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Career suggestions pls
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What would you suggest a kid who wants to go to college next? He's not into med, he wants into engineering, CS could be obsolete in 4 years? Mech doesn't pay well, so what are his options? Non stem is fine too, Law? What would you suggest? Do /sci/ or math fags earn actual monies?
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pure white
When will they stop teaching you that white is the absence of colour?
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Creative Maths
Mate in 2
Can Mathematics ever be creative? Or is it purely a logical-deductive kinda thing?
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/med/-Medicine
before and after vax
Remember
>Do NOT give advice
>Do NOT feed the nursoids
>Do NOT engage with premeds
And most importantly
>Do NOT respond to psych patients
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Give it to me straight /sci/, does the average cat owner/raw pork enjoyer really need to worry about Toxoplasma gondii?
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semester level calendar
Should school years be split in two? Instead of going from mid-August through the end of May or early September through late May or summer solstice, why not have two equally-long breaks from Christmas to the beginning of February and roughly summer solstice to the beginning of August? In this system, kindergarten would start twice a year at the beginning of the August and February semesters; students would advance twice a year, so on paper, no one in the same grade would be more than half a year apart in age. Most elementary schools already have multiple classrooms per grade, so there shouldn't be any issue regarding staff except for maybe extremely rural areas.

Pros:
-(Theoretically) no 6-year-olds going to kindergarten with kids who just turned 5
-More-or-less solves birthday cutoff dilemmas
-Not having to wait nearly a year for another school vacation longer than a week
-Not being stuck with a shitty teacher for an entire year of elementary school
-If behind, easier to catch up over a school break
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why are there no popsci videos aimed at graduates in physics? every popsci channel is aimed at people outside of the physics world, when most of the guys interested in string theory or quantum gravity are people who graduated in physics.
I want to know more about physics, but I don't have time to study a PhD.
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AI cognitive labour is growing more than 500x faster than total human cognitive labour, and this seems likely to remain true up to and beyond the point where the cognitive capabilities of AI surpasses all humans.

https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion
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Is there a natural treatement or over counter drugs for ADHD?
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I am not "diagnosed" with it but I am 80% sure I have it. My attention wanders off without me even noticing it. I do not even see the point of getting a diagnosis because being high on meth all the time does not seem like a good idea. Is this really a meme condition? I try everything but nothing works. I feel like shit that
I accomplished nothing at the end of the day thanks to my goldfish attention span.
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gene comparison is possible
relations
have a look at this, it is possible to throw in 15 organisms for comparison out of which 2 are insects (peripatuses) and the rest are related to fish in some way (gorilla is very derived fish but ultimately its ancestors came from the sea)

then we compare their genes and see that insects end up quite far from the fish forming entirely different branch
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/sqt/ - stupid questions thread (aka /qtddtot/)
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Everyone Else Is Too Lazy Edition

Previous thread: >>16584917

>what is /sqt/ for?
Questions regarding maths and science. Also homework.
>where do I go for advice?
>>>/sci/scg or >>>/adv/
>where do I go for other questions and requests?
>>>/wsr/ >>>/g/sqt >>>/diy/sqt etc.
>how do I post math symbols (Latex)?
rentry.org/sci-latex-v1
>a plain google search didn't return anything, is there anything else I should try before asking the question here?
scholar.google.com
>where can I search for proofs?
proofwiki.org
>where can I look up if the question has already been asked here?
warosu.org/sci
eientei.xyz/sci
>how do I optimize an image losslessly?
trimage.org
pnggauntlet.com
>how do I find the source of an image?
images.google.com
tineye.com
saucenao.com
iqdb.org

>where can I get:
>books?
libgen.rs
annas-archive.org
stitz-zeager.com
openstax.org
activecalculus.org
>articles?
sci-hub.st
>book recs?
sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide
4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/booklist.html
>online courses and lectures?
khanacademy.org
>charts?
imgur.com/a/pHfMGwE
imgur.com/a/ZZDVNk1
>tables, properties and material selection?
www.engineeringtoolbox.com
www.matweb.com
www.chemspider.com

