/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3305003
>hurr derp fucking pessimists
>durr herp fucking optimists
Such is life on /sci/.

>>2918767
It won't.

A Carl Sagan ray
Shoot every teacher with it.

Carl Sagan

and what's the point of this bullshit? is it surviving a nuclear holocaust and hiding from brain eating zombies?

enjoy your schizoid paranoia, underwaterfags

>mfw you're all wrong

also, pic related

>implying the nuclear winter theory wasn't debunked

>mfw google has given $2M to Khan Academy to make more videos

http://www.project10tothe100.com/

>A static universe better explains the properties of the cosmos than the Big Bang and avoids the nagging problems of dark matter and dark energy, according to a new cosmology.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25728/

>>1688660

>Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

I doubt that's real, bro

>>1649208
>mfw expecting serious answer to a stupid question

>1) I believe Kurzweil to be either a nutjob or too biased to contribute in any useful way

I haven't read his books, but still. He predicted that by 2010 we would have computers in clothes and the traditional computer would cease to exist, and that computers would have the processing power or a human brain.

He then said he got the numbers wrong and it was supposed to say 2020. He may be spouting BS for transhumanists to hollow him in blind hopes etc etc. so yeah.

>2) I don't know enought about computing to say if AI is feasible or if it will be within the next 50 years

I don't know either, but it seems that basic AI is possible by having virtual life evolve in a virtual environment using a computer capable of simulating millions of years of evolution in days (Moore's Law etc.), but a top-down approach where you simulate the entire human brain molecule by molecule, with quantum-mechanical equations? That seems rather complicated, but still: If sentience happened in nature, it can be done in lab conditions. But it might not come as fast as some expect it to, and I honestly don't think it will just jump onto an upward spiral of self-improvement. It will be years before a computer can tell us something we don't know. Maybe even centuries.

>3) I'm a biology major. I hold great hopes for intelligience augmentation, on which a related link:

Intelligence augmentation, cyborg parts, nano mods and immortality all sound awesome. I'll just put some utility fog in myself and RESIST BULLETS.

how many days has he got?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi0wMhZSsfU

Hey /sci/, I wanted to check, how do you people call this in English?

It's some formula or equation or something that goes like this:

a = b
c = [x]

So you just do ((c)x(b))/a and you get x.

Yeah it's simple I know but it's taught to children here before they learn equations and shit, as a general helper thingee. Also these recaptchas what the fuck.

good, good.

just another bro' joins the club