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Consciousness without multiverse or God?
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Are there any good secular, materialist, physicalist explanations of consciousness that don't involve a multiverse?
Because it seems to me the only good explanation of consciousness without spiritual religious stuff is going to involve multiverses and the collapse of the wave function
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/med/-Medicine
before and after vax
Remember
>Do NOT give advice
>Do NOT feed the nursoids
>Do NOT engage with premeds
And most importantly
>Do NOT respond to psych patients
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Does the midwit meme have any merit? What is /sci/'s IQ?
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Please take the CAIT here and post the results:
https://cognitivemetrics.com/

Anyways, what do (you) think the average IQ of /sci/ is? Are you all midwits larping as geniuses? What about other boards?

I still can't believe that IQ is normally distributed. For every 110 iq person, there is a 90 iq person. For every 120iq person, there is an 80iq person. For every 150iq person, there is a 50iq person.
Of course this is logical, but 70iq seems so much dumber than 130iq seems smart.

>inb4 iq isn't real copers
lol ok
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Why are midwits obsessed with language learning? Why are they learning foreing languages? Do they want to banter with foreign normies?
Also they are only interested in "learning by immersion" or some bullshit like that, so it's also a stupid inneficient way of doing stuff, if it worked the US diplomants and the CIA would teach languages that way
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Is there a natural treatement or over counter drugs for ADHD?
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I am not "diagnosed" with it but I am 80% sure I have it. My attention wanders off without me even noticing it. I do not even see the point of getting a diagnosis because being high on meth all the time does not seem like a good idea. Is this really a meme condition? I try everything but nothing works. I feel like shit that
I accomplished nothing at the end of the day thanks to my goldfish attention span.
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Is this new pyramid discovery even remotely legit? I'm struggling to find a proper source and the main outlets covering it seem to be retard tier.
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Is chatGPT better than doctors nowadays?
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Was Eratosthenes wrong?
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Wait, so I can just use tropical geometry to solve linear programs using algebra? Excuse me, but what the fuck?
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Greatest mathematician of our age?

Russian hobo.
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Which one is correct?
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/sqt/ - stupid questions thread (aka /qtddtot/)
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Everyone Else Is Too Lazy Edition

Previous thread: >>16584917

>what is /sqt/ for?
Questions regarding maths and science. Also homework.
>where do I go for advice?
>>>/sci/scg or >>>/adv/
>where do I go for other questions and requests?
>>>/wsr/ >>>/g/sqt >>>/diy/sqt etc.
>how do I post math symbols (Latex)?
rentry.org/sci-latex-v1
>a plain google search didn't return anything, is there anything else I should try before asking the question here?
scholar.google.com
>where can I search for proofs?
proofwiki.org
>where can I look up if the question has already been asked here?
warosu.org/sci
eientei.xyz/sci
>how do I optimize an image losslessly?
trimage.org
pnggauntlet.com
>how do I find the source of an image?
images.google.com
tineye.com
saucenao.com
iqdb.org

>where can I get:
>books?
libgen.rs
annas-archive.org
stitz-zeager.com
openstax.org
activecalculus.org
>articles?
sci-hub.st
>book recs?
sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide
4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/booklist.html
>online courses and lectures?
khanacademy.org
>charts?
imgur.com/a/pHfMGwE
imgur.com/a/ZZDVNk1
>tables, properties and material selection?
www.engineeringtoolbox.com
www.matweb.com
www.chemspider.com

