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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:28:50 UTC No. 16496027
Can I get diseases from shaking hands or being close to sex havers and regular gym visitors?
🧵 bogus limits
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:08:57 UTC No. 16495928
im almost finished with calc and seriously wtf are limits?
>sequence of natural numbers
>keep getting closer
>but never any biggest natural number
>never any closer to infinity
is this seriously what counts for rigor in math? inb4 brainlet: i got over 100% on all my calc exams, especially product rule and chain rule, and I can do the proofs for why they work in a few lines. but the rationale for why limits work obviously lacks any serious footing.
obviously derivatives make no sense in this formulation either. you may as well have dy/dx = 0/0 as things stand. the natural numbers represent a stagnation and formless purgatory for numbers, driving sensible quantities ever never closer to annihilation. It is just because infinity is a contradiction that it is an infinite process, unrolling endlessly in time and in space.
is the true knowledge of nature, the infinity of knowable matter composed of the purely finite things, the infinity of thought which knows the absolute, composed of an infinite number of finite human minds working side by side and successively at this infinite knowledge? how can we use this rational infinity to save calculus?
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:40:46 UTC No. 16495919
Is it really possible to accurately diagnose alcoholism from the other side of the planet just by watching a video of someone?
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:19:55 UTC No. 16495894
Is masturbation as harmful to your physical and mental health as all the scientific experts say it is?
🧵 My retard brain can't learn fast enough or just can't learn
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:19:08 UTC No. 16495893
I arrogantly sometimes think I am intelligent, but then when trying to learn something new in my Calculus 1 class, I am as slow as a snail or as immobile as a boulder. My retard brain cannot absorb information, I look at the lecture notes and problems and think what the fuck is this shit?? Meanwhile high IQ individuals can absorb and comprehend complex information in nanoseconds while it takes me centuries to understand a simple concept or can never understand concepts. Sure, I can do practice problems over and over again, but it feels like I'm just memorizing at that point and not actually understanding.
Will science invent something to boost IQ? I am 24 years, so my IQ is already decreasing, I should've just mathmaxxed in my younger years.
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:07:07 UTC No. 16495889
do you look like a scientist?
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:55:14 UTC No. 16495879
OK, I got a math degree. Now what? How do I get some cool job using it?
Pic semi related, it's what I did my senior exercise on.
🧵 Sir David Attenborough dead at 98
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:22:47 UTC No. 16495818
Sir David Attenborough has passed away at 98.
🗑️ 🧵 Elon Musk
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:14:41 UTC No. 16495809
butthurt lefties claim he lies, but I think they're just too gullible
>not delivering on project deadlines
Have you ever worked on a team to deliver an engineering project? These projects get pushed back all the time. You're not entitled to a new Tesla at a promised date. Build one yourself and stop crying.
>Saying He’d Take Tesla Private With a Tweet, Then Getting Sued for Fraud
It was a joke, the same people who fell for this also microwaved their iphones to try and charge them
>Lying About Bots While Being Forced to Take Over Twitter
Can't find any evidence. He was operating on imperfect information throughout the acquisition, and not all of this information was made public. How in the hell would a news source have a better technical understanding on userbase analytics for twitter than Elon and his team? Coupled with the fact articles that acuse him of this quickly devolve into a gender politics discussion as a non-sequitur.
too much emotion from all the onions milk...
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:01:37 UTC No. 16495792
How deep can you go with pre-Algebraic math? How much could we accomplish?
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:51:15 UTC No. 16495786
What are some examples of midwits who think they’re high IQ?
I can think of:
>media literacy
These people cannot grasp that some people may like some aspects of a certain medium even if the author did not intend for them to be liked. So they think the people who do are the stupid ones because they don’t follow this made up immutable law.
>inner voice
Similarly, they cannot grasp someone simply not needing an inner voice narrating inside their heads 24/7, so they think it must be exclusive to stupid people.
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:22:55 UTC No. 16495716
Seriously how do I stop forgetting math? I stop for a few weeks and it's like my brain goes full reset. It makes me feel retarded. How am I supposed to advanced to higher subject areas if this keeps occurring?
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Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:09:55 UTC No. 16495703
What are the signs of intelligence in women? Basically just look at their father's IQ? I noticed a lot of high IQ women are just regular sluts. Thanks sci. I have ~140IQ and want to improve offspring.
🧵 How does growth hormone really work?
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:04:41 UTC No. 16495699
There is a lot of talk about this, but generally from a somewhat mystical perspective.
