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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:06:38 UTC No. 16281289
Is math eternal? What is eternal in it?
What else is eternal in this world?
🧵 Sporadic Group Fuckery
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:58:40 UTC No. 16281279
Do you have a sprinkle of group theory? Fantastic, let's dig back into the simple sporadic groups. Let's also assume the most passing familiarity with the Monster (M) group. This isn't about M.
What is bugging me to death is why the Janko group J3 and Rudvalis group (Ru if you're blind) have no relation to M. 4 out of 6 pariah groups can still be related to M by subquotients. Why is it these 2 that are still /completely on their own/ in relation to all other sporadic groups?
At this juncture it looks more and more like almost every of the 24/25 other sporadics can be expressed through manipulation of M. Even the other Janko groups are tied in. Why the ever living FUCK are J3 and Ru the true remaining pariahs?
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:45:21 UTC No. 16281271
How exactly does one go about dating a female math grad or -- even better -- a female math professor?
I do very well on Tinder barely lifting a finger (so definitely not some ugly cunt) and have been emailing my website (showing same Tinder pics, blog, etc.) to random math chicks around Europe discovered in academic directories, trying even cheesy shit like "Hey, do you like wearing LaTeX?" but after 80-something emails, I've received only a couple of replies along the lines of "Who's this?" and then frozen out when they realize I'm some stranger emailing random chicks, which I realize is a tough sell. I've also run a bunch of tests to show I'm not being dumped in spam folders.
🧵 Let's say you are the first person to travel through a wormhole
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:18:42 UTC No. 16281215
And you end up in another galaxy in a star system in which there are multiple planets orbiting. You have enough fuel and resources to perform a multiple-year long survey of the system before returning through the wormhole to report your findings to Sol. For this excersise, let's say the planets in the system are in this order: a small airless rocky planet orbiting closely to the sun, a Terra-sized hot rocky planet with a dense atmosphere and an irregularly-shaped airless rocky moon, a larger-than-Terra rocky planet in the habitable zone with a non-breathable atmosphere and two moons, one rocky and one glacial, a gas giant similar to Saturn's size without rings, but three moons, one large and rocky, one small and glacial with visible water and a thin atmosphere, and one medium-sized with geothermic activity and an atmosphere, and finally, a smaller rocky planet with a barely-visible atmosphere with interesting patterns on its surface and a small rocky moon orbitting it. NASA/ESA/whatever have given you permission to name the system and its celestial bodies if you are able to return with your findings. What would you name the:
>star (system name)
>small hot airless rocky planet
>Terra-sized rocky planet with a dense atmosphere
>its irregularly-shaped airless rocky moon
>larger-than-Terra rocky planet in the habitable zone with a non-breathable atmosphere
>its rocky moon and its glacial moon
>gas giant similar size to Saturn
>its large rocky moon, its small glacial moon, and its medium-sized geothermic moon
>small rocky planet with a thin atmosphere and interesting surface patterns
>its small rocky moon
I understand this isn't really very "scientific" but I enjoy thinking about things like this. I would personally continue the tradition of naming them after deities.
🧵 How do psychedelics effect their positive psychological actions?
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:38:30 UTC No. 16281165
Is it related to the mystical experiences on them, or more so a neurobiological mechanism?
Interested in hearing what you guys think
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:26:44 UTC No. 16281058
What causes this behaviour in women?
🧵 /mg/ - Metric General
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:40:20 UTC No. 16281005
Given that the userbase of 4chan is overwhelming American and your median USAican is yoked by the US Customary system, I propose /mg/ for discussing ways to use and spread the Metric System.
Steps:
1. Converting your (digital) devices to metric
2. Trading tools made in US customary for metric
3. Using metric in day-to-day conversation
4. Using metric in a professional environment
5. Encouraging others to use the metric system whenever and wherever possible
Topics:
>Metric-only or Metric-capable tools/devices/appliances
>Metrication promotion (whether informal or formal)
>Modding USC things to Metric
>Anecdotes relating to the benefits of the Metric System or anecdotes of the failures of USC
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:19:42 UTC No. 16280960
No one really has disproved Phlogiston theory.
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:15:26 UTC No. 16280954
say something nice about the most commonly taught system of logic, /sci/
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:55:06 UTC No. 16280938
They expect us to believe this shit?
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:43:31 UTC No. 16280926
Is it possible to calculate the odds of a bullet missing a target by this close?
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:04:53 UTC No. 16280899
i decide to practice math for the first time in like 2 years and google hits me with this... was i wrong? surely google knows the difference between an expression and an equation. from what i understand, an equation has to EQUATE something. but maybe i'm just not clued into the terminological nuances of algebra enough to know when a colloquial definition of 'equation' is being used... you tell me.
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Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:20:49 UTC No. 16280878
Is pursuing medicine truly worth it in the end?
🧵 The techno-industrial system will destroy itself
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:58:56 UTC No. 16280770
We live in a time of rapid travel and near-instant communication that has led to the rise of global self-propagating systems that compete with each other ruthlessly in the short-term with little regard for long-term consequences. As their influence grows, the consequences of their actions will cause increasingly disruptive ripples through the highly complex AND highly coupled system. This can eventually lead to a severe event or series of events that can cause the extinction of humanity and many forms of complex life. See Chapter 2 of Anti-tech Revolution: Why and How (wildernessfront.com/books) for a broader discussion.
Some of you may think that the way out is "through" and standing by while it completes its self-inflicted destruction is an example of "not interrupting your enemy while they make a mistake", but the more we let the techno-industrial system integrate itself into our lives, the greater the consequences of its uprooting will be. We have no idea what the necessary measures of continuing this clown world might be. Our dependence on it right now for our food, water, safety, and shelter might grow to include things you might think ridiculous, maybe even air. We can't predict what the death throes will mean for us. It needs to end sooner rather than later.
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:35:45 UTC No. 16280746
Wouldn't it be completely expected and normal to see polar ice sheets shrinking during an interglacial period?
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:20:12 UTC No. 16280728
Good news fellow environmentalists!
Regions regions that the scientist said were going to become arid wastelands due to increased atmospheric CO2 are instead becoming healthier than they ever were before.
Sure is nice to see nature becoming so vigorous and robust. Are all my fellow environmentalists happy to see this? Of course they are, only someone who hates nature would be upset to see nature getting healthier.
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:04:33 UTC No. 16280717
What's the best signal processing textbook for CSfags with CSfag-tier calculus? I had a look at an intro to SP text my roommate had and it was the opposite; it assumed you know analysis but had no idea how to matlab
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:41:58 UTC No. 16280697
Hypothetically, could the whole world's population be infected with a prion or parasite that increases agressiveness and short-tempered responses?
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:09:20 UTC No. 16280673
If there are an infinite number of whole numbers, and an infinite number of decimals between any two whole numbers, and an infinite number of decimals in between any two decimals, does that mean that there are infinite infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And… (Infinitely times. And that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. And..) …
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Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:39:36 UTC No. 16280645
>Prime numbers are natural numbers that are divisible by only 1 and the number itself.
How the fuck is 1 not a prime number? Are mathematicians retarded?