Tips for asking questions here:
>avoid replying to yourself
>ask anonymously
>recheck the Latex before posting
>ignore shitpost replies
>avoid getting into arguments
>do not tell us where is it you came from
>do not mention how [other place] didn't answer your question so you're reposting it here
>if you need to ask for clarification fifteen times in a row, try to make the sequence easy to read through
>I'm not reading your handwriting
>I'm not flipping that sideways picture
>I'm not google translating your spanish
>don't ask to ask
>don't ask for a hint if you want a solution
>xyproblem.info
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global warming
on-thin-ice
If you can prove to me, clearly, without semantics, without documentaries from 2018 or photos of American beaches from different eras that global warming is false, I swear I will accept my concession and say I was wrong from the beginning.
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Dow we have an overdiagnosis epidemic?
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test iq
me in the red circle
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procrastination
Procrastinators-Matrix1
chat what's the science behind procrastination?

everyone who procrastinates understands that it's completely irrational. so then why is procrastination such a universal struggle?

do other intelligent species procrastinate as well?
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/sci/ humor thread
fruit math puzzle
This time you fuckers better keep it /sci/ related I swear to god
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Why do antipsychotics cause psychosis?
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Science discovers that all genes are equally beneficial
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Wow. Is there any depth science won’t plumb for its master? Being a crawling slave on a leash for leftooidic insanity is worse than being far left. You haven’t any dignity. You’re a mute gimp in a leather suit bring pissed on
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Lol fags
I can't believe they would just go and remove a board devoted to sexually abusing animals like that! However will I seethe about my hatred of cats now?!?!?!?
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Why do science fetishists (probably ~>50% of you) ignore the epistemological blind spot of reasoning that could happen to be mystical things that are incompatible with pure judgement? Are you just selfish little cynical fucks or do you just ignore the strange thing devoid of resolvability in the name of our limited scientific progression; and more importantly, why do none of you care during moments when it should concern you?
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So the uncertainty principle can cause the energies of different fields at any point to fluctuate randomly as long as it returns to zero in a tiny amount of time and all of spacetime has a foam of fluctuations, right? In that case, can the dimensionality of each point fluctuate?
Is there any rule stopping a volume of less than an trillionth of an angstrom having 4 (or 5, or a million) spacial dimensions for a tiny amount of time and going back to 3 afterwards?
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Any solution to the gamma ray burst events that may hit earth soon?
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Why is the human body so fragile? We're badly designed.
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What's the point of being a math major?
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genetic code
What schizophrenic freak designed this shit?
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Why is our moon so boring? We even named it Moon.
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Yet another IQ test for sci
normz
8 minute full-scale iq test with only 20 questions and 5 item types
ceiling of 159
.9 correlation with g on a small high range sample

https://rqvt-iq.anvil.app/
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if people knew what we are doing at our labs there would have been rebellions already start to get prepared for what is coming
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Why don't people accept climate change?
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Even if some of the doomerism is blowing things out of proportion, there's so much evidence from expert scientists of rising carbon emissions accelerating temperature, yet I've seen many skeptics saying things like "it's still cold outside" or misquoting Judith Curry or "haha lib lies" or things like that. Is this a coping mechanism to accept the fact that we're headed for a disaster and they don't want to change their comfortable living habits?
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Tokamaks are useless and were released byt he russians publicly in order to mislead the US and co. ; however, companies in the US are still paying $100k for entry level positions, specifically for work related to HTS magnet engineering in ARC tokamak labs - why is this the case?
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>category theory is use-
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my singular goal in life is to make picrel. am i studying the right things?
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To be a little clearer, i want to make fully integrated bionic systems. prosthetics that can provide the full function of the peripheral nervous system, and eventually direct connection to the central nervous system for things like internal organ replacements (or enhancements... but that's specfic territory).
Current path:
>majoring in biomedical engineering (biophys focus) and software engineering
>after certification, start working as an assistant prosthetist
>masters for prosthetics and orthotics
>doctorate in neuroscience/neuroengineering
>surely at some point one of the three schools will produce research lab connections???
Those who know more than me, am i on the right path to make picrel real?
>inb4 it will be too hard you're crazy
Thank you but not this, not the question. :)
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What are the cognitive differences between men and women, if any?
And why are young women outperforming men?
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Universe as Hyperspheres, but multible.
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I've been thinking about the shape and structure of the universe lately, and a weird but kinda grounded theory came to mind. Tell me if I’m completely insane here, or if there’s something to it:

