>>5016
Thankfully, the very first sentence in the video explains who its for: people who study physics. If you don't, it is irrelevant for you.

Not sure how "Tood Terje - Inspector Norse" relates to physics studies, but okay, OP, you keep dreaming, big man.

>>5018

Sometimes the site code glitches out on phones and all of the videos get switched with other videos.

>>5019
You honestly think I don't know that? Did you really just say that to me? The fucking hubris.

>>5020
I'm still laughing at this post.

>>5001

>A lot of people are going to find that none of their skills can match those of an intelligent machine that will also work 24/7 for no money.

The important part that needs a lot more emphasis is that will work 24/7 for no money.

In the eyes of big business, that makes up for almost any reduction in the quality of work. It doesn't matter if the robot pizza boys run over a dozen people every week, Papa John is probably still coming out better off because he no longer has to pay real any delivery drivers.

Most of you are already familiar with the way your bosses would rather force more work onto already overloaded teams and "streamline" their processes or whatever shite, regardless of the consequences it has. You can see with your own eyes it's barely staying upright but from a management perspective, the costs are saved, the profits go up, therefore it's a 100% success. Automation will be much like that.

>>5003

>The AIs we're building and looking to deploy in the workplace think distinctly different to people because the demand is in different tasks

Nobody cares about "thinking differently" or "complementary skills", they just have a business objective that needs to be satisfied - lowering costs, increasing productivity or both. Modern AIs aren't programmed but trained - we give them example inputs and outputs and the algorithm figures out how to get from one to the other.

Automation won't replace all jobs any time soon, but it's aggressively eroding the middle of the labour market. Robots struggle with varied tasks in organic environments (cleaning, waiting tables etc), they struggle with very complex creative and intellectual tasks, but everything in the middle is ripe for automation.

>This is daft, we know how to avoid economic disruption with retraining, education and nudging people into the right careers etc.

Except we don't. One in five British adults lack the literacy and/or numeracy skills expected of an eleven-year-old, a figure that has remained stubbornly high for decades. It's a cruel delusion to imagine that everyone could be a robotics engineer or a cardiac surgeon if they just put their mind to it. Some people just aren't very bright. It's not their fault, it doesn't make them bad people, but they couldn't scrape together five GCSEs to save their life.

We saw the failure of this ambition during the Blair years. We radically increased the number of people who went to university, but the number of jobs that actually require degree-level training barely changed. We thought we were upskilling the economy, but we were really just creating make-work for junior lecturers and university administrators and lumping young people with the cost.

Wages haven't gone up since 2008 because per-worker productivity hasn't gone up. An increasing share of profits goes to capital rather than labour because an increasing share of productivity is generated by capital rather than labour. The threat of automation isn't hypothetical, it's happening as we speak, we're just pasting over the cracks and hoping for the best.

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>>5007

The machine-tending robot arm I showed in a previous post is a clear example of this. It's objectively worse than a human operator; it's slower at actually loading the machine, it doesn't know what to do if something gets clogged up with swarf, it can't do odd jobs around the workshop etc. None of that matters, because it does the work of three-and-a-bit full time employees and pays for itself in a matter of months.

Self-checkout machines in supermarkets are annoying for customers and increase theft, but the economics of replacing eight employees with one employee and eight machines is utterly compelling. Robots don't have to be better than you to take your job, they just need to be acceptable as a cheap-and-cheerful substitute.

>>5006
I submit that back when forklifts were a new thing, trade unions still mattered so the workers who weren't made redundant (not a huge problem because full employment was government policy) got a large pay increase due to their increased productivity. That increased pay then ran through the tax system, so the overall result was no real change if you look at things as a distribution between capital owners and labour. (including the unemployed as "labour")
Now in the shiny new progressive 2020s, where Trade Unions aren't allowed more than 3 people lurking around outside and they can have their car doors confiscated if they look at you the wrong way, there's no need for passing on productivity gains. Just keep paying the guy who makes sure the robot doesn't trip over the extension cord whatever he was being paid before and fire the rest, then pass the gain onto shareholders, the most important people in the world. Don't weep for the unemployed, the DWP will have them programming the next angry birds or get them to take an innovative new job on an app where people pay them to pretend to be their friends or some other exciting innovation in boring dysopia.

