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>>8169885
Math.

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>>8169885
Have you ever considered the possibility that you don't actually understand the scientific terms you're using? That maybe all of the advanced scientific explanations you've ever heard have just been metaphors, oversimplified to the point of removing all useful information? And that, therefore, you not only lack the knowledge to answer the questions you have, but also to know what questions are even vaguely coherent?

I would strongly recommend looking into this possibility.

you'd die instantly, your guts would be ejected into the 4th dimension

>>8169862
It could be anything

>>8169862
that number + 0 = that number

>>8169862

Judging from all the 0's at the end, I'd say it's something like "what is the smallest number divisible by every element in the set "blah" where blah is a certain subset of natural numbers. Actually, I think all the 0's at the end might be able to tell us that, but fuck counting.

As a psychological idea it has a certain rationality to it. There is clearly a very strong (if very complex) relationship between our behavior and our thinking.

Anything beyond that is absolute garbage. The idea that thoughts somehow cause situations far removed from one's realm of activity to occur (like somehow causing the Lotto balls to come up on what you want them to be) is painfully stupid and I'm honestly shocked how popular it is and how readily accepted it is (even if only in minor variants).

Anything which tries to justify such a scenario using "quantum mechanics" is quintessential pseudoscience.

Thoughts can only affect reality in as far as they are mediated/propagated by the body.

>>8169859
I thought about making this thread yesterday in the morning. So yeah I get some synchronicities.

I had some weird experiences with it, I can share some if thread lives.

But desu, I never got the complete manifestation, just signs, sinchronicities, weird weird coincidences.

Like this one (less weird than some i had). Im used to that. I also observe everyone I know and analize their states of mind and the way they shape their lives. It works, there is correlation.

I just havent made it to be complete in my life. I guess its subconscious fears or whatnot.

I can use it effectively in some areas, but not in the thing I wanted the most.

>>8169874
This is /thread, desu.

>>8171252
>I had some weird experiences with it
Something most people fail to recognize is that it would be weirder if nothing weird ever happened, that's probability. Failure to recognize this is how some people end up with conviction in religion, "miracles". There's also the simple fact that our consciousness lies to us about the outside world constantly - blind spots are the most obvious example.

>>8169780
It is society's problem, not his.

>>8169780
Autism.
He's right. His methodology of getting his point across was shit.

>>8169780
Isn't that Terence McKenna?

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>>8169744
we already HAVE artificial orbital rings.

blow up an asteroid in orbit and hope it doesn't recoalesse.

>>8169744
Use lots of tiny particles such as quartz sand. Or dry ice that will sublimate before reaching the ground.

Demolishing cities isn't the biggest problem, destroying satellites in orbit will be a huge problem.

One Rube Goldberg grade solution is to put huge numbers of absolutely gigantic space mirrors in high orbit, above geostationary orbit. It will be a nice view but you will have to say goodbye to night time darkness.

Did you see this video? https://youtu.be/UT2sQ7KIQ-E

I haven't had any work, but I've been on more prescription psychotropics than most people can name. Almost all to no result, or side effects. The stims, benzo, mood stabilizers didn't work, but an MAOI might have.

You'll have to be careful about what you get. Ironically since the science has been advancing, the more and more specific the mechanisms of action become, the more we get side effects. something like IDRA21 might cause brain damage if taken for extended periods. Unifiram, and especially sunifiram, might have side effects from increasing turnover of some molecules, people aren't sure. Noopept is an old one which most people find gives them problems after a month.

Most of the real ones are ampakine, glutametergic, etc. Some cholinergics can work, but only if you respond to them. I don't respond to nicotine, memantine, etc.

Depression sucks.

>>8169698
I started taking modafinil three weeks ago and I've noticed varying effects on my mood and cognition.


The good
Rediculous memory and retention when studying
Increased cognition speed
Urge to complete tasks
Better social life (humour is strangely easier to conjure)
I have CFS, On it It's like i don't have CFS

The bad
Feels a bit 'racy' like a massive caffeine hit and can get irritable after a while
Always have to be doing something, Watching TV is awful on modafinil
I don't eat as much as I used to
Binding agent causes my digestive system to react nastily

The ugly
It's narcolepsy medication for a reason.


Probably the best out there if you're looking for a serious boost in brain power. Closest you'll get to NZT-48 anyways.

>>8169698
Your mind is weak if you need them.

Except you're not a math autist so you're fine. Your job is to design important stuff, not calculate things.

Though I suspect you're a role-playing troll.

I'm in third-year EE. The worst math we had this semester was square roots lol.

>>8169674
what country is that uni in OP?

>>8169673
How little math did you do in your degree that some difficult integrals NEVER showed up?

>>8169704
I think OP just doesn't realize he's Autistic.

>math notation makes sense to me so its good for everyone

>>8169704

I didn't have to look up an integral a single time. I also didn't need a calculator after freshman year.

Which is not to brag: I've forgotten all those clunky integration methods and I'm no number cruncher. As far as I can tell this is typical for a math major.

>>8169650
You'll learn about that when you get to know the generalized Stokes theorem and complex analysis. It's got something to do with poles and residues. You can imagine it like some "source" or "charge" being located at that singularity, so that some "force field" goes through the region.

>>8169650

The vector field in the pic is Hodge dual to (a representative of) the generator of the first de Rham cohomology group of the punctured plane. Since this group is non-zero, Poincare duality for compactly supported cohomology easily implies that the cap product with the generator of the first homology of the same region is non-zero.

>>8169731
Why do people do this ?

>is it possible to deflect a 762 m/s lump of metal with your small frail foot clothed in wool and rubber

The only way to do it that slowed its momentum would result in great injury to your foot. If you "timed it perfectly" you'd just redirect it.

So, not really.

>out of the air
what does this even mean? a kick to the side isn't going to impart any forward or backward change in momentum so at best you'll just deflect the path

>>8169606
What?

>>8169622
Exactly.

thats a solidified volcanic splash btw and not a headcrab

>>8169386
write proofs instead of just reading them.

>>8169386
Unfortunately what you desire can only be gained by being born with it.

In other words you will always be a brainlet.

>>8169386

intuition isn't intuitive. it's more based on experience.

Being egotistical dosnt mean you have high IQ, it just means you like to stroke your own dick to shit others might find slightly or marginally challenging

Youre literally the embodiment of an "intellectual chad" (ei "Im smurt ur dum, me do problems hur dur) and if you have to question how you think then ye you're not as smart as you want to be.

Improve, if you only focus on how good you are gl on improving yourself you literal evolutionary self cuck

>>8169122
Only when reading literature
> read the text
> usually pick up what's actually going on in the book
> often spaced out
> can't pick up themes or subtext

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>Solving a problem by trial and error
>Not understanding underlying concept

Ever think of picking up a trade?

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>>8169069

It is a "Caterpillar"

That's an owl

>>8168992
1

Can you define what it means to sum a series over uncountably many terms?

But it doesn't equal 1. It's asymptotic.