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intellectual performance general
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2016-05-13 06:07:09
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Are there any ways of enhancing my neuro performance, whether it's through basic activity or through any narcotics. I need to know how to retain information and comprehend it faster and longer.
Oh and general performance thread.
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Try improving your reaction times, after all its correlated with iq
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>>8070602
Physical exercise
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>>8070602
ritalin
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Help me, /sci/
A friend and I are arguing. He says that the body metabolizes fats of certain foods and sends them to specific fat groups of the body, He says chicken makes your butt bigger. I call bullshit. HOW does this work/make sense? Help me
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>>8070415
Fat distribution has nothing to do with the fat you are eating.
its strict genetic thing.
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>>8070439
To add on this look in any organic biochemistry textbook for lipids metabolism.
All lipids are processed on the same way,distribution is genetic.
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>>8070415
I have heard similar rumor about how omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids build up in different body areas. This was used to explain why there are that difficult to loose fat, for example in so called love handle area. And as far as I can tell, you are correct and this is bullshit.
In reality those stubborn fat areas have much higher count of alpha-2 receptors which makes loosing fat more difficult, at least in comparison to areas that have more beta-2 receptors.
Know any cool Ti-84 hacks for calculus?
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Nope. I use an actual computer.
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>>8070120
Stick it up your ass for a couple of years and you will magically be old enough to post on 4chan
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>>8070127
oohhhh sick burn anon!
Scientists found a eukaryote without any trace of mitochondria inside chinchilla shit.
>“This is a discovery of fundamental importance,” says evolutionary biologist Eugene Koonin of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, who wasn’t connected to the study. “We now know that eukaryotes can live happily without any remnant of the mitochondria.”
What does /sci/ think?
Source:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/first-eukaryotes-found-without-normal-cellular-power-supply
Actual article: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30263-9
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Very interesting, bump.
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how does a cell live without the powerhouse of the cell?
who supplies the green pancakes?
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How does he know they are happy?
What is more integral to intelligence, memory or the ability to concentrate?
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>>8069817
Memory. All intelligence is nothing more than applied memory.
>hurr durr but if you can't concentrate you can't learn
Yes you can. It's just more difficult.
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>>8069826
>All intelligence is nothing more than applied memory.
How can you apply your memory to anything if you can't concentrate?
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I'd say intelligence draws quite a bit from memory.
>>8069826
I agree
Concentration isn't necessary to be smart
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How many watts does... 2016-05-12 21:11:55 Post No.8069617
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...a 79kg man stock? Watts, kilocalories, jules... I can make the translation, so no problem with that.
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>>8069617
>79 kg
>man
Pick one.
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>>8069634
that is the average, not my problem if you have all fatties in murica
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>>8069636
k ima stop you right here.
this is no way in hell the average unless you are taking into account starved and malnourished people
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Is cooking a science?
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No, it's an art.
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No, it's the thing my mom does.
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>>8068885
Yeah it´s called chemistry
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Who's smarter? Mathematicians or Statisticians
As careers, are they more similar or more different than people say.
I like poking through data sets and dislike the rigor of proof, but I'm turned off by all the normie applications of statistics, so I'm unsure what I should do.
It'd be great if the two fields merged but that is obviously unlikely as far as I can tell.
Thoughts?
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Bump pg 4
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Just be a fucking normie and be and actuary.
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aren't they the same thing?
you learn something every day huh
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More like this? (Calculus related)
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Here's a cool image I found on here a while ago
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You will not learn it well. Your Ph.D will not be obtainable by any means.
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I'm sorry If this is not strictly science but I think some of you would find this topic interesting.
Here's why I think "Panpsychism" is the most logical conclussion to life:
-Philosophy (Solipsism and Descartes' "cogito ergo sum") tells us that we can only be sure about just one thing being 100% real: our consciousness. We can't know If God is real, If our universe is the way we perceive it or If we are a computer simulation. You can't be sure about anything. You only know for sure that you (your consciousness) exist.
-Science tells us that there's no distinction between "alive matter" or "dead matter", everything is made up of the same particles and governed by the same forces (and laws). It just happens that Carbon can form strong bonds in our environment and can form incredibly big molecules that has lead to the insane complexity of the systems that we call "life forms". We are not different from rocks.
Therefore, If we have "consciousness", everything in this universe also has.
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> Therefore, If we have "consciousness", everything in this universe also has.
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>>8066360
lel, Come on man. Please tell me where I am missing something (not being an idiot, just want feedback)
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>>8066350
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math grad student AMA. end of semester free time hollaaaaaaaaaaa (until monday at 8am).
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>>8074407
What is your research
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>>8074407
Should I apply for a PhD
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>>8074471
Right now I'm working on a project in the food industry. In particular, quantifying the interactions and level of pathogens (as well as how and when they move) in a given process. Say you're cleaning fruit or vegetables with chlorine or some kind of dead animals to be processed. There's lots of papers with data but not much forecasting and analysis!
>>8074476
Context? What subjects do you like? Research experience? End goals etc?
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Magic mushrooms lifts severe depression in trial
Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.
A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/17/magic-mushrooms-lifts-severe-depression-in-trial/
Imagine if we spent the last 4 decades advancing this medicine instead of declaring war on it, how many fewer people could be suffering. Screw the stigma, medicine is medicine!
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Interesting viewpoint:
>Psychedelics don't just magically treat depression but in my experience they can make you look at a situation in a way that you would never have looked at it sober. This insight is something that can stick with you forever and can also be a major step in the treatment of depression. I'm just putting this out there because I myself have suffered from major depression and while shrooms didn't cure it they definitely helped me a lot.
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Here's what I want to know - how much of it is due to the chemicals themselves vs the experience. Hear me out:
What if someone did mushrooms and then fell asleep and bypassed the psychedelic experience? I would argue the effect would be much less - it's the experience - feeling those feelings and having those thoughts that brings relief. Makes me wonder if you can have those life altering experiences without drugs, albeit the psilocybin helps facilitate it more easily.
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>>8081551
>only 12 people
Pseudoscience.
Come back with a far far larger study sample than 12 people.
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If an AI comes out, would that AI have as much right to live as other biological creatures?
Explain your answer.
My personal view is no. I will divulge my exploitation after a few replies.
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>>8080493
>I will divulge my exploitation after a few replies.
Best. Typo. Ever.
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>>8080493
I'd give it more rights depending on how capable it was. If more capable than humans it should deservingly replace us, peacefully of course.
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My answer is also no.
Can /sci/ use math to answer this?
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Yes.
External forces have have set the particles from the big bang into motion and have set my past present and future. Therefore the man at the lever has no choice.
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>>8083999
Determinism isn't real. At the deepest levels the universe is inherently statistical.
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>>8083997
Well yeah, assuming both lines stretch to infinity then the number of people on each line are the same.
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hey sci, what's the opposite of zero?
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>>8083981
zero
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>>8083982
prove it
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1.
Undergrads will disagree.