Is 4chan a legitimate subject for academic study?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452
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Yes this place is a goldmine for data mining at least theoretically. You could extrapolate a lot of information useful for analysis such as general anonymous interaction between humans, what makes a quality troll, what incites response, shared traits among trends/memes that start here before expanding elsewhere(what makes something go viral), picture analysis (of original phone pictures of things like cars, rooms, clothes, etc.) to estimate average wealth of poster combined with an abstract intelligence analysis to see which boards contain people worth advertising to, just off the top of my head.
Sociologists, businesses, machine learning enthusiasts and people who generally enjoy learning new things would be licking their chops if a proper API for this website released, or if historical instances of the post database accompanied with some more in depth information such as IP geolocation, number of times a request was made to see a thread by client IPs (to see what people click on and lurk in but not necessarily post in), and a couple other things for the entire website were released by the admin.
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>>8706388
I can't tell if this is an amazing post-ironic work or if you're retarded
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>>8706392
If you don't see this place for the data mining wonderland it is, you're blind. There are millions of unique posters here a day, and someone with admin access literally has their fingertips on information that gives you the rawest look at the human psyche on a plethora of topics. I wouldn't be surprised if different companies like Google or IBM had specific positions where they paid a worker to try to land a position as a mod or admin here so they could get access to more useful data than what you get by just scraping the html or using the shitty APIs.
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Learning Calc-based physics 2017-02-27 12:46:09 Post No.8706253
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Hey /sci/. I'm going to be a physics major (I'm in my 2nd physics class right now so I'm still starting out). I'm doing shit with flux, electric fields, surface integrals, some weird shit like that. I'm taking Calc 3 right now also, so I have a basic understanding of that kind of stuff, but this class is a massacre.
Pretty sure 90% or more of the kids are failing this class. I try to work out problems and practice by doing homework, but if I get stuck, the professor doesn't have office hours and most of the tutors don't know shit about the calculus part of physics.
Does /sci/ know where I should go to either get help learning this kind of material? Is there a site, youtube channel, or something I can go to in order to get help really understanding this stuff?
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>>8706253
khanacademy
pauls online math notes
betterexplained
patrickjmt
t. don't even start school for another month
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>>8706266
Khanacademy reall never did anything for me.
I liked patrickjmt for math, I didn't know he did physics. To clarify, it's not so much the things like "solve that integral" that I struggle with. It's more applying it to the physics problems and also how to set up the physics problems and what some of the concepts really mean.
Thank you for the advice though, I'll check the rest of those out too.
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Hyperphysics
At this point in your physics education, most of your work is just taking a problem, deciding what formula to use, and then plug-and-chug. Hyperphysics has all the formulas you need, and explains how to use them.
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Have we even built a real quantum computer yet?
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>>8705189
China did. They're using it to transmit information to their satellites.
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>>8705189
IBM have one with 5 qubits, Google have one with 9-11 qubits (or at least they're close to, I can't remember). D-Wave have a quantum annealer and I think they're pretty sure it does use quantum stuff somewhere, either way there's some speed up over the classical equivalent to what it's doing.
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ahhh mine bepis
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Can someone here explain to me in detailed layman's terms why this finding is so significant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-CbKHbH5QA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkVC7lqc--0
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>OH YES!!!!! Look!!! TORUS appears on GIANT SUPERCELL!!
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>>8704554
>why this finding is so significant
why would it be
also
>"finding"
Can this work?
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>>8701461
No. Not yet at least. Horizontal flight is barely possible.
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>>8701461
On mercury.
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>>8701461
maybe if you use a platform that isn't notorious for it's inefficiency.
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At work I'm tasked with neutralizing 0.9L of 0.1M Hydrochloric acid as fast as possible. I use 40% w/v KOH solution as the base (7.13M if I calculated correctly).
Since its a stong acid with a strong base I used M1V1=M2V2 to calculate that it would take 0.126L of 7.13M KOH to neutralize 0.9L of 0.1M HCl.
In practice, however, this amount never works. I need to get the pH to 6.5-8.0 but I always drastically overshoot or undershoot the target.
Even adding the same amount to an identical sample will give different results. For example, I added 0.122L KOH for a pH of 10.1. I added 0.122 KOH to another sample for a pH of 3.7.
Can someone explain why these extreme variations exist? Should I use a more dilute base? Work wants me to just titrate everything but there's got to be a faster way...
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>>8700097
>work
This board isn't your personal tutor anon, try being less of a brainlet
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>>8700097
>Work wants me to just titrate everything
do that
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>send math professor an email starting with "Hi (name)"
>replies back with a PS saying " 'Hi'? I'm not your friend, anon. 'Dear' is more appropriate. And next time I would appreciate if you call me Professor (name) and not by some cheap name you would normally call your friend on a Friday night."
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>I deserve unique respect for what milliions of others have gone through too
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>>8696633
Tell him he is superficial and egotistical if he cant handle being called his own name but without the prefix
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>>8696633
>starting with "Hi (name)"
That was pretty retarded, although his reply was memey as well.
