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Thread: Imaginary friends of mathematics.
Post: RE: Imaginary friends of mathematics.
| It's probably best to picture complex numbers as an extension perpendicular from zero on a real number sequence.
Like this:
It's pretty integral to civil engineering too (amongst other fields), so ... |
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Mathematics
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March 20, 2012 at 2:04 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| NoMoreFaith: Perhaps, though I mostly got this impression from reading media articles of self-proclaimed New Atheists and being pounced upon in person by a university society of the same name.
Rather... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 19, 2012 at 4:19 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| Thanks picto90, I think your views are largely similar to mine.
I'm somewhat surprised that I haven't seen any self-proclaimed New Atheists here. The media, and certain areas of London would have you... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 19, 2012 at 12:49 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Absolutely. Debates like this though really highlight its problems. Rather then focus on the fundamental thought process that the words are trying to convey, it is often the words themselves that get ... |
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mannaka |
Life Sciences
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March 19, 2012 at 10:24 am |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Rhythm, mediamogul: That is true, languages are dreadful in this sense, subjective, irregular and (for most of us) tedious to learn.
That is with the exception of the language of mathematics, that h... |
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mannaka |
Life Sciences
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March 19, 2012 at 5:51 am |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| (March 17, 2012 at 9:15 pm)picto90 Wrote: You have to remember that we're all people. People think it's just the Christians that get pissed off that we Atheists have "turned away from Christ", but w... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 18, 2012 at 1:39 pm |
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Thread: Math and Reality
Post: RE: Math and Reality
| (March 18, 2012 at 9:11 am)Categories+Sheaves Wrote: It's not like nature and math are part of a larger conspiracy to make everything symmetric. It's just that any equivalence of things (e.g. any t... |
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mannaka |
Mathematics
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March 18, 2012 at 1:35 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Rhythm: I'd personally still classify that as a convergence - much like how an optimisation program converges as a result of specified boundaries. Clearly both biological and environmental constraints... |
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mannaka |
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March 18, 2012 at 1:09 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Apologies, I better understand your original post. I don't disagree Rhythm, in fact quite the opposite. By use of the term "goal" I mean something towards which nature is unwittingly converging; incre... |
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mannaka |
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March 17, 2012 at 8:30 pm |
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Thread: Math and Reality
Post: RE: Math and Reality
| (February 15, 2010 at 5:01 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: I agree it could all be a ridiculous coincidence.
But I propose the following alternative explanation for the observed coherence between nature an... |
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mannaka |
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March 17, 2012 at 8:01 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Stimbo: That is true, though if you don't mind me saying, I think that's a bit pedantic and detracts somewhat from the point made. If we so desired to "rule the amazon," I am fairly certain we could. ... |
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March 17, 2012 at 7:49 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| Faith No More: Effectively as I read it, it is to say that it is not wholly logical to find something that is not particularly useful, attractive.
Rhythm: That's an interesting viewpoint. The use of ... |
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mannaka |
Life Sciences
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March 17, 2012 at 6:49 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: RE: An interesting quote on evolution
| (March 17, 2012 at 10:39 am)Rhythm Wrote: Many things make decisions with their eyes (or their noses..whatever that would mean for any given species). The bigger, brighter, more fragrant flower get... |
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mannaka |
Life Sciences
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March 17, 2012 at 1:14 pm |
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Thread: An interesting quote on evolution
Post: An interesting quote on evolution
| Before posting the following quote I'd like, if I may, to ask people to refrain from talking about deities in any context in this topic. Being selfish, I wish only to debate from a scientific perspect... |
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mannaka |
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March 17, 2012 at 10:00 am |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| (March 16, 2012 at 8:44 pm)jason56 Wrote: NEVER underestimate the role of tradition in religion - It's the cornerstone . All those people who grow up with the conditions for atheism but keep a God, ... |
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mannaka |
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March 17, 2012 at 9:04 am |
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Thread: nice fractal
Post: RE: nice fractal
| (January 27, 2012 at 12:22 pm)phillip1882 Wrote: so i saw this spiral fractal in the book the adromada strain, and i'd thought i'd post it here as it's kinda cool.
the idea is this. you start with a... |
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mannaka |
Mathematics
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March 16, 2012 at 4:02 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| (March 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: I would argue that we do not care much for interference with our daily lives rather than the religion itself. Although that is something I wouldn't min... |
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Atheism
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March 16, 2012 at 3:35 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| With regards to survey validity and sampling; I firstly trust that the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science have conducted their survey rigorously and in a fair and scientific manner. Sec... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 16, 2012 at 1:46 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| Ultimately, my view is that the strict belief in religion, and in particular Christianity, has practically come to the end of its decline. I like to think that the statistics I previously divulged, su... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 16, 2012 at 12:22 pm |
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Thread: New Atheism in the UK
Post: RE: New Atheism in the UK
| I appreciate what you're saying, but looking back at the survey with particular attention to the first two pages;
54% of people surveyed labeled themselves Christian.
Only 1% strictly believed in the... |
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mannaka |
Atheism
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March 16, 2012 at 10:07 am |
