🧵 Are flu shots bad for you?
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 04:12:23 UTC No. 16465708
How come less than 1 in 6 healthcare workers want to get flu shots?
Does that mean they think flu shots are bad for you?
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Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 03:34:17 UTC No. 16465676
It's not even in anyone's time of life that we will start travelling to Mars as a species. Apparently this is to set the world for a better future, for the future generations that witness our decisions. Our forefathers did the best they could to remain tact, there were a lot of good men and women, who took care of their health and attempted to make our futures brighter. However, instead of fixing where they went wrong, sinful men and women capitalised on the state of the world. Today is an abomination of this matter. What's spoke about as ' the talk about what's going on' are committing a life crime.
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Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 02:30:53 UTC No. 16465619
How comes in video games we get games which are just microtransactions and another man's content hub. Even the games are made poorly, and to top it off there're microtransactions.
What's the scientific reason there are people who seek money over quality of performance? Does it ruin society? Is it a life crime?
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Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 02:05:17 UTC No. 16465602
What's the most logical reason why Adderall, dextroamphetamine, would make someone sleepy?
🧵 Is homosexuality a genetic trait?
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:57:22 UTC No. 16465599
Or is it acquired through personal experience -or lack thereof?
🧵 /sfg/ - Spaceflight General
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:53:54 UTC No. 16465590
soon edition
previous >>16462178
🧵 Ship of Theseus'ing the human brain
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:10:40 UTC No. 16465549
I'm going to sound like an adeptus mechanicus, but please hear me out /sci/.
What exactly, aside from lack of required knowledge, is stopping us from connecting an artificial hemisphere to the corpus callosum and slowly letting it take over functions and memories from our biological brain?
There is some scientific research that highly suggest our brain is technically two separate brains that only behave as a single unit due to this connection. A corpus callosotomy will often be performed on people with atonic seizures, by either partially or completely removing that connection. Callosal syndrome, or split brain, is often a side effect of that surgery, resulting in split consciousness. You have, for all intents and purposes, two brains acting semi independently inside a single body (as far as I can tell from the research, correct me if I'm wrong).
Therefore, if splitting the brain (and consciousness) in this manner is biologically possible, why wouldn't it be (theoretically) possible to connect another artificial hemisphere to it through the corpus callosum, and letting it slowly take over the biological brain functions and memories until it can work on its own?
If that were possible, you could Ship of Theseus your way into a new brain by replacing each hemisphere at a time until you end up with a completely new brain without any complete breaks in consciousness (avoiding the teleporter problem).
So aside from the required knowledge to build an artificial hemisphere, connecting it through the corpus callosum, and how risky the surgery would be, what exactly would be stopping us from doing this?
>inb4 the soul or some crappy religious reason
I don't care about religious reasons. If you do, then explain how corpus callosotomy can result in a split consciousness with just one "soul".
You will never be able to explain it, therefore the machine brain has already won.
🧵 understanding bipolar 1
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:52:45 UTC No. 16465530
>take risperidone for a year now
>mfw cant even focus
>mfw the small amount of time i can focus
>everything goes in one ear out the other
>will have to yet again switch meds
>mfw doctors are just throwing darts at a dart board atp
scientifically speaking will we ever understand mental illness or the medicine we use to "fix" them?
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 23:35:12 UTC No. 16465468
So the guard at 555 Beale street is chewing gum and grunting to himself which indicates that he's hearing voices or is scared that I'm writing. This has happened in the past with psychoticism among shelter staff members that believe in the body as disaggregated and so on (they believe in magic). This typically follows a poisoning event by staff members where my food will be poisoned with antipsychotics or something else to make me sick (as happened the other night with sickened fruit) because they're scared that I can read and write independently. I'll be writing this as a placeholder and the notifying everyone when it happens again including as many intelligence agencies as I can.
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 23:21:48 UTC No. 16465458
any statisticians around? what is the likelihood of a big election being almost 50/50 multiple decades in a row?
