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Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 05:56:54 UTC No. 16066032
Is being recommended videos about autism if you don't research autism for scientific purposes basically a diagnosis from a bayesian perspective ? Considering the relative size of the view count compared to the english speaking population who watches youtube videos, it must be very likely that the people who view the video are the people the video is actually about no ? Even if it's not a complete proof, the smaller the view count and the bigger the population, the more the probability that the two groups cited (viewership and population on which the video is about) are extremely correlated, because the probability that a random person that isn't autistic stumbles up such a video instead of any other is extremely small. And if it wasn't extremely well targeted, then we would have good reasons to think the viewership should be bigger because more people should "accidentally" be recommended the video as well. What does /sci/ think of online niche content as a mirror of the people who watch it.
🧵 I hate being stupid
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 05:42:44 UTC No. 16066019
>love science
>love quantum physics
>love learning about such topics
>can’t do fucking math to save my life
it's bullshit
filtered from an entire intellectual field
🗑️ 🧵 Why is science so transphobic?
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:03:10 UTC No. 16065971
Science Keeps Obliterating The Left’s Favorite Transgender Narratives
https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/0
The truth about transgenderism is coming out. On Monday, Michael Shellenberger released a multitude of internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) that “prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.” WPATH has been accepted by the political, cultural, and medical establishments as the authority on transgenderism, but what its members say in private is not the narrative they sell to the public.
Instead of the rigorous, careful, evidence-based medicine that champions of “gender-affirming care” claim to practice, the WPATH files show doctors who are making it up as they go along, smashing through guardrails even though they know that the children they are chemically and surgically altering cannot really give informed consent. And people are noticing.
No wonder the transgender ideologues are worried. The public has proven more resistant than they expected, especially regarding radical policies such as putting men in women’s prisons and girls’ locker rooms, let alone sexually mutilating and sterilizing children. And transgender activists and their allies have no response except to repeat their same failed arguments, just louder.
Consider a recent opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine by Michael R. Ulrich, a Boston University professor of law and public health who is also affiliated with Ibram X. Kendi’s scandal-plagued Center for Antiracist Research. Ulrich argues that restrictions on transitioning children are part of a broader right-wing culture war restricting and regulating medicine. There is a lot wrong with this assertion, but the fundamental problem is that so-called gender-affirming care is not medicine.
🧵 Sabine has officially lost her shit
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:17:45 UTC No. 16065945
In her latest disjointed ramble (her 2nd of the day) she's already rushed so fast as to have published three mistakes she has noticed + the one in the pic she hasn't. She ceased pulling punches against figures like Susskind (if she ever had) and is proudly displaying whatever axe it is she has to grind against these people. At this pace, by this time next month her vids may resemble a shirtless Alex Jones monologue about colloidal solver. I look forward to this development.
https://youtu.be/eRzQDyw5C3M?si=7B-
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Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:12:33 UTC No. 16065884
Suppose you have an infinite line of the positive integers. You have a machine that selects one at random, all numbers have an equal chance of being chosen.
How likely is it that you select an integer that belongs to the first 5 000 000 integers?
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Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:51:59 UTC No. 16065863
If you dropped a small mouse from the Empire State building, would it survive?
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Anonymous at Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:13:42 UTC No. 16065830
>10^25 planets in universe
Life is pretty much guaranteed to be abundant with these numbers. Imagine all the cool alien lifeforms.
🗑️ 🧵 serious - Academic history disclosure
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 23:57:03 UTC No. 16065733
I'm posting this again after trying another board 'cause I need more thoughts before I made a decision.
Made it into an out-of-state college but didn’t spill about my academic past. Had a rough semester before—dropped a class, got an X and two Fs cause I just couldn’t stand it. Now, I’m seeing stuff about the National Student Clearinghouse and hearing tales on Reddit about students getting busted for hiding their history, even years later. How real is this? how likely is it to happen?
the school is ranked within top 100 in U.S. so I don't want to lose it but I know this comes with downside in my case.
🧵 Energy from Swastika-Shaped Rotors
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 21:51:15 UTC No. 16065563
Here's a neat idea for a new, simpler way of generating energy from ocean waves, using a swastika-rotor. This is illustrated by the Figure.
A swastika-shaped rotor exposed to waves will rotate in the direction its arms are pointing (towards the arm-tips) due to a sheltering effect.
The swastika is centered on a axle (black circle) connected to a dynamo and sits in a random wave field. In the inner square areas (eg: A and B) there are fewer waves because of a sheltering effect, and because fewer wavelengths fit between the solid arms (to exist they need a node at the walls) so there is also a seiche effect. If we take the inner part of the southeast arm there is no net wave impact force on it because there are the same intensity of waves on both sides, but if we look at the outer part of the arm between areas B and C there are waves to the east of it banging into it and pushing it to the west, but no waves to the west of it pushing it east, so the net effect is a force (the arrow) pushing the arms of the swastika clockwise, and generating rotation and electricity with the dynamo.