Is it really possible to stimulate this hormone? if yes, how? and we see some people claiming that it is possible to grow after the age of 18. I haven't read any scientific articles about this, but apparently it's false? Does anyone know anything?
🧵 Rigorous Basic Math
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:21:41 UTC No. 16495659
I have been looking for a book that explained in a rigorous but down-to-earth way basic math, beginning with arithmetic and up to (and including) calculus.
By searching online on my own, I stumbled on "Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics" by Hung-Hsi Wu.
This seems to be the closest I could find to what I was searching for, the only issue being that the target audience is schoolteachers so it seems to waste some time talking about pedagogical stuff (in which I don't have much interest) even though most of the book just talks about math from what I have seen thus far.
I wanted to ask whether anyone has read Wu's book (and his other books as well, which seem to cover everything up to and including (single-variable) calculus) and whether anyone has any better recommendation for someone who is NOT a teacher but is still interested in learning more about basic math in a reasonable rigorous way.
I'm liking Wu's approach thus far since he remains very concrete and doesn't stray too far into abstraction. And he also explains how to carry out calculations in practice with the standard algorithms and he explains why the algorithms are correct. Which is something you won't find in books with a more advanced outlook texts like "Foundations of Analysis" by Edmund Landau. Landau does explain how the number system works starting from Peano's axioms but the whole development is very formal and detached from the concrete way in which numbers are used in everyday life.
At the other extreme, books like "Basic Mathematics" by Serge Lang aren't basic at all and they already assume a considerable degree of familiarity with numbers (and rigor is somewhat optional anyway, especially in the chapters about geometry).
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:40:11 UTC No. 16495601
Bob ate 365 apples last year.
365 apples / 365 days = 1 apple/day.
The problem is this: It's possible Bob ate no apples in January but ate two per day in August.
So what's going on dudes?
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:54:03 UTC No. 16495568
What if the universe is an egg for a supernatural being. When consciousness in this universe achieves a certain level of power and understanding, it is able to escape the universe, which would mean it emerges from the "egg" as a supernatural being.
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:58:26 UTC No. 16495520
I want to build a permanent magnet NMR with a microcoil, like the picospin line of TFS
I know the specs the pico80 has in part by looking through patents
>Nd 52? / 48 Magnets, 1.5"x0.75"
>Permendur 2V Pole pieces, 1.2"x0.45" truncated parallel sides
I also already have a capillary cartridge of a picospin 80, afaik the shimming is fully on the PCB and I think I can get the code for it online. Otherwise, the microcoil, quartz tube and ptfe tube is on that
Now, I have no fucking idea what RF components I need, and I'm a retard in electronics, I guess I need some high quality ADCs?
Is this retarded and should I just stick trying to make my own FTIR?
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:18:19 UTC No. 16495481
Dis heliocase bitch nigga spins as fast as a jet engine?
Can we hear the sound? Things spinning that fast are often very loud.
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:12:14 UTC No. 16495471
How is the incoming Trump administration going to affect and change science? Since the government provides pretty much all funding for science it seems like he has the potential to alter things substantially. Which fields will benefit and which will suffer under his watch?
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:58:54 UTC No. 16495448
>NASA staff beg Elon Musk to 'clean house' after agency spent millions of Americans' money on DEI agenda
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science
NASA staff are calling on Elon Musk to 'clean house' as it is revealed the agency blew millions of taxpayer money on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
LMI consulting received over $2 million in 2023 for NASA to 'embark on a venture to incorporate and deeply engrain diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility in the culture and business.'
Another $3 million went to Booze Allen Hamilton in March to support NASA's 'office of diversity and equal opportunity DEI data analytic specialty,' and $ 7 million was announced last month for six 'minority-serving institutions.'
Amid these expenditures, staff have voiced concerns online about budget shortages, citing struggles with 'limited funds' due to 'wasteful spending.' Software engineer Kyle Sorensen told he hopes Musk will 'clean house.'
Musk, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, was tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency that aims to 'slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies.'
A former NASA employee told DailyMail.com that NASA's DEI is 'destroying America's ability to compete with China in space because the Biden-Harris administration will only fund programs that feature it.'
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:41:56 UTC No. 16495427
WTF is 3-NOP (3-Nitrooxypropanol) and is it safe to be putting in the food supply?
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:28:14 UTC No. 16495413
Would it be scientifically and technologically feasible to use AI to create THEY LIVE glasses that actually function in IRL life using existing technology?
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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:16:53 UTC No. 16495400
>tfw low intelligence, high wisdom