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how do you handle extreme values in out of sample data messing up your statistical models?

How do I account for tail-end events? Is the only way to get more data?
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problem with negation

No.14154541 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Generally speaking,
>P is not true
is the same as:
>not P
Regardless of whatever i put in place of "P".
For example:

>(not P) is not true
is the same as:
>not (not P)

>(P and Q) is not true
is the same as:
>not (P and Q)

>(P or Q) is not true
is the same as:
>not (P or Q)

HOWEVER...

>(P therefore Q) is not true
is NOT the same as:
>not (P therefore Q)

Why does this happen? Where does this discrepance stems from?
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Physics can't explain conciousness

No.14153840 ViewReplyOriginalReport
In mainstream physicalism, matter exists out there in reality. Matter is fully describable by quantities, so reality is quantitative in nature. The brain is an example of matter, so it too is fully describable by quantities.

No matter how fancy your quantitive description of the brain gets, how will it ever explain the rise of concious experience?

Conciousness and quantities are two different, incommensurable categories. At some point, you will always have to hand wave.
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No.14154645 ViewReplyOriginalReport
How to use chemistry to turn pee into normal water?
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No.14154386 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Math is for nerds and you can't change my mind.
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No.14154344 ViewReplyOriginalReport
YO MUTHAFUCKAR WHY THE FUCK YOU SPENDING 4 YEARS DOING A MATH DEGREE YOU GOTTA JUST USE A CALCULATOR 30 BUCKS AT THE STORE LMAAOOOO
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Imagine a 1000 year old person that had segments of his brain slowly replaced bit by bit, turning him into a sort of "Theseus ship" of sentience, with no one segment being the original but there being no real specific moment in wich it "died", only lost memory and got it replaced by fresher bits.

This seems infinitely better than transhumanism, since you're constantly forgetting the past there's no moment for the existencial dread to kick in nor any fear of actually fully dying, just a constant shift
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No.14153553 ViewReplyOriginalReport
>When the professor leaves subliminal numerical hints in his example problems hunting that he knows about the crimes you’ve committed.
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In a new study published in the PNAS journal, Tomasz Czerniak and James Sáenz discovered that lipids can directly modulate the activity of RNA in a simple synthetic system. “This opens up a completely new path to think about how we can use RNA-lipid interactions for bioengineering,” says Dr. James Sáenz, research group leader at the B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering and the senior author of the study. In addition, their work can also help to give clues about the origin of ancient life. A popular hypothesis on the origin of life is that life itself likely emerged from self-replicating RNA molecules, years before the evolution of DNA and proteins. Here, the simple and effective way of modulating RNA activity would be the key for the organization of early life on an ancient Earth.

https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/bcube/news-termine/news/eine-unerwartete-anziehung-von-nukleinsaeuren-und-fett
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