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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 21:13:40 UTC No. 16460030
What would be the long term affects of drinking coffee mixed with Windex?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:42:19 UTC No. 16460010
So basically black men have nearly the same spartial ability as white women. Maybe that's the reason why they get along so well?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:06:31 UTC No. 16459972
I've seen people claiming "considering how hostile outer space is, it was very unlikely for Earth to exist in the first place with the perfect conditions for intelligent life to develop".
I'd like to reverse the question: using any intuitive definition of "randomness", given that existence of intelligent life is a fact, how likely was it that we ended up existing in a reality with these physical laws in particular? Like, if your mom in her desperation to lose weight literally altered the laws of physics without having thought through her plan at all, would it be more likely that she'd lose weight, maintain it, put on, or simply stop existing in her entirety?
🗑️ 🧵 History of peer review
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:38:03 UTC No. 16459943
Nature published a fairly funny history of peer review
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41
>For a 1950 paper that discussed ‘anisotropic elastic continuum’ by mathematician James Oldroyd, geophysicist Harold Jeffreys wrote: “Knowing the author, I have confidence that the analysis is correct.”
>Physicist Shelford Bidwell didn’t mince his words about the author of a 1900 article on ‘colour sense’. Bidwell had lent apparatus to author Frederick Edridge-Green, but writes: “I was prepared to find that his new paper was rubbish; and it turned out to be rubbish of so rank a character that no competent person could possibly take any other view of it.”
>At least one referee, physicist George Burch, was so concerned that rejecting a paper might give the impression of bias that he recommended publication in 1901 even though he was not convinced by the results and couldn’t replicate them.
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:09:11 UTC No. 16459893
mathematicians keep getting mad at me for using the dira function as a function and not a distribution. At this point I'm too afraid to ask, but what's the difference?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:26:11 UTC No. 16459796
>why yes, I only press the “run autograder” button once every 2 or 3 weeks and charge $35 for each automated email I send. How could you tell?
🧵 Masturbation
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:03:20 UTC No. 16459776
What is the real Science™ stance on this?
I focus only on this, separately from porn because (1) i think it's obvious enough that frying your brain with giga-stimulus can have some adverse effects and (2) I really can't emphasize with porn addicts personally, because I never needed to throw extra fuel into the fire, and 2 days into NNN i already start to lowkey go insane with zero extra stimulus.
what makes sense to me:
>masturbation can't be too harmful, since too close to sex
>at the same time, it makes sense that going out of your way to abstain can send your body a message to give you hormones that to help you score whore moans
>On the other hand, I'm not aware of any research that would show *lasting* impact on energy, T, etc.
>On yet another hand, it's an interesting experiment and a willpower exercise, also pic related
However, the only results I got from that particular experiment were learning that I'm
(a) an incredibly horny animal
(b) not entirely...ughh...straight.
This time I'm not even sure why I'm participating, out of spite to my animal inside i guess.
Gentlemen, your thoughts?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:01:58 UTC No. 16459774
Evolutionarily speaking, we don't actually need numbers that surpass 20 or 30. We couldn't herd more sheep than that at any point in time during our history, there's no practical and real use for any number beyond that. It was only after morons invented currency that big numbers became relevant for day-to-day use. But apart from that, and if we really think hard about the fact that money is made up and fictional, we wouldn't need numbers as high as the ones mathematicians insist on using. The only real world use for numbers that high would be in astronomy, and even then, you don't actually need to be able to count that high or crunch numbers in your head to make things make sense. All you need to understand when it comes to astronomy is the relationship between numbers, rather than the numbers themselves. And I get what you're thinking; what about economy? Again, it doesn't even really exist, why would anyone ever as much as try to combine numbers that great? Stop trying to make your gay numbers relevant in my life, they don't even matter. I'm not learning your stupid funny numbers as if it were a game, don't try to convince me.
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:53:05 UTC No. 16459769
There is not nearly enough scientific interest in how and why some people grow this fucking huge.
