So after my attempt at the deciphering of Cicada 3301, I came up with 3302, I was interested in Cicada so I looked them up, and though maybe the cicada portrayed was a Male instead of Female, based on the Colon at the bottom of the code.
Anyone else still working on this or have they stopped?
>>8591041
Is this like Not Porn?
>>8591041
Okay so after further investigation, I found a valid pennsylvania phone number, with an impersonal voicemail greeting, so I left a voicemail with them. It was a valid phone number that involved code associated with the decipher with a pattern of -1,+1,-1,+1,-1,+1.
>>8591041
Is this recent?
When did they post this?
Where did /sci/ learn most of the things they know? Did you learn all you know in school ?maybe the job that specializes in something? or are you just self-thought ?
>>8591017
I learned everything I know right here on /sci/
I've been listening to every free lecture from every non-retard college that posts shit on Youtube
I download every scientific paper that I can get for free and some that I can't
I steal books from the library on occasion
>>8591029
>steal books from the library
Kindly euthanize yourself
WHY is there a universe. I really want to talk about this. The big bang happened because there was matter. Why was there matter in the first place. I was raised a muslim but I find it hard to believe in a god now ive grown up.
>>8590872
Nobody knows
>>8590878
Awh shucks
>>8590872
technically it happened because of some doofus' self-replication gone wrong
but then, what could have been worse than It own, since before It there was nur.It
matter wasn't in the first place though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_integration
why retards and ""engineers"" like abuse (overuse ?) it so much to calculate trivial shit
fuck, even if i would take 50 million samples over "sufficiently large" area my result would be still unaccurate as fuck
>>8590789
I take the bait, whatever.
You obviously don't use it for two dimensional integration. You can show that Monte Carlo integration converges faster than gridded approaches for higher dimensional integrals (I think >3). You have those a lot, i.e. particles going through a detector where the integration is over the phase space of multiple particles, so you have easily dozens of dimensions if not hundreds and more. Often it's hard to even write it down as an integral at all, as we are usually not talking about integrating some simple function, but rather complex physical systems that you have to model. Calling these calculations "Monte Carlo integration" is a little misleading, the point of those calculations are really the simulations of very complex physical systems (detector systems etc)
>>8590789
Why do you get butthurt about things that don't impact you in any way?
>>8590789
fpbp, /thread
I have been using Sci-hub for my classes tons and tons of time. From APS, AAS, ACS, and AAES. Are there any other sites that I can use Sci-hub for. I want to broaden my horizons.
>>8590787
Sci-hub isn't an archive of pirated pdfs. It's an algorithm that bypasses the checks of the hosting websites to make they think you're actually paying them. Such as, most publicaton sites can be accesed through it, including nature, science and those elsevier bastards.
Pro-tip: you don't have to go through the sci-hub research page, when you got the url of an article, just add .sci-hub.cc after the site name.
Ex: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9/n7/abs/ngeo2733.html
becomes : http://www.nature.com.sci-hub.cc/ngeo/journal/v9/n7/abs/ngeo2733.html
Other pro-tip : consider donating, they seriously need the help.
>>8590787
How is this not theft?Z
>>8591950
It is.
However, considering the way scientific publication organism behave, I have zero problems robbing the thieves.
Dunno where else to post this
What is the scientific definition of humor? What makes something funny and what purpose does laughing serve?
>>>/google/
>>8590402
Goddammit this post is autistic.
>>8590407
This.
Does anyone else on /sci/ wish to become a Renaissance Man?
I've been expanding my knowledge of mathematics, music, art/illustration, literature, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, philosophy. I want to be the most well-rounded person in history. Obviously, geniuses like Da Vinci are an inspiration for me.
Are you working on becoming a polymath?
NEET thread?
NEET thread.
yes, also neet
I'm also good at using google.
Would the existence of Planet 9 suggest there's probably more, smaller undiscovered planets beyond the kuiper belt?
Something that massive would have made it self know already, by gravity influences on known objects
>>8589155
Are you sure? Even a Mars or Mercury sized planet beyond the kuiper belt? Planet 9 is supposed to be about the size of Neptune, and it only noticeably influences other trans-kuiperbelt objects
Hmmm. I remember reading a book titled "Planet X" it was a book for like 3rd graders (I was 9). It had only a few sentences per page and a large picture.
