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Anonymous at Wed, 9 Oct 2024 00:12:07 UTC No. 16416601
Okay so I live in Tampa and don't have a car. What are my chances on surviving this hurricane without shutters?
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 23:37:05 UTC No. 16416571
How do you cope with the fact that the mass adoption of social media has given unprecedented influence to anti-intellectuals? That millions of those whom are emotionally-driven and devoid of critical thinking skills have louder voices than ever before in the modern era? And no, I’m no Dunning-Kruger faggot, I scored a 519 on my MCAT
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 23:35:53 UTC No. 16416570
Whenever we look at a star in the night sky, is it actually in that position or is somewhere else since the light took thousands of years to reach us?
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 23:20:31 UTC No. 16416556
Hey ChatGPT, why is it hard to think clearly when you're horny?
>It is hard to think clearly because the amygdala interferes with the rational and empathic processes of the upper brain and devotes attention to reproduction and its' dopamine loop
ChatGPT, does that mean people with more powerful amygdalae are more likely to commit rape assault and theft?
>It is inappropriate to widely categorise a social or ethnic group as being more likely to commit rape assault and theftbecause of their more active amygdalas.
What did the AI mean by this?
🧵 ADHD medications and IQ
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:58:22 UTC No. 16416535
I often read about drugs like ritalin increase the IQ of a person.
Have studies showing a increase of 5 points after 12 months of use.
Did you know this work for people who doesn't have adhd?
🧵 Math education: rigorous vs intuitive approach, and their arguments
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:36:08 UTC No. 16416471
I'd like to read up on the discourse surrounding whether to teach students Mathematics through a (semi-)rigorous approach or through an intuitive approach. Arguments should be both general, and also consider the distinction between those who wish to study Mathematics or any of the hard sciences later on, and those who have no interest in the subject at all (or their education for that matter). Sources don't have to be formal papers or essays--though the latter are probably best with regards to having a convincing argument be properly developed, instead of it being presented as matter of fact--they can just be excerpts from the prefaces of books or their introduction. I've seen a few of these arguments discussed briefly in some regard in a few textbooks, but it's only to justify the the level of rigor with which the topic is to be discussed.
Apart from just discourse, I'm also interested in reading any formal papers or studies examining the success or failures of either approach or their implementations, anything that provides statistics and empirical data.
I'm mainly looking at Maths education in the states and the West, but anything discussing how the Soviets approached teaching Maths and Science back in the day is welcome too.
I don't know where Common Core lies in this, but arguments in favor or against it are welcome as well.
🧵 How many times are you supposed to wash your hands?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:17:02 UTC No. 16416445
My roommate doesn't wash their hands at all, even after wiping which freaked me out and made me start washing my hands after touching every doorknob and surface that I know they do. The problem is that my hands have become really dry and hurt when I wash them too often and can't do anything about their behavior. How many times are you supposed to clean your hands and for how long to remain safe from such "humans"?
🧵 What did he mean?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:09:39 UTC No. 16416437
>if you want to have exactly sharp observables in quantum mechanics you must repeat the experiment infinitely often and with an infinitely large apparatus. This second form of infinity has a very important role to play in the context of gravity. I would like to emphasise again that this point was understood incredi-bly well, although explained in a characteristically murky way, by those who developed the Copenhagen interpretation and later clarified by the understanding of decoherence in the 1980s. Quantum mechanics really requires, not just as a mere convenience, that you drag around this infinite apparatus with you everywhere you go when measuring some system. Thus, secretly, there’s this gigantic apparatus that’s going along with you everywhere and because it is gigantic, it doesn’t disturb too much the system you are measuring.
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:43:48 UTC No. 16416388
Ok let's recap:
>first storm ever to travel westwards
>accelerates by 90mph in just a day
>the second storm to hit conservatives within 2 weeks
>the same people who tell you that cow farts change the weather now pretend that humans have no influence on the weather
They are going to get away with this aren't they?
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:31:09 UTC No. 16416363
Quantum particle thingies are in a constant state of either/or until measured because if you picture a curtain of beads, one side of the beads is towards us and the other side isn't, but the curtain is composed of the same beads. The other side of the beads (or quantum particle thingies) is an alternate universe. And this goes on ad infinitum
One day a smart science person will discover this and prove it with jargon and mathy equations and blow everyone's minds, but let the record show I figured it out first
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:17:40 UTC No. 16416340
Science has failed us. I want to kill myself. I am so ashamed of being a part of the drooling, retarded species that is humanity.
