/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12313657
The only thing I can find that has a time axis are the FiveThirtyEight live blogs, but the problem is those are just generalizations. See: >>12313462

>>12187170
No booli pls.

>There is a critical cut-off age for learning a language fluently,
>By their first birthday, babies are getting locked into the sounds of the language they hear spoken
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180501083830.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/accents-are-forever-35886605/

It was over before it even began.

>>10878966
>Doesn't make sense, when a receiver's busted it doesn't suddenly overload your TV with information, it just fails to receive it.
You're not mapping the analogy correctly.
First of all I want to make it clear I'm saying the "receiver" model for consciousness is completely retarded and wrong since you're putting me in the awkward position now of having to explain how the thing I disagree with works and without this clarification sentence I'd probably just confuse other anons into thinking I was arguing in favor of it.
That out of the way, the idea is your consciousness is the signal and it comes from outside your body / brain rather than it being produced by your brain.
So the TV you're talking about would be your body / brain, NOT your consciousness.
Note that this model is used to argue that when you die your consciousness is freed up from your bodily limitations and you experience total clarity and knowledge as a non-physical entity (like in that short story this was a response to).
Hence why the "receiver" model is wrong. If this scenario were really the case you would become more aware and more "yourself" with Alzeheimer's since it'd be the breakdown of that supposed filtering functionality your brain is serving in this way of thinking on how consciousness works. Instead what we see supports the idea the brain is in fact generating mental content rather than receiving it since people deteriorate and become less themselves and more like brain dead infants in adult bodies the more Alzheimer's eats away at their brain.

Guys, I'm going to be taking the GED test in the summer. I dropped out in my senior year but when i was in highschool, i got an A- in algebra ii but but barely passed Chemistry or biology.

Now when i'm doing math problems, it seems hard and i'm missing stuff that i learned. Why am i such a brainlet? I don't even want to go to university to study civil engineering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSBaq3vAeY

Sorry for the retarded question, but can somebody explain to a brainlet why his experiment is flawed or conclusion wrong?

I understand that when people present the 'double slit' experiment as evidence of conscious influence, it's wrong because it's the act of measurement that affects the pattern, not the conscious observation.
But in the video it seems that the particles were being 'counted' whether or not someone was 'thinking' about it, and it seemed to make a small difference.

>second semester in college
>failed calculus II
>failed linear algebra
>failed statistics
>failed physics I

Can I still make it, /sci/?

>>10281865
Exactly. There is too much work, too many fields, too much information. Actual polymaths actually contributed valuable things. A lot, if not most of them, also only dabbled in outside fields in an intellectual way -- they did not focus so much on technical mastery as gaining knowledge, which given their professional skillset allowed them to make small breakthroughs, or at least progress at a sure rate.

It's funny though, I have to say; I look at modern "polymaths" in 150+ IQ clubs who put their "art" and "music" and "poetry" online, and from my perspective, most of it is complete fucking shit. So if nothing else I can satisfy my vanity on cold lonely nights by reassuring myself that I'm still better than them in some way.

>>10281866
Appreciate the condolences fren. We'll see what happens. Hopefully others who floundered like I have can still find some peace and relaxation in this life.

So, long story short I have a deadline for a exercise series coming up in exactly 1 hour. I solved everything but 1 exercise, and since I didn't have the time to study dual problems yet, I'd be VERY thankful if a kind anon could help me out on this:

I have the primal problem:

min c^Tx

Ax <= b

x >= 0

where A is a m X n matrix, b ∈ Rm and c,x ∈ Rn


Can you please give me a step by step solution on how to form the dual problem for this?

>>10166273
thats pretty hurtful

>>10159070
based rainposter

>>9801542
why don't you like stats and DEs fren?
topology and abstract algebra is comfy but it feels like a waste of time to study

Dev brainlet here. How does anyone do statistics without fucking up?
I got moved to a data scientist job and it's like the exact opposite of app development. Instead of having clear ideas of what you're trying to build and lots of approaches that all still work to some extent, with statistical work you have about a thousand slightly different nuances that will ruin everything you're working on if you aren't aware of them. Also you don't even know what you're trying to accomplish in the first place because it's your job to somehow come up with something useful and meaningful without knowing in advance what that something will be.
How do you cope with the worst of both worlds: extreme uncertainty in objectives with extreme narrowness of what counts as valid methodology?

>>9690841
>doctors said she'll be dead within the next 10 or so days.
>what are the chances she would come out of this?

>1 month until the second semester exams starts
>still don't know what even i'm supposed to study
what method does /sci/ uses to overcome this?

>>9591100
>They're fun at first but you realize you end up spending most of your energy in bed corralling these huge tits
This made me rock hard and I hope you're happy

>>9590886
>Also mage
This desu. Oh, and I also teach high school math.

>>9560985
Good

>>9561083
Very good

>>9561216
See me after class. I've already called your parents.

>>9534797
>Those who can't do, teach.
Not OP. Do people actually believe this shit? Why all the hate for teachers on this god-forsaken board?

>>9534585
I was always an exceptional writer/communicator but a mediocre mathematician. Though oftentimes difficult to accept, we must play to our strengths.

>>9525060
Sam is I guy I can happily appreciate from a considerable distance.

Redpill me on bleaching my teeth with some dentist.

https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/research/ian-stevenson.html

What do sci thinks of the documented cases where small childrens recall their previous lifes with detail?

/sci/, is there, logically speaking, a God? Nothing else comforts me in this reality and knowing that a Godhead exists, is to me reassuring to myself.