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I apologize profusely that the following post will be /x/ as fuck but I'm not trying to prove ghosts or anything, I need advice from fellow scientists as to what to do when you don't believe in ghosts at all (obviously) yet have an experience that you just cannot explain. I'm sure someone else here must know this feel. it's very conflicting.
>Spend night at a friend's house
>Come back 5am, go to bed
>Wake up entire family is in kitchen arguing loudly
>Ask wtf is going on they say that the front door slammed open and woke the whole house up at about 4am
>I'm like okay clearly somebody forgot to close the door and the wind blew it open
>They all say nope they all ran out of their rooms immediately after to check and the door was locked, both the hub lock and the deadbolt
>I'm the rational one so I now dismiss this as they were all hearing something unrelated outside maybe a car accident
>I go to check the door, the inside handle is completely smashed in and there's a perfect imprint of said handle in the hallway wall
>They were telling the truth, the door blasted open so hard that it smashed a dent into the wall
>Wtf
So yeah any rational ideas on how the hell the door blasted open with explosive force, closed and re-locked both bolts?
It gets weirder
>Go to bed a few nights later
>Hear the front door unlock and creak open
>Didn't hear it close
>About a minute later hear mum go into hallway and light come on
>Get up and go there as well
>She asked me if I heard that
>I say yeah
>Door is locked, both bolts
The ONLY explanation I can come up with is that somebody broke in but there are three problems 1) Both times family members rushed to the door within a minute of the incident, How can you break a door open and lock it back in that time? 2) Both times nobody ever heard footsteps 3) I lived in a tiny as fuck council flat pic related is the layout, all bedrooms are literally within 15 feet of the front door, nowhere for a burglar to hide. Help.
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>>8341877
>I'm the rational one so I now dismiss
Keep tell yourself that, you braindead degenerate. Talking yourself up doesn't make it so.
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>>8341877
>argueing about how they heard the door slam open
Thats how i know you are lying. You got too specific too fast, if the noise woke them up likely nobody would have known what the fuck the noise was from. They especially would not be aware of which direction the door was traveling when it made the noise. You live in an apartment, there was likely someone next door or above/below you that slammed their door and you heard it. The mark in the wall is probably from someone in your apartment not wanting to admit to it.
There are plenty of reasonable explanations, you just like to jump to the supernatural because you belong in
>>>/x/
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>>8341877
>They all say nope they all ran out of their rooms immediately after to check and the door was locked
How do you know one them wasn't sleep walking, slammed the door open, and then closed and bolted the door. As first family to come down after the loud noise arrived they came to and were equally surprised at what they saw, and possibly heard, as the arriving family member. Perhaps they came to and realized they were sleep walking and slamming doors but lied about what happen. How do you know one of your family members isn't just fucking with you for amusement?
>math is racist and oppressive to minorities and women!
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have you checked your mathematical privilege yet today?
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>>8341674
I was literally just about to make this thread:
>http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/weapons-of-math-destruction/
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>weapons of math destruction
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Does science make your acceptance of death any easier?
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Yep.
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I think it's subjective.
To me, it just got worse the more i learned. I fucking hate death man and I can't cope with it.
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>>8341667
What made it worse?
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So, explain me why we can't use Magnets for perpetual motion free energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmdKVecQhXs
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>>8341651
Because the petrol companies are enslaving us.
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>>8341651
we actually don't "know" why. the laws of thermodynamics are empirical.
>inb4 statistical thermo meme
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>>8341651
Go start a company and sell them then.
Oh wait
<neat>
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Hey neighbor! Do you like fish too?
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transcript:
"THE HUMANS KNOW, SHUT IT DOWN"
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>>8341458
Wow, we have like sooo much in common. We should hang out more!
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assume that you are gambling/investing whatever you want to call it
everytime you do it, you have a 51% or higher chance of succeeding. does this mean you will inevitably (>99%) make a net profit over a sufficient number of times?
what function do you use to figure this out?
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>>8341334
No. It's possible that you would lose every game for all time
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>>8341334
What you are describing is literally called the gambler's fallacy
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>>8341334
Your story doesn't give us any idea of what the EV is. How much are you losing when you lose and how much are you winning when you win?
Being "nerdy" and "into science", albeit superficially, has recently become a fad within the general public.
>When did this start?
>Has this always been there and it's just now being popularized? If so, why?
>Is this a good or bad thing? It seems stupid, but it does make science more relevant....
thoughts?
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>>8341307
The mainstream-mainstream (pop music, sports, gay shit in general) is being broken and now more people expect better conversation, which is why now people do shit like watch entry level bad TV shows like Game of Thrones and the like to make better conversations.
You are kinda socially expected to watch entry level bad TV shows like GoT now.
But you can't always carry a conversation with a TV show so what else will you talk about? That balding science guy you saw that one time talking about time and space bro lol xD!
Basically, the density of expected conversation is increasing. If you want to be good to hang with then you need to have at least some mainstream but not mainstream-mainstream hobbies and watching science videos now count as a hobby, for some reason.
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>>8341307
yes
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Alice is kill. Is Bob a murderer? 2016-09-12 21:22:33 Post No.8341203
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Alice is kill. Is Bob a murderer? 2016-09-12 21:22:33 Post No.8341203
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Alice is kill. Is Bob a murderer?
