🧵 How do we save /sci/?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:42:11 UTC No. 16474431
>political ragebait thread
>schizo thread
>general #2135
>decent thread raided by schizos
>offtopic /b/-tier thread
No really, how do we save /sci/? The board is barely usable at this point. Citing actual scientific articles gets you called whatever the latest buzzword is, while blatant lies and untreated schizophrenia go unchallenged.
What went wrong?
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:17:27 UTC No. 16474407
>Zorn's Lemma makes sense
>Well-Ordering theorem makes no sense
>Axiom of Choice is impossible to decide
But they're all equivalent. How is that possible?
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 04:41:02 UTC No. 16474348
Will we actually see an amazing scientific breakthrough that will change everything significantly in our lifetime? I just want to see life become better.
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:57:02 UTC No. 16474327
They used to demand wikipedia tier language to pass a grade in my college and now everyone is saying this is pozzed? Maybe just how your institutions are pozzed and your education system has failed
anyway you should be able to sift useful information from wikipedia if you are truly smart.
AI will help us dig through useless text for valuable information
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:38:37 UTC No. 16474310
Math thread, let's share and discuss interesting math.
Did you know that a dot product can be used to calculate the angle between vectors as well as calculate the projection of one vector onto another. This is particularly useful in computer graphics and physics.
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:14:12 UTC No. 16474277
How would you regulate future genetic engineers in order to stop them making something like this?
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 02:52:38 UTC No. 16474256
Remind me again what he proved in physics? A disabled man talking via a machine was indeed a revolutionary thing, but that shouldn't be enough to give some insignificant hack fame...
🧵 /med/ medicine
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:57:38 UTC No. 16474196
obstetrics edition
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🧵 Small dick problems: Masculine entitlement as rhetorical strategy
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:49:48 UTC No. 16474118
>This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and anonymity associated with networked platforms, the men at r/SmallDickProblems assert affective and epistemic entitlements to recoup what they perceive to be a natural gendered hierarchy.
>Content advisory: This essay examines discourses concerning misogyny, transphobia, and suicide.
>Keywords: Affective entitlement; epistemic entitlement; male entitlement; manosphere; networked misogyny
You're telling me that right now, right fucking now, there are pieces of shit in this god-forsaken world taking actual grant money to "study" online websites to find ammunition to humiliate, berate, condemn, and disparage men who were unlucky to be born with less than 7 inches below the belt? You're also telling me this shit gets peer reviewed?
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Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:06:42 UTC No. 16474066
If math is so fucking complicated... Well, have you ever stopped to think: Hmmmm. Maybe it is TOO complicated? Maybe, just mayhapsly, this is a bad thing and not a good thing?
Science is outpacing evolution. People have to attend school for 20+ years just to reach a level of being able to read 100 year old discoveries. It's simply not sustainable.
Maybe it's time to stop and think about that. Like it's time to refactor your code. It's smelly, and full of bugs and poor documentation and legacy. You need to make things more simple. Actually improve how things are formulated and communicated, or there simply won't be any healthy brains left by the time they have the knowledge necessary to contribute further.
That's by the way the real reason you should be able to explain something to a 5 year old.
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Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:56:51 UTC No. 16473985
>need some old-ass book from 1960's
>sci_hub_time.exe
>404
>Anna's Archive time
>download is either insanely slow (several hours for 30 MB book or doesn't start at all
>HAHA JUST BECOME A MEMBER ANON HAHA
Truly the age of free information.
🧵 Global Excellent Scientists Fund 2025 in China
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:31:33 UTC No. 16473944
My father is a mechanical engineer and used to be in nuclear power research. He received the following email:
https://pastebin.com/me6jYV9R
I searched it up a little and found this random article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cs
This supposed campaign has elements identical to the email:
>Title
2024 invitation for overseas talents to apply for the Global Excellent Scientists Fund in China.
>promises salaries ranging from $95,000 to $374,000.
>The fact it was sent by email
We live in Europe not Canada but there's too many correlations.
In any case, should we be worried about this? Is there anything fishy going on?
Is there a reason he shouldn't apply?
Have you had any experience like this?
🧵 Social sciences
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:03:31 UTC No. 16473909
Can anyone on /sci/ guess the cause behind this massive 55% turnaround in the vote tally in this one district in Brooklyn which did not occur in to the same extent in nearby districts?
🧵 Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:35:56 UTC No. 16473889
I've been getting moody since the time change has kept me at a desk during daylight hours. I'd like to supplement a little bit of full spectrum light exposure with TMS, since the Mayo clinic said that it is generally safe and without serious risks for someone of my medical history. I assume I won't be able to use a home unit with headphones, with all the magnets involved. Are there any anons with experience or suggestions before I buy a home unit from China without a prescription and do 3-4 15 minutes sessions per week?
🧵 How good are elite colleges actually?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:04:25 UTC No. 16473788
Okay /sci/ so there are a bunch of things online showing Cambridge college's reading lists and other shit for their mathematics tripos, said to be the hardest math course devised by humans. But how good is this really? We all know elite colleges make things harder and are selective purely as a means of maintaining their prestige and reputation. I knew a guy who attended an elite college and he told me the teaching actually sucked and they spent more time online or using MIT open courseware instead of relying on their actual professors who seemed more interested in research and PhD slaves instead of teaching freshman undergrads. Overloading students with work was a tactic used to make things artificially difficult and elite and keep them busy.
So basically, if somebody went through this material would it actually give them a good education in mathematics? If yes, is that education actually better than what you'd get at a less elite/pretigious institution that has a solid reputation in math? I'm guessing the basic stuff is good but it isn't as great as it makes it out to be and probably not better than a public ivy in the graduates it produces and a lot of it is just hype and maintaining an image. But i am a pol "science" retard who has zero understanding of math and science so I don't know.
Math tripos guide
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergr
Reading list and book reccs
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergr
Lecture notes from parts 1 and 2
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergr
🗑️ 🧵 Is it worth watching?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:51:10 UTC No. 16473768
I've watched a few episodes of S1 and it feels like a giant waste of time.
Does every episode follow this pattern :
Mystery->Mystery solved->...or is it?...
But really it's just some B rated horror movie crap.
🧵 /bio/ - Biology General
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:49:43 UTC No. 16473764
Manmade Horrors edition
Basic Info For Tourists:
>https://www.khanacademy.org/scienc
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biol
Biology Journals to Read New Research:
>https://www.cell.com/cell/home
>https://www.cell.com/current-biolo
>https://www.cell.com/trends/ecolog
Top Bio News Headlines This Week:
>https://www.sciencedaily.com/relea
>https://www.sciencedaily.com/relea
>https://www.sciencedaily.com/relea
QOTT: Let's say you genetically engineered a species of satyrs and minotaurs. What would their taxonomy be? They have characteristics of both the family Bovidae and the order Primates, but don't seem to fit in either. How would you classify them?
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Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:36:26 UTC No. 16473672
Could a animak evolve to survive 1000k?
🧵 It is actually possible to buy a piece of moon for 70$ ?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:20:10 UTC No. 16473644
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Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:09:41 UTC No. 16473626
So gravity doesn't actually exist, there's just the warping of space-time?
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Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:01:17 UTC No. 16473537
How can we avoid microplastics in daily life?
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Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:02:16 UTC No. 16473479
Is it harmful for health to smell and keep old books?