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Alright, I need some answers. 2017-02-16 09:01:37 Post No.8678892
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Alright, I need some answers.
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I have been researching for quite some time on vaccines. I have read both sides of the debate. And yet only one fact has been made clear to me; no one has a clear source document. It's always second or third handed information, and I'm honestly getting tired of it! How can I form an unbiased opinion if I keep getting my information from a questionable source?
So /sci/, are vaccines safe and what are your sources?
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>>8678892
My only source is myself. I have some social anxiety and it's probably I've been vaccinated heavily my whole life.
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>>8678892
What is your definition of safe?
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I've been drinking water all my life and i'm autistic.
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>ask professor for help on a problem
>tells me to figure it out myself (i.e fuck off brainlet)
>a girl asks for help on the same problem
>professor frees up his afternoon and practically gives her all the answers
why is this shit allowed?
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>>8677348
Because equality.
Anyways, anonymously report your professor. If you have balls then do it without the anonymous part.
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Do something about it then. How do you know he did that? What, did you spy on the professor or the girl? If you can prove this is happening, you could get him fucked.
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>>8677348
Because wasting time on brainlets is wasting time.
>measure theory
>mfw
pls someone give the most rigorous book/s on this subject
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>>8677199
Like you gonna read it.
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>>8677221
I fucking will, I want to obliterate this boring subject
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>>8677199
>Here, take this set A.
>Here, take this function from the powerset A to the real numbers
>WOW OMG PLEASE STOP HOLY SHIT. THAT IS TOO HARD FOR ME.
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Anyone else feel like they were much smarter as teenagers/kids than they are now?
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>>8675046
yes
that was a combination of arrogance and ignorance
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>>8675046
You were less aware of all of the things you did not know then.
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>>8675046
Not at all, I've always been confused and aware that I don't know shit about anything, even while being above the rest of the class. It's actually beneficial too because you're inventivized to look stuff up all the time.
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Arent Psychopaths/Sociopaths just predatory humans? Similar to how some animals of the same species have different personalities, aren't people with capacity to violence still part of nature instead of against it?
One could argue that its all about Nurture and not Nature but it still doesnt fully explain how each person's tendencies differ from one another, if I were to ask you to explain Psychopathy without resorting to Psychology, how would you explain it?
My take on it is; its Nature's way to trim the herd by introducing these 'anomalies' into the population, the population itself is kept in check, it is, for me, Nature's weird way of enforcing Natural Selection, Psychopaths, when interviewed which type of people are their preferred targets to victimize usually say the following; "The smaller ones, the passive ones, the weak-looking ones, the old, ones who look like they cannot protect themselves" none of these sound like good human specimens, and on the other side of the spectrum, everytime these 'anomalies' strike, people become more vigilant, defenses are rung and the whole population unknowingly becomes stronger
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>natural selection only happened among humans bcuz sociopaths
u wot m8
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You are implying that antisocial personality is something that was brought upon man by design. It's just a mutation that arose sometime in evolution and survived due to its socially adaptative nature.
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>>8671793
Why do you feel you need to explain psychopathy through evolution? Making these claims are pure speculation. Remember, you don't have to positively give explanations for fitness. As long as it's not detrimental. I also think when it comes to individual differences you have to remember that since these traits will exist on a distribution, you don't necessarily need to appeal to evolution. Psychopathy is just on the tail end on a continuum. As long as it's not detrimental.
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Is this supposed to be a troll list? Half of these books are shit.
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>>8678649
Don't read them then
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>>8678649
Great, another thread discussing books instead of reading them. Do the work.
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ur shit
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Question:
What is the volume and area of a 2,5-dimensional "cube" with a sidelength of 1 meter
So every side is 1 meter long, every dimension independent (vectors zero in some dimension will never approach that dimension), and each dimension is orthogonalized.
What is the logical reason we can't have decimal dimensions or negative areas or lines with non-zero volume? Because our language is limited and we are brainlets who can't do anything creative? Because fundamentally there CANNOT EXIST a cube of 2,5 dimensions? Even God couldn't make one.
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>>8679841
Well, dimension is a mathematical concept. That means that dimension means what you want it to mean. We define it.
You can have objects with 2.5 dimension, if you define dimension to be "fractal dimension". But you can't have a cube of 2.5 fractal dimension because in fractal dimension you first draw a curve and then quantify its dimension.
In the definition of dimension in which cubes make sense, dimension can only be integral. Because a cube is a regular parallelepiped, and we can only talk about parallelepipeds in the usual definition of dimension.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.................................
That is the geometric definition of a cube. You could also simply redefine a cube for fractal dimensions.
For example, define a 2.5 dimensional cube as being:
A 2.5 fractal-dimensional curve that looks kinda like a cube if you "zoom-out" a lot.
There you go. Now go play and find the area of the different 2.5 dimensional cubes you will find.
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>>8679841
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
Here, this could possibly be a cube in fractal dimension
It is of dimension 2.726833 so close enough and it kinda looks like a cube, so define it to be a fractal-cube.
As for surface area and volume, it has infinite surface area and 0 volume. There you go.
