/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5258573
... What. Yes they do.

>>5258589
Wot. That makes no sense. Most languages are programmed in C, anon.

>>5258545
Curious, wouldn't that lead to the spring instantly decreasing in frequency?

>>5258557
OP, what the fuck. You're over-thinking it. You can go 75mph over the next mile to make it.

>>5258339
>C++... why bother?
Speed. Racket's slow when doing simulations. Also, lisp-based languages suck for readability. All those brackets, they give me fucking nightmares.

Favorite for general use: Python
Favorite for hobby: ARM
Favorite for everything else: C++(C# if Windows)

>>5250177
>won't
Unscientific, philosophical drivel. It's useless in all terms. Please, kindly fuck off. Everything is possible until proven otherwise through testable means.

>>5249752
Stay with the hardware, and read these:
http://books.gentoomen.org/

Then use your knowledge. You only need a portfolio when getting a job involved with software. Being a graduate, or even majoring in computer science *really* doesn't help much.

>>5249783
Environmental modeling is of extreme usefulness, but it's one of the most difficult to get involved in, as there's no public funding going towards this field. Unfortunately, if you want to make a real benefit, you'll probably have to do it on your own time while working for a large company.

>>5249752
The three most-likely fields of software to have benefit in general: Data analysis; simulation; and machine intelligence(this includes all the subfields, such as evolutionary computation, processing of non-still imagery/computer vision, natural-language processing, and intelligent networks).

>>5249405
And if you want examples from something with a higher impact?

http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v6/n4/abs/nrn1651.html

http://papers.klab.caltech.edu/183/1/411.pdf

So fuck you, and fuck off with your philosophy bullshit. If anyone belong on /x/, it's you.

>>5249386
I like how you're not contesting my statements by example or evidence, but just claiming I'm wrong. Here, I'll give you something:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=52DF75A6502DBCFF63C5349C6597D002.jou
rnals?fromPage=online&aid=84263

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/10/4315.short

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/27/11/2858.short

>>5249376
Keep telling yourself that.

>>5249335
Mediator, this is one conversation you can't mediate.

>>5249354
Again, take a course in neuroscience. Until then, shall you remain forever ignorant.

>>5249357
What gives you that idea? The two words used most often in describing the effects of input on perception and response are cognition and conscious.

>>5249311
What the fuck. Your post is the one I was calling philosophy. The other post is using the word conscious for a state of matter, one which we do not have any other terminology for. I suggest you go take a course in neuroscience if you believe it's possible to study the brain without the use of the word 'conscious'.

>>5249302
That's philosophy, not science. Go away.

>>5249219
How in the hell is that anything to do with /x/? Did you even look at the reference it takes that from? Neuroscientific research on meditation and its effects on attention regulation.

>>5249193
Ahaha, this guy
>>5249194
actually has a point. Breathing is seen in many cultures as rejuvenating the spirit. Eating in both Christian and Islamic cultures is a spiritual activity. Dreaming in nearly all religions is spiritual. So, are you saying one cannot do these things without partaking in the spiritual side of them?

>>5249171
How so? How is it a spiritual practice? Please clarify. Because no one in this thread has been able to show it's a spiritual practice, and I heavily doubt anyone can.
Most of you are just so set in your rejection of anything that may have a spiritual connotation, you refuse to see this. There's nothing spiritual in my meditation. It's just clearing the mind and helping me focus.

>>5248219
Holy fuck, you guys are worse than the average housewife.

Meditation is not 'all about spiritualism'. In fact, groups like the YMCA(which are inherently spiritually oriented) even promote separating the healthy benefits and the spiritual benefits.

>implying there's a difference
... What? Contemplating upon a subject, mediation as a beneficial practice, and Buddhist's 'becoming one' are all separate. Please tell me how they're not?

>Nice contradiction.
Please refer to the above.

>>5247971
One major benefit for myself is that it allows one to get into a state of mind where they're able to block out distractions more easily. I personally use meditation only to help with my ADHD. A training device, of sorts.

>>5247155
1/10, trying too hard.

>>5247143
D&P is by Foucault, who's also rather famous as the leader of the French philosophical revival, but his philosophy is light, to say the least. Most of his works touch upon the works of past great thinkers, such as Kierkegaard's, Camus', and Sartre's.

>>5247133
What? Discipline and Punish is a philosophical work on the French prison system. Franz Kafka was one of the major philosophers behind the Existentialism movement, and revolutionized philosophy of politics and freedom.

>>5247119
AHAHAHA, if you're going to point out philosophy, at least make it good.

Look into Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', or any of his other works.

>>5247110
I second this vote.