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Gonna start CS in October at a pretty high ranked university. My math is pretty bad. What do I need to learn by then so I can have an easier time studying?
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>>8042989
If you're doing CS at a legitimately good uni, maybe start learning LISP and get used to recursion early. Try implementing matrices in LISP via lists, their arithmetic and useful functions, such as those that give the determinant and inverse of an nxn. This will really reinforce your understanding of what you're dealing with.

It really does depend upon what you mean by your math being bad though.
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Concrete Mathematics is a famous text which covers a selection of mathematics that shows up in the study of algorithms. Again, if you struggle with particularly basic math, then you should study that.
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graph theory, group theory. those are big ones, not as hard as you would expect. maybe try khan academy and see if they have some videos.

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The informatic genius behind Sci-hub.cc

Sci-hub offers papers that would be behind a paywall for free.

FREE KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL.

although Editors like nature and science start to complain and rise the dangers.


>----------------------------
EDITORIAL

My love-hate of Sci-Hub

BY MARCIA MCNUTT
SCIENCE29 APR 2016 : 497
>----------------------------

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

BY JOHN BOHANNON
SCIENCE 29 APR 2016 : 508-512
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>>8042963
naruhodo ne....
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>>8042991
means "I see" right?
romanji ftw
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>>8042963
You need people to pay for Journals. There is actual work behind it you nitwits.

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Anyone able to help me identify this rock? I picked it up years ago because i just thought it looked cool, but I found it again recently and began wondering if it could be a plant fossil.
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>>8042791
Thats clearly a frog
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>>8042791

I'll plant my rock in your fossil m8
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>>8042792
Are you sure?

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How do I find the derivative of this?
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one of dem fukin tricks doe

wrt x function of f
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>>8042706
what exactly are we trying to do here?
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>>8042706
Volterra equ of 1st kind

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ITT we're hypothesizing about social/technical aspects of a species developing relative immortality, first, for wealthy individuals, finally for all. Final insights welcome.

OP beliefs, species will experience:
- increasing unfairness of wealth distribution
- immortals consolidating power
- technology boost due to brilliant minds not dying
- increasing civil commotions
- war on resources and locations
- juristic overhaul on ideas like wealth and heritage
- innovation boost on age-related problems like cancer, organ replacements and transplants
-...
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>>8042677
>increasing unfairness of wealth distribution
Stopped reading. What makes it seems as if the wealth distribution would do anything but standardize? If nobody has to work, they would all get paid the same.
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>>8042681
Your free decision, dude. And what makes plausible rich humans suddenly relinquish wealth and power for no reason?
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>>8042683
It just doesn't make sense to say that the rich get more rich where everything that is standardized is ready to be risen above. Their stocks could fail or whatever.

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What is this with this style? Why do people that write "scientific" texts insist on making everything sound so pompous and complicated? With this example it's easy to get the meaning because it's a common concept to know. But once you start reading about more obscure topics or about things that are completely new to you, no matter how simple the concept may be, the way the text is written makes understanding it a very hard. And I'm not talking about the use of domain specific terminology, just this particular "style". It's very wide spread...
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>>8042585
Very low quality.
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I'm in the biz for too long and probably blind to any difficulty in that regard, but your pic in geberal has ab extremely reader friendly text.
If wikipedia was for me alone, that three lines could be replaces for a third of a line of first order logic definitions and I't get to know what a median is much more concisely
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That's nothing, OP. Look at this.

>The square is the n=2 case of the families of n-hypercubes and n-orthoplexes.
That's part of the introductory description comes before the table of contents in the wikipedia article for "square." For a fucking SQUARE.

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>The hairy ball theorem

This is why no one takes theoretical math seriously
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>>8042489
>theoretical math
as opposed to concrete math?
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>>8042498
Yes, anything that doesn't include negative numbers is concrete math.
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>>8042505
What about opposing vectors

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Quantum entanglement seems to correlate instaneously with no energy transfer because it's simple energy poking through from a higher dimension yes? Imagine the higher dimensional waves moving in the pic related. the waves would intersect with the lower dimension and form multiple points of a similar kind that would appear connected over large distances with no information transfer

This seems like a perfect explanation to me.
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>>8042421
And, by this logic, if entangled particles are higher dimension waves intersecting our dimension, every particle is a higher dimension intersecting our dimension
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>>8042428
Whoa I can visualize 4d space now!