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Alice(pink) and Bob(blue) are chilling in a space station orbiting a black hole. Alice then decides she has had enough of Bob's bullshit and decides to end herself in the singularity, inside the Black Hole's event horizon(red). Bob gets pissed and after thinking for some time comes to the conclusion that Alice was a cunt so he readies the station's laser canons(green) and fires in a trajectory he knows is going to hit Alice before she is crushed by tidal forces. Bob then goes on with his life in orbit aboard the space station.
Should Bob be accused of murder even though in his frame of reference the laser never hit Alice?
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only dilemma here is whether or not you care that you killed someone who was already about to die moments later intentionally
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>>8341203
Just because he didn't see it doesn't mean he didn't kill her
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>>8341245
She could have turned the thrusters on and even though she could never leave, she could have lived the rest of her life in her pod inside the event horizon.
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IMPOSTER SYNDROME GENERAL 2016-09-12 20:58:33 Post No.8341167
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How do you deal with Imposter/Fraud Syndrome? I'm just beginning bachelor thesis, and i honestly feel like they'll finally find out.
Additionally, i'm starting a job as a math teacher where my students are 17-18 years old. It should be pretty easy, but i'm still afraid of not understanding it.
So, how do you guys cope with the feels?
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>>8341167
>So, how do you guys cope with the feels?
I sit in a corner and cry
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>>8341167
what is the name of the syndrom where you are terrible and feel terrible ? The Ph.D. syndrom ?
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Imposter syndrome is not real. You're just trying to rationalize away your idiocy and lack of understanding of BASIC material...
I'm sorry but if you haven't done anything about it until now, you'll never manage
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Why the hell do we need the first gorillion digits of pi or more fucking prime numbers? What a waste of time and money!
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My primary school math teacher challenged us to memorize pi's decimals till the first zero.
I still remember them: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 (didn't Google)
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>>8341058
We don't need more digits of pi than 3.14
People who obsess over that are just autists.
Prime numbers are another story though. Knowing big prime numbers is important because for security reasons, we want to construct long numbers which have reaaaally big primes as factors.
Obviously, right now we have enough prime big primes but in the future the primes that today are big will be too easy to find by big computers and the future algorithms of prime factorization, so mathematicians working in security will need bigger and bigger primes to construct bigger and bigger numbers.
So basically, we will always need new primes my man.
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You'll be sorry when you're flying your rocket ship and it suddenly blows up because the programmer forgot to program in that extra digit of pi.
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we all know that higher stock prices = less price volatility in terms of % change, and lower stock price = higher price volatility in %
but whats the actual formula that most accurately describes this relationship?
anyone rich here?
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>>8341027
>we all know
I didn't know that so you are wrong.
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>>8341027
my daddy gibs me money :3
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>>8341034
man up and get a job you neckbeard
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What's /sci/'s opinion on Pangaea?
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Pangea good :D
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>>8340993
It definitaly does not looked like that.
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It's okay, I guess, 5/10.
Was that what you were asking?
>studying math and computer science
>sit among the last rows at the lecture hall
>some people arrive half an hour late
>among them a girl
>I let them seat next to me because... no places remained
>everyone is taking notes and acting mature
>the girl starts complaining and acting loud about how it's hot, how she can't concentrate, etc.
>keeps trying to talk to people around her while I ignore her, disrupting the class
>doesn't pay any attention at all and doesn't even try to
>says how "this lecture is stupid and how she doesn't understand anything" (no, really)
>starts asking me questions
>I give rather short answers with an uninterested look, because she's a dumb bitch who keeps disrupting others
>asks me "You aren't interested in what I'm saying, right!?"
>I say "nuh-huh" or something along these lines (don't remember since I actually paid attention to the lecture)
>screams "Me neither!!!"
What the fuck is this shit? When did normies get so obnoxious? Also, why do these kind of people even come to academic institutions?
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nuh-huh
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nuh-huh
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>>8340894
This is why you don't let women near higher education.
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What does sci think of this man?
Can we at least agree he's better than black science man?
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>Michio Quaku, the string theory memer
not even once
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>>8340888
>Can we at least agree he's better than black science man?
If we're talking about smart then yes.
They're both memes anyway.
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>>8340923
>Kaku has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals such as Physical Review, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics.[6] In 1974, Kaku and Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University co-authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form.[7]
>Kaku is the author of several textbooks on string theory and quantum field theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku
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Are there any real scientific arguments against eugenics or is its opposition based mainly around feels due to le ebil sixty million man?
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Eugenic policies eventually lead to a loss of genetic diversity, resulting in inbreeding depression instead due to a low genetic variation.
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>>8340883
humans evolved to feel empathy for their peers, and thus a "cruel" eugenics program would likely cause deep emotional distress with large segments of the population, who would then distress all of their friends and family.
this looks like it would lower effective productivity of a nation's industry by a large margin.
also eugenics programs in animals do not produce the most "effective" organisms.
also you can't breed away female inferiority.
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>>8340883
yes, it requires centralization of a competitive system. centralization of competitive systems does not work
it's the communist side of genetic