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Anonymous at Fri, 4 Apr 2025 01:34:57 UTC No. 16636913
so given a box of X, Y, and Z dimensions, what would actually be the minimum of
[math]\sqrt{a^2+y^2}+\sqrt{(x-a)^2+
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Anonymous at Fri, 4 Apr 2025 00:38:24 UTC No. 16636865
>there might be nefarious LLM prompting schemes/frameworks out there that you are too mentally limited to imagine
Turns out that the "idea space" of language is infinitely expansive, specially considering the context size that those things can handle.
They could be very well making possible for someone to execute some not so ethical process in a hyper accelerated way that the average person or even high IQ people can't even fathom. I don't even want to imagine when the AIs start doing shit like this proactively by themselves away from anyone's eyes.
🧵 >appeal to authority: the website
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 22:41:34 UTC No. 16636696
it's just as dogshit as conservapedia. the rationalwiki people are smarter than conservapedia but they're very dumb in a lot of ways too
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 22:30:32 UTC No. 16636672
what can you tell me about mobile aloha and such?
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 21:52:58 UTC No. 16636618
Is it normal for your calculus 3 professor to make all the questions weird as hell for no reason
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:52:56 UTC No. 16636495
Let me get this straight. The p value tells you the probability that an experiment was done correctly. So why do we want small p values?
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 19:24:39 UTC No. 16636367
Hypothetically what would happen if you drank a 1 molar solution of barium chloride on accident?
🧵 Nuclear Energy Thread
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:37:57 UTC No. 16636299
Lets discus nuclear electricity generation.
I wondered recently if the economics of US nuclear energy are distorted by purchasing surplus enriched uranium from Russia for decades? USG closed or privatized much of the domestic nuclear fuel enrichment.
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:20:53 UTC No. 16636275
How are the Three Laws of Robotics compatible with robot femdom/BDSM?
For example if the three laws were established and I had a gynoid and I want her to be my dominatrix. I hope this is the right board to ask this.
🧵 PHYSICISTS HATE HIM!
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:10:11 UTC No. 16636265
Naked eye astronomer exposes shocking cosmological secret. He does away with the need for an expanding universe with one WEIRD trick!
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:50:30 UTC No. 16636249
Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within the context of mathematics, focusing on the mathematical properties of formal logic systems, such as their expressive and deductive power.
With that being said do you think its possible to overcome any paradox by the simple addition of an extra dimension given that any statement can be stated in a 2 dimensional hierarchical space and as a consequence any complex polynomial with a contradiction is just misunderstood space the logic has tangled itself a higher dimensional space
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:40:51 UTC No. 16636239
when will science fix balding?
🧵 Calculus and Analog Signal Analysis
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:17:19 UTC No. 16636208
I studied biomedical engineering in undergrad over 10 years ago and studied a bit of calculus like multivariate and differential equations.
Also studied a bit of analog signal analysis which involved circuit analysis of transient signals, Fourier and Laplace transforms.
However I want to study these again more indepth to refresh and expand my knowledge, as well as have any of the calculus and other math background necessery to understand this at a deeper level, and further topics.
What textbook do you recommend /sci/?
🧵 An objection to many worlds from anthropics
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 15:48:17 UTC No. 16636135
Before I begin this article, let me say: I am not an expert on the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics. You shouldn't really trust what I have to say on this subject. The extent of my expertise is having gotten an A in high school physics and read some Eliezer Yudkowsky articles about many worlds. I could tell you almost nothing about the physics behind many worlds. Fortunately, my argument doesn't hinge on highly precise facts about physics.
The basic idea of many worlds is that each time a quantum mechanical event happens, the universe splits so that there's a world where it turns out each of the ways it could have. So, for instance, if a particle can either go left or right, the world splits and there's one world where it goes left and another where it goes right. This may sound ridiculous and gerrymandered, but it allegedly falls straightforwardly out of existing physical equations rather than requiring an epicycle.
🧵 Is it really bad to just assume the universe is infinite?
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 15:19:41 UTC No. 16636117
I mean we literally can't see outside our observable universe because light can't even reach their at all. Like you're telling me there's a shit ton galaxies, stars and matter in the universe but at a certain point we can't see shit? What the fuck, there's something very odd about this reality that I truly can't point my finger out. Why wouldn't there just be more galaxies, stars and planets?
🧵 Cleft chin dissapeared
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 14:34:08 UTC No. 16636070
Scientifically speaking how is this possible? I used to have it in school and part of college, but now in my mid 20s it disappeared and I don't remember when it happened
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:46:02 UTC No. 16636054
>indian "god of math"
>its just a 15yo kid doing highschool math
how are indians impressed by this am i missing something or is this just a slightly above average 15yo
🧵 If they decide to kill /sci/ for real one day, where do we go?
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:39:34 UTC No. 16636001
Yesterday’s prank made me realize there’s no other place like /sci/ to discuss science and math, I can only think of Reddit (God, saying this out loud is disgusting, that place is utter trash). What do we do if they decide to close the board for real in the future? /sci/ is one of the slow boards so I wouldn’t put it past them to just kill it ignoring the fact that it’s the best board together with /lit/.
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:59:51 UTC No. 16635913
new paper claims you can harvest energy from Earth's rotation
discuss the practical implications of this discovery
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/earth
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15790
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:47:13 UTC No. 16635905
I've watched countless videos discussing quantum entanglement by "experts" and walked away with two different versions of it.
1. Measuring a single entangled particle will directly effect the spin of the other regardless of distance
2. They're just synchronized so it just "appears" that they're interacting when measured
So which one is true?
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:34:32 UTC No. 16635894
/x/enophile here. I'm considering getting a smart telescope called a Dwarf 3. But I think an optical telescope would be better because the actual light from the celestial objects goes through the lenses and into your eye, rather than being passed through electrical circuits as with the smart telescope.
Do you have any thoughts about this?
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:12:52 UTC No. 16635872
Posted without further comment.
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Anonymous at Thu, 3 Apr 2025 08:19:48 UTC No. 16635803
Clearly, it's not social contagion, right?