Tips for asking questions here:
>avoid replying to yourself
>ask anonymously
>recheck the Latex before posting
>ignore shitpost replies
>avoid getting into arguments
>do not tell us where is it you came from
>do not mention how [other place] didn't answer your question so you're reposting it here
>if you need to ask for clarification fifteen times in a row, try to make the sequence easy to read through
>I'm not reading your handwriting
>I'm not flipping that sideways picture
>I'm not google translating your spanish
>don't ask to ask
>don't ask for a hint if you want a solution
>xyproblem.info
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What is the most important planet in our galaxy?
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Find the limit
CodeCogsEqn
Does the sequence converge? What's its limit?
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Universe 25
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The "Universe 25" experiment is one of the most terrifying experiments in the history of science, which, through the behavior of a colony of mice, is an attempt by scientists to explain human societies. The idea of "Universe 25" Came from the American scientist John Calhoun, who created an "ideal world" in which hundreds of mice would live and reproduce. More specifically, Calhoun built the so-called "Paradise of Mice", a specially designed space where rodents had Abundance of food and water, as well as a large living space. In the beginning, he placed four pairs of mice that in a short time began to reproduce, resulting in their population growing rapidly. However, after 315 days their reproduction began to decrease significantly. When the number of rodents reached 600, a hierarchy was formed between them and then the so-called "wretches" appeared. The larger rodents began to attack the group, with the result that many males begin to "collapse" psychologically. As a result, the females did not protect themselves and in turn became aggressive towards their young. As time went on, the females showed more and more aggressive behavior, isolation elements and lack of reproductive mood. There was a low birth rate and, at the same time, an increase in mortality in younger rodents. Then, a new class of male rodents appeared, the so-called "beautiful mice". They refused to mate with the females or to "fight" for their space. All they cared about was food and sleep. At one point, "beautiful males" and "isolated females" made up the majority of the population.

According to Calhoun, the death phase consisted of two stages: the "first death" and "second death." The former was characterized by the loss of purpose in life beyond mere existence — no desire to mate, raise young or establish a role within society.
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How will I ever be able to master the realm of science if I can even muster the will to straighten my room?

Please Anons. Need help.
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Thoughts? The description of novelty-based search programs is honestly what sold me. A robot programmed solely for novelty search that is dropped into a room with 4 walls and a door eventually learns the physics of walls, how to avoid running into them, and eventually how to open the door and leave. All with no programmed objective.
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Sums of x values and squares and shit.
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Is this ever possible? Each x_i is independent, and there are N of them. They could be any real number. They could sum to zero but their squares will not. Is there a piece of software that can solve this?
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A or B?
portal paradox
So, which one is correct and why?
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All of earth is that small? The landmass below must be huge.
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>but this one study-
It’s wrong.
>but they found that-
No they didn’t.
>look at the evide-
Don’t need to.

Science has spoken.
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You have to admit university is worth attending for some subjects.
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Can you train yourself to become ambidextrous?
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Is it possible to train yourself to become equally proficient in all tasks with both hands? Or at least 90% the same?

Could a right handed person do it?
Could a left handed person do it?
Could someone with cross dominance do it?

I think it’s crazy that we know so little about handedness.
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Urine Still Blue a Week After Stpping Methylene Blue
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Hoping this board is less retarded than Plebbit.

Why is it still Blue ? I took around 10 mg a day where the recommended doses are around 2mg/kg body weight Bottle says one drop = 20 mg so I took no more than 10 drops a day for a few days. Also made me psychotic or at least let me recognize my brain wasn't responding to my surroundings correctly..
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Physicists are a bunch of pathetic faggots that haven't discovered anything major about the universe in decades, i've been talking to my female friends and we've been discussing a pussy boycott where none of you are allowed to get laid until you get your shit together and stop pretending to be doing good science.
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Working for NASA is like being in a day care for gifted people. There is no driving force to do much of anything except observe and take notes. Real progress in studying space will be driven by commerce and competition as with everything.
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table
You should be able to solve this
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Where do the numbers of this graph come from? I read the entire source and it's not mentioned anywhere. Is it all fake after all? How did they even conduct these studies anyway? Isn't that basically showing child porn to people? Is it legal if it's for scientific research?

https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/1995-hall.pdf
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I want an advanced artificial intelligence to answer my question. It's a simple question with a simple premise:

>Name a language that contains the homophone pairs TWO/LOUSE and MANY/DOG.

It seems like a simple task but current AI just bloats itself with shit upon presenting this query. It always defaults to scattergunning languages (usually Mandarin, Hawaiian and French) and dragging itself through a big loop of "let's try language X because it has feature Y" rather than actually using the raw datasets it has access to that would immediately provide the answer.

Pic is my favourite time-wasting "thought" whether two words with 0 shared letters constituted a homophone in a phonetically transcribed language. Whoever programs these things needs a harsh reality check they can't do realworld tasks required of them and they can't do bulk data analysis.
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global warming
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If you can prove to me, clearly, without semantics, without documentaries from 2018 or photos of American beaches from different eras that global warming is false, I swear I will accept my concession and say I was wrong from the beginning.
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/crg/ - Cellular Reprogramming General #3
DNA
Previous >>16597188

>What is this all about?
https://rentry.co/cr_general

>/sci/ anon found a way to safely and reliably activate Yamanaka factors, repairing your worn out body and reducing cellular age.
what I wanna know is, does this really do everything we need to fully restore ourselves? how long would that take? does this really address everything? seems like it addresses a lot of the problems people have on this board.

