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Is there a way for us to construct molecules from atoms in a very precise way? Say with dozens of carbon oxygen and hydrogen atoms you could bond them into a certain protein.
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>>8244452
You'll need nitrogen too. Nature does it with things called ribosomes.
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>>8244452
>Is there a way for us to construct molecules from atoms in a very precise way?
Going to go out on a limb here and say that this may result in catastrophe-level explosions attempting to do this via current knowledge.
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>>8244452
Polypeptide synthesis has been automated - look up 'solid phase peptide synthesis'.
There are limits to that technology.
There's a guy at UIUC (Burke) who is automating C-C bond formation using iterative Suzuki coupling. He has a prototype synthesizer and published a paper in Science a year or so ago.
Even without automation some impressive molecules have been made synthetically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palytoxin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevetoxin
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What happened?
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>>8244337
Prohibition ended and distilling became modern and industrialized. Those old tubs are only antiques these days.
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>>8244342
fucking kek
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>>8244419
RUMP OF THE GODS
RUMP OF ALL RUMPS
SAVE US, OH HEAVENLY BLESSED BOTTOM
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Why are so many people negative about engineering degrees and call STEM "a meme"? I like math and want to get into the engineering field, is going to college for engineering not the best thing I could be doing in order to pursue that?
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>>8244333
Because autistics think engineering somehow bastardizes physics.
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>>8244333
Very few people do that. That is purely a 4chan thing, which I assume is down to people being bitter of their own personal failures. Engineering is seen as stereotypically "nerdy", and most of the people here are the nerds who couldn't hack it, intellectually.
Yes, go to school for engineering.
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>>8244348
>That is purely a 4chan thing
I'm in my 3rd year of electrical engineering. And yeah, my post is based on 4chan being strangely negative about STEM and engineering. Since this is the main social outlet for me, perhaps I took it too seriously.
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Is it true that great thinkers also tend to work out a lot?
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>>8244284
Yes look at all great thinkers of history from Socrates to Paul Dirac they all spent their free time in the gym.
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It seems like most of them walked alot and were generally physically active.. aerobic exercise is excellent for cognition
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/sci/ approved haircuts
What haircut will make you look more intelligent and handsome.
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>>8244099
actual smart people don't care what they look like
go back to /fa/
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>>8244099
You're a vain, poser faggot.
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i want to shave my head
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I thought you guy's said the Earth was round. Why isn't this pilot taking the shortest route?
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>>8244056
Because he doesn't want to
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don't you know all pilots and airlines are a part of the conspiracy too ?
jeez anon ur'e so naive x3
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There's a war going on outside no man is safe from.
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Why do all of these images look so different?
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>what is technological advancements in photography
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As far as I'm aware only the two on the upper left are real images, the rest are composites. Those two are different only in colour but the cameras didn't have the same filter palate and the white balance is unlikely to be the same. If you look back at the NASA releases for some of these images that was made quite clear, the person who made that image is a liar.
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>>8243869
What are different cameras?
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Why do people differentiate natural selection and artificial selection? Under my understanding artificial selection aught to just be a sub category of natural selection. The "fittest" animals breed more often and their fitness is determined by their environment. The specifics of why their traits are more fit for their environment doesn't usually matter when attributing the "natural selection" label, so why do people make a special case when traits are beneficial because their environment containing humans that regulate breeding.
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>Under my understanding artificial selection aught to just be a sub category of natural selection.
It is.
>so why do people make a special case when traits are beneficial because their environment containing humans that regulate breeding.
Because those traits tend to behave quite differently and have very different properties from most nonhuman environmental aspects.
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>>8243674
>Under my misunderstanding
FTFY
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>>8243674
Nature produces us - and suddenly our decisions are unnatural?
We're literally the rational voice of impersonal nature - we can do w/e the fuck we want, there are no rules other than the laws of the universe.
Do you do math in pen or pencil?
This is a big question, and often quite controversial. Please try to keep it civil.
Why do you use the writing utensil you do? What one do you use (if you have a specific one)?
Do you look down on those who use something different?
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>>8243584
Didn't we already have this thread?
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>not LaTeX
cmon sci...
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>>8243588
No.
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I want to become a middle or high school math teacher.
