/sci/ - Science & Math

What will be the hardest desirable human traits to alter via DNA editing?

Beauty? It has a lot of factors involved - bone, muscle, skin, hair.. even though you will probably able to guarantee that there won't be anything seriously wrong with your bones, for example, I think you can't make it to have some beautiful shape by punctual gene edition.

Combinatorics:

in the remote chance someone can solve this:

-There are 5 places (ordered) to put digits(also, order matters)
-The nth place accepts n possible digits
-You can put as many digits as you want in each place
-Calculate the total amount of combinations for putting a total of n digits.

Examples of different configurations:

(1,1)(2,1,1)( )( )(5,3,2,3,1)
( ) ( )(3,3,1 )(1 )(5,5,5)
( )(1,2)( )( )( )
( )(2,1)( )( )( )
(1)( )( )( )( )
( )(1)( )( )( )

Someone please point out in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function

which are the exact equations of Riemann zeta function.

The article does not make clear which are the only 'partially valid' equations, like the inverse harmonic series, to which the actual zeta is the analytic continuation

Does anyone have the exact quote in which feyman says something like : 'If you have pleasure in doing something, don't analyze it to the point you discover exactly why you enjoy it, because the reason is inevitably stupid and you end not having pleasure in it anymore '


I've searched many variations but couldn't find it.

Every time we make a prediction and regulate our behavior accordingly thats, physically, future affecting present/past, isn't it?

Ok guys, I have this strong curiosity of knowing how quantum field theory works.

I want to give it up, but its kind of hard.. every time the curiosity comes back again and I loose more minutes reading unintelligible explanations.

I've read feynman's QED, and I'm not satisfied with it.


Id like arguments to help me give up on this or at least some text richer than QED (with equations) but still intelligible.