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 22:48:08 UTC No. 16465434
I still don't get statistics. Most of it just seems bullshit guess-work to me. Just because you have a sample of the population, there is no way to really quantify how good that sample is. Your sample can legit be wrong. I get that you're going to try and account for, say in polling, demographics and popular interest categories and ensure they are accounted for first so it is more accurate. But what is it about having a 1000 sized sample in a population of 350m that allows you to have any confidence whatsoever?
I also don't get distributions. Yes things in nature follow a distribution, but some things won't. Like preferences of food. Obviously it's logical to say most will like the most popular and there are outliers, but the idea it would fit perfectly in a distribution seems odd to me. Or is it more that, by necessity, for some reason I don't get mathematically, things must follow a distribution?
I also don't get why a standard deviation is useful, or even accurate, or why a chi-square is accurate for accepting data? Why does standard deviation matter? OK, so you know the variation and volatility of data which I guess is helpful, but it will almost always be a sample. So is this good for making greater estimates of larger populations if you know your sample is more volatilte? And no this isn't post-election cope, I just don't get why people put stake in pollers, and I have been calling Alan Lichtman a retard for years.
I also know this is googlable, I just can't get my head around even the explanations for retards.
I want to work with stats so I want to understand this very abstractly, almost theologically, so I'm not just someone following a formula and regurgitating shit.
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:59:47 UTC No. 16465385
Sabine literally has something up her ass all the damn time...
and I like it.
🧵 Learning Mathematics
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:22:12 UTC No. 16465371
I would like to learn about higher mathematics at the college/grad school level, but it's been a long time since I took a math class and I don't think I learned things correctly to begin with in school (I know how to do things, but don't understand them fully).
How can I approach this on my own now? Should I just start over from the beginning?
Does anyone know of a sort of roadmap I could follow for re-learning math up to a college level, and then I could probably take it from there.
🧵 3.999 confirmed by a government to not be 4
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 19:46:19 UTC No. 16465293
>Velichie (Grandeur) party, who had 4.01% voter support based on 99.71% of protocols processed, have dropped out of the Parliament, finishing with 3.999%.
A mathematician's thoughts on it:
>"I have never seen anything like this - 3.999%." The logic is that the number is rounded after the second sign and under this hypothesis, the nine gets two zeros in front and the three becomes a four. That is, the result of "Velichie" should be 4% and they should enter the Parliament. We have yet to find out if and how the CEC(Central Election Commission
) understands mathematics," said Prof. Vitanov.
Thoughts?
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:19:25 UTC No. 16465191
So one of the reasons that people are doing stupid tiktok videos about dancing is because idiots and assholes are associating it with sex? The reason? Poisoning with second hand exposure to fentanyl and other drugs can end up accumulating in your spine and one of the few ways to get rid of it is isometric ligament exercises. So people that masturbate and then are around drug users are being crippled.
So that's nice. 555 Beale street San Francisco California. Don't come to this city.
Video randomly selected from Google.
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:51:44 UTC No. 16465160
The brain does make it's imprint. It's not this simple object in your head space. So from the brain to the heart is a complex polarity that ought be noted. Carve out this measure and use it. For example. Don't make a game difficult by buffing NPCs from the waist, but buff them from the brain, so that it doesn't abstract the game. Such as, make more types of skill points available.
🧵 YLYL
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:23:54 UTC No. 16465116
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:22:51 UTC No. 16465115
>We choose to go to Mars in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:31:35 UTC No. 16465066
Is "why" scientific?
Can you scientifically find out "why"-something is?
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:30:36 UTC No. 16465065
What are you going to do with your new rigorous STEM funding grant?
🗑️ 🧵 ORANGE ROGGIT BAD
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:52:16 UTC No. 16465028
Does Trump's big win in the election mean that SLS is finally going to get get shitcanned permanently and replaced by Starship?
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:45:47 UTC No. 16465017
Is the Earth a universal shape(i.e. shape-neutral, all-shape).
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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:44:43 UTC No. 16465014
Is making space habitats preferable to colonizing and terraforming planets? I have been slowly coming around to the belief that if we want to be truly free of hazards from planets and other solar systems, making maneuverable space habitats would be the best option.