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Why does psychology stress the fact that they are science? When I took an intro course half of the first chapter was dedicated basically to what "science" is, and why psychology is part of that.
I thought this was strange, my intro to mechanics course didn't start out talking about how physics is definitely a science.
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>>8705195
most people have the belief that science is biology chemistry and physics.
Psychologists obviously disagree with this belief so they set out to correct the record.
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>>8705212
>correct the record
So psychologists are confirmed shills?
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>>8705195
But anon, how did you personally feel about the fact that they're dedicating half of a chapter to proving psychology is part of the sciences?
[spoiler]that will be $125[/spoiler]
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Why are all scientists introverted? Is introversion a fundamental personality trait, or a result of the environment? Can introversion be changed? Is it possible for an introvert to at least get to a point where they're not fucking up every single social interaction?
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what is your proof that they are introverted
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>>8705135
>introverted
Is this a new meme?
What did he mean by this?
What is you IQ btw...are you Gen Z nu-male trying to fit in?
Social "science" doesn't even fall under the definition of science.
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>>8705135
Feynman was an extrovert. there are a lot of scientists with different personalities.
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Opinions on the mice utopia?
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>>8705006
T'was fuck'd
-anon
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>>8705006
>Repeat the same experiment on mice
>Report most of them
>40 years later faggots only remember the most fucked up one
Pop-sci is a fucking cancer. The universe he created was called "Universe 25", what do you think happened in the other 24? (pro-tip: it was fucking nothing). Also I can't trust or take seriously any researcher who uses the phrase "spiritual death".
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>>8705006
Sometimes I think that agriculture was a mistake, and we should've just stayed as hunter-gatherers. Everyone had a job and something to do almost all the time, and communities where small and tightly bound. As a result, there where no social outcasts that never lose their virginity like most people on this site. Life was simpler. People didn't live as long, but they had no real reason to be unhappy most of the time. This experiment kind of supports that, because agriculture led to a surplus of food which led to crowded cities and today's society.
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Do you know that feeling you occasionally get, when you look yourself in the mirror and thing "It is so strange that this is the person who I am."
Yeah, what the fuck is that, and why does that happen?
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>It is so strange that
As opposed to what?
What situation wouldn't be strange?
I mean there is the philosophical problem of induction, and that you can't disprove solipsism. Is that where your wondering stems from?
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>>8704405
jep I do OP,
also sometimes when I wake up.
I look around my room for 1 or 2 sec and then i start to remember who the person is to which these things belong... who I am.
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>>8704405
>you're now conscious of the weight of your brain over your neck
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Where do we set the moral limit for experimentation?
Pic related is unit 731, japanese biological research center that undertook lethal human experimentation during WW2
Experiments would include :
Vivisection :
>Thousands of men, women and children interred at prisoner of war camps were subjected to vivisection, often without anesthesia and usually ending with the death of the victim.
> Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases.
>Researchers performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body.
> These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results.
>The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants, including pregnant women (impregnated by Japanese surgeons) and their infants.
>Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.
>Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines. Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.
Syphilis :
>A male and female, one infected with syphilis, would be brought together in a cell and forced into sex with each other. It was made clear that anyone resisting would be shot."
>After victims were infected, they were vivisected at different stages of infection, so that internal and external organs could be observed as the disease progressed
Other experiments :
>In other tests, subjects were deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death;
>placed into high-pressure chambers until death;
>placed into centrifuges and spun until death;
>injected with animal blood;
>injected with sea water;.
What should be okay and what should not?
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only ok if done to chinks, kikes, mudshits, niggers and other subhumans
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>implying you were expecting a different answer[/spoiler]
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>>8704173
Fuck off poltard.
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Is there really no meaning to life? Asides from passing on your genes to the next generation, is there a specific reason why life started? Are we just products of random process of thermodynamics after the Late Heavy Bombardment? Were the nihilists correct in the end?
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>>8703234
wow that really made me think...
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Define "meaning".
Why is the moon landing questioned? What would be the reason to fake it? Not even the soviets question it.
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america has a bad educational system, and much of the country is 3rd world tier. spacefaring technology is withcraft and heresy to a large portion of the population, op
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>>8702928
Contrarianism. Hop over to /tv/ and you'll understand the sort of person that does this.
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>>8702928
>Why is the moon landing questioned?
because the van allen belt is too radioactive for a human to survive going through
>What would be the reason to fake it?
to control the good goyims
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Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience" 2017-02-26 10:49:00 Post No.8704253
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Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"
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It really is pseudoscience, just listen to the actual science from someone who's a lot smarter than you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM
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>>8704253
Brilliant.
Especially the bit about polar bears in Svalbard. I wonder, why are polar bears moving south?
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>>8704253
We all know global warming is a meme. Thats why we redirect those threads to /x/ where they belong.
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>>8704253
>just listen to the actual science from someone who's a lot smarter than you
Now this is going to generate (you)'s, Genius.