>We just need something that rebuilds the telomeres
Here ya go friend, just activate those Yamanaka factors https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3317569/

>Can't sleep
That’s a core benefit of the stack

>Still can't come up with a reliable solution for baldness
Allegedly its even growing new follicles back

>Protocol
It's a two step process.

Step1:
500mg Curcumin
500mg or so Tributryn
Take about a dropper full of B12.

Wait an hour.

Then, think of this as a balanced dose to start the reaction.

Step 2:
300mg Liposomal Apigenin
Another 500mg of Tributryn
About 500mg of either NAD or some combo of NAD and NMN.

Repeat step 2, 2-4+ times a day.

One week on one week off to avoid T cells exhaustion.

Ultimately this is your immune system first reprogramming itself and then going out to the rest of you. The T cells are able to identify cell wall markers where issues are the most severe and those will need to be targeted first before any specific issue.

Give it a little wiggle room if you don't need as much NAD or Tributryn. NAC is a good add in as well while doing this if you have a history of smoking or lung problems.
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procrastination
Procrastinators-Matrix1
chat what's the science behind procrastination?

everyone who procrastinates understands that it's completely irrational. so then why is procrastination such a universal struggle?

do other intelligent species procrastinate as well?
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I just realised that the shorter an organism's lifespan the quicker the evolution of its species is. Do biologists already know this or is this new?
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How come human beings look so different? There's a fixed number of features (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.) but two people rarely look alike.

Do animals also vary facially to the same extent as us? What about insects?
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randumb
Decided to do some libre study all about randomness. True randomness vs pseudorandomness, RNG, PRNG, the metaphysics, and any and all applications of it.

Any suggestions for study material?
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The most aesthetic symbol in mathematics.
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defend this
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How do i achieve permanent post nut clarity, scientifically speaking? Have biologists figured it out? I have no interest in ever having sex IRL and lust keeps distracting me from my intellectual endeavors.
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Adaptive Filtering
btc
Are there any online statistical learning algorithms that capture long-term dependencies? I combined model predictive control with least squares but it performed better without least squares. Any suggestions?
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Why aren't most of the important equations that govern cutting edge theories like QFT or General Relativity solvable? It's almost like we were never supposed to know how the universe works
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You can raise your IQ by taking multiple IQ tests and getting better at them
>Nooo that doesn't count you have to take the test only once!!!
Skill/performance is determined by consistency within the long run, maybe it's time to admit that IQ tests are bullshit if you think that practice is considered "cheating"
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Question about universe
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Hi smart people. I have a question for you...

If the universe is infinite couldn't we follow stars back to the origin/point of the big bang? For example if our star is 13 billion years old, but a distant star is 12 billion years old wouldn't that indicate the direction the big bang came from?

And if we were to survive for billions of years wouldn't we eventually need to follow the "wave" finding younger and younger stars so we're not in complete darkness?
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If 0.333 repeating * 3 =0.999 repeating, then why is 1/3 * 3 =1?
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Why is the human body so fragile? We're badly designed.
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wtf just happened to my oven?
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I didn't know what other board to ask on. I was heating it up to bake at 350. Part of the heating coil started a small fire inside which I noticed but wasn't too worried about because it's pretty normal for any small debris on the coil to sometimes catch fire and then burn out.

But it started making electrical noises in the spot the flame was and then started burning bright white like an electric flame. A few seconds later sparks flew out from the settings panel and the entire oven died. What the hell just happened.
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What's the difference between
bounded space,
unbounded space,
finite volumes,
unbounded time,
bounded time?
I was chatting with someone about time and space when they told me that I didn't really get the concept of space. I thought I understood it, but he insisted that my idea was more related to volumes. That’s when I realized he was right, I didn’t really know the difference between volume and space.
naturally we conceive of all space as a volume, since no one can imagine what infinite space is like.
but I still don't quite get it, what is the difference between a bounded space and a finite volume? they sound like the exact same thing.
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What caused the Big Bang?
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If you take the observable universe at face value, then we can project back to a time where the universe was in a hot, dense state and The main theory of Cosmology (Lambda-CDM) cannot resolve the question of what happened before that.