I was so fascinated and hopeful that it existed, but as others have said something that large would surely have been detected by now.
Unrelated: I was so obsessed with astronomy as a kid. I remember asking my 3rd grade teacher about dark matter when we were learning about space stuff. And she made me feel dumb by saying "uh I've never heard of it"
>>8589129
Faggots from other boards keep turning up.
>>8589132
board aren't things you live in you schizophrenic faggot
>>8589129
Too much nigger, kike and spic vermin infesting this place
Prove that modern physics isn't just philosophy.
If it is, it's only because, according to some, we're only now beginning to reach some limits on what we can know through experiment and observation. Others will say that physics can extend beyond that. It's a matter of perspective on what science is.
>>8588964
What I meant is that modern physics has become
>black holes are real because of x
>no black holes aren't real because of y
>dark matter is real because of x
>no dark mater isn't real because of y
even though we have never observed any of it, we still consider some stupid unproven theories as right and create and base other theories pm these unproven theories.
Physics is supposed to be about what is, not why it is. Physics has degenerated to Philosophy.
>>8588975
You mean physicists are coming up with theories that explain the data they have, then making predictions from those theories, and finding more data to prove or disprove those predictions, which either leads to the theory becoming more accepted, or the thoery being rejected or modified?
Yes, that is totally philosophy and I agree we should go back to arguing about whether the aether exists. Physics killed my father and raped my mother, by the way.
Feynman had an IQ of 125. Most of this board has an IQ higher than 125. How does it feel to be smarter than Feynman?
>>8588368
my iq is 199
>>8588368
Feynman's IQ was definitely above 125, at least for quantitative reasoning. The man was an absolute genius and I can only hope to achieve a third of what he did.
>>8588368
Seriously? Pretty impressive, guess why he was always sort of in the shadow's when it came to Gelmann, there's a good story on how Fenyman was always calling up Gelmann to see if he was working on projects just so he could start working
Feynman did create a good theoretical structure for I think it was quantum electrodynamics but again his real achievement was identifying the most optimal path.. ie the path's light is most likely to take given off an electrical exhange
Why wouldn't this work?
>Get asteroid
>Coat it in some material that slows the speed of light to below the escape velocity of the asteroid
>Black hole
>>8588253
what material
>>8588253
Would hit dielectric breakdown before a black hole formed.
>>8588270
Really black paint.
https://youtu.be/v9Aw0P7GjHE
I literally cant find something negative to fasting.
Why is fasting so amazing?
>>8588103
no long term protein store in the body like glycogen or triglycerides faggot OP
Yeah I'm gonna need that actress m8...
>anecdotal fast
Burned 20 lbs in a month with just normal dieting and exercise
Put the weight back on, and when I lost it again, it took 3 weeks, with fasting being the only difference so far as I noticed.
>>8589621
She used to be on TV or something. Its one of the more popular scenes out there.
no seriously, what are fields?
Places for crops
>>8587562
u avin a giggle m8
>>8587559
A field is a ring with a multiplicative identity 1, in which every element [math]a \neq 0 [/math] has an inverse [math]a^{-1} [/math] such that [math]a a^{-1}= 1 [/math]
I live near a nuclear power plant in the UK (Sellafield). It's quite a notorious plant here, cause of debates, pollution in the Irish sea etc.
What is a good cheap Geiger counter I can buy? Should I even bother?
>>8587139
>Sellafield
Oh, Windscale..
Chernobyl survivor here. Like everybody else I had a Russian RKSB 104. Now I would buy either one of the Gamma Scout versions or a Radex RD1706. Also look into the Radex ONE if you want continuous monitoring and recording (3000 hours on one battery!). And then there is the RadRate basic, which has a solid state sensor rather than a traditional Geiger tube. I'm not aware of any really good AND really cheap product on the market. As usual, you get what you pay for. My Russian/German bias is blatantly obvious so be sure to look for other good products that certainly must be available.
www.quarta-rad.ru/en/catalog/dozimetr-radiometr-radon/
www.gammascout.com/
www.radrate.eu/
>>8587139
>Should I even bother?
No, you shouldn't.
>>8587139
The one in this video is certainly cheap, I don't know how good the quality is though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-5A1jRkfbs
However, I don't know how useful it would even be. Geiger counters aren't sensitive enough to detect small-scale pollution.