/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6686267

because it's not empirical evidence, it's subjective evidence. I can prove I am conscious, I can't prove you are conscious. Read up on the other minds problem.

>>6684109
>>6684481
I wouldn't say he used Mathmatical formulas, so much as, Music is Math in the sense that Music is the organization or sounds according to resonate harmonic frequencies that occur at regular intervals. It's kind of like does the Pyramid of Giza express the phi and pi ratios because the Egyptians were secretly aliens or is it because those are really pretty ratios and people tend to use circles and golden rectangles in architecture?

Good book though, used it for a paper on Model Creation.

>>6684817
The way it was explained to me why this is confusing was that the probability of flipping 50 heads in a row is .5^50, but the chance of flipping a heads each time is always 50-50. So people tend to be actually talking about the probability of flipping 50 heads when they think they're talking about each flip.

I find it's always one of those define your words before you argue and everyone tends to agree a lot kind of things.

>>6677748
because consciousness is unfalsifiable. Read about the other minds problem. I'm seriously considering a daily reminder. How is this so difficult to understand?

>>6675672
ok great. because it SEEMED crazy. Thank you.

>>6675639

I'm not arguing for Lamarkianism, I should have made that clear. I just wanted more info and saw an opportunity.

You said epigenetics is balderdash, but the second article says that sometimes epigenetic markers aren't always reset. Are you just saying Lamarkianism is bs? because yeah I agree.

It's my understanding that telomeres lengthen as the organism ages and that this is passed on to the next generation, is this true?

>>6675421
slightly off thread, what about telomeres and the whole epigenetic changes that occur in grandparents effecting grandchildren thing?

>>6675369
>>6675375
peppers evolved to be spicy so that birds (who don't sense spicy) would eat them but mammals wouldn't. Birds don't digest the seeds all the way, mammals do. I bet it's something like that.

>>6675530
>>6675561
degree in computer science and psychology. (specifically Neuro-psych, took graduate Neuro courses, with grad students) So I have both relevant backgrounds.

Yes and no. You could use this to measure the complexity of an ANN so why not on natural NN? It's just a measure of computational complexity. The control flow graph would essentially be a graph of the neuro/glial connections with each neuron/glial cell being broken down into graphs representing internal computation. I.e neurons talking to neurons, neurons calculating axon input, nodes of ranvier, astrocytes managing homeostasis, etc etc.

The thing is brain computation is so complex we're not even sure what all the paths are, so we couldn't actually make an accurate version of that graph. There is evidence that there are quantum level computations, specifically for smell, so who really knows how deep the rabbit hole goes?

>>6674169
get new friends?

>>6674136

>>6673998
Sin cosine and tangent are that ratio. So no. Sine is opposite/hypotenuse, and there is a specific angle associated with each ratio. That is to say Sine is a function between the two. I'm reasonably certain that the sine function was estimated by taking triangles and measuring them, because you usually use Taylor polynomials and just repeat the values when writing a sine function for computers. So to answer your question I'm pretty sure you just have to memorize them.

But I stopped taking math at the 400 level so there might be some esoteric PhD level math that can do what you want, in which case you wouldn't be able to do it. But rest assured, if I am wrong, some one who probably ignored your question earlier will be by to call me a noob and answer it for you.

I take it you're memorizing the unit circle?

>>6673986
or do you mean like what is sine(48)

>>6673900
what like this?

http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/math2c/chapter9section9.rhtml

on a phone or you'd get a more in depth answer

>>6673632
Because "tulpamancers" play with their "tuplas" both while awake and during lucid dreaming. It's on purpose schizophrenia, and they actually show similar brain patterns. I will endeavor to find the study.

>>6673729
o duh, you can't draw the field even if a conductor is up there. Ty stupid questions anon

>>6672414
Atmospheric electricity. It's my understanding that the earth's atmosphere is positively charged, and that as you move away from the ground this charge increases by about 30 volts per foot moving away from the gradient. This increases to about 300,000 volts around 40 km above the surface. (i know these numbers aren't consistent, and this is probably my misunderstanding.) Why can't we just build giant towers to collapse this potential, and collect the energy to power stuff, or is this just exactly what those graphene ambient energy collecters do I'm the first place.

I'm not talking about the ionosphere.

>>6671507
NDT should stop giving history lessons. The science is like 10th grade and accurate. But the history is super cringe, and just wrong in some places

>>6672254

>mfw my kids' shitty no experiment project got 2nd place
>mfw all the other "tutors" did the project for the kids
>mfw other kids can't explain their project when "tutors" have to leave as part of science fair
>mfw kids gave textbook level explanation of Owl digestion, in front of their shitty poster I made them do themselves
>mfw kids explained the different types hydrolysis to flabbergasted judges
>mfw actual quote from Jaime, the "developmentally disabled" child: "Hair is made of keratins which have a very ordered structure ... Although the pH is really low and the enzymes of the stomach are able to digest the rest of the mouse, it is insufficient for the digestion of hair and bones and the pellet must be regurgitated by the owl"
>cried in front of everyone, didn't give a fuck
>heard Jaime wants to go to college from the teacher the other day

If we are going to give kids the opportunity to succeed, we have the give them the opportunity to fail.
After re-reviewing Common Core, I'm not really sure if it's bad.
But this "no child left behind" bs has to stop.
I think more people should fail out of highschool.

>>6671817

>be me, be 17, be in high school
>do reach out program with urban youth
>program is to help them do science project, 1 hour after school every day
>get 2 black kids, one hispanic kid ~10y
>kids aren't impressive, specifically Jaime
>be told he is developmentally disabled
>kids decide they want to do project on owls
>specifically the regurgitation thing (owl pellets)
>not entirely a fan of the project, but I'm here to help, not to tell them what to do
>be 2 months later, 1/2way through program
>other groups have epic posters starting and real projects, with controls and experiments
>we have a very sad looking flat clay owl
>mfw I think i fucked up
>fret for 2 months while other projects look better and better than ours
>don't give up on kids, keep talking with them about pH, keratins, bones, digestion, etc, tell them to do self research at home too
>be day of science fair, can't be there because of varsity wrestling tourney
>spend whole day thinking I completely fucked the kids
>get 4th place out of like 30 in my weight class, (171 if anyone cares)
>don't care, run off of podium to call teacher running program to find out how kids did

>>6671954
>Mathematics actually only exists in our universe because the universe represents one whole, or the number 1.
>>6672101
>>6672104
fucking rekt

>>6669879
Any concept in psychology that doesn't eventually result in a behavioral phenomena is unscientific. You can only study empirical things in science, if it's not eventually behavior you can't study it, because of the other minds problem.

>>6669361
Wow, so based. Down with the Sophists!

>>6670199
except common core gives students choices on how to add.