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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:09:20 UTC No. 16383852
Can we envision an economic environment in which it makes sense to produce humanoid shaped companion robots? I hope we all agree that utility robots should not look like humans, since the human form is very limiting, and in most cases yields no advantage over industrial robots. It doesn't make sense to employ humanoid androids as assembly line workers, because an assembly line robot is more efficient and cheaper. Therefore, the only use case for a humanoid shaped robot is as a companion. But is it feasible at all to replace humans with companion androids? One would assume the R&D costs and the manufacturing costs of these things are far higher than what it takes to human traffick a desperate Ukranian or Serbian or whatever person to a first world country. So what regulations or technological advancements have to be made, to make humanoid companion robots more viable than flesh and blood humans (from a sci-fi point of view)?
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SCZOFREN at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:35:11 UTC No. 16383784
Is it possible it's all reversed and the people calling people schizo are acktuhally broken schizoids themselves who can't help but call people by their own illness in insecure repeated meltdown?
🧵 Why must physicists code?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:30:28 UTC No. 16383779
I'm wrapping up my physics undergrad. I took a liking towards statistical mechanics and thermodynamics early on and now at 23 I had to go and pick a thesis project, so I did.
Long story short, I've never been good at programming, nor had I ever been interested in it but I had to come up with a bit of code to "solve" a really nasty system of coupled partial differential equations, something I've never been shown how to actually do in any of my classes yet most non experimental physicists do day after day. I get the whole argument that a code may help give insights into the guts of what's really happening but I see this as more of a crutch than anything else.
I feel like simulations have very little to contribute in the creative aspects of sound reasoning and new models. Sure, they help you visualize a process, sure, some may help engineers make things that won't break by allowing them to look at the finer details, free from analytical approximations, but I've rarely heard of a computer simulation bridging a gap in easly applicable theorization the way only human intuition can.
The main results from my thesis come from analytical methods (anything from optimization theory to dynamical system theory)to solve the system of equations after diluting its difficulty with opportunistic approximations. The code seems to be there just because it's neat, not because I can get anything intelligible from it, generally speaking.
Is it always the same with computational physics?
🗑️ 🧵 Redditards have missing brain parts
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:01:20 UTC No. 16383745
Holy shit! The meme were all real, redditors really have brainrot and missing brain parts.
I can't stop keking, that explains so much.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/interesti
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:11:15 UTC No. 16383689
Clott Adams has finally admitted that vaxxxies like himself were wrong about getting the covid vax and pureblood were correct to avoid taking an untested experimental injection for a nonexistent viral epidemic.
How does /sci/ feel about this? Are any of the surviving vaxxxies of /sci/ also ready to apologize and admit that they were wrong?
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:00:54 UTC No. 16383675
Apparently there is a statistical correlation between interracial relationships and low IQ/mental illness.
What scientific proof would be needed to show thats its a causal relationship?
🧵 AI is accelerating the climate crisis
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:51:19 UTC No. 16383658
>Generative artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engine, warns researcher Sasha Luccioni, on a mission to raise awareness about the environmental impact of the hot new technology.
>Recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the world of AI by the American magazine Time in 2024, the Canadian computer scientist of Russian origin has sought for several years to quantify the emissions of programs like ChatGPT or Midjourney.
>"I find it particularly disappointing that generative AI is used to search the Internet," laments the researcher, who spoke with AFP on the sidelines of the ALL IN artificial intelligence conference, in Montreal.
>The language models on which the programs are based require enormous computing capacities to train on billions of data points, necessitating powerful servers.
>Then there's the energy used to respond to each individual user's requests.
>Instead of simply extracting information, "like a search engine would do to find the capital of a country, for example," AI programs "generate new information," making the whole thing "much more energy-intensive," she explains.
>According to the International Energy Agency, the combined AI and the cryptocurrency sectors consumed nearly 460 terawatt hours of electricity in 2022 -- two percent of total global production.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-ne
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:45:24 UTC No. 16383650
Is it unhealthy to go under the knife of a surgeon who's religious beliefs include genocidal elimination of all non-muslims if you're not a muslim?
What about with jewish doctors? Their religion also calls for the mass killing of all nonbelievers.
Atheism also calls for the elimination of all non-atheists
Has science ever studied this topic before? Seems like it might be an interesting statistical study for someone in the medical field.
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:13:03 UTC No. 16383574
How come toxic sneed oils are forced into the food supply instead of being used as fuel?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:26:24 UTC No. 16383516
I'm going back to school, trying to figure out whats right for me. STEM is actually way cooler and more interesting than I thought for the first quarter of my life. But it seems like I keep seeing this advice:
>"Don't major in physics, bro. unless you want to get a masters degree"
>"computer science degree is iffy right now, you have to be really good and experience to even land a job"
>"i wouldnt major in math, dont feel like teaching high school for the rest of my life"
>"engineering is super competitive for undergrad and boring once you get there anyways"
WTF? Is getting a degree just a labor of love? if so, aren't I right back where I started: spending my life doing something I actually enjoy, regardless of payoff?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:14:30 UTC No. 16383501
Is there an invisible war going on as explained in the Deus ex games?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:58:40 UTC No. 16383474
I was doing a Shapiro Wilk test on temperature measurements for a certain week. The null couldnt be rejected. Then I used distfit library to identify the possible distribution the data comes from. the highest score (lowest residual sum of squares) was for the general extreme distribution. So the data is estimated to come from the genextreme distribution with distfit.
what should I do now? Do I trust the shapiro test or the results from distfit? I looked online for year temperature readings and visualization suggests that temperatures are normally distributed. but also, the general extreme distribution looks like a skewed normal distribution. is city temperature normally distributed?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:41:23 UTC No. 16383438
What kind of subconscious psychological effect might lighter or darker skin have on people?
