Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-22-2007, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 693
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-19-2007, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 280
Re: the self-referential universe
These ideas are explored to great lengths by Douglas Hofstadter,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
in "Gödel, Escher, Bach", and more recently
"I am a strange loop"....
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-11-2007, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 86
Views: 603
Re: Why I Am A Semi-Sociopath
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Your proof that Americans are the good guys is...Vietnam. Good show.
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You too are an illinformed know it all. The American soldiers that went to Vietnam...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-09-2007, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 92
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-08-2007, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,037
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 149
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 149
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 149
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-07-2007, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 149
Biological evolution is irrelevant to humans.
Lebowski's post about de-evolution reminded about one idea.
Some definitions:
'Biological evolution' is the normal Darwinian process that we see in nature. Mutations create variety, natural...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 1,168
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 11:47 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,037
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,037
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,037
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,037
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 1,168
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 1,168
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-29-2007, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 107
Views: 1,311
Re: Pro-choicers must be anti-tax, no?
I don't agree with this analogy.
The government provides services to the society, and to finance them it needs money/taxes.
The baby doesn't provide any service to its mother.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-29-2007, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 122
Re: help with some calc 2
I'll explain how to do the following problem:
Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the region bounded by y=f(x), for x belonging to [a, b], around the x axis.
(Your problems are the...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-26-2007, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 131
Re: Transcending Categories of Thought
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So half of the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts; those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-25-2007, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 185
Re: Statistics Question (about invading Iraq)
IMO your logics is very flawed here.
By your logics: Russia has an arcenal to kill all the people in USA, if USA strike first and destroy all the nuclear bombs in Russia only about 1 millon...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-25-2007, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 185
Re: Statistics Question (about invading Iraq)
You forget about the probability that they would actually use them, even if they had them. You also forget about economical loses. I'd make a rough estimation that every $200.000 lost due to the war...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-23-2007, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,628
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-22-2007, 11:47 AM
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Replies: 230
Views: 1,872
Re: What Would David Say About This Remark?
I liked "im a model"'s post.
IMO it's very hard to distinguish cultural vs genetic origin in the data. And it seems to be the main issue for discussion.
Even for a black child raised in a white...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-22-2007, 05:48 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 105
Re: I need a good algorithm! (Regression related)
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If n>= (number of rows) then it's quite trivial linear algebra problem.
If n< (number of rows) it is much less trivial and requires formulating a hypothesis about your data....
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-21-2007, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 297
Re: reliable online iq test?
Ok.
If someone takes an IQ test in a foreign language, how reliable would be the results? Do they design tests for all languages to deal with this problem?
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