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Why do authors switch between male and female pronouns in their papers? I am so fucking tired of this. Every time I see it I have to take a moment, sigh, and reread the entire sentence because of it. If they started the paper referring to 'a researcher' with a 'he', why do they feel obliged to spice it up with 'herself' along the way? Pic isn't actually related but it's what reminded me of this shit.
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i switch between pronouns when referring to hypothetical people but i only use she/her for negative roles/situations
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>>8641808
Because the patriarchy is the only conspiracy theory that is not only accepted, but openly taught as fact in academia.
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>>8642246
Holy shit I'll start doing this as well
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Information regarding nootropics or neuroenhancers. 2017-01-31 11:01:27 Post No.8641804
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Information regarding nootropics or neuroenhancers.
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I have been reading up on some nootropics wondering if it could lend my mildly ADD mind an experience better than Adderall. (Which didn't help all too much)
Provasil looks promising, rated one of the best and safest neuroenhancers out there. I just want to know if there is anything i should learn about before spending money on this.
Anyone who has taken these or something similar OR has medical experience pertaining to this subject, any help would be appreciated.
>wasn't sure whether to put this in sci or fit.
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>>8641804
reddit/r/nootrpics.
longecity.org.
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>>8641804
>God Tier
Adderal, Semax
>Good Tier
aniracetam
>ok tier
modafinil
>bad tier
lsd microdosing
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afinils are better than piracetam-like substances for enhancing productivity.
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Work ethic in mathematics 2017-01-31 05:37:21 Post No.8641486
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>Paul Erdős.
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>Johann Von Neumann.
The Legend of John Von Neumann,
P. R. Halmos.
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>Shinichi Kudo Mochizuki.
http://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-shinichi-mochizuki-and-the-impenetrable-proof-1.18509?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNew
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How does Placebo work?
I mean how does it actually work, how do we change our body's functioning by belief alone?
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>>8641163
Also what are the limits of placebo? They say it can sometimes even help with cancer.
Can we augment placebo effects? I know his is reaching but is it possible that placebo was responsible for all sorts of anciant healing techniques and since peope believed in them so much they actuaoly worked?
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>>8641163
Perception.
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if a dog or something like a dolphin viewed the 2 slit exp with no idea of what is happening would the wave function still collapse?
maybe stupid question but im curious and am overthinking it
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bump
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>>8640879
https://youtu.be/8ORLN_KwAgs?t=1m50s
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>>8640879
Only things with souls can collapse the wavefunction.
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What is the scientific purpose behind the crop circles? 2017-01-30 09:59:46 Post No.8640762
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What is the scientific purpose behind the crop circles?
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They might be hoax or not, but some of them are really beautiful and complex.
Is there a purpose behind them?
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They look beautiful.
That is the purpose.
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Definitely not a hoax. Search for Alex Jones' take on crop circles, numerous videos. www.infowars.com or you can find it on YT.
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ayys are sending a message, but we're too self-involved to believe in them
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Hey, /sci/. I'm a math major currently in my first semester of calculus (Yes, yes I know, kek and all that - I fucked up in highschool and I had to start in Algebra in college). Every time I talk to my professors about what's after calc 3 and differential equations, they always put me on the ruse cruise and refuse to tell me what's after it.
I hear from people in my current class it's just ton of proofs. What sort of ruse cruise am I in for?
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>>8640334
Analysis, abstract algebra, topology, and possibly others depending on the branches you study. Look up Cauchy sequences. That's a first step in your first real analysis course.
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>>8640359
Likewise, look up groups. That's a first step in Abstract Algebra.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-reveals-substantial-evidence-holographic-universe.html
Can someone explain what was debunked here?
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>>8640240
The Universe was a meme when it started
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Why do you think something was debunked? It sounds like their results were consistent with the holographic principle.
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The so-called borders of our universe is the other side of a black hole (white hole) in another universe whose borders is the other side of a black hole...
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What kind of grades did /sci/ have leaving high School?
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>>8638410
Literally all As. I took AP classes since freshman year. I took AP tests that I didn't even take classes for and scored a 5. I'm a certified genius.