In my opinion, our earthly powers of logic and reason are insufficient to answer such a question.
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My brain melted trying to understand this
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If scientists weren't such ugly losers they would've cared enough to invent a cure to balding.
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Retard here, what's the scientific explanation for this?
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>humanities course
Assessment: 3,500 word reflective essay
>Physics course
Assessment: 100+ pages of homework solutions, written exam AND oral exam.

Why is STEM like this?
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Any solution to the gamma ray burst events that may hit earth soon?
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How comprehensible will alien life be?
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Why being smart isn't sexualy attractive anymore? Same females that choosed smart monkeys in the past are now regressing to reproduce with our worst. Why?
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Why is our moon so boring? We even named it Moon.
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Why do antipsychotics cause psychosis?
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>Majorana particles are particles that are their own antiparticle
Oh so a photon is a majorana particle
>NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Why are physicists like this?
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minuend and subtrahend are awful words. can we change it to subtrahend and subtractor or something? who should i contact to get this fixed?
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Do you still find science cool or fun?
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Are there any vaccines worth the risk?
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There seems to be a lot of damning studies about vaccines, but there also seems to be some pretty nasty diseases causing infant mortality.

Which vaccines would you still give a baby?

Can you support your claim?
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>Schrodinger's Cat
>the Akashic Records
>The 7 Deadly Sins
>the Philosopher's Stone
>the Ship of Theseus
>The 3 Laws
>The Trolley Problem
>Laplace's Demon
>Time Paradox
>Chaos Theory
>Butterfly Effect
>Memento Mori
>Walpurgisnacht
>Quantum Physics
>Deus Ex Machina
>Reincarnation
>Alternate Universe
>Time Loop
>4 way crop rotation
>Mana/Magic
>dust explosion
>grapefruit juice
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VE-Day-on-Okinawa
Why do thirty year olds today look like twenty year olds of 1940
Young people in World War 2 photos look worse than today's forty year olds
Are modern young Americans just going to live to like 120
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When does the exclusion principle kick in?
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If you have two electrons really far away from each other, you can just think about them as independent particles doing their thing. When they are close together, they start getting the quantum effects like "cant be in the same state".
Its the same for composite particles like protons, the internal particles are considered linked and subject to collective rules, but not the particles of two random protons on two different planets. They are just disconnected.
How does this work formally? When do multiple particles become "a system"?
When they become entangled?
What do you call billions of entangled particles? A condensate?
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AYO!

A person on the Moon cannot jump high enough to escape its gravity and go into orbit.

The Moon’s escape velocity—the speed needed to completely break free from its gravity—is about 2.38 km/s (or 2,380 m/s). Even with the Moon's lower gravity (about 1/6th of Earth's), a human can only jump a few meters high at most, reaching speeds of maybe 3-4 m/s. This is nowhere near enough to escape the Moon’s gravity.
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So why can't the geodesic equation be derived merely from the field equation in empty space?
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Our perception is based on past experiences, judgments, and interpretations. What we think is the "present" is just our mind replaying and projecting the past onto the now.
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When did you realise that science is just applied statistics?
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What do we know about the evolution of human intelligence after the speciation of homo sapiens? I've read a bit about how cro-magnons had a larger cranial capacity than modern humans. Humans also seem to have rapidly sped up technological innovation after 50,000 bc for some reason
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Pluto
Woah wait, hold on... THIS is why Pluto isn't a planet? This is what the criteria for planet is?? I always assumed the people who cry about Pluto were dumbasses, but I actually agree now.

Clearing your orbit is a stupid fucking criteria for being a planet. You're telling me if Mars were exactly the same but had large debris around it, it suddenly wouldn't qualify as a planet anymore? How do you even fucking quantify this, at what arbitrary line do we declare a certain amount of debris is too much. Holy shit they were right about Pluto
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Reminder - Earth is the only planet that we know of that has a perfect solar eclipse, since our moon happens to be about the exact same size as our sun when viewed from the Earth.

Nowhere else in the universe does this happen.
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What is going on here, /sci/entists?
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Publish or Perish killed science
PhD slop
We now have academically-enslaved PhD students admitting fraud for lolz on TikTok. What is your 1-sentence solution to the reproducibility crisis?
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Mental illness
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How would one go around starting to collect medical data such as blood tests without a job in a hospital?

