/sci/ - Science & Math

>a+bj
>bj
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probability is the shadow of actuality
statistics is the measure of that shadow

>10th grade
>4chan
Reported. Enjoy ur ban fagit

>>5757265
make that 2/3 since its the probability that it's NOT face 1

1/6 the second time + 1/6 the third time
1/3

I do 5*70 + 5*7
350 + 35 = 385

>>5751613
i assume by immovable object, that it isn't moving.

>>5751625
there is no goal.
the genes that were survival-oriented continued to survive, while the genes that weren't are no longer around

>>5751593
the goal of reproduction is the survival of the genetic material

I think so, with the help of nanotechnology. The cells need a vehicle to be placed correctly.

an immovable object would have infinite mass
dont be ridiculous

>>5747449
I have wondered about what could cause a consciousness to die and be replaced.
If you cut off just a bit of the brain, and replace it with new stuff, and it is perfectly functional, has the consciousness been replaced? Probably not, but who knows. It could even be that if you suffer a great trauma to the brain, the consciousness is replaced. We would not know if a consciousness is replaced because it is only observable by the consciousness itself. For all I know, none of you have minds, you're just 'philosophical zombies.' But I'll assume you do.
I'm not sure what could cause a consciousness to be replaced. I think that if you simply clone your brain and destroy the first brain, your consciousness would be destroyed and the clone would have a separate but identical consciousness - presumably with the same memories as you had and with no knowledge that it was a new consciousness.
But suppose you replaced an entire hemisphere of the brain with new but identical matter, such that it was fully functional. Would you maintain the same consciousness?
Perhaps there is a particular area of the brain where this consciousness is manifested, and all other parts could be disposed of and replaced without any harm becoming of the mind.
What if you replaced one bit of the brain, and the consciousness remained, and then after some time, you replaced another bit, and the consciousness remained, and so on and so on, until the entirety of the brain material has been replaced. The consciousness would still be there? I think that might be the case. But there's no way to ever know, unfortunately.

>>5747448
I mean you would cut off the common people, leaving people who are typically white-collar. People who do not typically dig ditches or mop floors.
You could raise the next generation from the smart folks to be blue-collar, but then they'd just fail your test, and you would have a shrinking population. Or you could educate them, but they'd still work blue-collar and the resources going to their education would be wasted.
The reality is that we need common folk to do work.

>>5747395
that would destroy our entire society. you would have a tremendous decrease in population size. where would all the blue-collar workers go? who would do the work that needs to be done?

>>5747386
>>5747377

The majority of the bottom 5% would be negro.

>>5747351
Obviously you don't let the people control eugenic policy.
The best policy is to remove the negative features, such as genetic disorders and genetic disposition to disease. You can also sterilize the bottom 5% on the intelligence scale. You can promote reproduction in the top 20%.

>>5747335
I have Larson 9th ed. Is it high tier?

Neuroscience.
We are already working on cancer, heart disease, etc.
The major limiting factor is the degeneration of the brain. How do you replace brain matter without messing with the mind? Can it be done? Can we just prevent the cells from dying somehow?
I suppose we could replace the brain matter using stim-cell technologies, but what would happen? Would you lose memories? Would you become a different person? Would 'you' effectively die, leaving behind a clone of yourself with a different consciousness?

>>5747277
>>5747319

That's just embarrassing, OP. Are you in 7th grade or something?

Also, what the damn hell did you do to go from a 96 to a 50? Doing drugs, huh?
Listen, I'm gonna give you some advice. You've probably heard it, but I mean it.
Get a job. Eat a lot of food. Do a lot of exercising. Get a lot of gains. Get big. Get the pussy. If you stay at home doing drugs, playing video games, and browsing 4chan, you're gonna end up fucking miserable when you're out of high school. Trust me... ;-;

Up to the part about vector valued functions and multivariable functions. Probably somewhere around Chapter 13 or 14.
But you should go on and read the whole thing. Calc 3 is pretty cool bruv, I just finished it this semester.

I advocate it.

I want to say that our level of intelligence is unalterable. Now, I do think people can be sharper or duller based on certain experiences. I don't want to call that a change in intelligence. Rather, it is a change in... the utilization of one's intelligence. There will always be a maximum.

Now, is there a way to change that maximum? To change one's level of intelligence? Probably so, using some biomedical technology. Somehow increasing brainmass, the number of neurons, glial cells, whatever the heck. I'm no neuroscientist.
We first have to figure out how the brain processes information. The PHYSICAL process. Then we have to figure out how to speed up that process.

I'm about to finish Calc 3, and I never studied regularly in any of the courses. I've opened the book maybe a dozen times in 3 semesters. That said, I'm not that great at it. I get by, and I can conceptualize stuff, but I can't recall certain things. I also had trouble with infinite series in Calc 2.

>calc 1

my fucking sides