🗑️ 🧵 Russian Nuclear Simulation Software
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:34:42 UTC No. 16459757
A buddy of mine secured me a "Monte Carlo Universal" (MCU), a Russian version of the American MCNP software. I am curious if anyone on /sci/ is familiar with it and knows of/has a library of input files for it that they'd like to share with me.
I am also producing a GPT that can write in MCUs domain specific language. So that way MCU as a whole can become more accessible to researchers
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:11:32 UTC No. 16459643
Humans came from two-legged lizards. Detectable by scanning a human's lips(lippages). They are clearly lizardkin.
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:05:29 UTC No. 16459640
So he wasn't a fraud after all
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:04:49 UTC No. 16459639
Terrance Howard is a genius and you are an idiot if you disagree.
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:17:33 UTC No. 16459607
Is human overpopulation a threat to the planet?
🧵 Tickling Sociology
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:04:25 UTC No. 16459599
Hello internet, here's a page where you can contribute to an ongoing sociological analysis!
What would YOU do here?
https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2ADMMXgN
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:03:41 UTC No. 16459597
I need halp.
I am trapped in your simulation as a actual living person. I'm a special consc-type. I experience the body as a shell and I experience the effect of all its parts.
I can tell most of you are NPCs because of the way you move/feel. And maybe there are other less harsh consc types too.
I need halp can you halp me?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:56:03 UTC No. 16459587
OH MY BUSSIN GYATTS WE ARE GOING TO EVROPA
LETS GOOOOOO
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:06:59 UTC No. 16459562
If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and… does that mean that there are infinite infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And an infinite number of those infinities? And…(infinitely times. And that infinitely times. And…) continues forever. And that continues forever. And that continues forever. And that continues forever. And…(…)…
🧵 Titan
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:25:41 UTC No. 16459543
Let's discuss Titan. It's my favourite world in the Solar System.
>It's the only moon in the Solar System with a dense atmosphere, and the only other world other than Earth and Venus with a dense atmosphere
>It's the only other world in the Solar System with an atmosphere that is substantially thick, but that wouldn't crush humans due to high pressures like on Venus
>Titan's hazy upper atmosphere has a blue-ish hue similar to Earth, but the thick amber layer below is formed of complex organic molecules called tholins which form when sunlight interacts with methane and nitrogen particles
>This thick layer of tholins in the atmosphere blocks most sunlight, completely obscuring Titan's surface from space
>Titan is the only world in the Solar System other than Earth to have stable bodies of lakes and rivers on its surface
>These lakes stretch for hundreds or even thousands of kilometers and are composed of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, which can only remain in liquid form due to the extremely cold temperatures
>Titan even has a weather cycle similar to Earth, experiencing methane evaporating, condensing, and falling as rain, creating weather patterns and even cloud formations
>Titan's surface is made primarily of plains of organic-rich "sands", and dunes formed by winds that reach several meters high
>Due to the low gravity, several interesting phenomena arise:
>The atmosphere reaches very high into space and can be distinctly seperated into different layers
>The methane rain would fall very slowly, almost like snow on Earth
>Theoretically, a human with a set of wings might be able to fly on Titan
>The Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005 sent a descent probe to the surface of Titan, revealling an alien –yet eerily familiar-looking surface
>It's the only probe to have landed on the surface of a moon outside our own and sent back images to Earth
>NASA's Dragonfly mission is set to launch in 2028, sending a rotorcraft to Titan capable of flying across the surface
🧵 Determinism and Free Will
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:51:42 UTC No. 16459527
1. All of our activity was pre-determined since birth.
2. The golden route of our activity was pre-determined since birth
3. Some of our activity was pre-determined since birth.
4. None of our activity was pre-determined since birth.
Which one do you believe in?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:18:04 UTC No. 16459503
>Be compound
>Waves of colloquial praise
>Promising preclinical trials
>Clinical Trials in Journal: "Results were not conclusive"
>Fades into obscurity or banned by FDA
This seems weird...Big Pharma wouldn't...lie to us...? Would they?
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Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:45:54 UTC No. 16459492
Whenever I get tired my legs feel cold
uncomfortably cold even if the room is warm
Does everyone have that?