🗑️ 🧵 Do you have a good relationship with your PHD advisor?

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:26:41 UTC No. 16236695

Discuss

🧵 Should I go into academia /sci/?

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:15:49 UTC No. 16236675

I'm finishing my phd in [spoiler] social [/spoiler] sciences at an ivy league right now and can't find an industry job

🧵 Autism

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:06:50 UTC No. 16236665

SHANK3 gene mutation has been identified as a possible cause for autism in mouse models.

Plethora of studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=shank3+autism&oq=shank3

SHANK3 mutation causes abnormal development of synapses, leading to altered sensory and motor processing.

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:35:23 UTC No. 16236627

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:20:45 UTC No. 16236602

if you had some magic machine that followed physical laws, could you turn hydrogen into any element?
that's what stars did after the big bang right?
or are there certain elements that cannot be created?

🧵 DMT and near-death experiences

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:43:23 UTC No. 16236546

I heard that DMT can be in elevated levels when one is near death. Could this be the cause of hallucinations and religious experiences?

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:33:22 UTC No. 16236538

Good News Everyone: That definitely-not-fake disease you've been hearing about has a new definition with over 200 potential symptoms, meaning you almost definitely have it and will need some big pharma products to treat it. (Also Diana gets to keep her Patreon grift going.)

https://www.iflscience.com/long-covid-finally-has-a-definition-and-over-200-possible-symptoms-74657

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:21:04 UTC No. 16236523

Where are all the Aliens !?

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:14:44 UTC No. 16236518

I have 107 iq and doing PhD in AI and Machine Learning how does it make you feel?

🗑️ 🧵 The black-white IQ disparity: a short overview

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:47:55 UTC No. 16236489

There is an IQ gap present among black and white Americans, and because of the lack of research between what could be done to mediate the gap, it seems like it will always persisted. Once you adjust for SES (socioeconomic situation) and IQ, the crime rate and financial outcome disparity disappears almost completely.

It is currently taboo to suggest that the gap is partially due to genetic reasons, as people in general like to believe that they can overcome any disparity through hard work and ambition. What they don't like to believe is that there are immediable differences because of factors completely out of their control. However, the majority of research that is done carefully keeps arriving to the conclusion that the intelligence gap is partially due to a genetic component.

One such is the meta study ' Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability.': https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-03637-001 which carefully analyses multiple studies and presents an unbiased look at both sides of the argument (the hereditarians believe that the gap is partially due to genetics, and the other side believes its only due to environmental circumstances), and it too has also come to the same conclusion. The studies that attempt to debunk this claim usually focus on children, where their cognitive functions aren't fully devleoped yet, thus their intelligence at that time is more dependent on the environment. However, people's brains grow.

Another piece of evidence would be the SAT (which practically dubs for an iq test) scores among black and white students, adjusted for SES. As predicted in the meta study, the IQ gap between black and white students fall about 5 points when adjusted for SES, but the difference between the two groups still is extremely noticeable.

As research into the IQ's of different races start becoming taboo, we as a society will not be able to discover any methods to mediate this gap.

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:12:18 UTC No. 16236439

Geeks miss the forest for the trees when discussing nuclear power. The spend so much time bleating about the energy density of uranium they miss out on every other aspect of nuclear power and why it is terrible.

The real reason it won't work is because of the cost. We already tried back during the oil embargo and couldn't get nuclear off the ground.

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:00:31 UTC No. 16236422

Sabine has decided to go black.

🧵 is titan the best moon for colonization in our solar system?

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:50:32 UTC No. 16236408

🧵 Filling the Gaza tunnels with gas

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:39:53 UTC No. 16236395

Israel is under much critical scrutiny for bombing Gaza. Hamas members hide in the tunnels underneath the civilian population. It strikes me that a bomb is probably not the best weapon in this case, neither for targeting Hamas nor for avoiding civilian casualties.

What about gas? While some kind of toxic gas is possible, an easier option might be something abundant like CO2. CO2 is heavier than O2, so if you pumped a bunch of it into the tunnels it would presumably sink to the bottom, right? Would it be possible for the IDF to just find as many tunnel entrances as they can and pump in CO2 (or some other cheap/abundant gas)? The tunnel network is vast- I have heard estimates that they stretch for about 500 km. Let's assume the estimates for width and height of the tunnels are 5 m x 5 m. Then the total volume of the entire tunnel network would be 500,000*5*5 = 12.5 million cubic meters. Would it be technically feasible to fill the tunnels with some kind of gas that would either poison or suffocate the millitants inside?

Since this is /sci/, I would like to keep the focus of this thread on the technical feasibility (or infeasibility) of the proposal, rather than on politics or military strategy.

🧵 Graph theory help

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:00:20 UTC No. 16236378

Hi /sci/, I'm writing a joke paper on Terrence Howard's paper about how 1x1=2, and I need some help with a section. For the paper, in section 2.1.2, I'm trying to get into some amount of detail about how the amount of colored edges changes with respect to however many more shapes are connected to any combination of shapes. Is there any resource anywhere that can help me with that? I'm looking through "Graph Theory and Its Applications" by Gross right now but I think this is closer to combinatorics than anything. But I have no clue.

PDF related

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:07:30 UTC No. 16236322

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is approximately 25% of 1% of a light year away from earth. What are the scientific implications of this?

🗑️ 🧵 what are mirrors and how do they work?

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:54:30 UTC No. 16236236

and no i don't want any made up jewish academia """answer""" i want to know how they actually work
they give off big satanic energy

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:24:20 UTC No. 16236201

Can any /sci/entists tell me how this is possible? Why don't they fall, I can barely balance on one foot

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:39:06 UTC No. 16236141

I've noticed that many teenage girls nowadays have humongous boobs. Also the average cup size of women in general has increased over the decades. What is the mechanism behind this? Hormonal disruptors or does it go hand in hand with obesity rates?

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:34:09 UTC No. 16236132

this is by far the best thing about mathematics. it will never not be funny. I'm 27 and I still do this all the time.

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:17:24 UTC No. 16236115

Is this real or bullshit?

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:50:35 UTC No. 16236084

N-not down there please!

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:31:02 UTC No. 16235939

I've been playing with a bunch of tiny magnets, and what strikes me about them is how they're very much like atoms are described, push, pull, stable, unstable in different configurations. Then I start thinking about why mass equals energy and such, and it seems like there is some very basic stuff that's on the tip of my tongue about how this stuff works that really we should have figured out a long time ago. Einstein just thought about stuff. That's what people need to do.

Even if this is not the core of existence. There is some logic to this too. When we figure it out people are gonna be like “yeah no shit that's how it works Sherlock.”

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Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 07:01:44 UTC No. 16235848

Why do we sleep? Why haven't we figured out a way to make it so that we don't require sleep?