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Quote: Originally Posted by JKelley502 I still don't really get how we inferred that this number has to add to 10. There are total ten digits, and each one must be accounted for.

Quote: Originally Posted by daryn what does the last digit represent in your 11 digit example? expansion in base 11

I'm not sure we agree on much else though, Charito. I think that counting backwards is just as valid as counting forwards and that there are two ways to count: in a line or around a circle.

Quote: Originally Posted by suzzer99 So where does string theory fit in with all this? Is there any realistic hope of a testable hypothesis? String theory has sort of become a general phrase for a bunch of highly mathematical and technically difficult ideas that alot of people think will be of use in physics. As of now, nobody has come up with a clear way to test anything in string theory, but if supersymmetry is found, that would be a...

This is sort of the approach that's usually taken, but engineers don't typically think about these things in terms of "evolution." It's basically an optimization problem, but the trick is that optimizing one for solution can lead to suboptimal conditions elsewhere. For instance: You want to grow an alga at large scale. Algae basically need light and CO2 to grow, and hey want to avoid O2. Your problem is to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Siegmund There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to winning these things ... but I can tell you that I won this particular scholarship in 1995. My essay described a modest-sized mathematical modelling project, within the means of an advanced undergraduate to do in his spare time, that showed some understanding of the field I was studying and hinted I might have a future doing that type of research. I had the...

2n choose n over 4^n

The prefrontal cortex has a good working realtionship with the rest of the brain. Reciprocal influence you might say. Let's say you think (prefrontal cortex) there might be danger, this heightens your fear from the limbic regions. Or let's say you get startled (limbic regions), but when you use some logic you manage to cool down. If you are referring to some Freudian subconscious, no proof of such a thing existing has ever been...

Quote: Originally Posted by callipygian It's particularly funny that people accuse Michael Mann of trying to "hide" the MWP, because it really highlights the scientific ignorance of the crowd that's attacking him. Michael Mann's infamous "hockey stick" graph was derided by skeptics for faulty methodology, and rightly so. But what's pretty funny is that if the "skeptics"...