Has there ever been an issue that 99% of scientists agreed on, and then we found out that it was just politically motivated and the scientists were wrong or lied?
I mean, with the state of affairs now regarding climate change, there are many people who insist that it's all a lie. But has a lie on this scale ever leaked through the scientific community before? I'm genuinely curious.
P.S. Why the captcha take 60 seconds to do now
>>8097524
The biggest one i can think of is earth being the center of the universe. The church was powerful and to have any sort of career or influence you had to follow the church's way. Most people are followers and don't want to rock the status quo.
I think climate change is somewhat similar. You have 99% who will agree to whatever their funders believe (government) because it puts food on the table. I think the recent discrepencies in the actual data and models showing the warming isn't as severe and perhaps the feedback mechanisms are stronger than thought puts funding at risk for so many people that they are just doing what any would do if they were at risk of losing their job.
>>8097524
GMOs and vaccines being safe.
>>8097524
There hasn't, I'm guessing because the scientists and politics motivating it are too powerful to fail.
There was a thing called climate gate a while back, but it turned out to be a lie fabricated by environmentalists. Basically an environmentalist targeted the Cato institute (often targeted because they assert opinions that go against the mainstream i.e. Supporting smoking and denying climate change) and made it look like they were trying to hide information, but they actually weren't. Doesn't sound like that's what you're looking for though.
What is the most exciting field in CS?
>sucking cock 101
>indianese 101
>>8107892
It's not a field per se, but if you include computer engineering FPGAs are really fascinating to work on, if a bit frustrating.
pic related, me useing xilinx ISE
>>8107892
Creating exotic dildos for you mom.
I'm coming clean right off the start by admitting this is my first time on this board. I will also admit that I am a pretty [spoiler]dumb[/spoiler] average 23 yrs old with no special school feats (barely passed weak maths in hs), limited science knowledge (what are physics) but I do have the utmost admiration for creative minds (sci-fi writers, visual artists, vidyas, etc.).
So what the fuck am I doing here? Well, I'm tired of being stupid.
I'm tired of being in the mass of uninformed degenerates who live their daily lives without questioning anything that's in front of them. I want to open my boundaries, to understand the world better, I want to be shocked and amazed. I want to be smart.
I probably sound like a crazy person and this will most likely be the biggest trolled thread on here and I understand that. But I would like to how can one achieve such goal. And by smarter I don't mean I want to be the next world renowned scientist, no, I mean what are some basic stuff to do. Sudoku? Puzzles? Good habits? What are some good daily-read websites? Must-own books?
>but I do have the utmost admiration for creative minds (sci-fi writers, visual artists, vidyas, etc.)
ur fukd
>>8108758
so you don't enjoy the vidyas? Sad life it must be.
>>8108763
It's very sad, yes.
why are math, physics and philosophy the only worthy pursuits of mankind?
>>8109090
They aren't, if you truly think that you are delusional and using pseudoscience.
maths can be done without physics
physics can't be done without maths
philosophy is pure garbage
what is the difference between inertia and conservation of momentum ?
which one imply the other or are they equivalent ?
They come together, the first is used quantitatively. An object has more or less inerta (just like it has more or less mass or momentum), while the conservation of momentum is just a given feature of momentum.
Question: How strong would an ant's exoskeleton be if scaled up to the size of a large dog?
Image not related.
It doesn't work like that
>>8108472
Explain.
>>8108465
Only the exoeskeleton, nothing. It needs muscle fibres.
An ant the size of a dog in current atmosphere would not be able to breath, so again, nothing.
There are giant spider crabs in the sea and they can't lift shit, if that tells you something.
What is in your opinion, the most interesting mystery of science right now?
>>8108119
Sonoluminescence
Aging
>>8108119
the failure of positivism
I saw something in the sky tonight and I don't know what it was. It was around 2:20 AM in the morning, I was going for a walk and I was walking up a hill looking over the beach as I was walking I saw this giant light in the sky. It looked like an icecreamcone or lightbulb of fire in the sky. I kept watching it to figure out what the fuck it was. I thought it was a nuclear bomb for a second but then I realized it wasn't a mushroom cloud shape.
I kept watching it and eventually it formed into what looked like a big giant red moon being covered by clouds, then eventually it went away, but as I was watching I could see clouds going by above it, and I could see the outline of mountains of where it used to be.
I don't know if it was an optical illusion with the clouds and the moon or a bomb or what. I went on facebook live and there are is only one person streaming from his facebook in seattle at this time.
Pic related. Pin is pretty much where I was standing (maybe a km off) and that line is the general direction of where I saw it. Might not have been Seattle may have been far to left of it.
Any ideas? It wasn't a super bright light just a constant orange fire looking thing almost like a giant flame you'd see on a candle stick.
