/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5091474
I have to do this for all primes less than 1000.

But on examining my program, the speed might not be the problem, but the fact that Visual Basic can't handle numbers above 10^19, and r ends up higher than 19 for a lot of the primes.

So, a method of computing 10^r (mod p), without computing 10^r, would also be incredibly useful.

Is current in a superconductor perpetual motion?

Dear sci,
Put on your most serious hat and answer me this question: Do you believe in aliens?
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Should I sleep in the cold mud or my bed?

>conjecture
mud is cold and wet, these sensations are uncomfortable and the cold might cause hypothermia, you should sleep in the warm dry bed, of course this isn't 100% certain, it is possible the bed has been laced with poison by a ninja or some other random thing making it worse than the mud but there is no reason to assume so

>strong inductive reasoning
Not all mud is cold or wet, also you have never tried sleeping in cold wet mud so you cannot confirm whether it is better or worse. You must sleep in the cold wet mud to test this theory and even if it does feel uncomfortable and you do get hypothermia this does not confirm whether it was due to the mud or some other factor.

>>3933273
Compare this situation to a situation you don't care about, let's say some species of bird was documented to inhabit an island in 1971 and when you come looking for it after 40 years they've all gone without a trace, it could be speculated that consciousness is linked to either the cause of probabilistic outcomes or discrete laws of physics just as you could speculate the bird extinction is linked to one of the likely causes of extinction but at this point all you can go in is unconnected prior knowledge. In this situation the subject's prior knowledge can affect their outcome and make them susceptable to confirmation bias and other logical fallacies, the correct stance is one of skepticism, pragmatism and objectivity, if birds from other islands went extinct due to some disease then you could say that it is most likely though not certain that these birds died due to the same disease but until you find those bird bones you can't start eliminating possibilities.
>>3933286
It's not rational to assume there is absolute certainty but it is necessary to treat some things as though they are certain out of sheer practicality. I "know" that rolling around in the cold mud will make me cold, a porkpig know this, I also know that it is not necessary to either assume or discount speculation.

>anything that's not the established doctrine of academic authorities is instantly wrong
>Warning: You are entering an original idea free zone, strength is unity, unity is obedience, obedience is ignorance.
>2011
>I seriously hope you guys still don't do this

Because of the 4th stage in scientific method.

>1: Experiment
>2: Quantify the results
>3: Form a hypothesis
>4: Test the hypothesis

Stage 4 is a form of experimentation and so often leads to more science, scientists are constantly looking for flaws in other scientist's theories.

>>3225460
>earth going around the sun
How does that even compare? It has been ruled out.
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>>3225464
All of life is based on chains of atoms, the computer sitting in front of you is based on transistors, if you think it's unfeasible for other forms of life to be based on other simple repeatable processes that can lead to more complex structures then you can't really call yourself a scientist.

You remind me of this, also 19th century dogmatists who drove boltzman to suicide and nearly persecuted einstein into obscurity for being a jew.

>>3010098
>implying science isn't a philosophy
>implying 19th century style pig headed dogmatic obscurant elitism is how science progresses
Logical positivists are holding back science.

Same author? This page is often used as troll fodder here, because it's not how hypotheses are falsified.

Is there a better word for the process of using ockham's razor? In order to distinguish it from deductive reasoning?

ockham's razor = narrow down the possibilities
deductive reasoning = a process you use to narrow down the possibilities but not necessarily the act itself, for instance sometimes deductive reasoning can be used to directly find the answer

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This is how a society ruled by science and technology would really operate.

Suddenly religion isn't looking so bad.