/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16037113

Suppose, that there exist natural numbers that aren't interesting. Therefore, there exists the smallest such number. Being the smallest not interesting number is an interesting property, therefore the smallest not interesting number is interesting. By contradiction, every natural number is interesting.

>>11613177

where do we go when we die?

any books recommendations that help me to cope with not being special?

when will a computer pass Turing's test?

when will you be able to give AI complex instructions?

do you know that the most scary thing about this corona disease is?

it made me realize that when a real killer virus comes along we're all fucked

isnt electrical engineering just a subset of physics ?

>>11235234
That [math] 24 \times 365 \times 5 \times 15 \times {1 \over 4}[/math] somehow can exceed [math]6,000,000[/math].

does our unconscious mind have an intelligence?

can it think on its own?

i dont understand Borel sets intuitively

can you help me out?

I have 3 urns.

urn1 contains 2 white balls
urn2 contains 1 white, 1 black ball
urn3 contains 2 black balls

Twice I randomly draw a ball and put it back in the same urn.


is this sample space correct?

{1WW, 2WW, 2WB , 2BW, 2BB, 3BB}

is induction an inferior method of proof?

what are the implications of quantum entanglement?


is it as crazy as it seems? where is the catch?

>>10884154
>Are you actually positing that there are people out there who start their day with the intention to believe falsehood?
Many people in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages were hell-bent on believing in geocentrism despite evidence and arguments against it. So, in a sense, some people have the intention to believe "falsehood". The whole unscientific and irrational behavior boils down to accepting one thesis and holding onto it despite new evidence against it. Galilei said this kind of people lived in the "world of paper" because they believed everything the Bible and Aristotle said; they believed in what was written in those books, even if it was contradicted by their senses. For instance, they believed that the Moon was perfectly regular because Aristotle said so; when Galieli built a telescope and told them to take a look they saw that the moon was full of irregularities (mounts and craters) but instead of accepting the fact they came up with the unlikely hypothesis that the apparent irregularities of the Moon were filled with a crystalline substance invisible to the eyes which makes the Moon a perfect sphere. To this Galilei replied sarcastically by conceding that yes, there is an invisble crystalline substance, but even that substance is full of irregularities. Do you understand the point that Galieli was trying to make? We have no good reason to assume that there is an invisible crystalline substance filling up the craters of the Moon, and even if there were, we have no good reason to believe it's regular. The problem with those scholastic Aristotelians is that they trusted Aristotle's authority and any evidence against Aristotelian theses would be discarded by recourse to increasingly far-fetched (and possibly unfalsifiable) additional hypotheses. Which is the way in which the Ptolemaic system became an ever more complicated theory to account for new evidence without abandoning the geocentric hypothesis.

what will happen when the last photons decay in a trillion trillion years?

the empty infinite universe will just keep expanding endlessly FOREVER?

ridiculous

Why does the universe always find a way to prevent us from discovering the truth about reality?

I get why people want THC and nicotine, but why do plants? Why does the marijuana plant make THC? Why does the tobacco plant make nicotine? What do these plants use these substances for?

This is surprisingly hard to google, which is why I'm asking here. Google just gives me DUDE WEED LMAO bs..

>>9676828

What's the most important postulate in mathematics that has no proof?

why do brain surgeons save people who they know will end up as a vegetable anyway?

why do I lose all interest in females right after orgasm?

dont tell me the only thing that keeps me interested in them are some neurotransmitters

if I put a string on a sin function from -pi to pi how long would the string be?

pi?