/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11227793
Women will never throw yourself at you until you distinguish yourself in some way.

>>11217662
What's so antiscientific about that?

>>10242247
the only issue i have with the neuroplasticity argument is that it's bait for more idiots to come out of the woodwork and wave their """studies""" around implying that environmental influences are not meaningful. as if you can run a proper sociological experiment by moving kids around to different families. as if they won't see people similar to them represented in media and find those influential. it's embarrassing how shitty every single argument is surrounding the neuroplasticity point, because people have no idea what they're talking about. neither do i. but as a rule of thumb i find it useful to address that later and start with "that's not what 'social construct' really means" first.

Let's say I have the infinite sum [math]\sum \limits_{n=1}^{\infty}n[/math]. Math doesn't really care about how long I take to evaluate it (and I could never hope to evaluate it fully since it's an infinite sum), so couldn't I just compute the first 3 terms or something, and do the rest later?
And since mathfags love infinities so much, let "later" be an arbitrarily large interval such that we never get past 3 terms. Math is fine with this, right? Then the sum equals 6, or really whatever value you want.

>>8490765
>take a sample that does not cover homogeneously and continuously the whole population
>perform PCA
>HOLY SHIET THE OUTPUT IS NOT CONTINUOUS

>>7231340