🧵 Settled Science:The Earth is 27 billion years old.
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:33:44 UTC No. 16092117
It's over Big Bangbros.
We got too cocky.
🗑️ 🧵 Brainlet moment
Anonymous at Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:36:47 UTC No. 16092028
How do you guys deal with the humiliation of having a public brainlet moment? One of the older postdocs at work told me my project got scooped and showed me a paper that did something similar to what our PI told me to do, so I brought it up on Slack and then my boss was like
>uh no anon, this is actually different from our concept, your project is fine
So I feel a bit better because I wasn't scooped but now I feel humiliated. I've only been at this job for less than a month so at least he'll probably chock it up to being new to the field but it also feels bad because it was the last thing that happened before the weekend...
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:54:59 UTC No. 16091925
Medically speaking, is CBT bad for your testicles?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:43:31 UTC No. 16091904
Can someone please explain how to properly blueprint a prototype?
I have a billion dollar idea but no clue how to go about it. It’s a piece of heavy equipment similar to an excavator so much of the design can be copied.
🗑️ 🧵 Redpill me on data science
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:40:53 UTC No. 16091900
Redpill me on everything about data science >>>/sci
From beginner to pro
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:39:25 UTC No. 16091897
What if Relativity comes from the past (Distance/speed of light) while Quantum Mechanics comes from the future (entanglement)?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:35:33 UTC No. 16091892
Is this an accurate representation?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:40:52 UTC No. 16091807
About to start Picrelated. Thoughts?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:15:23 UTC No. 16091764
How can you scientifically determine whether or not someone is a transgender woman?
🧵 /mnt/ - General #2
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:01:01 UTC No. 16091726
WALKER Edition
Discuss molecular nanotechnology research, companies, startups, implications. Anything to with molecular nanotechnology.
And please keep your discussion limited to molecular nanotechnology, not soiboy nu-nanotechnology.
Previous Thread: >>16083930
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:52:24 UTC No. 16091579
Is Coca Cola really a healthier beverage than milk?
🧵 Linguistics
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:49:08 UTC No. 16091462
Okay, I need some help. I don't understand.
The existence of language families suggests that language was invented by humans multiple times at the same time in prehistory. What? This makes no goddamned sense.
Imagine for a moment Grog invents the word who cares, let's pick one "Apple". So Grog tells his friends "Apple" then they tell their friends "Apple" and that spreads TO EVERY FUCKING PERSON ON THE PLANET because it's not like the Dirt Eating Tribe over the mountain have language before fucking Grog came along and started calling this shit "Apples"!!!
So what the hell is going on? Are linguists suggesting there was no interaction between people at all prior to the invention of language? No! That's just as stupid! Which means I'm to believe that Grog, who invented the word "Apple" told nobody but his two best friends and they left it up to Derg across the river to come up with his own name for apples completely independent of Grog!
My head fucking hurts. Either there is one proto language for all languages or nothing makes sense anymore.
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:12:24 UTC No. 16091407
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:07:44 UTC No. 16091403
What’s the quickest way to raise your IQ? I somehow matched with a PhD Comp Sci and Math student on Hinge, bust I’m scared I won’t be smart enough for her. She says I’m very attractive and is excited to meet me. I can’t fuck this up. My current plan is to spend the next two days solving rubix cubes and reading the classics. Any other tips
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:00:20 UTC No. 16091317
Getting a math phd ruined my life
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:35:46 UTC No. 16091293
>50 billion mans have lived this earth
>200 million mans have had an iq over 140 (99.6th percentile)
>0 mans have invented an affordable, reliable, and painless method to enlarge penis
what is even the point of science?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:32:46 UTC No. 16091286
Kill Elon Musk.
Neuralink is the most invasive, bullshit, evil technology I've ever seen. Anything it wants to do, it can do with a non-invasive headset. The technology to read and detect brainwaves was available and cheap when I was fucking undergrad FFS.
Kill Elon Musk. Burn Tesla. Destroy Neuralink.
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:15:37 UTC No. 16091275
Are video games bad for you, scientifically speaking?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:23:56 UTC No. 16091222
Which gender is the more romantic one?
What does science say about this topic?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:23:05 UTC No. 16091142
Why did all the anti-vaxxer "takes" age so poorly?
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Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:22:10 UTC No. 16091141
Why couldnt they create a better numerical system?
🧵 Process IQ
huxley at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:53:11 UTC No. 16091093
The process of increasing IQ, versus the result of what IQ is.
Credit to >>16089945 for finding the puzzles.
🧵 Are Negative Numbers "Real"?
Anonymous at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:33:58 UTC No. 16091069
At least a day ago, someone told me about people who don't believe that number goes up forever and that infinity isn't "real".
The thinking is that number is an abstraction, so the biggest number we can construct is the biggest one that exists and that that is bounded by the amount of material in the universe which can be used to represent the number.
What about the other direction, when number gets smaller?
Abstractly, if you have a maid and I have no maids and I take your maid, now you have no maids and I have a maid. If I take your maid again, you have a negative maid and I have two maids?
Except in reality this can't happen. There is only one maid to be had in this scenario. I can't take your maid if you have no maid for me to take. I do not pull a maid from the void and somehow simultaneously create a negative maid now attached to you.
Yes, we can create a physical representation of negative numbers, using tricks like Two's Complement, but this is just a mental abstraction mapped to something a machine can represent. To represent it, you do not have a negative amount of bits. You have a positive amount of bits and have decided some arrangements of them represent negative numbers.
In this case, negative number is a symbolic abstraction, not something which actually exists in reality because in reality you can't have less than zero of something.
>tl;dr: How do finitists explain negative numbers? If infinity doesn't exist because we can't physically construct it, do negative numbers also not exist for the same reason?