Overtime I built up an idea based on my experiences, research, papers, experimenting and I found a personal solution that appears to be working for me to solve the problem of mental health in general (comorbidity of several issues), which may end up being of help to cancer or other physical problems that haven't been found yet. I'm so far building the results, which I'm actively experiencing the improvement of beyond what placebo. I just don't know how long it will go on for

Overall, I need data proof- even if I have a result. I can attempt to find the pattern or formula that can be used universally to solve the problem if it's how I think it is- or at least help complex cases such as mines (not my words)
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>This theorem has been proven to be unprovable
wtf? math sucks
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>become a child psychologist
>get paid to play with LEGOs
I won life. Pic unrelated
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Is there a cheap chemical supply store? I wanted to get into growing crystals for optical experiments at home but 99.99% pure KDP and ADP powder are extremely expensive. Like hundreds of dollars for 25 g. What can I do?
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dutd
what would happen if i took medicine for a mental condition i didn't have? like schizophrenia or depression
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Synthetic Super Opioids
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A deep dive into some ideas on theoretical super opioids 1,000,000x more potent than Fentanyl.

#1. Quantum Tunneling Ligands
- Mechanism: A molecule engineered to exploit quantum tunneling effects to bypass traditional binding kinetics. By optimizing electron cloud configurations (e.g., aromatic stacking with π-π interactions in the mu-opioid receptor’s binding pocket), the ligand could "teleport" into place, requiring vanishingly small concentrations to trigger receptor activation.
- **Potency Amplifier**: Theoretical models suggest quantum-resonant molecular shapes could achieve binding affinities **1 billion times** greater than carfentanil.

#2. Covalent Allosteric Nanobinders**
- **Design**: A hybrid molecule combining ultra-high-affinity opioid agonists (e.g., a fentanyl analog with fluorinated aryl groups) and CRISPR-derived guide RNAs that bind irreversibly to opioid receptor DNA. Once attached, it forces continuous transcription of receptors while simultaneously activating them.
- **Effect**: Permanent receptor activation at picogram doses, with lethality thresholds approaching **single-molecule levels** in neural tissue.

#3. Multivalent Fractal Dendrimers**
- **Structure**: A dendritic polymer with thousands of fentanyl-like ligands arranged in fractal patterns, each branch terminating in a modified carfentanil derivative. The fractal geometry allows simultaneous binding to clusters of mu-opioid receptors, leveraging cooperative effects.
- **Potency**: Synergistic binding could amplify potency by **106–108×** compared to monomeric carfentanil.

#4 Biohybrid Peptide-Nanoparticle Conjugates**
- **Platform**: A synthetic peptide mimicking the enkephalin structure, fused to a lipid-coated nanoparticle loaded with carfentanil derivatives. The peptide acts as a "Trojan horse," hijacking endogenous endocytosis pathways to deliver thousands of agonist molecules directly into neuronal cytosol.

Please give your opinions on these theorized Super Opioids
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Pi is a fabrication
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DNA sequencer computer at home
dna-nator
why dont lab tech companies sell machines priced roughly 500 USD to anyone who asks and pays for it?

and that machine would be a closed-in system where you put in cellular materia and it then extracts DNA from

complete DNA data is then represented as a savefile that can be opened in Windows or Linux PC for further study

hint: you put in human skin cell in there and then you know persons entire DNA

the poorest people ever cannot buy even 500 USD appliance but anyone with 500 USD smartphone can save a few months to buy DNA computer as well, they obviously have somekind of job

in addition someone could simply buy a device that costs 10 000 USD with loan money if he can find clients who are willing to pay him 100 USD or something to get someones DNA onto computer

