/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1361746
I think they're assuming a closed system.

>>1361727
Yeah, I thought the same thing. And how hard would it be to introduce predation?

But the thing here is, the program isn't representing multiple species. It's simulating variation within a single species, so they kind of get away with it.

Borg cube, hands down man. Hands down. A single borg would assimilate the fuck out of the death star.

They're incredibly well adapted to the environment, and with as much food as is available, their growth will soon be exponential. Right now, it' at the bottom of the S curve, and carrying capacity is no where to being reached.

On a side note, my species (I'm calling in species 1) is an invasive species.

>>1361390
Looks like someone found their niche.

Switched the food distribution to low energy, low spread, high reproduction, and they donate 90% of their energy to offspring. Still selecting mates based on color.

>>1361548
It's a program the randomly creates little organisms that move through pendular motion. THen you can set up how food is generated, and what these creatures look for in mate selection, and let the simulation run. It's very interesting.

>>1361516
Yeah, I use ubuntu on an acer netbook and wine does wonders.

bump.

Successful swimbots so far, /sci/?
With a slowly reproducing, highly distributed, high calorie food, the fella in the pic was most prolific at time 475000. Sexual selection was for size for the first about 100000, then I switched it to same color.

At the moment, my pool is just these guys (some worms still remaining, but they're doomed. This polulation seems to be in equilibrium, they hit and overshoot the carrying capacity, have a stable die off, then rebound again. I'm optimistic, so I saved them to put in another pool, although I've had this one for 6 hours now and I'm not excited about starting another pool >_<

POST YER SWIMBOTS!

If you need GenePool go to www.swimbots.com

best program posted on /sci/. It's the powder toy for biologists.

>>1357021
You don't understand. Global warming brings about drastic and rapid climate changes. It's not like it just gets hotter and hotter everywhere all the time. Ocean currents and gyres shift, air currents shit, temperature and radiation levels change. Major ecosystem overhauls, bro, and CO2 levels will turn the north half of the United States into tundra.

>>1358816
>Absurd; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense.

Calm down, I wasn't being mean.

>>1358790
>Why does this consciousness occupy this body? Why am I experiencing things from this point of view?

Your consciousness occupies your body because your body houses your brain, the seat of consciousness.

>>1358757
As in, why does he have "his" consciousness and no one else's? If that's the case, the question is unanswerable because it's absurd.

>>1358737
Are you asking how does consciousness develop from a brain? I recommend "How the Mind Works" and "The Stuff of Thought" by Stephen Pinker. He advocated the Computational Theory of Mind strongly influenced by evolution for physiological traits and sensory organs, and that evolution has selected for plasticity of the brain.

>How does my sense of "self" arise from this physical person I am without any pretext?

Well, first of all, the development of your brain is guided by genetics.

Second of all, every stimulus physically modifies the brain in some way.

The combination of these two factors describes how your sense of "self" can come from a physical person.

none of the formula presented thus far have incorporated the fact that N number of games is dependent on X number of german wins, have they?

Just think out loud here.
Octopii are incredibly intelligent animals.

This all relies on the assumption that Paul enjoys this experience of being placed in front of boxes, and that no one is maliciously tampering with the experiment.

Now, Paul only undergoes the guessing game when Germany is playing. If he's guessing for a tournament, and Germany loses, he's done with the guessing game.

So all he has to do is pick germany most of the time, and he'll be right most of the time, not because of the skills of any of the teams, but because every trial except the last one depends on a german participation and win anyway.

I think corporations should face an increasing tax percentage on profits earned on emissions, and that emissions should be capped at levels that are equivalent or less than our ability to remove or sequester them. This will properly guide the free market to ensure the best energy production product at the best price, whatever that product and price are.

We MUST properly valuate the products that produce emissions, through taxes and/or regulation.

Then we'll see how profitable sustainable energy and cleanup technologies are.

>>1352630
Really, do you want to do research, or be a treeherder? If you want to do research on forests, proper management, etc. you want forest ecology. If you want to be the engineer of forest ecologists, major in forestry.

>>1352668
Ah, the answer to that is not to thin out the trees, but to clear out the undergrowth that's built up from extreme fire suppression policies. When it's at manageable levels, let the forest burn according to the germination time of keystone species. This will replace a fuel laden, old ass forest that is a potential raging inferno with a patchwork of differently age, but similarly succeeded forest sections. That way when a fire starts it only burns the old patches and lets the rest of the forest do proper species succession instead of artificial stand planting.

TL:DR extreme fire supression policies are bad for forests.

>>1354200
Enjoy your fieldwork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23eimVLAQ2c

There's not enough information to answer your question.

Here's our thermal cycler, which uses Taq polymerase to rapidly polymerize large quantities of DNA in a procedure called PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction).