Do all animals evolve into smarter species or can they "devolve" into dumber species?Examples?
>>13774616Domesticated animals and plants, though i don't know if that's what you would consider non human. Most things in nature have selective pressure
>>13774616Actually op hereI’m specifically referring to certain types of humans, that’s where I would like the discussion to go
>>13774676Yes, disregard humans and their selective breeding of species. And I mean animalia not plants.Has any animal speciea (besides humans and species humans fucked with) devolved into dumber species???
It's hard to find instances of it happening. For instance birds evolved from dinosaurs, going from animals with brains the size of peas to fairly intelligent, with some of them even having the ability to use tools and solve fairly complex problems. Even all mammals evolved from marsupials, which if you know anything about them, their low metabolisms render them fairly stupid. Koalas are smooth brained, our wrinkles didn't evolve until we gained placentas.Perhaps some rodents did actually evolve from animals which were more intelligent, but it's impossible to know for sure.
>>13774686>>13774694I can't remember where I saw it, but the encephalization quotient for all animals has increased logarithmically for forever. In fact, it's only of the only evolutionary trends which has remained constant, and it's even been observed in things like fish, I believe.
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>>13774298good thing i find both things retarded
>>13774301based centrist
>>13774298Based
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>>13774298Yeah atheism is the dumbest religion in existence. It’s no surprise their numbers are on the decline.Atheism can’t explain this girl evolving from monkeys which still exist today
/sci/ humor thread
this is truly embarrassing "content" holy shit
>>13774098I kind of agree with the article in that catching covid leads to the best immunity, but it's funny seeing them trying to paint lack of efficacy in a positive light.
>>13774594>>13774160>>13774098>>13774026LOL xD
Scientifically speaking, is there any way to cure oneself of a degenerate sexual fetish?
>>13774488Why would I want to "cure" the blessing that the goddess has bestowed on me?You are a demon. You want to lead me astray. It won't work.
>>13774494Bro I don't give a damn what you do. I'm just shitposting.
>>13774332Ok, good idea
>>13774494Who is "the goddess"? Does she talk to you?
>>13774235I am so glad this guy exists. I have never been so convinced of the devil until I read these posts and the corollary is that I now know God's divine plan. I was wondering why I was meant to keep coming back to this slag planet. Now I know. It is to prevent human males from becoming oompa loompa bugs for orcish women. I now agree with eugenics, merely to eliminate short feminine males and prevent sickly grotesque ogres for women. This is the one goal. Miscegenation be damned, corrupt politicians don't care, mass murder plots involving diseases and vaccines are irrelevant. I now understand what page everyone is on.
why haven't we been able to develop true artificial intelligence yet?we already have access to one of the greatest forms of intelligence in the universe, the human mindsurely it wouldn't be that hard to replicate it at a physical level, right?
>>13774348>greatest in the universehow do you know?>surely it won't be that hardit iswhat do you consider artificial intelligence? by some definitions it has already been developed
>>13774348>true artificial intelligenceoh but we have
>>13774458Powerful picture, fuck commies
>>13774655AI programminghttps://youtu.be/yS_c2qqA-6Y?t=2h23m
>>13774432like essentially creating another human mind
This is not a ratio and if you treat it as such you are a brainlet.This is an operator ("d/dx") acting on a function (y)("dy") is not a distance because it is not a number, you can not calculate an "infinitesimal" and if you think of it as "rise over run" you are a stupid brainlet, it is an infinitessimal lipschitz constant
>>13770454How is it an axe wound? Did some guy swing an axe into another guy's genitals as some experiment to increase whole-body airflow?
>>13774563Yes. The experiment yielded positive results.
>>13774544Ok fuck face. Let me put this another way. Lets say you have not defined dx and dt as differential forms, and instead think of them as infinitesimals, which is how the notation originated. In this case the term infinitesimal is simply a concept. It is not formally defined, and so you cannot manipulate the infinitesimals as variables according to the standard rules of algebraic manipulation. This is implicit in my earlier statements but since you are a midwit you do not understand this. This was the entire motivation for non standard analysis: to develop a more rigorous treatment of infinitesimals so they can be manipulated. Back to the example, squaring a derivative and then stating it is equivalent to the quotient of squared infinitesimals has no meaning without a rigorous treatment of infinitesimals. I only stated it looks similar to second derivative notation to demonstrate that an untrained person or new student in calculus could come to wrong conclusions or become confused when treating it as a ratio.
>>13770428Are you my high school Calc 1 teacher?
>>13774629>without a rigorous treatment of infinitesimalsYou should not be doing this.>an untrained person or new student in calculus could come to wrong conclusions or become confusedSkill issue.The point stands that you CAN treat derivatives as a ratio, you shouldn't care about "elementary calculus" because it has no bearing on how you can treat derivatives, and OP is a nigger.
hexagons are the way in science and computing computers are heavily based on spiders. there is no shape better than a hexagon, and the shapes which are useful to hexagons are often used by spidersthey are:>the most efficient shape : >can contain either the most area:walling , or walling:area by how it is built >can be fast or slow in production and in output, in storage, in reserves and, in fail-safes/redundancy checks they: >grow outwards and into bigger hexagons, or remain a cluster and act as density over a large area - many other shapes organize into hexagons and can be useful, becoming a part of the hexagon, using the abilities of other shapes(i like to use squares with hexagons) >scale inwards as >>more hexagons are added on top (3D hexagon from a birds-eye view / 2D lines stacking up from side), >>inbetween (3D from side / 2D above) still as hexagons, going "underneath" the 2D lines whilst still functioning, and remaining separate on that plane>act as nodes to one-another (1D plot on a graph speaking to another 1D plot, the main/backup-stacking base(s), other hexagons or other parts of the web via association) and scaling once, again, in hexagonal form there is simply too much i could say about hexagons, to prove why they are superior to every other shape.
>>13774664even squares, with hexagons, are a powerful shape. they are normally inferior to triangles in every way - versatility, strength, aggressiveness, but, when used with/within hexagons, they are useful >such as a monolith, within a hexagon when a spider builds a web it adds ends to some of the limbs of their hexagonsquares build with hexagons so well, because they contain a lot of mass, can store a lot of mass, and take up space - stronger than a diamond, and "is" more space than a circle the main thing i find both interesting and beneficial, is how a square - when surrounded by hexagons built around one another, in a hexagon shape - fits within the shapeif you join 4 limbs on the sides of the square in the middle, or in the node, etc, to connect to the hexagon/s surrounding it, and use the empty space around a triangle which the hexagons leave... the empty space is contained with this square and the triangles surrounding it, thin on the spiders end and thick on the hexagons side>parting benefit the area which these squares take can be infinity divided, or built inwardsfor those who are curious... for a simulation, using the videogames "factorio" and "satisfactory" and the rules of those worldsor spiders (but not so much the WWW ! )and hexagons. i apologize if you dont understand me, but ask if youre stuck wherever because i couldnt explain myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhRhtFFhNzQSo I listened to this and it had me thinking, /sci/, if consciousness or the continuity of it defines us as sapient creatures, we probably count as a continuous being in our sleep too right? Since consciousness, if this TED talk's theoory is real, wouldn't have too many big breaks. But what about anesthesia? Do we die under it, technically, only to be given a different 'strand' or 'serial no' for whatever is linking our brain to our conscious existence? I feel existential dread, I may have a surgery coming up soon
>>13768639>But what about anesthesia? Do we die under itdo you die when you get blackout drunk or take a bar?I had iv anesthesia and it was literally like nothing happened, there I was in the chair with doctors around me and then in an instant everyone was gone and there was gauze in my mouth. I remembered perfect continuity so my first thought was, 'wait when did the doc have me put something in my mouth', and I looked over to where he was when I was going undershits fun, dont worry so hard OP
>>13774189If continued existence depends upon a contiguous existence, how is it different from death?
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>first week in class>literally have no idea what the fuck is going on>teacher makes a loud audible sigh when he sees my Simulink setup >next week>start watching the old recorded lectures>still have no idea whats going on>remember the questions he asks on the video>give him the same answers from last year>he starts nodding in agreement and thanking me for starting a discussion >"this group is very good i think we can afford to move a little faster"im fucking taking all of you retards with me see you bitches next semester
>>13773272why not save yourself a few years, sign up for some grad school classes and see if the same trick works there
>>13773272based
>>13773272Welcome to academia, it's all just trivia questions and answers and not actually being smart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTLqKRPq8gYour very DNA will be put into a database and you will be subject to being allowed or denied access to basic public utilities.Doesn't get much more universal than your blood.What comes next on this list, I don't know.I don't think I'm creative enough, because I'm not an unhinged conspiracy theorist coming up with ludicrous theories involving authoritarian solicitors coming after me and trying to store my bodily essence in a computer.
>>13774222Timestamp or summary faggot.
>>13774306>>13774345They get to it 3 minutes in.
Go shill your stupid fucking youtube channel somewhere else
>>13774414The video's free bro
23&me GLOWS
how do you cure visual snow and tinnitus and how did i get visual snow and tinnitus in the first place
meds......... schizo
>>13774570unironically Homeopathy
>>13774570I have it, there is no cure, your best bet is to follow Dr Goadsby research on it.
There has to be some kind of life energy gained/preserved from losing when a male abtrains from ejaculation sinced the pleasure he gets is real and intensive, I think people are trying to hide this so im looking for researches truth regarding the real nutrients lost during a male ejaculation, i tried searching couldn't find the amount of Vitamin C lost per ejaculation could it be real that per male ejaculation has same amount of Vitamin C as in orange, Protien as in eggs and Zinc as in oysters, without these Vitamins wouldn't your age faster compared to a no fapper or No-fap has no physical benifits in reality they are just losers who aren't fulfilling the purpose of life
OP back to /x/. keep posting about your vira or whatever you schizos think the life energy lost when you coom. you can support no fap and not have to make it based on this weird schizo shit with vira. if you want to believe in spooky life energy you can become a hindu.Plus if you really thought this was an issue you can just take vitamins to counter act the amount of nutrient lost during cooming.
Listen here you dumb clouns supporting ejaculations, everytime you burst a load you are discharging your body's vital genetic information in the form of protien load (dna) which you could have preserved and used to repair your body but instead if you chose to lose it and age fast have fun wanking off kids
to create life you need to give yoru dna or decide to keep it for yourself and repair your body cells
>>13767968That haha at the end is a giveaway how immature and baseless your claims are. How old are you man?
>>13767817Prolactin is the issue. It makes you go numb so that you can rest from the stress of mating. Additionally prolactin inhibits other hormones and makes it easier to accumulate fat.
Anyone here read this book?In the preface it mentions that it assumes knowledge of probability, linear algebra, analysis, and algorithms. I should be ok with the first three given that I am a maths student, but what should I know about algorithms before starting? Can you point to a good resource?
>>13774645excellent book along with mohri et al. better than goodfellow et al imo.
There any scientific term for when something changes but not entirely physically?Not metamorphosis but like they “changed forms” of some sorts… I know it’s dumb but it’s for a /tg/ thing I’m working on and it’s burning my small dumb brain out
If I had to bet, I’d wager yes. Reality is stranger than fiction.
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