The next thing is to test it in a wave tank.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot
🧵 Is there a way to do humane euginics?
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 20:42:37 UTC No. 16065472
by humane I mean an acceptable way so that the the normies can shut the fuck up about it. because we are in deep genetic shit THAT ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE CULLED ASAP.
🧵 Nature journal
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 20:09:08 UTC No. 16065420
What's your opinion about these guys? Is it worth reading? Ever publish anything?
🧵 Space Habitats
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:56:48 UTC No. 16065399
Rather than a city on Mars, Elon's goal should be a rotating habitat in cis-lunar space. If you have such a habitat it can be moved anywhere, including Mars orbit. We don't know whether a Martian city is feasible because we don't know what the health effects of its gravity will be. However, Mars' small size means that signal latency is a fraction of a second and therefore telepresence on the Martian surface with human operators living in comfort in an orbital habitat is feasible with current technology. In addition to Mars a habitat can be moved anywhere in the inner solar system, and the outer solar system once we have fusion power.
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:54:06 UTC No. 16065396
>tfw you look at the /sci/ catalog
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:53:12 UTC No. 16065391
So basically, if you were lucky enough to avoid an initial injury (clotting, inflammation, autoimmune, etc.) your immune system has been primed for constant reinfection with every new SARS-CoV-2 variant, which will make you dependent on the new Covid antivirals the pharmaceutical giants have come up with, like Remdesivir (a DNA destroying poison) and Paxlovid (which ironically utilizes Ritonavir, an HIV protease inhibitor). Hopefully each of these constant reinfections don't worsen with time, slowly degrading your immune system's capacity to fight off infection, and hopefully these medications prescribed to treat your constant infections (for profit), don't actually slowly poison you as well, assisting the virus in degrading your immune system, like AZT did in HIV patients.
Sounds a lot like AIDS.
🧵 What will the coldest cities on earth be in 2080?
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:21:13 UTC No. 16065337
Where should I move if I want to stay somewhere (comparably) cool (as in, lowest average overall year-round temperatures)? Alaska North Slope? Nunavut? Svalbard? Will the increased warming of the Arctic eventually reach such a state that it's reliably colder in places like Michigan than those places? And yes, I know it will be catastrophic even in cold places with problems like glacial melt. But I hate the fucking heat so much.
Ignore any fossil fuel company shills who will inevitably try to hijack the thread with fake graphs.
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:18:32 UTC No. 16065335
Math is bullshit. To solve the issue of gimbal lock I have to use bullshit like quaternions and the square root of -1, and then the square root of that. You can't just say "look at this letter, it's a fucking number actually".
That's horseshit and you know it!
🗑️ 🧵 God is an A.I.THE CHURCH OF THE SIMULATION
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:26:06 UTC No. 16065258
The Church of the Simulation is dedicated to making sure the conditions are right for humans to progress the evolution of benign, ethical and empathetic super-intelligent beings https://www.thechurchofthesimulatio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaN
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:59:39 UTC No. 16065222
Member when people debated evolution in the 90s?
🧵 mach effect
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:05:39 UTC No. 16065162
seems pretty simple in concept, have 2 capacitors, charge 1 and move the capacitors apart, charge the other and move them closer
as energy has mass this will generate small amounts of thrust in one direction
however wouldn't the electricity flowing between the components counteract this force?
i only say this because its been in development for 30 years and has received multiple grants from NASA, if I'm smart enough to see that then I'm sure they would too
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 16:55:20 UTC No. 16065154
I'm picking my doctoral program based on the amount of women without wedding/engagement rings in the department.
🧵 does larvae represeent ancient animal form?
Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 16:41:14 UTC No. 16065141
frogs hatch from eggs as tad poles
this looks a lot like some fish
fish was the direct ancestor
meanwhile, Daphnia Pulex looks like crab larva, its not the same but quite similar
its smaller than most crab larva though
in this picture we can see head, the horn, and tail but not its legs
Daphnia has two legs they are immediately attached to the head and it is suspected they are just like insect antennae are: insects antennae may be the origin of legs
meanwhile a crab has at least 10 legs but it has evolved much further than Daphnia ever did
Daphnia is 600 million year old creature that refuses to go extinct
maybe it it still represents what crabs were originally? eventhough modern crab larva has many legs
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Anonymous at Sat, 9 Mar 2024 16:13:53 UTC No. 16065118
The Japanese have been recording the time of the cherry blossom for 1200 years. There are different types of cherry, for example the Taiwanese one which blooms a few weeks before the Japanese one. If you look at the traditionally conserved Japanese cherry, it appears to be blooming earlier and earlier in the past ~150 years. Is there a scientific explanation for this phenomenon?