Catalog of /aca/

What's your major /aca/? I'm in my last year of a Master's in Computer Science

Post resources for studying any given subject here! Textbooks, online courses, etc

Do you know any second languages or are learning any?

What have *you* learned today?

/aca/ has the potential to be something good and original, don't remove it please, if you really have to you could just hide it the same way lainchan hid the /lain/ board (like you've done now), and who's in the known will go there and partecipate. If in the future there's enough action with the site in general you could bring the board's visibility back, consider it.

A new Indo-European cuneiform language has been discovered in clay tablets from the Hittite Empire. Dubbed Kalašmaic, it was recorded in Hittite tablets that preserved rituals from different parts of their empire in their native languages. This discovery made me very happy, I hope we get new words and roots in the Anatolian languages after the text is deciphered. Does /aca/ like linguistics and ancient languages? https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

imagine if money, intelligence, focus, health, time, and other circumstances weren't a problem. what would you dedicate your life to studying? why does it fascinate you? as for me, i've always wanted to study brains. pick apart this dense mass of flesh that somehow encodes the human soul. i want to be a part of the science that's trying to map brains to computers, interpreting synapses with machine learning and using algorithms to model neural circuits. look closely at how information is processed by the brain, and maybe even try to analyze those heuristics to understand myself a bit better. my excuse is that i'm too dumb and not good enough at chemistry. i just can't commit. who knows, maybe i'll regret this fear of mine forever. i wanted to hear about your unsung passions, too

rip /aca/

I'm thinking about going back to learning Japanese, but I'm not sure whether I should or not. Already studied Japanese for like 3 years on and off until stuff happened in real life and I had to stop. However, the situation changed and I might be able to get back into it. Back then I read a few easy manga and a VN, although with the assistance of tools to look up vocabulary. While that might sound good, I still felt like I was years away from reading without tools or being anywhere close to fluency. Why did I want to learn? I did a trip to Japan in 2015 and I fucking loved it, I wanted to learn Japanese for my next trip and maybe even work there. Of course there were also a few untranslated games and manga etc. I wanted to consume. Nowadays I'm not really dreaming of living in Japan anymore and most of the games I wanted to learn Japanese for actually got a translation, and yet I still want to learn the language for the sake of it. I mean, being able to read these moonrunes is satisfying in its own way, but I might not really benefit THAT much from knowing it. What do you think? Should I study Japanese again, despite like I said I might not benefit that much from knowing it, considering it takes a lot of time and energy to do so? I tried to forget it, but ever since I quit, every time I see Japanese writing I feel bad for quitting.

What specifically do you do? Do you know any good places to get into it?

$\text{LATEX}$ $${\int }_a^b{x}^{2}dx$$ Specialized tags are can be used for math related topics!

The Busy Beaver function is a function that takes n as a number of states and returns the maximum finite number of ones that a 2-symbol turing machine with that number of states could produce. This pdf (https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/bb.pdf) is the current (as of 2020) state of knowledge on this function. update from 2022: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6673

If yall remember the marioplex from like a while ago that GT made, that number was big, but younger me around that time tried to calculate a bigger number called the RocketPlex, based on how many items you can get in Rocket League if you buy the collector's edition. I think I made mistakes in my math back then so, I wanna try again... should I? and if I do... should I send it to a Math institute or smth??

What's your favorite branch of science? Most things chemistry related has always seemed fascinating to me

what are the scientific advances in recent years? in any fields of science

this thread is for philosophy and things alike studies and research

Share some interesting reads Be it articles or books

What are principles and techniques of serialism?

Would it be possible to make a microwave that allows you to heat with metal utensils inside?

it's pretty cool

Which one is the hardest? Which one has the most potential for progress?

Do you prefer STEM subjects or English related stuff or History/Humanities related subjects more?

GR is torsion-free. Why? And what would a patch of spacetime with torsion even look like?

I've heard people say this before, but idk the arguments for it. Is it possible?

Personally, I like switch-reference cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch-reference

they're pretty neat Introductions for laymen: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-towering-p-adic-numbers-work-20201019/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyHKCDq1YA

What happened to it? (;ﾟДﾟ)

I think this field is really interesting. So many possibilities! For example, here's a paper I found recently: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2021.0641

share cool living things here I'll start: The oriental hornet's cuticle acts as a photovoltaic cell, the electricity from which is used to power a heating organ in its thorax.

What have you been studying recently /aca/? I've been looking into Lambda Calculus and Hindley–Milner type system for my Master Thesis in Computer Science