/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15423515]

Have any of you actually had a “it came to me in a dream”moment? I remember realizing the time complexity of a binary search is log2n by imagining a tree and thinking about the relation between the height and the number of nodes after working all night on a homework assignment. I jumped out of bed and drew a tree to verify immediately. The sense of fulfillment I felt from figuring that out on my own made me so happy and reminded me of why I love computer science.

[Anonymous No.15423518]

you sure do seem to like talking about yourself on social media

[Anonymous No.15423532]

>>15423518
I know this is a meme, but I don’t think it makes much sense. Talking about yourself on social media, that’s kind of the point of it right? To express yourself and “socialize” with others online.


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I want others to share good stories they have pertaining to this particular premise of “figuring things out in dreams”. I think it is funny how active our minds can be when we aren’t even conscious, and I also think it’s a good opportunity for people to reflect on fond memories they have about their studies in their particular fields.

[Anonymous No.15423573]

I remember solving a video game puzzle (Silicon Zeroes) in a half-sleep dream state

[Anonymous No.15423589]

>>15423515
You sound retarded, it shouldn’t be a eureka moment to figure out that the relationship between the height and number of nodes in a balanced binary tree is roughly 2^h = n. I would expect a math undergrad to figure that out almost immediately with no CS background.

[What should I do? No.15423602]

This probably belongs more on /x/ than /sci/ but I had a dream about how we're living in a simulation and it was really surreal.

In the dream I was talking tho this person which wasn't but more like a physical embodied person who represented my thoughts and we had a conversation walking along this concrete platform in a park.
>(me)What am i
>Just bites of data put together
(From every atom to gene and chemical structures and reactions, to cells to an organ to a limb and a body, to a concious brain)
>(me)But it makes it appear as if you/i exist right
>Yes no different from a computer
>(me)Yea
>So there for were living in a simulation
After they told me this i just instantly woke up in this weird pod that was in my backyard. The sky was a weird eerie pink and it wasn't the sun. My house was dark and the whole town felt empty.
Besides the weird details. I always considered the the idea that we could be living in a simulation but after I actually woke up from this dream that it actually became a possibility in my mind.

[Anonymous No.15423644]

>>15423589
Why are you such a bitter faggot? I figured it out “immediately”, but it just so happened that I did it while I was sleeping. You’re saying it is intuitive, but intuition is built through experience. You weren’t born knowing about logarithms and how they relate to things in the real world. Why do you have to be such a faggot about such an inoffensive post?

[Anonymous No.15423665]

>>15423518
4chan is social media you autistic troglodyte, maybe r9k would be more suitable for a sperg like you

[Anonymous No.15423673]

>>15423515
not really in a dream but hyperbolic spacetime makes sense to me now after staring at the lorentz factor equation for a while the other night while i was half asleep, and why moving through space quickly looks like picrel. I should say though that it makes more sense as to what the formulas are doing but why it works like that still makes no sense. From what I read too they developed those formulas to explain how the speed of light was independent of a reference frame and to avoid causality problems and it wasn't based on any actual empirical evidence that things worked that way, and that's why there's still people testing for lorentz violations still

[Anonymous No.15423676]

>>15423644
Why did you get a sense of fulfilment for figuring out such a simple problem? Sounds as though you’re retarded to me. I’m sick of brainlets such as yourself posting on /sci/, go to >>>/g/ where you belong code monkey.

[Anonymous No.15423700]

>>15423676
this is an anime board for retards like myself to communicate about various topics including science. It's not stackexchange or the researchgate forum or something

[Anonymous No.15423708]

>>15423673
Your pic makes no sense, though, the universe doesn't magically warp every time you rotate

[Anonymous No.15423733]

>>15423676
Because I was born to this world

[Anonymous No.15423781]

>>15423708
that picture shows the effect of time dilation on spacetime as an object is moving through space
>The momentarily co-moving inertial frames along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime_diagram#Accelerating_observers

[Anonymous No.15423789]

>>15423515
yes, but usually for cute 8/10 nerdy grills who are dtf

[Anonymous No.15423806]

>>15423781
Time dilation is only a relativistic measurement effect though

[Anonymous No.15423827]

>>15423515
> I remember realizing the time complexity of a binary search is log2n by imagining a tree and thinking about the relation between the height and the number of nodes after working all night on a homework assignment.
I remember immediately understanding that when I read it in a textbook because it's fucking obvious if you think about it for 5 seconds.

[Cult of Passion No.15423842]

>>15423602
>I had a dream about how we're living in a simulation and it was really surreal.
Yeah, only when I open my eyes.

[Anonymous No.15423844]

>>15423806
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying it doesn't exist ? It's just relating space to time in one direction through the amount of velocity relative to the speed of light