What if the universe is a hypersphere—a 3D surface of a 4D object?
That part isn’t new, cosmologists already talk about that.

But here’s the twist:

What if there are many hyperspheres—adjacent to each other, like bubbles in some higher-dimensional space—and each one has its own rules of reality?

Different physics. Different logic.
Maybe in one universe 1+1=3, and it makes sense there.
Maybe that’s what the multiverse actually is: not parallel timelines, but adjacent logical realities, wrapped into hyperspheres.

Now take it a step further:

What if those hyperspheres aren’t the top level?
What if they’re just the protons and neutrons of something even bigger?

Like, they form atoms in a higher-scale dimension we can’t perceive.
Maybe they interact to form matter in a realm beyond anything we can experience.
Maybe our entire universe is just a tiny part of a meta-molecule floating in something else's bloodstream.

And maybe the weirdness of quantum mechanics—nonlocality, entanglement, randomness—is actually just spillover from the structure of that higher-level physics.
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Unironically what is the application?
fQRzT
https://youtu.be/OI-To1eUtuU?si=3ET52PtvdHN7P44T

Can anyone give an unironic reason why we would ever need to know how to turn a sphere made up a self phasing material inside out?
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There are people in this world that can look at your true Self, without looking at your body. They don't even see your face. I thought you /sci/entits would like to know that.
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Reminder - Earth is the only planet that we know of that has a perfect solar eclipse, since our moon happens to be about the exact same size as our sun when viewed from the Earth.

Nowhere else in the universe does this happen.
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What do we know about the evolution of human intelligence after the speciation of homo sapiens? I've read a bit about how cro-magnons had a larger cranial capacity than modern humans. Humans also seem to have rapidly sped up technological innovation after 50,000 bc for some reason
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Can reality still exist if there is no sentient mind left to perceive it? Do consciousness beget existence?
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Do you still find science cool or fun?
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Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who *DOES NOT* know what's behind the doors either, flips a coin and, according to the result, opens another door, say No. 3, which happens to be a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
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Is chatGPT better than doctors nowadays?
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sgr A_ ESO and M. Kornmesser 690
When we become able to travel in spaceships at faster-than-light speeds, what happens if we're travelling and we hit a black hole? How would we be able to prevent ships from falling into black holes when the amount of time available to warn about them is too small (considering the faster-than-light speed the ship will be travelling at)?
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At which level of mental disability do people no longer comprehend the finality of death?
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Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, isolated polonium and radium, and pioneered radiation therapy for cancer. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different sciences (Physics and Chemistry).
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Is it true that not fapping increases testosterone?
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does larger brain = more smarter?
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What would happen if a male elephant during musth was given methamphetamine?
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Question about universe
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Hi smart people. I have a question for you...

If the universe is infinite couldn't we follow stars back to the origin/point of the big bang? For example if our star is 13 billion years old, but a distant star is 12 billion years old wouldn't that indicate the direction the big bang came from?

And if we were to survive for billions of years wouldn't we eventually need to follow the "wave" finding younger and younger stars so we're not in complete darkness?
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Pluto
Woah wait, hold on... THIS is why Pluto isn't a planet? This is what the criteria for planet is?? I always assumed the people who cry about Pluto were dumbasses, but I actually agree now.

