stellarators don't have to balance some unstable internal-current self-containment craziness that can blow up on you and wreck your reactor. The big disadvantage is that they're structurally more complex and therefore more difficult and expensive to build correctly, which slows down development.
Basically, we know stellarators can work if we scale them up enough and build them precisely enough, but they'd be more expensive than tokamaks. Tokamaks would be cheaper but we don't know if there's actually a way to make them work without making them into stellarators.
>>7633754
Ah so those are some pretty good advantages then, hell of a bitch to build, not surprised it was GERMAN ENGINEERING that got the job done
Will be cool to see what results they get, thanks for explaining the twist thing.
How to calculate length of x?
>>7633357
I'll give you a hint. A function is defined as the length of x (per your convention) in units of the radius of the circle, given an angle such as the one you marked as a parameter. The name of that function is cosine.
In other words, the cosine of the angle is the length of x in units of the radius (5 meters in your example).
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Stupid questions belong in the stupid questions thread
>November 2015
>NASA still can't disprove the EM Drive
NEWTON BLOWN THE FUCK OUT!!!!111!!1
Not only will this change humanity forever this marks the fall of the haughty, dogmatic academic establishment. This is the rise of the renegade lone theorist,the days of Tesla. back to Long live Shawyer!
>>7633257
Betcha $200 that if the EmDrive signal turns out to be indisputably not an artifact, it still turns out not to be a reactionless drive, or have any relation to Shawyer's theories.
>>7633257
>cool tech
Source discarded
Eagleworks are talking about putting an EM drive on a cubesat it's fucking happening guys!
What is, objectively, the most complex level of mathematics you can do?
>>7633238
differential eq :D
>>7633238
calculating your moms weight
>>7633250
they don't even teach that level of math at University. It's too complicated for most professors to understand.
Is the Myer-Briggs personality test psuedoscience?
ENTP here, more like JUST
ESFP here I love science lol. I like to watch Neil Degrasse (lol its like Degrassi) Tyson videos and drink homogenous mixtures of red bull and jagermeßter. See what I did there? Bazinga!!
psychology is a pseudoscience so yes
Which are you anon?
I think I'm a blue, but maybe currently an orange because I'm planning on moving around more before I settle down.
The orange reminds me of ENFPs.
>>7632845
The mating patterns of non-human species are developed due to their ecological niches. No other species can develop a good analogy because no other animal has the same ecological niche or breeding pattern as humans. Parallels can be made, but only in closely related species (either directly related, or related mating habits ie large groups living together, pair bonding, etc)
>>7632845
Humans are not lizards and do not follow lizard sex-types for fucks sake.
>>7632860
>>7632868
I'm aware, but parallels can be drawn (with a bit of imagination). Reds remind me of alpha male sorts with strong urges for power and "Hoe's". This is probably due to the nature of testosterone which is present in both species, and more apparent on both human and lizard sides of the parallels.
The blue is the social norm of most civilizations, and the craving for a strong connection is very human.
The orange reminds...
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Is anybody watching the premier of Bill Nye's new show on Nat Geo. Right now he is taking global warming deniers to task in a hilarious way that is still accessible to the layman. Plus an Arnold Schwarzenegger cameo.
>>7630999
fuck yes!! i fucking love science!!! haha! everyday I hurry to finish my homework so I can come on /sci/ and talk about bill nye :) I love you OPi
btw I'm a grill
> NASA shows that there is zero global warming
> le science meme guy with vinegar and baking soda disagrees.
Yeah, nah. I think I'll trust NASA before media monkeys.
>>7631962
LOL! You're just upset because Bill Nye is like totally way cooler than you will ever be :P