A little anecdote I quite like: Economists used to think that it was "one of the most surprising, yet best-established facts in the whole range of economic statistics" that the share of the national income that went on wages was pretty constant. Varying up and down a bit as the economy itself does, but basically steady. Then a funny thing happened across the developed world starting in the 1980s: it began to fall. As an equal and opposite reaction, the share going to capital owners increased. How very odd. I'm not even really attributing 100% of that to unions, it's just that the union's biggest political disadvantage - that it was visible - also makes it the easiest one to point to. This post is overwritten enough as it is without pointing at other things too.

>>5010

Also there's a huge microeconomic difference between a forklift and a robot arm. A forklift increases the productivity of a skilled worker, granting them more economic bargaining power; a robot arm replaces a worker entirely, greatly reducing the bargaining power of whichever unskilled worker it replaced.

This the crucial difference between mechanisation and automation that a lot of people overlook. In the 1970s, printing was heavily mechanised, which made skilled printers highly productive workers with a lot of bargaining power - the printing machinery needed constant skilled intervention and everything ground to a halt if the printers walked out, but they were capable of producing huge quantities of newspapers. In the 80s (starting with Wapping), printing became automated. The new automated machines didn't need printers with specialised skills to operate them, only electricians and mechanics to maintain them. Without effective bargaining power, the protests by the printing unions were futile.

Mechanisation can benefit both labour and capital, but automation benefits only capital because it replaces rather than augments the productivity of labour.

We already had this discussion here a few weeks ago.

if you do what you were told in school you follow bodmas which means you multiply and divide before addition and subtraction, but in the real word people who do maths for a living always write out equations in a way that the order or operations is obvious. (And if you write formulae in excel you just use brackets absolutely fucking everywhere so nothing is left to chance)

>>4931
November was more than a few weeks ago.

>>4932
Time travels more slowly in /science/ lad.

>>4933
* /lab/ lad

>>4930
I like drawing up tables of video game data and using Excel to try strategies based on the numbers. Essentially playing the game without any of the fun. But I am deeply wrong so you're spot on.

>>4923
What has humanity become?

>>4924

Sexy, in an array of extremely specific ways.

>>4923
I see it has already been endorsed by Hitomi Tanaka.

I for one look forward to the new normal of twitch thots incorporating shitting coffee beans into their 100 new subs squat routine.

And how the rules will bend to treat this as if it was always fine.

Not if you have a phobia of corners.

No it is scandalously controversial. He most likely didn't invet it and took credit for it like one of his many other outrageous claims, like having a golden thigh, telling off a bear, and being the son of Apollo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity

Now that's what I call beautiful. It is a formula comprised almost entirely of totally different, disparate numbers, from varying fields of mathematics, and each one appears only once, and it's all true too.

>>4912

Yeah, that's good too. And it's related to the Pythogorean theorem.

>>4912
Not only does it have five of the most important numbers in maths, it also does the rounds in operations. Addition, multiplication and exponentiation.

>>4903

The sum of the squares on the diagonals is equal to the sum of the squares on the perimeter.

Why not use a ruler?

>>4905
The Greeks were a democracy.

>>4906
You've done it now, the antiquarians will be all over you for this one.

>>4907
The great thing is that next time people say "republic, not democracy" you can point out that the two are effectively translations of each other.

>>4851
Sharp calculator is superior.

>>4854
I won't disagree with you. HP stopped making really great calculators about twenty years ago when they moved all the manufacturing to China. On the plus side, they are much cheaper now.

I have an ageing HP20S which is really good, it works fine, but the power button is gone so I have to hold a load of buttons down to get it alive and have to wait for it to time-out to switch off, so it eats batteries more than it did originally. Sad times.

The answer is 1. End of. No discussion allowed.

>>4855

Seeing as this thread has been necro-bumped, I'll mention that a) the HP Prime is damned cool apart from the weird viewing angles on the screen and b) SwissMicros make obsessively perfect re-creations of the classic HP calculators with modern components.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-Prime-G2-Graphing-Calculator/dp/B07HF6RXGG

https://www.swissmicros.com/products

>>4884
> SwissMicros

Goodness me - thank you. I never knew about this.

