/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5666157

>>5666157
I don't understand why is he afraid?...im confused

ahahaha I get it

engineers are such nerds xD

>>5666211
No, the point is that engineers are stupid.

>>5666251

no, the point is that different majors have different ethical values. this is something smbc has been pushing lately. nobody gives a shit

sage

>>5666172
I guess it could have algorithms implemented into the hardware that would completely blow away any that we have now and thereby bring about a computational revolution that mankind might not be able to handle.

>>5666157

i instinctively middle mouse clicked on that picture because I hadn't seen it. upon review, I had to scroll back to this thread.

basically we all know what we are all thinking.

asians are better at computer engineering than blacks

better at video games too

>>5666307
That guy isn't Asian. He looks white, perhaps Argentinian.

>>5666321

are you kidding? he's straight white american

doesn't get anymore white than that. he's probably in his late 30s

>>5666321
>argentina
>white

>>5666307
but asians aren't good at computer engineering and neither are blacks or any other race.

however, i'm willing to bet most computer engineers, regardless of race, are better than most asians, blacks, whites, browns, and reds, and that black computer engineers are as good as asian computer engineers.

>>5666335
>the pope
>not white

do you want to go to hell, nigger?

quints

>>5666376
are you retarded?

>>5666262
how can mankind not handle it?

>>5666393
Encryption, also probably affecting all those @home problems.

>>5666398
>mankind might not be able to handle
>@home problems from 20 years ago
are you some variation of homo stupidus

>>5666415
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects

http://mindmodeling.org/beta/
Neurona@home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC@home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climateprediction.net
etc..

and don't forget all the encryption related shit.

Are you some variation of homo ignoramus?

>>5666157
i saved

>>5666157


Computer scientists spend entirely too much time on philosophy instead of computers or science.

Engineers get useful shit done.

>>5666262
>algorithms implemented into the hardware
kill yourself

>>5666398
>Encryption
The fuck are you thinking?

CPUs already have AES instructions and Bitcoin mining has been done on FPGAs since forever.

>>5666460
>doesn't know bout my h264 chip

>>5666460
Sorry but I'm an uber noob (and not the person you're responding to). But can't you build stuff using logic gates?

Also, computer science seems pretty cool. Category theory, automata, complexity, discrete math, it's all good. Even the more programming side of it like programming paradigms and programming language grammar and so on is pretty cool, why do you guys hate on it so much?

>>5666466
I was referring to the reason those encryption methods work is because the algorithms used for breaking them run in a fuckload of time. So if there were algorithms that could be used for breaking them much faster then they would be rendered useless.

RSA for example requires you to find two prime numbers that generate a given composite number. This is incredibly difficult to do when you're dealing with numbers hundreds of digits long.

>>5666478
You can. Hardware based programming was essentially how the original mechanical computers operated. It's just incredibly inflexible.

>>5666478
But then it's not an algorithm, its a circuit implementing a blind function.

>>5666469
you mean dxva and GPU/SIMD? That's not really "implemented into the hardware"

>>5666485
>RSA for example requires you to find two prime numbers that generate a given composite number. This is incredibly difficult to do when you're dealing with numbers hundreds of digits long.

Again, Shor's algorithm. Broken for decades.

>>5666485
>if hardware was able to make a chip that can check all 2^256 possibilities in parallel then we broke it

Yeah, who care if that is more than the atoms in the known universe

>>5666539
>Yeah, who care if that is more than the atoms in the known universe

Why on earth does that matter?

We can do 10^14 computations a second now, with a simple bruteforce method it wouldn't take impossibly long.

>>5666576

because at 10^14 computations per second, it would take 3.6^55 years to find all of the combinations

>>5666478
I think americans don't like it because since there are a lot of shitty universities a lot of stupid faggots came out from that major, since it's somehow popular, but I'm not sure.