I just finished the calculus sequence and am moving into proofs, linear algebra, and differential equations next semester, so I'm not very far along and I have a lot of time to plan and think. Math always came easily to me, but I know it's not the case for everyone, which is why I'm coming here looking for insight as to what I should be focusing on with teaching as my end goal.
Many people here in the US boast about being shit at math, and I think it's a serious problem. Studies have shown that people who are good at math can excel at most other subjects because it teaches them abstract thinking, analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, pattern recognition, etc..., and all of these can extend to most other subjects. I believe that creating a strong foundation in math should be a focus for the US educational system, which is why I'm choosing to enter the field.
Kids, as many of us know, hate math. They find it boring and useless. Most of them don't see the importance that it plays within our society. Questions like, "when am I ever going to use this?" were commonplace in my own classes that I attended. This type of thinking is poisonous and it sets its roots deep within kids, and once it's there it's nearly impossible to get through to them.
So I have a few questions, feel free to answer any of them that you have a good answer to:
What things can be done to facilitate a healthy math-friendly mindset within kids?
What recurring themes have you noticed in your own education that drove kids away from math?
What positive experiences have you had from your best teachers?
What negative experiences have you had from your shittiest and most boring teachers?
What was the turning point that made you like math?
Conversely, if you don't like math, why is that so? Was it too hard? Was it boring? Did it just seem pointless?
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Try focusing your lessons on why something is the way that it is (proofs) rather than telling your students how to do a plug-&-chug/memorize an algorithm. Puzzles and thought experiments can be good diversions that may not necessarily be math but can still develop skills necessary for math. Glad to hear you are interested in teaching. The world needs more passionate math teachers for the younguns.
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yo nigga this shit aint ever gonna be used in my life bro, stop forcing me, let me be myself bitch
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>>8243505
In my experience, kids are intimidated by math, and social and domestic pressure takes precedence over theory and rhetoric.
What struggling kids need most is security and confidence. It's simple to see but most people don't give a shit.
Trying to be quirky,profound,instilling a sense of urgency to learn, none of that will work. Don't try to be a friend either.
You live in a different world from them.
Show them you're going through the motions just like everyone else.
Show them that school and college is just another thing to get through. And whatever you do, don't pretend like it matters to anyone.
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Are eggs unhealthy?
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What are you basing this question on ?
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>>8243475
I enjoy eggs and want to know if they are unhealthy
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>>8243470
not ur mom's eggs...
last NIGHT!...
after i FERTILIZED them!...
with my SPERM!...
when we BONED!...
with my DICK!...
in BED!
lol
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What kind of hypothetical ways are there for remotely manipulating gravity ?
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>>8243313
You mean moving mass remotely? You can use a robot I guess.
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>>8243315
Reading what this guy wrote,
and then trying to figure an answer to your post - I came up with manipulating Higgs particles around the object, but then I became curious and googled about it - and just reading the answers of some scientists - the TL;DR for that is NO.
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>>8243320
Thinking about this further - I don't think it's possible...
From the standpoint of general relativity gravity is caused by the way that mass alters the geometry of space-time - and if we follow the old model Robert L. Forward showed that general relativity theory allowed the generation of a very brief impulse of a gravity-like repulsive force along the axis of a helical torus containing accelerated condensed matter.
But that's about it - gravity guns are impossible in my humble understanding of science which I developed from internet mostly lmao.
What's the hardest science? Rocket science?
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>>8243284
Mineralogy.
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spirit and social science... maybe some forms of pseudosciences, aggressive invasive psedoscience is like any martial art form, art science ?
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Yes
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FTL travel.
It would be instantaneous travel right?
You'd see the entire journey all at once, and be there immediately?
>For you
But everything else would still be thousand or millions of years older.
All theoretically here, not talking about warp"travel" either.
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Faster than light refers to moving at more than 3*10^8 m/s. You would still have to wait distance divided by speed to get there.
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>>8243065
But doesn't time stop at the speed of light?
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Artificial Intelligence Research
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What are hot topics in artificial intelligence
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>>8243044
Overfitting hyperparametric function approximators to large and costly datasets is all the rage these days.
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>>8243048
what the fuck does hyperparametric mean
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>>8243048
>Overfitting
b-but muh regularisation