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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:02:54 UTC No. 16138507
Last time I cared about the evolution debate was in high school and its been 10 years now. Now that the dust has settled, is it real or fake?
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:49:55 UTC No. 16138501
Why does Hydrogen-Peroxide bubble inside your ear FOREVER? I left it in for nearly an hour and it was still bubbling
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:39:32 UTC No. 16138497
How was it acceptable for Shinichi Mochizuki to say this about Kirti Joshi?
🧵 Qualitative intelligence amplification?
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:35:21 UTC No. 16138496
Im serious about increasing my intelligence, as close to an IQ of 130. I’m looking into nootropics and actually forcing myself to read older books on philosophy and science. I want to be able to read and write like the people of the past, compared to the short fatuous writing styles of the modern internet. I want to increase my biological cognitive capacity with whatever tools I have present today. I want to be able to understand abstract ideas like higher level math and logic puzzles. I want to develop and create new sophisticated cognitive modules like complex linguistic representations or longterm planning or abstract reasoning.
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:14:37 UTC No. 16138486
Disclaimer im a normie but why does it seem like several companies have been able to make AI at the same time, was there some sort of technical block that was stopping it until recently?
🧵 marijuana = -6 IQ points
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:09:29 UTC No. 16138479
happy 420 to /sci/!!!
I did an experiment using empirical data and i took this online IQ test when I was sober and one when I was high, and I lost exactly 6 points.
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:43:20 UTC No. 16138463
>quantum fields are probabilistic instead of deterministic
>but "real" things (for lack of a better word) like atoms, objects, planets, stars, etc are deterministic instead of probabilistic
am i just too stupid to understand quantum mechanics? because that dont make no sense
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:29:45 UTC No. 16138453
So /sci/, what do you think humans should work towards as the next big step for human advancement?
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:20:14 UTC No. 16138441
About a decade ago I heard that you should sleep with your head pointed northwards for best sleep because something about the magnetic field of the earth aligning with the internal magnetic whatever of the iron in your blood and electricity in your brain and kind of dismissed it as dumb shit. Well now I'm 30 and every percentage point of sleep quality matters so I looked it up and all that google shows me is that according to ancient pajeet wisdom south or east are the best because of spiritual reasons.
tldr is sleep quality affected by the direction your body faces
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 04:59:59 UTC No. 16138410
What's YOUr take on the cause of placebo?
🧵 How many of you could survive all of the Cambridge Chemistry Tripos's suggested secondary reading?
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 04:59:58 UTC No. 16138409
M0: Introduction to polymers
Recommended books
>Principles of Polymerization, 4th Edition, G. Odian, 2004, John Wiley & Sons.
>Polymer Chemistry: An Introduction, 3rd Edition, M.P. Stevens, 1999, Oxford University Press.
>Handbook of Polymer Synthesis, Part A, Ed H.R. Kricheldorf, 1992, Marcel Dekker.
>Polymer Chemistry & Physics, 2nd Edition, J.M.G. Cowie, 1991, Blackie.
>Introduction to Industrial Polymers, 2nd edition, H. Ulrich, 1993, Hanser.
>Polymer Physics, U. Gedde, 1995, Chapman & Hall.
M1: Inorganic materials
Recommended Books
>Magnetism and Transition Metal Compounds, Carling, R.L., and van Duyneveldt, A.J., Springer-Verlag, 1977
>Molecular Magnetism, Kahn, O., VCH, 1993
>Magnetism and Transition Metal Complexes, Mabbs, F.E., Machin, D.J., London, 1973
>Magnetochemistry, Orchard, A.F., Oxford, 2003
>Magnetism in Condensed Matter, Blundell, S., Oxford, 2001
M2: Advanced diffraction methods
Recommended books
>Clegg, W., Crystal Structure Determination, Oxford Chemistry Primer.
>Ladd, M. F. C. and Palmer, R. A., Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography, Plenum Press.
>Glusker, J. P., Lewis, M. and Rossi, M., Crystal Structure Analysis for Chemists and Biologists, V. C. H. Publishing.
>Young, R. A., The Rietfeld Method, O.U.P.
>Bacon, G. E., Neutron Diffraction, O.U.P.
>Bacon, G. E., Applications of Neutron Diffraction in Chemistry, Pergammon Press.
>Grundy, P. J. and Jones G. A., Electron Microscopy in the Study of Materials, Edward Arnold Ltd.
>Spence, J. C. H., Experimental High-Resolution Electron Microscopy, Clarendon Press.
>Fultz, B. and Howe, J. M., Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials, Springer-Verlag.
>Thomas, G. and Goringe, M. J., Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials, John Wiley and Sons.