Of course, the system is rigged against me and since I was rejected by MIT and Stanford for being too smart, I decided to go to community college and transfer to my state uni.
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Just a bunch of Bs. Nothing else. Maybe a B- every now and then.
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I had like a 1.7 in HS, I think. I'm about to graduate EE with a brainlet's 3.0 tho
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so we're all agreed?
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>>8637562
yep
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>>8637562
i hate atheism
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>>8637651
Atheism is a bad joke now.
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Is light particles or waves?
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>>8636050
both and neither
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>>8636050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
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>>8636050
They are two possible presentations of Reality. But they are not Reality.
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Why is this allowed?
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>>8630438
Why wouldn't it be allowed?
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>>8630438
as long as these people are tweeting outside of work, and they aren't in any position of authority within nasa, there isn't any problem with it. If it's the deputy director or something, then that'd be a problem and merit the firing of said employee.
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>>8630448
Because only commy socialist cucks question the actions of their leaders.
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Formalizations of Gödel's ontological of Proof for God's Existence 2017-01-23 03:07:46 Post No.8622719
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Formalizations of Gödel's ontological of Proof for God's Existence
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It's done - we now have the necessary mathematical rigor to say with certainty that God exists! The Formalizations of Gödel's ontological argument have proven God's Existence with the assistance of modern 21st century methods!
https://github.com/FormalTheology/GoedelGod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
This is following in the footsteps of great mathematicians such as David Hilbert, Per Martin-Löf, Descartes, Leibniz, and St. Anselm of Canterbury among others who have attempted to tackle this logical problem. This problem has been overcome with the help of constructive mathematical logic, natural deduction Gentzen-Pravittsa and Kolmogorov interpretation of logical constants in constructive type theory. Due to these and some other achievements of modern mathematics, the existence of God is proved by including systems are absolutely correct machine proofs of theorems - the so-called language with dependent types, you can evaluate yourself right on your computer!
Since this is now an officially proven theorem, this is now a legit /sci/ thread for open discussion. All atheists are hereby invited to repent, recant nasty atheist delusion, past blasphemy, and accept the Lord Christ as your savior.
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Give me the gist of it
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>>8622720
Also, note the axioms or assumed that "We exist". I know this is "controversial" to some atheists.
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A little something for the chemically literate:
After years of dyeing my hair with indigofera tinctoria I want to let it grow out. Not wanting to cut the good and healthy hair out in a couple years I thought about chemically removing it.
Although there isn't much information about my specific question I found that conventional fibers like jeans get dyed through vat dyeing, a process which uses pigments which aren't water-soluble and transforms them through a reducing agent into leuco-indigo (watersulable and colourless). This will get into the fibers (being only half the size of the indigo molecule) and after oxydating it gets blue again.
Therefore it should be possible to dip my hair into a reducing agent so that the indigo gets broken into indoxyl/ leuco-indigo which should be possible to wash out.
Repeating till enough indigo has washed out and doesn't reoxydize anymore into a dark blue.
Thought about using sodium dithionite.
Question: Does it sound chemically possible and if so, what should I consider? Will my hair get rekt instead of the indigo? Will I just kms?
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>>8642548
sciencemadness.org maybe
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sounds like a good way to dissolve your hair desu
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>>8642548
Just bleach your hair dude
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What are you code comment habits?
Let's guide this question with some cornerstones:
- What is(are) your language(s)?
- Do you follow a coding standard
- Like where do you put function and term descriptions?
- Do you like to use flags, global variables
- Do you write full sentences?
You may post excepts.
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>>8642538
I gave up on comments, especially when I saw that other languages rely on "self-documenting" code.
So, other than maybe writing comments for classes, apis, and particularly confusing code, I do not.
I think documentation is a separate task that should mostly not be intertwined with coding functionality.
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>>8642547
>especially when I saw that other languages rely on "self-documenting" code.
I don't you why that would affect your code?
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>>8642538
Why the fuck are you asking this on /sci/?
Not science or math.