Clearing your orbit is a stupid fucking criteria for being a planet. You're telling me if Mars were exactly the same but had large debris around it, it suddenly wouldn't qualify as a planet anymore? How do you even fucking quantify this, at what arbitrary line do we declare a certain amount of debris is too much. Holy shit they were right about Pluto
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if youre so fucking smart why havent you figured out how to make microchips efficiently outside of taiwan
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c27
When did you realise that science is just applied statistics?
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Does the midwit meme have any merit? What is /sci/'s IQ?
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Please take the CAIT here and post the results:
https://cognitivemetrics.com/

Anyways, what do (you) think the average IQ of /sci/ is? Are you all midwits larping as geniuses? What about other boards?

I still can't believe that IQ is normally distributed. For every 110 iq person, there is a 90 iq person. For every 120iq person, there is an 80iq person. For every 150iq person, there is a 50iq person.
Of course this is logical, but 70iq seems so much dumber than 130iq seems smart.

>inb4 iq isn't real copers
lol ok
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>but this one study-
It’s wrong.
>but they found that-
No they didn’t.
>look at the evide-
Don’t need to.

Science has spoken.
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Was Eratosthenes wrong?
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pasture
Farmer here, I have 8 cows and breed them in pairs, then wait for the baby cows to grow up before I breed all of them again. If all get to breed in a given cycle, they become very happy, if not they become sad. Just now a villager told me that "hmmm, if the cows have become sad more than twice as many times as they have been happy, they all die". Now I am scared, but this will not happen, right? Pls help
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The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun. It was a central concept in a number of ancient sciences, providing the framework for key measurements in astronomy, astrology and calendar-making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic
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Existence of Consciousness
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Our curiosity is foundational to our conscious existence, and our curiosity about our existence feels specific to our consciousness. Furthermore, this feeling of specificity feels universal to consciousness itself. Representative of curiosity about consciousness is the belief in universality of this feeling of specificity.
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The assumption, "universality of specificity", provides the foundations necessary for our curiosities about consciousness.
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Our curiosities relate our existence to the existence of things, and therefore, our relatability is representative of the feeling of specificity of our curiosity. Existence of the notion of relatability universally represents aspects of specificity. On the other hand, existence of anything must relate to the notion of existence. Relatability of the notion of existence specifies aspects of universality. Let existential truth represent existence of the notion of existence and let existential curiosity represent existence of the notion of relatability. Existence of the notion of existence trivially relates the notion of existence to itself, and therefore must assume the existence of the notion of relatability. Existence of the notion of relatability must relate to the notion of existence. So, there is a existential truth-existential curiosity duality which we call existential duality.

Our relatability to existence of the notion of relatability is represents our feeling of existence of consciousness. Our relatability to existence of the notion of existence represents our feeling of our existence.
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Existential duality is foundational for the feeling of conscious existence. Our relatability to existential duality represents the feeling of our conscious existence and corresponds to the feeling of existence of consciousness relative to our consciousness.
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-Viśvāmitra
https://visvamitra.substack.com/
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Pi is a fabrication
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singularity inside a black hole is actually just a portal to another universe the fabric of space time is so warped that it transitions anything that falls into a 5th dimensional space.
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So now that DESI proved that the cosmological constant is fake and gay can we switch to timescape? This dark energy stuff never made sense to begin with
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a REAL iq test, for real this time
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The ICAR60 by the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. One would except a much higher degree of accuracy from a test developed by professionals at a prestigious university vs. tests like Mensa.no.
Take it and poast results.

https://planning.e-psychometrics.com/test/icar60?ssid=8165461
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There have been human beings for millions of years, and they have eaten almost anything.
If there is a med that you can take orally and will let you live 159 years, how come it wasn't discovered already?
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difficult
download
f(1, x) = (x + 1)/(x + 2)
f(2, x) = [(x + 1)/(x + 2)]/[(x + 3)/(x + 4)]
f(3, x) = f(2, x)/([(x + 5)/(x + 6)]/[(x + 7)/(x + 8)])
f(4, x) = f(3, x)/f(3, x + 8)
f(5, x) = f(4, x)/f(4, x + 16)
...
f(n + 1, x) = f(n, x)/f(n, x + 2^n)