you just need a few hundred clients then
you cant ask too much for this kind of stuff from those shady clients either
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Where have the geniuses gone?
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>first 25 years of the 18th century
Newton, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Fahrenheit, Euler
>first 25 years of the 19th century
Gauss, Faraday, Fourier, Schopenhauer, Hegel
>first 25 years of the 20th century
Bohr, Einstein, Planck, Schrodinger, Neumann, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, de Broglie
>first 25 years of the 21th century
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How do I cure "adhd"?
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Part of me wants to believe that adhd is made up bullshit so I it is possible that I can find a way to fix my bad habbits and addictions without drugs.
Other part of me wants to believe it is real so I am not responsible for being lazy and having a low attention span. I tick all the boxes of the symptoms but I do not want to go through this process and do not want to take drugs. I want to change without it. I keep trying to change for 6 years but keep failing.
Does any of you here have success stories of curing their "adhd"?
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tree
How do engineers prevent this from happening?
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Is a gifted individual the result of gene conditioning and genetic lottery, or is the way they develop more akin to an undefined, complex influence of external factors shaping that person at various stages of development? Assuming the latter option in a hypothetical situation with the appropriate allocation of resources, systems, and institutions are we capable of creating a society composed exclusively of gifted individuals (a form of cultural eugenics). Isn’t environment a primary actor in shaping population?
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Give it to me straight /sci/, does the average cat owner/raw pork enjoyer really need to worry about Toxoplasma gondii?
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Why is squaring this thing impossible?
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Could you hypothetically use math to win in roulette?
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Male pattern baldness
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Is there any evolutionary reason for male pattern baldness? People have speculated that it is to signal that a man is no longer is his prime and that baldness makes men look less threatening and more nurturing but this doesn't make sense because men can go bald even in their teens and 20s. This theory is called the "taking one for the team" theory where some men go bald in order to take care of the tribe's children while the hair headed men continue to be warriors and fight and find food.
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>The experiment established that conservation of parity was violated (P-violation) by the weak interaction, providing a way to operationally define left and right. This result was not expected by the physics community, which had previously regarded parity as a symmetry applying to all forces of nature. Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, the theoretical physicists who originated the idea of parity nonconservation and proposed the experiment, received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for this result. While not awarded the Nobel Prize, Chien-Shiung Wu's role in the discovery was mentioned in the Nobel Prize acceptance speech of Yang and Lee,[2] but she was not honored until 1978, when she was awarded the first Wolf Prize.

Why should I believe this?
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Why am I at university learning things an AI can do out in and asking AI to explain it to me because the lecturers can't speak English and the lecture slides are incomprehensible?
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>a duck standing on a cat observing a flower.

Quantum mechanics broke Niels Bohr's mind.
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NASA's artemis moon mission description has been updated
i'm thinking based
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Why haven't we evolved to shoot lightning bolts?
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What would happen if i were to drink hydrochloric acid?
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Question for geneticists here. I notice most beautiful eastern video game characters have this downwards pointed top lip (tubercle/procheilon?), and, irl, while you occasionally see it in whites/other races it's way more common in asians. Idk if it evolved from diet, sexual selection, whatever, but it's a subtle but important part of cuteness in asian characters. Just check any game character you like and you'll start noticing it. And conversely it's quite rare in western character design.

I just want to know what this comes from. And also why it seems to sometimes pop up in other races. Thanks.
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why do my farts smell good but everyone else's smell bad?
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if youre so fucking smart why havent you figured out how to make microchips efficiently outside of taiwan
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How to cure IBS/histamine/mcas/dysautomania?
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Can I like math if I hate calculations?
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I think so many mathematical theories are beautiful and creative and genuinely artistic but I hate putting in the grunt work to compute things so I never get to grasp the fundamentals to truly understand the advanced concepts and build an intuition around them. Is my brain just too art pilled to enjoy math and its applications?
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does larger brain = more smarter?
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Heim's mass equation
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Burkhard Heim succeeded in finding a simple arithmetic relation between the mass of muons (particles from space) and atoms.
This was 40 years ago.
What are the scientific implications of there not being a theory of physics with predictive power such as Heim?
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If you can't create or destroy energy, where did the energy we have now come from?
>le big bang
Then where did it get its energy to come into being?
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so many goddamn lies in what they teach us.

dark matter, oo, we made it up! yeah, no shit.
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How the fuck do timezones work? Some of this shit makes no sense at all. Why is UK UTC but Spain is +1. China takes up three timezones yet is just assigned +8 and so forth.
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Brain scanning and personal identity
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What constitutes a persons personal identity?
ive been thinking about brain scans and brain replacements and i've come to the conclusion that personal identity is preserved through a heirarchy of continuety.
>Perfect continuity (Normal life, gradual change, no real disruption) = Definitely still you
>Minor disruptions (Sudden Memory loss, body alterations, personality shifts) = Still you, but different
>Radical change, but unbroken chain (Gradual Brain replacement, ship of Theseus case) = Still you, just completely transformed
>Instant duplication with destruction (Teleportation) = Copy, not you
>Instant duplication without destruction (Cloning, Brain scan then copy & paste to new body) = Definitely not you