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 04:16:51 UTC No. 16138377
/sci/bros..... it's happening
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:22:23 UTC No. 16138331
>Learn new math concepts
>Show a bunch of strangers about it who never touched mathematics
>WOWZERS YOU KNOW THIS YOU MUST BE A 1 GAZILLION IQ GENIUS!!!!
Math is just following a bunch of rules and doing a practice problems, how exactly does it require a high IQ? If you can learn and understand something then you're smart enough to do math.
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:05:35 UTC No. 16138314
Anyone seen this show? It has some interesting plot points about super determinism, the observer effect, alternate dimensions etc. Worth a watch to discuss here imo
https://fmoviesz.to/tv/constellatio
🧵 am i stupid?
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:53:52 UTC No. 16138291
>https://new.reddit.com/r/mathmemes
>decide i will try this
>can't to the first problem because i couldn't come up with examples, skip to 4th, since it looks like standard AMC problem
>still can't do it, monte carlo the fuck out of it and guess the answer after finding total number of possibilities
>numerically bash 6, 10, 11, 12
>try numerically bashing 7 for half a day, give up and guess using a linear regression (it was wrong)
>come back to 1, finally realize how to do it
guys am i stupid???
i dont think i solved any of the problems the intended way :(
🧵 /nursing/ general
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:06:31 UTC No. 16138250
They are the backbone of the healthcare system and deserve some limelight. Let's give it up to nurses! Talk about your experiences as a nurse or anything nursing-related on this thread!
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Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:36:09 UTC No. 16138211
Why is this taboo to discuss in the sciences?
🧵 does evolution favor the species or the individual?
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:33:50 UTC No. 16138125
I was thinking about evolution after I sneezed earlier today.
Sneezing spreads pathogens much further than if one were to blow their nose into a tissue or their hand or whatever, so this makes me think that the mechanism of sneezing was evolutionarily chosen to favor the individual over the group.
But we can see many cases of evolution benefiting “the group”, especially in ants and honeybees.
I wonder if one focus of evolution is much more common than the other?
🧵 Anti-aging: Dave Pascoe edition
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:27:15 UTC No. 16138115
This guy humiliated Bryan Johnson. Looks 30 something at 61. The question everyone wants to know, is his method legit? What do you guys think?
https://sites.google.com/view/davep
🗑️ 🧵 Would you be able to score a passing grade on the scicord quant test?
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:29:16 UTC No. 16138004
they apparently made a test to filter out people to help manage their private "club fund", and the highest score achieved was 12/20 (fail). how many questions can /sci/ solve correctly?
🗑️ 🧵 Evolutionary Benefit to Fear Attractive Females
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:21:06 UTC No. 16137994
Every time i interact with an extremely attractive girl my charisma short circuits and everything I say sounds like a lobotomized monkey trying to sound interesting. But when I interact with a girl I consider at my looks match or below, all my jokes are perfect and my responses are easily fabricated? It completely automated, like some kind of counter in my brain is screeching, OH SHIT ATTRACTIVE FEMALE DETECTED PANIC MODE ACTIVATED. I fucking hate that shit. What biological benefit to spazzing out like a total fag when the goal of human biology is supposed to attract the highest value woman possible to produce offspring with if my stupid monkey brain freaks out in direct proportion to the attraction I feel to the girl?
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Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 22:57:33 UTC No. 16137969
>When presented with a reflection, fem.ales gazed into their own eyes and made friendly gestures, such as lip-smacking and swaying. Males made more eye contact than with strangers or familiar monkeys but reacted with signs of confusion or distress, such as squealing, curling up on the floor, or trying to escape from the test room.[31].
What is wrong with male capuchin monkeys? Do you also do this /sci/?
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Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 22:27:35 UTC No. 16137922
The newest version of Windows has a built in, unremovable wrongthink preventer which cannot be disabled.
What kind of effect is this going to have on the scientific community which relies of computers for all of it's calculation and communication needs?
🧵 pseudoscience scam
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:45:41 UTC No. 16137878
So, my sister just went and got herself a stationary water filter installed for her place, sold by some saleswoman a neighbor talked her into meeting at her home and supposedly convinced her.
Now, here's the thing – the water quality in our area is actually pretty decent, despite europoor vibes sometimes. But she's all about that extra peace of mind, you know?
She's mainly concerned about potential medication contamination in the water supply – from birth control pills, antibiotics, and all sorts of meds that could find their way into the system. Plus, there's the whole issue of old pipes that might be leaching who knows what into the water. So, the filter is supposed to tackle all that.
Like, is it actually safer to drink from the tap with a filter than to chug from those plastic bottles?
Curious to hear your thoughts on this, Is the filter overkill, or is it a smart move? And how worried should we be about plastic bottle water?
No conspiracy theories please.