f(infinity, 0) = 1/sqrt(2)

f(1, 1) = 2/3 ~ 0.666666
f(2, 1) = 5/6 ~ 0.833333
f(3, 1) = 70/81 ~ 0.864198
f(4, 1) = 9163/10530 ~ 0.870180
f(5, 1) = 31941470/36669429 ~ 0.871065
f(6, 1) = 94551690931328125/108536427383801742 ~ 0.871152

f(infinity, 1) = ?
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Serious question
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Why is the Leibniz notation in derivatives so widespread? Especially in USA?
Lagrangian notation is superior in every way, if you have a single variable function you don't need to specify what variable you're taking the derivative of you just add a little ' on top of the function value and you're set. And when you have a multivariable function you can just (for example when taking derivative with respect to x of f(x,y)) write f_x(x,y). I have never understood why some people want to write so many fucking words when it can be done much more simply. Is it just to look more smart? I don't get it.
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Why are midwits obsessed with language learning? Why are they learning foreing languages? Do they want to banter with foreign normies?
Also they are only interested in "learning by immersion" or some bullshit like that, so it's also a stupid inneficient way of doing stuff, if it worked the US diplomants and the CIA would teach languages that way
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Is this new pyramid discovery even remotely legit? I'm struggling to find a proper source and the main outlets covering it seem to be retard tier.
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If there was no free will there wouldn't be poetry of different beliefs resulting in order and peace of mind. It implies there's space where views do not conflict, where multiple forces is choosing to prevent all out chaos.
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So let me get this straight.
Evolution is the idea that extremely complex biological functions (that build upon eachother and rely upon eachother) came from random genetic mutations which appear in 0.01% of hosts and kill or deform the host 99.99% of the time.

Do I have that correct?
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topology
is topology the most retarded brand of mathematics?
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You can raise your IQ by taking multiple IQ tests and getting better at them
>Nooo that doesn't count you have to take the test only once!!!
Skill/performance is determined by consistency within the long run, maybe it's time to admit that IQ tests are bullshit if you think that practice is considered "cheating"
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tiramisunami
Screenshot from 2025-03-30 18-20-03
What happens in this bay when there is a tsunami?
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Kurisuanimee
>join STEM to get kurisu gf
>none of the girls actually look or dress like this
WHAT THE FUCK
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Will genetic engineering and manipulation of human biology become advanced enough to uplift me within my lifetime, or will I die as a useless, dumb, lazy autist? I'm 28.
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>Be me
>Two years out of high school
>Suddenly want to study (electrical and mechanical) engineering for college
>Find out that I should've taken higher level math classes during high school to take any sort of engineering program
>Gave up on math because it was basically a teenage humiliation ritual
>Start catching up on what I missed out on using chatgtp
>Math is actually fun

Thank you techbros for giving me a second chance...
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What is the polar opposite of an orgasm?
kg3zwf
During orgasms you release things like dopamine and endorphines etc, but what I'm wondering is a) What exact hormones are released, b) What are the exact opposites of said hormones, and c) is there a naturally occurring occasion where all of the opposite hormones are released at once.
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>woman lifter pees on the floor while lifting
>me: say something
>normies: ayo cringe chuddie it's female anatomy it's normal it's natural
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/crg/ - Cellular Reprogramming General #3
DNA
Previous >>16597188

>What is this all about?
https://rentry.co/cr_general

>/sci/ anon found a way to safely and reliably activate Yamanaka factors, repairing your worn out body and reducing cellular age.
what I wanna know is, does this really do everything we need to fully restore ourselves? how long would that take? does this really address everything? seems like it addresses a lot of the problems people have on this board.

>We just need something that rebuilds the telomeres
Here ya go friend, just activate those Yamanaka factors https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3317569/

>Can't sleep
That’s a core benefit of the stack

>Still can't come up with a reliable solution for baldness
Allegedly its even growing new follicles back

>Protocol
It's a two step process.