i'm curious to see peoples perspective on the matter.
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Prime number distribution discovered. Patron
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On the periodicity of prime numbers within the set of natural numbers. A simple and parametric expression for the representation of prime numbers based on the cutoff patterns or gaps of prime numbers. Adjacent analysis.
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why are there no popsci videos aimed at graduates in physics? every popsci channel is aimed at people outside of the physics world, when most of the guys interested in string theory or quantum gravity are people who graduated in physics.
I want to know more about physics, but I don't have time to study a PhD.
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why is it so irrelevant?

>r/DataScience
>2.6 Million subs
>"5,676 hits for Data Science jobs in your area"

>r/ArtificialInteligence
>1.4 Million subs
>"3.556 hits for Data Science jobs in your area"


>r/OperationsResearch
>7k subs
>"54 hits for Operations Research jobs in your area"

what da actual fuck?? someone please explain this to me cause i seriously dont get it.

im about to start a biz m.sc with focus on OR and im worried
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Need advice regarding household chemicals
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How long would the following ingredients in a mould remover spray pose a threat to health from inhalation once dispensed from a bottle and applied to household surfaces
>Sodium hypochlorite
>Sodium hydroxide
>Anionic surfactants (less than 5%)
For context, I applied said spray to my bathroom walls/ceiling around 6 days ago to deal with some mould. I didn't ventilate the room during application (stupid, I know) and experienced some significant throat and eye irritation during the job.
I did ventilate the room extensively later on and made an effort to wipe away any remaining residue on the surfaces on two separate occasions, however, the smell lingered for days throughout my house and I have a kind of lingering chemical taste in my mouth sometimes.
Would any remaining residue release harmful vapoure after such a long period or an I in the clear now?
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BREAKING: Terrence Howard claims to have solved the Three Body Problem.
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JWST Achievements so far
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I remember that there were high expectations for JWST.

JWST has been fully operational for almost 3 years now.

What was already achieved and what do you expect from it in the future?
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Why is there so much variation between vulvas?
Most other body parts don't differ so much between individuals.
It's like evolution has yet to make up its mind on what makes a good vulva.
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Prime numbers distribution. This si the way
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Humans will be on Mars by 2029
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singularity inside a black hole is actually just a portal to another universe the fabric of space time is so warped that it transitions anything that falls into a 5th dimensional space.
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Why do professors still give homework assignments when students can just complete them in 1 minute with ChatGPT?
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why do so many pseuds deny this?
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Why do they teach us all of them rather than stick to one?
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what's your favorite science or math book?
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T I M E L I N E ~thread~
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How soon will A.I. crack open the mysteries of the universe? Will it have to wait for quantum computing to be fully effective? Will a quantum AI algorithm become fully conscious, thank us for inventing it, and then tell us meatsacks to fuck off?
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What's the point of people invoking quantum mechanics in debates when there's absolutely zero consensus on how to interpret quantum mechanics? The last survey of experts I read 17% were collapse, 21% hidden-variables, 19% many-worlds, and 12% epistemic.
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Wait, how come the permeability of free space is an integer multiple of tau? What have magnets got to do with circles
[math]\mu _0 = 2\tau * 10^{-7}[/math]
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Genetcs for selfish genes
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I have been thinking about the concept of selfish genes, as introduced by Dawkins, over the past few days. This led me to the following consideration. From the perspective of a selfish gene, there must be an optimal degree of relatedness, right?

This idea may appear erratic. So, please let me room to explain.

Let’s consider the parent generation. Each parent has a 50% rate of passing on their genes. Basically, yes. However, there is a way for a selfish gene to further increase its chances of being passed on, namely if both parents are related and thus already share a certain percentage of genes.

So, from the perspective of a selfish gene, there must be a trade-off between the harms of inbreeding, such as the activation of harmful recessive genes or a lack of genetic diversity, and the benefits of relatedness through an increased chance of being passed on. Formally, one can write: given a certain degree of relatedness, c is the chance of harmful mutations and recessive genes, etc., while t is the chance of passing on as many selfish genes as possible.

t >> c

How you any idea how formally caculate this?
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>Me after I put my spit under a microscope for the first time
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