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Barkon !8v8vr3ErDk at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:06:53 UTC No. 16584656
Elon Musk makes 97.4 billion bid for OpenAI ChatGPT maker. What implications does this have for the future of AI?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:25:36 UTC No. 16584593
What's the scientific proof those things are suns again?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:55 UTC No. 16584565
I'll just leave this here.
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:16:14 UTC No. 16584533
let's say a group of scientists gets a newborn child in their possession and from a very young age he will only be fed the most disgusting food out here. nothing poisonous but none of the food he will be fed is considering pleasant in a normal society. aside for that he will be raised normally. at the age of 16 or so this now a teenager gets access to what we consider normal and very tasty. what would his reaction be? has this been done at any point in history? scientifically speaking
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:11:05 UTC No. 16584434
Will sleeping with women of radically different ethnic and cultural background as myself diminish my ability to pair bond in the future?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:02:49 UTC No. 16584428
>If P is false then everything is true durr
This is not logic, this is being a gullible retard. How come they don't call this undefined like they do division by zero? At this point I could define X/0 =1 just because I want to.
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:20:17 UTC No. 16584411
What do you big brains have to say about starting STEM later in life? I'm a humanities fag who is almost thirty with prestigious degrees from US top whatever schools. I feel like I missed out on the science bus. I would like to go to med school or learn software engineering. What is my prognosis?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:46:10 UTC No. 16584385
When normies say "humans are social creatures, you can never be content alone!" or similar talking points, and reference this "hierarchy of needs" to back up their point, are they bullshitting? I'm asking because I'm content alone. Should I volunteer my brain to science to be studied?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:02:50 UTC No. 16584365
What's the last book that changed how we view science forever?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:55:23 UTC No. 16584330
I've done research into male pattern baldness and I read that it isn't caused by a single gene but multiple genes and that you can get male pattern baldness from both sides of the family and that both sides decide whether you go bald or not. Would it be possible to calculate whether I'm going to be bald or not?
Here is my family history:
>I'm 27 and I have a full head of hair
>my father is 50 and when he was 42 I noticed that his hairline had receded and the hair at the front thinned a bit, he is 50 now and it is still the same with no further loss and no hair loss elsewhere on his head. If he didn't slick back his hair you would not know he had hair loss.
>my paternal grandfather (my dad's dad) died in his 70s with a bald spot on the back of his head but he still had most of his hair
>my father's two brothers (my uncles) have full heads of hair
>my maternal grandfather is bald
>maternal uncle 1 is bald and had significant hair loss by my age
>maternal uncle 2 is 39 and is not bald (as far as I can tell)
>one of my maternal grandfather's brothers died in his 70s with a full head of hair
>my maternal grandfather's other brother is in his 70s and has a full head of hair but it has thinned a bit
>my maternal grandfather's father's hair is unknown as I never saw any photos of him as an old man
>my maternal grandmother's father (my maternal uncles' maternal grandfather) died in his 70s with a full head of hair
>my maternal grandmother's nephew is in his 40s and has a full head of hair
>I'm friends with my maternal grandmother's nephew on facebook and every man in his friend's list that has my maternal grandmother's surname has a full head of hair even the old men
🧵 Calorie restriction
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:35:46 UTC No. 16584315
Does calorie restriction actually slow down the aging process?
🧵 Why is math so underfunded compared to other stem fields?
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:15:57 UTC No. 16584302
Math is literally the foundation of every scientific field, yet it gets way less funding than other pure sciences. They get massive grants, while mathematicians are stuck competing for a fraction of that.
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:11:11 UTC No. 16584296
Trump says there's a couple of guys on DOGE that have 182 IQs. WTF is it like interacting with one of these guys? How many steps ahead are they in conversations? Are they charming?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:54:49 UTC No. 16584284
My mom gave birth to me at 34 years old back in 1998. How old was your mom when she gave birth to you?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:47:36 UTC No. 16584282
How would you analyze the following data?
I have a list of about 40,000 emails. I'm evaluating a service that tells me the e-mail addresses' engagement level, meaning how likely they are to respond to an e-mail (the score is integers 1-10). For each e-mail, I know whether or not the person actually responded (0 or 1). So the list is 40,000 pairs of ({1-10},{0,1}).
How would you analyze this data to see if the engagement score is predictive of the actual response score?
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Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:11:25 UTC No. 16584184
Why do we grow really thick and really long hair only on our scalps but nowhere else on our bodies?
🧵 Why do defense contractors sell armaments to other nations?
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:34:51 UTC No. 16584111
Why do defense contractors sell armaments (weaponry/vehicles) to other nations? I mean if a USA corporation made a very advanced warplane, why on earth would I (as a plebeian) or the country's elite (the upper echelon) want Saudi Arabia to have it as well? I mean they represent huge research investments - and then they are sold to other countries where they could be reverse engineered or studied or used for anti-American reasons. I know we primarily sell to allies - but I still see it as sharing confidential and proprietary secrets.
Why isn't defense weaponry sold only to the host country? Stupid analogy, but: I mean it's like EA having FIFA on all consoles - yeah you make more money, but why wouldn't the USA pay for first-class exclusivity on the armaments and make it like Xbox/Halo?
I don't normally post on 4chan, not sure if this is the right board. I just want to have a logical argument with people.
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:31:28 UTC No. 16584108
I want you to play out a scenerio.
A 200-page LaTeX PDF appears on /pol/, titled something like
>"P=NP PROVEN. Your move, glowniggers."
The post includes an efficient polynomial-time algorithm for solving SAT (or another NP-complete problem), which means every modern encryption scheme is dead the moment someone implements it. Assume it's legit and airtight.
What happens next?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:11:22 UTC No. 16584098
>2025
>still nothing available that could possible reverse, halt or even slow down aging
This is so depressing
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:42:40 UTC No. 16584062
and not clockwise?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:04:39 UTC No. 16584024
why do germans dominate science
🧵 Interesting Thought Experiment
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:01:49 UTC No. 16583985
Consider a line that has a single end stuck at a certain point. Now imagine this line rotating around the center point at a constant rate, sweeping out a circular set of points for each uncountably infinite point in time. By definition, these sets, which make up concentric shells of circles, must all be not just the same cardinality but the same size period (if a point was added to each set at EVERY moment).
The reason this is true is that you're mapping radius(x) to circumference (x^2); that much is pretty obvious. However, maybe there is more to this example than meets the eye.
When examining the sets that make up each layer of the shell of circles, what immediately jumps out is that the circles in the shell that have a smaller radius MUST have a tighter density of points, yet the same amount of points, meaning that each layer of the shell is similar to every layer, just scaled up or down depending on the radius.
Now consider space and time next to a black hole. Space-time, of course, stretches the closer to the black hole you get, the opposite of our model, where space-time compresses the closer you get to the center. But what if we inverted our set? Where the point center of our old diagram is contorted into a ring that represents the singularity of the black hole, which surrounds our other sets that represent stretched space-time with flat space-time in the middle representing an infinitely large circle with yet still the same amount of points as every other point. I'm not certain about this, but it seems to me that time dilation is represented perfectly in this diagram. The closer you are to a large mass, the longer arc you have to take through spacetime, meaning the slower time flows relative to the rest of the diagram.