/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4961831
it should unless he's using a compiler from before the mid-80s; likewise, in modern implementations (and probably older ones, I haven't checked) stuff declared outside of functions is treated as global and can't be modified inside functions; also IDK what the deal is with &, I know what it does in C++ but I don't remember it having a meaning in C that makes sense here

>>4961702
is this new? it's funny either way

you always skip leading zeroes... I think... and I LOL'd at your pic

>>4950408
similar here, some of the meds I've taken were/are stimulants (among other things they are/do) and they helped somewhat in that area; other than that, I just know I work better when I'm not tired
since we're in that area I'll say this: you shouldn't take adderall for this
besides being illegal without a prescription and increasingly harder to get (and presumably more expensive), I had the pleasure of not taking it for a while recently, and not having it kicked my butt, specifically it kicked it right back into bed

>>4951474
>>4951468
that notation is used by some programming languages
>>4951493
>>4951474
also I think both of you are confusing matrices with matrix elements
hey I was right about that one being "in the loop" :)

>>4951590
he said nothing *isn't* real-- which doesn't have much more meaning, but you got it completely backwards

>>4938276
not with that attitude you're not, personally I intend to catch the first-- well not the first shuttle over, more like the 15th or 20th-- still, exploration is one of those things people have done since there were people, it's instinct... do you have any appreciation of that?

"does it put food on my table?"
yes, it does, *literally*
"does it get me friends?"
better and longer-range communication and travel have almost undoubtedly made a difference in who your friends are and probably how many you have
"does it get me laid?"
it can
on top of all this, it's putting stuff on freaking Mars right now, that is amazing, you ungrateful dipwad

>>4878916
most if not all of the therapists I've talked to-- whether they were my therapist or not-- seemed to have a fairly broad definition for normal, especially for kids-- but maybe that's a statistical anomaly

A lot of the medical community agrees with you on Asperger's, OP, which is why they're planning to eliminate it from DSM V and have it just be filed under autism. As for the rest, IDK. I have Asperger's-- er, mild autism-- and my sister has it more severely than me and by brother more severely than her, but my other sister seems totally normal, and my autistic sister and myself were both born with the umbilical cord wrapped around our neck, and for her it was more severe. tl;dr: IDK, I don't think it's vaccines but even if it is I'd rather have my (hypothetical) kid be autistic than die of polio

<span class="math">FFFF!^{FFFF!}[/spoiler]

>>4859969
fortunately I mostly avoided this in school but I had a math teacher like that a few semesters ago in college, she wouldn't count any work shown unless it was shown exactly the way she wanted it, she usually didn't show alternate methods of solving problems, even when one was brought to her attention and even when she admitted it worked, she rejected my reasoning for the solving of some problems even when it led to solving them the same way she did, and she was hesitant to give a reason for pretty much anything
I'll give her credit though, for her faults and her dislike of me (and my apathy for her) I think she gave me a fair grade on everything except one or maybe two small quizzes

>>4856511
In this HALO stands for high-altitude, low-opening.
>>4856486
>HALO jumps from the upper atmosphere
NASA played around with this way back when, it's pretty feasible.
>Cloaking devices for individual personnel (not bending light as is seen in science fiction, but using billions of microscopic cameras)
How do you plan to have tiny cameras and screens in the same place at the same time? Even if you can do that, you'd have to update them dozens of times a second, at least, which would be pushing what wearable computer hardware can do.
>A system that allows a person to remain sustained through long periods of time without eating/drinking (in my book it is intravenous, but I could alter it if realism permits); something that provides nutrients and abates the need for tangible sustenance
...You mean an IV?
>Pills/intravenous medicine that prolongs autonomy (ie. going without sleep for days at a time without an exhaustive/"groggy" feeling)
Militaries have been working on this for ages, some of the declassified work by the US military is pretty interesting.
>goggles/eyewear that produces a wavelength of radiation that allows a person to see through close walls
Producing radiation wouldn't help with anything unless you'd have them also pick up on that radiation, and I don't know any reason the distance to the wall would matter. :?
>grenades that produce a large enough electric current to the blast radius such as to incapacitate others
Electricity doesn't work that way.
>body armor that is malleable enough to move in, but hardens when impacted (ie. from a bullet), so as to prevent damage to the wearer
There's a lot of work going on on this, I'm not up on it but some of it is, again, very interesting.

no, or if it is possible with current technology we're unaware of it; finding the Higgs boson might be a step in the direction of making it doable (but then again it might not be)

>>4853678
I see what you mean, if evolution was real, OP shouldn't exist.

bumping for sub-meme birth (yes, I LOL'd)

>>4833737
I was about to go to bed and it looks like it'll probably take until the designated time to actually get going, and who knows how long they'll take to get to the point, so I'll catch this in the morning... er, the later morning
captcha: started nceppo

>>4833373
>>4833383
OK thanks

>>4833312
yes, that's why it's so difficult and hasn't been done for that long before

are you sure OP? their page is telling me it's over 9 hours from now

>>4829808
I also wish Schrödinger was here... or do I?
Anyway, OP, QM "stole" RT's GF.

>>4829629
that's where the law of large numbers comes in, the larger the number of samples the more they fit a "perfect" representation of probability (and I can tell a bell curve from a sine wave but I don't know that much about probability)

>>4829350
I'm pretty sure you're getting into the domain of Schrödinger's cat there (which I don't understand as well as I'd like); suffice it to say this has been looked into, but even the experts don't entirely get it (unless I'm thinking of the wrong stuff).