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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 22:57:26 UTC No. 16201606

Are any of you actual scientists?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 22:43:59 UTC No. 16201585

Mathlet here. Imagine you have a playlist of 1500 songs, which is set to shuffle. one song is on the playlist twice. how much does this increase the odds of that song being played next at any point?

🧵 Adderall for Studying and Lectures

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 22:43:10 UTC No. 16201583

How effective is this stuff? I've heard stories of academics taking several adderall pills per day. I had a brief stint in college a few years ago, and the reason I believe I did poorly in one of my classes was because I would often lose focus. The professor would be discussing a topic for 20 minutes, and I would start thinking about something else 5 minutes in, and then regaining my focus 2 minutes later, being completely lost. Studying at home would remedy this, but would adderall also improve my studying, making my time more worth while? To me, and I don't know if this is true, the more you focus on a subject, the more connections you make, and the better you understand it and remember it.

🧵 Did AI kill all interest in quantum computing?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 22:20:31 UTC No. 16201555

I don't hear about it much anymore.

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 22:00:45 UTC No. 16201518

Given all the technical limitations with batteries such as slow charge/discharge times, low energy densities, low numbers of recharge cycles and limited temperature ranges why isn't more research being done to develop better super-capacitors?

🧵 Scientists Warn Tattoos Cause Cancer

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:55:50 UTC No. 16201509

Roughly one third of Americans have at least one tattoo, 2023 Pew Research Center surveys show. However, very little is known about the long-term effects on our health of getting inked.
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-warn-tattoos-cancer-risk-1905193

How many of the posters here on /sci/ have tattoos? If so, have you gotten cancer yet?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:39:58 UTC No. 16201469

>2014-2018: ML
>2018-2021: Blockchain, crypto
>2021-2024: AI
It is all so tiresome

🧵 Mars is an inferior to Venus as a terraforming candidate

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:30:30 UTC No. 16201449

>mass is too low
>can't hold onto an atmosphere
>dead core - no magnetic field
>1 minimum energy launch window every 26 months
>soil is filled with poison
>will never have earth normal surface gravity

Terraforming Venus' would take less effort than terraforming M*rs, at a bare minimum you would just need to strip off its excess atmosphere and some solar shades and you'd have a planet that has 90% of Earth Gravity to live on. And if you were able to selectively strip off the atmosphere you could use it to spin the planet up to an earth like day. The transfer windows are more frequent, and while it's magnetic field is 10 times weaker than Earth's is still preferable to the alternative.There is quite literally no reason to prefer M*rs over Venus.

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:17:58 UTC No. 16201428

scientifically speaking, why is porn bad?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:03:03 UTC No. 16201382

What if dark matter is just matter whose light hasn't reached us yet??

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:50:22 UTC No. 16201349

Symbolic logic is fun. What should I do with this information?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:45:16 UTC No. 16201338

>Pedro Domingos is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:42:00 UTC No. 16201330

I know veritasium has been slipping a lot recently but I had no idea it was this bad

🗑️ 🧵 I took 2 shots of viral vector vaccines when I was 19. Am I fucked?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:23:08 UTC No. 16201306

🧵 I've come from 1 second in the future.

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:17:55 UTC No. 16201296

I've already found my younger self, typing away this thread. I don't think he sees me yet, but I begin to wonder, if I am observing myself typing this thread, then who is observing me? Could it be that theoretical myself from 2 seconds in the future? >WHATS HIS ENDGAME? No, thats what the pills were for anon....

I literally only have 1 second before I am discovered but I will answer any question in the meantime. Luckily, I seem to be the only one in possession of this technology, the 1 second time machine.

🗑️ 🧵 How do you cope

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 20:06:15 UTC No. 16201277

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 19:54:59 UTC No. 16201261

Does your average professor have to review material before teaching an introductory class? An intermediate one? A graduate course?

I have a masters degree in electrical engineering and I’ve forgotten so much. I’m certain I’d struggle to teach say an introductory calculus class without a thorough review of
the material, to say nothing about linear algebra or probability and statistics.

🗑️ 🧵 How do I learn conservative mathematics?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 19:32:22 UTC No. 16201232

I want to learn maths, but I'm conservative and I noticed most people who go to college to learn them end up becoming homosexual liberals who transition.
I want to learn maths but keep my ideologies intact during the process. Is this possible?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 18:58:31 UTC No. 16201194

Can science explain why many psychedelic users consistently experience and visualise remarkable similar trips regardless of age, gender, background and setting?

🧵 What tech would you put on new planes to make them better?

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 18:10:31 UTC No. 16201129

A cool thing imho would be Astro-Inertial Navigation System like the one on the SR-71, so that reliance on GPS/GNSS is basically eliminated (gps spoofing these days is everywhere) and avoids normal INS' accuracy decrease over time

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 17:48:08 UTC No. 16201091

>just found out there are not only people who HAVE to eat with youtube/television on but apparently most people do???
Huh? What the fuck? Explain the science behind this. What happened to sitting down and just eating without any distractions?

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 16:37:42 UTC No. 16201017

Is this the shortest wavelength that your computer/phone can emit? Most devices are equipped with monochromatic red light, green light and blue light, and mixed together to make the rest of the spectrum, would that mean that pure blue (#0000FF) is the shortest wavelength you can emit?

🧵 Using starship for a mars molony is unfesable

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 16:25:36 UTC No. 16200996

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54012-0#Sec43
>It has been shown that there are currently several gaps in the available technology to conduct a Mars mission as sketched by SpaceX, e.g. concerning ISRU capability, power supply and the performance of Starship itself is incapable to conduct the mission as proposed by SpaceX
>ToF limits published by SpaceX are found to be unrealistic and cannot be held with the current design
>Even with an unrealistic 100% recovery rate of consumables, the mission was not feasible for a 12 person crew per Starship, let alone for the SpaceX published 100 person crew
>Further technology development is required, to supplement this launch and transfer vehicle and enable Mars missions. This is affecting Starship itself, but also infrastructure elements needed for the SpaceX proposed mission

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Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 16:01:54 UTC No. 16200948

Are there any studies on the effects of polyamory on relationships and the mental states of the involved?