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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:16:41 UTC No. 16452934
What's with the weird shilling of gene editing, artificial wombs, and transhumanism among the internet right recently? Is this the Thiel influence?
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:38:52 UTC No. 16452895
do you look like a scientist?
🧵 quantum fluctuations and charm quarks in protons
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:24:25 UTC No. 16452883
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41
https://www.pbs.org/video/did-ai-pr
okay, so if you destroy a proton you tend to find a charm quark once in a while, which is odd since a charm quark is actually heavyer than a proton.
now they explain it with quantum fluctuation.
i find that hard to wrap my head around..
so, within a proton all kinds of quarks pop in and out of existence but cancel each other out to up-up-down at any given time?
but how does that explain the weight? an anti quark has no anti mass.
are quantum fluctuations and the "sea of quarks" a real thing anyway or are they jet another case of things they made up like strings/supersymetie/dark matter/dark energy?
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:06:10 UTC No. 16452871
Why am I attracted to girl poop? Is this an evolutionary adaptation?
🧵 TIME TRAVEL GENERAL
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:50:39 UTC No. 16452839
Making a call to all anons for a large international cooperation to INVENT THE FIRST TIME MACHINE
Humans have been wasting enough time trying to expand in space, but exploring time is much more pressing now. Use this thread to compile all resources you are aware of pertaining to time machines and how to make them. No shitty sci fi books though.
>inb4 /x/
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:23:07 UTC No. 16452798
Are there any grounds for identifying 100% mentally abstract Placebo/Nacebo effects? How can you prove/disprove someone has a specific mental condition when they have done everything in their power to convince themselves they have it, down to consciously emulating the symptoms? Does it ever reach a point where there isn't even a difference anymore? I think about this all the time, especially seeing the massive uptick over the years in self-diagnosis and people raking in the perks
🧵 /sfg/ - Spaceflight General
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:33:05 UTC No. 16452715
mini tiles - edition
previous >>16450266
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:21:44 UTC No. 16452703
a circle represents infinity, the spirit
matter is tangible, a square
if the amount of sides of a polygon goes to infinity, then the interior angle goes to 179.999...° = 180° , making it a flat line, or a circle.
matter into spirit, spirit into matter
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:08:31 UTC No. 16452676
ITT: Predict what year a human will first step foot on Mars and what race and sex that person will be.
🧵 What is "Ginger Rogers science"
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:12:12 UTC No. 16452584
You may have heard of the study published in PNAS in 2020 concluding that Black newborns have higher survival rates when Black doctors attend to them.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.107
It got a huge amount of coverage in the popular press. It was even cited by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent last year on the court’s ruling against racial preferences in college admissions. The newborn research, Brown Jackson claimed, shows the benefits of diversity. “It saves lives,” she wrote.
The same journal just published a reanalysis of the data.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn
It turns out that the effect disappears once you take into account that Black doctors are less likely to see the higher-risk population of newborns that have low birth weight.
It’s like what someone once said about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire: They’re both going through all the same moves, but Ginger Rogers is doing them backward and in high heels. A published finding that clashes with the political prejudices of reviewers and editors is a Ginger Rogers Finding. It had to be twice as good.
Full details and more examples:
https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:26:53 UTC No. 16452534
What’s outside the universe? Mega space?
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:06:58 UTC No. 16452510
>be the last living polymath
>Create the Revolutionary theory of relativity
>All your contributions are stolen by the Einstein
>Science community thinks its ok, cause you didn't abandon ethereum in your theory
>Everyone worships the small brained Einstein
What caused this phenomenon? How common is this?
🗑️ 🧵 Did you take your medication today?
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:50:32 UTC No. 16452478
https://drive.google.com/drive/fold
Here you go. Medication.
j o h n C L a s h e r a s
w o r d p r e s s
c o m
go clean your room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__p
🧵 applied math
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:42:22 UTC No. 16452456
im stuck in a limbo where i know all the standard math taught in an engineering degree but i dont really feel like i know it well enough since i never cared much about it and just passed exams, but now i do care.
it's very similar to the tutorial hell for programming: books/videos/lectures are either too slow or too fast with no in between.
there's ton of resources for math out there but i don't have the time and ability to filter them and not waste my time.
i'm asking to the people that were in a situation similar to mine, what did you do?
>pic related
only skimmed through chapters and it seems very very good. not sure if i will use it.
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:39:15 UTC No. 16452449
What is the fastest way to check that I've Orthonormalized a basis? I usually have to do O(n^2) dot products of size n to verify that they are all 0. Is there a faster way, and what kind of math do I have to study to prove that there is or isn't?
🧵 Colonizing Mars.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:25:31 UTC No. 16452436
The only logical way to do it is to send in robots like Wall-E to set up a dome and build a town for the human's arrival.
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:16:02 UTC No. 16452424
If he were still alive, would he take the path of Richard Dawkins or Bill Nye?
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:42:04 UTC No. 16452382
Why do indians in the USA have an iq of 112 but indians in india have an iq of 80?
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EBOK at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:28:36 UTC No. 16452365
Philosophy is the study of studying.
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:14:08 UTC No. 16452261
>one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century
>by all accounts lacked completely in femininity and was essentially a man in a skirt
mathsisters.....
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EBOK at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:18:53 UTC No. 16452201
Is this universe just a three body problem made by someone's mind?
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Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:58:39 UTC No. 16452069
What happened to the other species of humans?
🧵 Settle a debate for me anons
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:39:58 UTC No. 16452039
Today I was talking to a friend about lab grown meat. I argued that it is structurally identical to its natural reared counterpart. They argued that the meat cannot be nutritious because it is not raised naturally and is therefore substandard and one should only eat organic and free range meat.
Essentially, I'd like to know if lab grown meat is, on the nutritional level, any different from a very well cared for animal?