>>4864
It's a torrent site just for books

>>4870

Got it with "bibliotik". Looks promising, thanks.

>>4871

Looks like it's invite only. Can you help anotherlad out?

>>4872

My account was deleted due to inactivity. Try /r/trackers

It turns out it was on archive.org. I used a DRM removal tool to obtain a copy.

Thanks to you lads that helped with this.

>>4617
Based on half remembered popular science I read when I was 13, I think it's more that any time an outcome is undetermined, when the result is observed, all outcomes happen in different universes, and this includes our thought processes and decision making.

>>4616

That's not how infinity works. There are infinite numbers between the integrals 3 and 4, but none of them are 5.

With infinite probability you're assuming that you can reduce the problem to something akin to "if you play the lottery infinite times, you'll win the lottery infinite times". However, without a guaranteed source of entropy we can't assume that infinite universes would be in any way different to our own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSc-PLGU8o

>>4828
Why do you keep posting this woman?

>>4829

He got lost en route to the guilty woulds thread.

>>4619

*integers

I wouldn't think over the counter capsules would be very effective, no, or at least no more so than drinking a Yakult every day. Seems like snake oil to me.

That said. Have you ever heard of a faecal transplant?

>>4823
>faecal transplant

Not the OP, but I have - the whole thing is fascinating to me. I think it might actually validate some of the ideas/hypothesis around the gut biome - not saying "probiotics" are anything other than snake oil, but there is clearly something in the science we have yet to discover. Also, some of the work that people are doing behind gut biome and depression/mood - very interesting. But still a bit gross. Maybe there is something in that ice docking business?

>>4824

The science is pretty well known, to be fair, just only to scientists. It's not yet at a stage where much practical can be done with it, or simple enough explanations trickled down to Joe public.

>>4823
>That said. Have you ever heard of a faecal transplant?

A few months back we had a thread discussing the weaponization of faecal matter. The ultimate evolution in the martial arts.

>>4825
On the contrary, in America you can now get paid $40 per donation at the local stool bank:
https://www.openbiome.org/stool-donation

We've literally been flushing our money away!

As I'm sure you've all been gripped with suspense regarding my bowel movements: I can report that things are running much better. That's nothing scientific but I've even been shagging my guts out this week by going back on huel with coffee with the side effects being much milder (just a bit of bloat).

I'd recommend it. Maybe I'll get some different types so there's an ongoing cycle of different bacteria and I'll see how it changes things.

No.

>>4809
I have vaguely positive feelings about Mr Caroll, but that's about the extent of my opinion.

>>4809
II'm interested to see how this'll get twisted into admiring girls that are too young.

I have asked the science man a question that he will answer in his next video.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2020/05/05/the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe-7-quantum-mechanics/comment-page-2/#comment-7295910552604317284

>>4820


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ov5hCkj3hQ

He tries to answer my question starting about 30:50 and ends up blabbing about Wittgenstein. Very unsatisfactory.

Assuming this is bash(-style) scripting:

function mkcd(){mkdir $1; cd $1} (mkcd "01 Classical Mechanics" && youtube-dl -f "best[height<=480]" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129) (mkcd "02 Quantum Mechanics" && youtube-dl -f "best[height<=480]" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL701CD168D02FF56F) ... etc

There's probably an even better way to do it but this is much better already.

rm -rf youtube.com # go outside, nerd

>>4806

rm -rf youtube.com rm: cannot remove 'youtube.com': Operation not permitted

>>4806
>go outside
u wot m7

>>4794
>>4795
Fuck; google confirms it's a hoax. Just seems so real and conceptually possible.

>>4798
It's not a hoax. It's a science fiction film. It says as much in the video description.

>>4793
This thread's videos have been the "Big Vagina" scenes from Curb for a whole day.

>>4800
I haven't seen that today - what browser are you using?

>>4801
Firefox. The refresh after posting that though it fixed itself, so, whatever.