Step1:
500mg Curcumin
500mg or so Tributryn
Take about a dropper full of B12.

Wait an hour.

Then, think of this as a balanced dose to start the reaction.

Step 2:
300mg Liposomal Apigenin
Another 500mg of Tributryn
About 500mg of either NAD or some combo of NAD and NMN.

Repeat step 2, 2-4+ times a day.

One week on one week off to avoid T cells exhaustion.

Ultimately this is your immune system first reprogramming itself and then going out to the rest of you. The T cells are able to identify cell wall markers where issues are the most severe and those will need to be targeted first before any specific issue.

Give it a little wiggle room if you don't need as much NAD or Tributryn. NAC is a good add in as well while doing this if you have a history of smoking or lung problems.
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logic thread
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An Amazing Heart Stone!
Why is soft-tissue petrification such a controversial subject in the scientific community? Papers like this one provide great evidence in favor of it: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/44/11/951/195125/Exceptional-preservation-of-soft-bodied-Ediacara
Taking that into account as well as individual reports and recordings like vid rel, why isn't this bigger news?
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Is Statistics a good major with plenty of job opportunities in the future?
Also, i want to work in tech, can i do that with a stats major? Im talking about data science and such
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I've been feeling like this a lot lately, is it because im turning 25?
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Universe 25
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The "Universe 25" experiment is one of the most terrifying experiments in the history of science, which, through the behavior of a colony of mice, is an attempt by scientists to explain human societies. The idea of "Universe 25" Came from the American scientist John Calhoun, who created an "ideal world" in which hundreds of mice would live and reproduce. More specifically, Calhoun built the so-called "Paradise of Mice", a specially designed space where rodents had Abundance of food and water, as well as a large living space. In the beginning, he placed four pairs of mice that in a short time began to reproduce, resulting in their population growing rapidly. However, after 315 days their reproduction began to decrease significantly. When the number of rodents reached 600, a hierarchy was formed between them and then the so-called "wretches" appeared. The larger rodents began to attack the group, with the result that many males begin to "collapse" psychologically. As a result, the females did not protect themselves and in turn became aggressive towards their young. As time went on, the females showed more and more aggressive behavior, isolation elements and lack of reproductive mood. There was a low birth rate and, at the same time, an increase in mortality in younger rodents. Then, a new class of male rodents appeared, the so-called "beautiful mice". They refused to mate with the females or to "fight" for their space. All they cared about was food and sleep. At one point, "beautiful males" and "isolated females" made up the majority of the population.

According to Calhoun, the death phase consisted of two stages: the "first death" and "second death." The former was characterized by the loss of purpose in life beyond mere existence — no desire to mate, raise young or establish a role within society.
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if you say you are even 5 points above this you are lying to yourself. a FSIQ of 115 is really rare. not ravens g
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why arent animals and humans sexually fertile at birth? (ability to ejaculate and ovulation)
doesnt it make more sense to have this ability at birth? macaques take 3 years to sexually mature, thats way too long of a time
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Occupations of people with 1 in 10000 intellectual ability
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How come giving up video games is relatively easy but not engaging with content of whores on the internet is so difficult? I have been playing video games since I was a little kid but after 3 days of not playing them anymore I can stop playing them for good. With women I'll see some whore on the internet and then I'll feel the need to find out who the whore is if I don't know her name and find more content on her. How do I stop this addiction? Why is it so difficult compared to giving up video games?
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>game theoretically speaking, it is best to maximize the fitness of my children
>to that end, it is best to reproduce with the most intelligent and wealthy women
>my own intelligence and wealth are not high
>but reproduction by force is an option
Game-theoretically speaking, how does one avoid the obvious conclusion?
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If 0.333 repeating * 3 =0.999 repeating, then why is 1/3 * 3 =1?
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How comprehensible will alien life be?
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What is the scientific explanation for me always losing even though I'm just betting red or black?
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Adaptive Filtering
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Are there any online statistical learning algorithms that capture long-term dependencies? I combined model predictive control with least squares but it performed better without least squares. Any suggestions?
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Heim's mass equation
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Burkhard Heim succeeded in finding a simple arithmetic relation between the mass of muons (particles from space) and atoms.
This was 40 years ago.
What are the scientific implications of there not being a theory of physics with predictive power such as Heim?
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Consciousness without multiverse or God?
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Are there any good secular, materialist, physicalist explanations of consciousness that don't involve a multiverse?
Because it seems to me the only good explanation of consciousness without spiritual religious stuff is going to involve multiverses and the collapse of the wave function
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Find the limit
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Does the sequence converge? What's its limit?
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How do followers of the Copenhagen interpretation explain the appearance of Bohmian movement of quantum particles in weak measurement systems? https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1202218
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When does the exclusion principle kick in?
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If you have two electrons really far away from each other, you can just think about them as independent particles doing their thing. When they are close together, they start getting the quantum effects like "cant be in the same state".
Its the same for composite particles like protons, the internal particles are considered linked and subject to collective rules, but not the particles of two random protons on two different planets. They are just disconnected.
How does this work formally? When do multiple particles become "a system"?
When they become entangled?
What do you call billions of entangled particles? A condensate?
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You should be able to solve this
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Would it be possible to pull airplanes out of the sky with a giant electromagnet like in John Carter? How much would it cost to build?
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Why is squaring this thing impossible?
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what's the best nutrition/food science mooc?
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How come human beings look so different? There's a fixed number of features (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.) but two people rarely look alike.