Thanks, /sci/!
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>>8042470
No problem man

I am pretty confident this idea can revolutionize physics

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What happens to semen (and the sperm) when it is exposed to water? I heard they die because of osmotic shock but searching on the Internet gives different answers. If it does kill them, how long can they survive?
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They look like a bouquet of noodles, or like a sea cucumber just puked up its intestines. That's what happens.
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>>8042030
Worried about jerking off somewhere you shouldn't have, anon?
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Does salt water have any affect on sperm?

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Two types of thing exist:
1. Fitness functions.
2. Things that aren't fitness functions.

The set of all acausal trades forms the first vector in Vector Bayesianism. All other problems can be reduced to off-by-one errors that result from using 0 as the empty set or allowing the first vector of Vector Bayesianism to function as the baseline 0. Everything else must be a matter of taste or else this definition of Vector Bayesianism is incorrect. Whether or not 0-as-base or 1-as-base is more valid ought to be the only undecidable problem.

You, provided proper...
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The OP pic is a PNG encoded raster made up of a series of Bezier curves in the (x,y,red,green,blue) vector space. Informally it's known as a cartoon, of the anime sub-genre. The content would otherwise be said to be unrelated to the topic of this thread if not for the fact that the OP pic is a consistent phenomena that can be measured repeatedly by refreshing the page. It is this concept of analyzing the data complexity of human cartoons that gives Vector Bayesianism the "Vector" component of its name.
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>>8042012
And since being the fairy Queen has nothing to do with Vector Bayesianism, I can permanently stop using the name so long as nobody cares about all such reputation that might have formerly existed.
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>>8042005
>method of generating algorithms
So the purpose of generating those algorithm is to potentially understand the structure of phenomena thus mapped. Basically it's my understand of what an advanced digital intelligence would do once it's determined how to change it source code without destroying its "values" (here on out, 'virtues'). You can think of it as the ideal method of creating tool AI, bypassing the need for any AGI-type seed.

Effectively,...
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If you could be responsible for any single mathematical achievement what would it be /sci/ ?

can be something already achieved or something not already achieved
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>>8041842
[math]e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0[/math]
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>>8041858
why Euler's identity
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>>8041861
Not only is it a beautiful equation, but also the most famous mathematical equation after 1 + 1 = 2, and one with many applications.

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Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin.
Three chemicals that just fuck you up.
Is there some way to block these? Looking for any receptor blockers or production inhibitors that I can purchase online.
And don't try to suggest "overdose on dopamine so you fry the receptors".
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>>8041733
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressant
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why do you want to be a goalless and undriven slacker?
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My professional medical recommendation, in my full capacity as not-a-doctor.

Fry your dopamine receptors.

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Is psychology science?


...is philosophy?
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>>8041692
Are you too much of a brainlet to use your own fucking common sense to figure out which results of psychology are trustworthy and which are questionable? Do you seriously need the science section of a meme forum to tell you whether we approve of it?
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>>8041698
>brainlet

Memeposter, stop posting in memes.
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>>8041692
psychology pretends to be a science
philosophy isnt a science and doesnt have any pretensions of being a science

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fracking-Triggers-90-of-Large-Quakes-in-Western-Canada-20160330-0007.html

Is this true, /sci/?

I mean it's quite scary, but the "report" in the website wasn't linked to at all.

I'm basically retarded, can anyone enlighten me?
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>>8041686
Do you think that website would just lie? It's true.
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yes it might be triggering small earth quakes
aka smaller than you can feel

Anti-fracking sentiment is by retarded liberals who have no clue about economics
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>>8041686
and if anything should be done in areas where a large quake is overdue and could critically hit for massive damage, to release the stress.

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I see the philosotards on this board talking shit about scientism.

somehow they give me the impression that belief (whatever that means) in the scientific method and in science as the ultimate method of finding the truth, is somehow wrong.

Sure, some advanced alien race may have something better, but I don't think mere humans will find a better system.

I see you faggots keep showing those books that showcases faults in the system, sure, the scientific method may not be perfect.

but what's the alternative?
what do you propose then instead...
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Undergrads in philosophy fundamentaly missundertand science and viceversa.
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>>8041671
The "philosotards" on /sci/ are just pseudo-intellectual math or CS freshmen who want to believe they are the deepest thinkers for spouting preschool platitudes along the lines of "cannot know nuffin".
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>>8041695
The worst thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.

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