How do we FIX this?? Why is scientific education so fucking poor? Why does no one in this gay little bipedal monkey society give a shit about BASIC truth and rationality? It's too much, man.....
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 20:51:28 UTC No. 16416294
Air has weight.
https://imgur.com/gallery/under-pre
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 20:28:56 UTC No. 16416251
Reached a new era in my personal study life of mathematics; develop mathematics for winning the lottery, develop mathematics for increasing my 'luck,' develop mathematics for winning at everything in life, probability, real analysis, number theory... my mask is coming on.
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 20:11:35 UTC No. 16416220
Do we live in a simulation?
🧵 Loop
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 20:07:14 UTC No. 16416217
What would happen, if we just pump something with mass in circles orientated like this in 0g?
Maybe their insides could have ion thurster that spins things on some advancedly shaped structure inside, that makes flow of propellant easier in one way than another, so it'll have net thurst to some side.
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:13:05 UTC No. 16416125
does talking shorten our lives? would we live much longer if we were to communicate without using our energy for vocal cords and brain
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:09:34 UTC No. 16416117
Where is he? Where are the discussions with him? I can't find anything
🧵 Sphygmomanometer revelation
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:56:10 UTC No. 16416097
How are they only figuring this out just now? The sphygmomanometer has been in use since the 1800s.
How was it misused for over a century and a quarter without anyone noticing? Are doctors and medical science really that lackadaisical and unobservant?
🗑️ 🧵 Embracing Peace in the Mystery of Life Before Birth and After Death
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:53:41 UTC No. 16416091
I have always struggled to comprehend the notion that life could simply end; it’s inconceivable and never made sense to me. When I look out and see endless lands, skies, and scales beyond our imagination, then look into a microscope to a whole other world that continues to expand. How could it ever end? The animal kingdom, which we should always remember we are a part of, is so spectacular and specialized. Its remarkable diversity and the sheer creativity of life’s adaptations illustrate a profound truth—life strives to survive, evolving in incredible ways over time. If there’s even a glimmer of possibility for an afterlife, I believe that life will find a means to make it a reality, if it hasn’t done so already.
Just as flowers and fruits didn’t exist, then suddenly did—a new dimension of reproduction that transformed life globally—why should we assume that everything has already been set in place? For all we know, we could be in the process of creating the afterlife ourselves. This world might well be a reflection of the astral realm—the place we transition to when we disincarnate. In this sense, reincarnation is merely shedding a layer of ourselves, only to regrow it in another form. We are beings with multiple layers of matter at varying densities and vibrations—like onions, really.
There are countless descriptions of “another world” inhabited by those who have passed on, found in mediumistic literature and astral projection accounts. And many people, despite what’s often said about the unknown, carry an innate knowledge that transcends the conventional narrative.
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:47:37 UTC No. 16416085
Anyone try menthol alone as a nootropic? It looks like it's as good as caffeine. I take 400 mg of caffeine every morning to study mathematics for 10 hours. Looking to maybe also try menthol, since nicotine could mess up my blood. Best.
🗑️ 🧵 big IQ thread
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 17:35:46 UTC No. 16415954
what's the scientific reasons /sci/ is the worst board on 4chan?
is it related to moderator IQ (i brought up IQ, so now this is an official /sci/ thread)
why do the mods allow all this unscientific bullshit?
why call a board one thing, and let it degenerate into its exact opposite, while actively deleting threads that have far more to do with science and math than 90% of the catalog?
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Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 16:56:07 UTC No. 16415885
bypassing air resistance by converting it into rolling restistance:
suppose an object is flying through the air and exp[reiencing air drag on its surface (exponential relationship between speed and drag), but then all along its surface there are little tiny wheels t5hat cover the whole surface, these wheels start spinning to match the air speed and the object starts "rolling" through the air instead
🧵 Why do physicists feel the need to claim everything as physics?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 15:48:20 UTC No. 16415821
they awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Machine Learning to claim it as physics, mind you. what a fucking reach. we can see your tricks from miles away. envy much?
🧵 Great Success
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 15:08:58 UTC No. 16415787
I just passed my colonoscopy exam bros