Do animals also vary facially to the same extent as us? What about insects?
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Reminder
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that there are no "singularities" in nature. You can't point and say
>hey man, look at that singularity!
A singularity happens in thought. It's just a point where theory breaks down. If you say a "singularity" happened, that's just a s o y-based miracle substitute
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hats from math & philosophy?
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hats from math & philosophy!

dear soi, what's your fav hat from math & science?
>picrel: OC math hats
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You have to admit university is worth attending for some subjects.
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If science can know objective truth then research picrel dataset and falsify the hypothesis that the protagonist was indeed brainwashed. I'm not trolling because this movie really reflects the uncertainty of the modern world we need to navigate.
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Can a giant squid really destroy a ship?
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Decided to do some libre study all about randomness. True randomness vs pseudorandomness, RNG, PRNG, the metaphysics, and any and all applications of it.

Any suggestions for study material?
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Science that makes you go "hmm"
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Can we use math and philosophy to understand what lies beyond the doors of alice and outside the realm of malkut?
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Where do the numbers of this graph come from? I read the entire source and it's not mentioned anywhere. Is it all fake after all? How did they even conduct these studies anyway? Isn't that basically showing child porn to people? Is it legal if it's for scientific research?

https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/1995-hall.pdf
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Which one is correct?
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Why does everything spin?
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Is making a robot walk as hard as they make it out to be?
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If atoms emit light, why isn’t everything glowing all the time?

Even when atoms do emit light, the radiation might be in a wavelength we can’t see. For example, infrared (heat) and ultraviolet light are both types of electromagnetic radiation that are invisible to the human eye.

This explains why some people can see everything shinning.
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How do we know beauty, love, goodness aren't physical dimensions that we're just unable to perceive?
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Mental illness
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How would one go around starting to collect medical data such as blood tests without a job in a hospital?

Overtime I built up an idea based on my experiences, research, papers, experimenting and I found a personal solution that appears to be working for me to solve the problem of mental health in general (comorbidity of several issues), which may end up being of help to cancer or other physical problems that haven't been found yet. I'm so far building the results, which I'm actively experiencing the improvement of beyond what placebo. I just don't know how long it will go on for

Overall, I need data proof- even if I have a result. I can attempt to find the pattern or formula that can be used universally to solve the problem if it's how I think it is- or at least help complex cases such as mines (not my words)
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Greatest mathematician of our age?

Russian hobo.
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I want an advanced artificial intelligence to answer my question. It's a simple question with a simple premise:

>Name a language that contains the homophone pairs TWO/LOUSE and MANY/DOG.