Oh and by sky I mean in the horizon. It wasn't wide it was tall and fat on the bottom. Candestick flame would be perfect example.
like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chD7uFjsfH0
>>8107896
I didn't see the beginning of what started it, I just stumbled about it while I was walking. It lasted much longer than that video and it wasn't a mushroom explosion
What is it, /sci/ ?
>>8107857
Nikolaas Tesselaar was a Dutch inventor
>>8107857
>croatian
>serbian
>basically the same thing
> be trying to implement newest neural network paper
> author wrote down every single technological details except the fucking 4 hyper parameters used to tune the networks
> did manual parameters searching for 2 days
> feelsfrustratingman.jpg
classic
I feel you bro
advice: divide the parameters' intervals in 5 for each parameter, run the algorithm say 10 times for each combination of parameters, and evaluate some performance (speed of convergence, error or whatever).
do this automatically by using your already existing script in a quadruple loop, and don't forget to store the results.
This should give you a rough idea of what to do.
Let it run and go do something else.
>reading papers on anything
>if it used a survey/questionnaire they NEVER include it
>if they use a non-standard tool set-up, there's no pictures or in-depth description
>if it's electronic, they never include a circuit
>a study looking for correlations will check 10 parameters, find one correlation, but won't describe the correlation between the other elements
>no study will actually include the raw data, EVER, FUCKING EVER, IT'D BE A SMALLER SPREADSHEET THAN YOUR GODDAMN PDF YOU FUCKING AUTISTIC NERDS AAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
THIS is how you fucking do a study (warning, not safe for electrical engineers):
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-94.pdf
>>8108228
>use a non available function doesn't give any clue as to how it's evaluated
These niggas literally just gave it a name and kept using it while I was trying to reproduce their results.
How can absolute morons become so rich, while really smart people like scientists remain poor?
This is not just a modern phenomenon, it has persisted throughout human history. Does that mean being smart has less evolutionary importance than being a cunt?
>>8107770
because they are smarter than scientists
I consider myself smart and I don't care much for money.
>>8107770
the people with the best paying jobs wont be the most intelligent people, or the most qualified for their jobs, they will be the people who are best at getting well paid jobs
also sage
Memorisation
Hi /sci/, what techniques/methods do you use to improve commitment of information to long-term memory?
Too often I find myself forgetting things that I learnt a few years ago and it makes me unsettled and makes me view the time I spent studying the subjects to have been wasted if I can't even recall it a few years later.
1.) Put them in a context that makes what you're studying important
2.) Rhythmic memorization
Also these:
>>8107551
fap while memorizing
>>8107551
I'm synesthetic (Grapheme-color so numbers/letters are colors), so that helps. This is going to sound super autistic, but whenever I need to memorize a lot of information, recall an image of an intersection near my house and group individual elements as parts of the picture (so in this example, frontal lobe could correspond with the house that is on this intersection and the individual parts would be parts of the house grouped by the colors I associate with them). It's harder for long words because they don't immediately correlate with color, but the parts of the words do.
I realize how autistic this sounds, but this is how I've always remembered things. My understanding is that this is a form of a mnemonic that people use (building structures).
Does gravity exist outside of our universe?
What is gravity?
The universe contains all possible sets and members. Therefore, no.
Gravity propagates at the speed of light.
So no.
Do non-local correlations imply the existence of a preferred reference frame?
>>8107258
No. The only known non-local connection is the collapse of quantum entanglement, which is so limited in its effects and properties that in some interpretations of quantum mechanics there's no faster-than-light effect at all.
>>8107263
but if the correlations demonstrated by entanglement are indeed caused by some action at a distance, would that mean there is a preferred reference frame?
No. Because the populations are chosen and biased by their intent and their objectification.
I figured this was the most academic board on here.
I need some input, I have a low gpa of 2.4 and the jobs or graduate schools that i want to go to have a cutoff of 3. I could graduate with a 2.8 realistically but my advisor gave me some strange advice.
She told me that if I transferred to another school and graduated in two years from it I would come out with a higher gpa and be more qualified to work where i want to work or get into a better school for graduate school.
The part that confuses me is that she implied that transferring to another school would basically reset my gpa and allow me to apply to jobs/grad school with a higher gpa than I have now.
I know advisors can be pretty fucking wrong sometimes so I'm here asking if the american school system actually works this way. I'd be transferring my pre-reqs ofc to speed up graduation. If it doesn't work in america would it work transferring to another country?
pls respond.
>>8107184
posted there too, thanks for responding.
I'm doing a lot of research now but I'm not certain yet. I cant talk to my advisor again until wednesday because shes busy but I wanted to see if this was a common option.
I did some research and the GPA does reset in that your degree will have only the GPA at the new uni attached to it, but I'm now unsure about the transfer process.
Has anyone else transferred from school to school for any reason?