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>>8679869
>Dimension is a mathematical concept... we define it
Nature defined it; we just happened to observe it. But could life exist in 2,5 dimensional world? Or 8,1123124151 dimensional world? Or "red, dog dog bark" -dimensional world?
Okay so I got a way to have 2,5 dimensional object in fractal dimensions. Now I want to have either
>2,5 dimensional object not using fractal dimensions
>OR proof that no such object can be constructed with using atoms and molecules
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>mfw spent 10s of thousands of dollars on an education I could have gotten from the public library for $1.50 in late charges
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>>8679706
To be fair universities guide students through the material. It can be a daunting task to teach yourself a subject when you don't know where to start.
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>>8679707
Wtf!
Just go on the history of x science Wikipedia page and read from top to bottom
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Its not the education you pay for, its the degree
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hey /sci/ this has been bothering me for many months now and the more I think about it, the more I go crazy because one question leads to an EVEN more difficult one. At this moment in time there are some 6 billion people alive on earth. Moreover, there have been billions alive in the past - before me - and there will be billions more after me. Yet, of all these human beings, there is one individual (from my perspective) that stands out from the rest, that's different from all the others. And that person, of course, is me. Presumably I could have been any one of all those billions. But something determined that I would be on the inside of this particular body. What determined that? How was that association made? What determined that my consciousness would manifest itself in this (my) particular) body - out of all those others?
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>>8679002
>Presumably I could have been any one of all those billions.
i understand that everyone (me included) is inclined to believe this but it's bullshit and difficult to part from
you're vaguely describing a "spirit", you're describing that thing that seems to make you "special" and nonalgorithmic and so on
you don't really exist like that, there's a bunch of cells that create one seemingly cohesive unit; you couldn't have been anyone else you don't exist like that anon just trust
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>>8679002
t. every human ever
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If you were somebody else then you wouldn't be you.
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Is the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator bullshit?
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>>8678997
obviously u dont need a big brain to figure that out
but its fun anyways
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>>8678997
What did you get, are you unhappy about what you got?
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EMdrives / reactionless drives 2017-02-16 10:44:26 Post No.8678990
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EMdrives / reactionless drives
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Is it bullshit? Apparently the Chinese are testing it on Tiangong-2 , and the USAF sent up the X-37 with a classified space propulsion test device device.
What's /sci/'s opinion? Surely the Chinese and USAF wouldn't have wasted the money on this if they thought it was bullshit, right?
If it works, what's your theory on how?
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forgot source:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/space-race-revealed-us-china-test-futuristic-emdrive-tiangong-2-mysterious-x-37b-plane-1590289
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>>8678991
dude dark photons lmao
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>>8679015
I personally like the quantum vacuum based thrust theory; that the radio waves in the thing are actually bouncing off these particles and introducing some thrust into them before they disappear and miss the back plate of the drive.
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Intellectual hypothesis 2017-02-16 09:15:33 Post No.8678906
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What if a brother(20) and a sister(18) were left on a deserted island that has enough resources to live indefinitely?
If they are not rescued would it be likely that they would eventually see each other as sexually attractive and then have kids?
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>>8678906
Depends if he's Chad or not.
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>>8678906
>imouto
100%
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>>8678906
You should watch Blue Lagoon
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Is it possible to like Math but hate Statistics? 2017-02-16 03:55:46 Post No.8678396
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Is it possible to like Math but hate Statistics?
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Has anyone ever had similar ideas or feelings to the subjects?
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Yes.
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>Is it possible to like science but hate geology
Yes. Not all math is stat
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>>8678420
Geology isn't science
Is there a book like pic related for networking? Something highly respected, clear and comprehensive?
I want to understand the internet and networks from the ground up, how do computers connect? Telnet, ports, protocols, packets etc. I'm familiar with a lot of it, but it's all very disconnected to me.
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Check out "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" by Kurose and Ross. Very thorough and detailed book.
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UNIX Network Programming
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>>8678411
I 2nd this.
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Genetic Engineering, PGD and Eugenics General 2017-02-16 01:55:57 Post No.8678094
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Genetic Engineering, PGD and Eugenics General
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Discuss ways we can apply science to better humanity here.
Something vital that many people don't realize is that sex ratios at birth are biased in favor of males. Research has shown that societies with excess males are more violent and chaotic, since men who cannot find wives and settle down are more likely to commit crimes.
A basic thing we could do that would drastically improve society would be encourage sex selection of females during IVF. We could also discourage abortions in women carrying female babies. This would result in a sex ratio closer to 1:1, and thus a happier and more peaceful society.
Thoughts?
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I started a Discord with a similar theme to this, though it specifically focuses on resolving issues with human relationships - heavily tying into the issue of sex ratios I mentioned above, but also speculating about genetic engineering so as to produce women (or men) with more congenial personalities. Please join it here: https://discord.gg/FKqBJx9
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>>8678094
Create Cat Girls/Dog Girls.
Make them thicc and breedable.
Sell them.
Literal world peace.
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>>8678256
I wouldn't even be against this.
How far along the scale would you make them? basically humans with animal ears or 100% furry?