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Anonynous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:38:58 UTC No. 16383435
I was rear-ended back in April.
I felt mostly fine, but I was concerned my spine might be slightly off.
Chiropractor was certain I had whiplash.
I got an MRI.
3 months after Doctor (not Chiropractor, a real doctor) suggested I either get steroids injections in my back or Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections into my back.
Doctor said PRP would be better, but it's newer so people are uneasy about it.
I wasn't sure whether to trust him that this cutting edge PRP was really good, or overrated, so I told him I would research both myself.
He says he'll schedule the steroid injections as a placeholder.
He schedules an appointment for steroid injection 2 weeks later.
1 week passes. I get a phone call reminding me of the appointment. Since I looked into it and /sci/ thinks PRP is the way to go, I ask them if we can change the appointment to PRP instead. They tell me they'll have to have a "consultation meeting" since the original doctor "didn't notate PRP as an option."
1 more weeks passes. I show up for this "consultation meeting," talking with an older lady doctor who has not the male doctor I originally spoke with. She doesn't seem to understand what our meeting is about until I explain we need to "notate PRP", and she says "bless your heart" and as far as I remember she says she'll take care of it.
2 weeks pass. I show up, and they tell me that since they're going to sedate me they need a signature from my designated driver before they can begin.
My mom doesn't get off work until 4pm, and the doctor leaves the office at 3 or 3:45 or so, so I can either delay by two more weeks, and talk my mom into calling in for a day off 2 weeks from now, which sounds like a big ask. Front desk lady says I can just get it unsedated.
I'm on an operating table with shitty pop music, while they inject the base of my spine, while looking at me under an x-ray device. They put a numbing agent on before the injection. I would later hear that it only goes into sponge tissue and not bone
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:11:35 UTC No. 16383377
This is why granma can't work a cell phone.
She's literally retarded. Not exaggerating, not using the term metaphorically or flippantly, literally, by medical definition, retarded.
92nd percentile retarded even, not just a little bit.
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Garrote at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:53:20 UTC No. 16383337
epic science in ten years, we promise
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:27:19 UTC No. 16383285
Why is it like this, psych bros?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:44:46 UTC No. 16383220
This scares and frightens anti AI /sci/
🗑️ 🧵 We need /sci/ help
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:56:39 UTC No. 16383146
We're doing scientific experiments to sacred geometry for fun.
We need big STEM boys that can properly read spectrogram charts.
>>>/x/38821222
We're getting actual data, but we need big BOY SCIENCE nerds to help.
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:44:59 UTC No. 16383125
If a colony of modern humans (as in, more than enough of them to sustain a stable non-interbreeding population) were transported to a copy of Earth that is more or less identical to ours minus any existing human civilisation or technology, supplied with the collective knowledge of every technological advancement from fire to the modern day, how short a time could it take them to manufacture a single smartphone?
This is a theoretical situation where there's no infighting, cultural divisions, natural disasters, plagues or whatever to significantly hinder their work, and they aren't being forced to work unhealthy amounts of time every day.
For example, with the right knowledge of materials and how to use them it's possible to set up furnaces and basic smelting 'equipment' within a week, even a day with a lot of people working on them, but you won't exactly be able to make precision instruments immediately.
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:12:32 UTC No. 16383088
I've just read the story of how 6ix9ine came from /sci/ before he got famous. I literally cried. I didn't know people like us could accomplish this.
Since there is no chance in any of us becoming famous from science or math, I've been considering going with 6ix9ines original plan before he switched to rainbow hair. I live in Gary, Indiana. Apparently Screwly G's hood is not too far from here.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQn
I'm a nerdy white boy and I want to wear powdered wigs and do dances in this man's hood in order to gain fame. I'm a little scared since it seems risky but isn't it riskier to do try a math or physics degree that I know I'll fail?
Any safety tips?
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:48:36 UTC No. 16383061
Autistic men are quite often virgins because of intense introversion (perceived low social value), poor motor skills (perceived athletic incompetence), poor social skills (perceived insanity or sexual predation), literal mindedness (flirting and teasing don’t make sense to them), dislike of physical contact (duh), poor personal hygiene (depression is a common comorbidity), unusual gender expression (perceived homosexuality), and few sexual partners (the above factors inhibit pre-selection).
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Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:55:04 UTC No. 16383015
give me a good reason she cant be automated with a robot right now pro tip you cant
all you need is robotic hands and a camera pair with ai to handle the different size of products