It seems like a simple task but current AI just bloats itself with shit upon presenting this query. It always defaults to scattergunning languages (usually Mandarin, Hawaiian and French) and dragging itself through a big loop of "let's try language X because it has feature Y" rather than actually using the raw datasets it has access to that would immediately provide the answer.

Pic is my favourite time-wasting "thought" whether two words with 0 shared letters constituted a homophone in a phonetically transcribed language. Whoever programs these things needs a harsh reality check they can't do realworld tasks required of them and they can't do bulk data analysis.
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Can someone explain light like I'm an idiot? (I am)

I'm trying to reason about dark energy vs timescapes and got down a path of how light functions. It emits as a wave but becomes a particle when observed, the photon wave function collapses. I get that.

I try to think about a single photon, it can cross the entire universe - omnidirectionally as a (spherical?) wave expanding at the speed of light - "as long as it doesn't hit anything", once it's observed its waveform collapses and it becomes a particle of light. So a single photon can only interact with one "thing" - what counts as a thing? All fermions I suppose, how about hadrons and other bosons? Light is affected by gravioli but isn't absorbed by it...

And is there some kind of object that can suck up a lot of light? Like a black hole but less dense. Something that would act as an observer/absorber of photons in the interstellar medium, significant enough to dim the light that passes through it. Does dark matter do that?
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Humans will be on Mars by 2029
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>Mogs You
https://youtu.be/JLcEKFFEuSM?si=cydyzMIDQwoZLOXg
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Publish or Perish killed science
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We now have academically-enslaved PhD students admitting fraud for lolz on TikTok. What is your 1-sentence solution to the reproducibility crisis?
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Wait, so I can just use tropical geometry to solve linear programs using algebra? Excuse me, but what the fuck?
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All of earth is that small? The landmass below must be huge.
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you wanna buy scientific illustration picture?
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is this the power of AI? it generates stock photos for mites available for buying as internet stock images

the problem is this is nowhere scientificially accurate animale
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The turin test is bad
Also giving a robot the kind of a child is a bad idea
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defend this
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Hi /sci/, im pretty sure i have neural dust or a stentrope implanted in my skull, what is the exact words I need to say to lie to a doctor to get an mri and force them to look in the areas they would find these things? What symptoms do I need to describe?
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A or B?
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So, which one is correct and why?
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Time is running out
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>2005: Guys, the Earth doesn't periodically flip over because that would be insane. Our planet might not be a perfect sphere, but the mass distribution probably cancels out the secondary axis of inertia.

>2025: Oh...

Tick tock, /sci/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provinces
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Science of the inner ear
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So, how come modern medicine has somehow skipped the inner ear completely?
I recently had a hearing test due to suddenly hearing worse, and as it turns out, ignoring that bilateral chronic inflammation for the entrie last year was a really stupid idea, as my hearing is now that of a sixtiy year old.

My personal self pity aside, how is it possible that the entirety of inner ear medicine consists of a shitty beep test and a sympathetic shrug? While modern medicine of course isn't magic, there aren't even any proper diagnostics to identify the cause, and rarely any ways to treat said cause.
I'm not even talking about regenerating hearing cells or other advanced stuff, but I am curious how the fuck it can happen that this is somehow the least researched bodypart in existence, to the point where doctors will hand out literal herbal tincutures and use pre-enlightenment mumbo jumbo like "sudden hearing loss" in lieu of actual diagnoses.

What happened here? Why has nothing noteworthy happened in that area in the past 50 years, while we learnt to cure actual cancer types?
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Be honest with me, say money isn't an issue all the world's top scientists in the relative fields were involved, would it be possible to clone a new body and transfer your brain to it, then survive?
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Why aren't most of the important equations that govern cutting edge theories like QFT or General Relativity solvable? It's almost like we were never supposed to know how the universe works
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I invented a new number: the number l, every number that is prime can be decomposed in natural numbers times the number l
this is going to change mathematics as we know them
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