I used to study psychology for a few semesters and in one of the courses I learned that human races aren't actually races in the biological sense because eg. two blacks can genetically differ more from each other than a black and a white/asian/hispanic, while two german shepherds will genetically always be closer to each other than a german shepherd and a dalmatian.
are there any biologists here who can confirm this?
I know I'ts just a very superficial way to look at people's genetics but purely visually it seems impossible to me that nelson mandela might be closer to taylor swift than michael jordan genetically
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>>8588867
>psychology
wrong board fella
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>>8588870
it's still about biology more than anything else
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>>8588872
not really, no, you didn't ask anything about biology, you asked something political at best. you care about science only as much as you can use it for retarded political questions, so no, wrong board
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I stopped caring about math when I was introduced to the concept of negative numbers. What a crock of shit. If your equation can only be solved by inventing numbers that can't exist, like some kind of math deity , then you are fucking wrong and the math is flawed. Same for algebra solutions that basically say "the correct answer is whatever the correct answer is". Thats what the math said transcribed to words but god forbid if i wrote in down in english instead of the ancient math runes the teacher word mark me wrong.
Math is logical and numbers never lie my ass. Math is just as flawed as any other human construct.
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>>8588767
>I stopped caring about math when I was introduced to the concept of negative numbers.
This is bait right?
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>>8588767
>can't exist
Celsius/F
Altitude
Betting odds
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>>8588775
not him, but I have to agree. There is nothing in the real world that indicates this exist only concepts of this artifact
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What chance do I have of growing past age 19?
175.25 cm manlet here. Just turned 19 a few days ago. Dad is like 180cm mom is like 165cm.
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just become a trap
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Tell us how much you've grown the last year. If nothing, you will stay a manlet. Also most people don't grow at age 19.
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How does it feel to know that the smartest man on the planet is a fat American creationist bartender who attended Montana State University and worked for twenty years as a construction worker and bouncer?
https://youtu.be/-ak5Lr3qkW0?t=164
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
Pic related, it's Chrissy Langan, a certified genius with double your IQ (210, the highest ever recorded)
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>>8586319
>the highest ever recorded
Wrong.
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>>8586319
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
He's a creationist meaning he believes evolution was just an algorithm developed by God he doesn't outright believe man magically appeared 10,000 years ago.
If he wants to prove P=NP then sure go at it, Knuth who is also religious believes P=NP and will be discovered eventually, all religious mathematicians do for some reason.
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>IQ
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Is it possible to predict the melting and boiling point for compound at atmospheric pressure just by looking at its chemical structure?
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>>8590309
yes, there are models for that
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>>8590309
No.
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>>8590333
They're useful, but don't work for every compound.
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Ah, second semester classes have finally started up! All of this knowledge just ready to get soaked in by my brain.
Are you learning anything cool this semester /sci/?
Not a day goes by where I am unhappy with choosing to be a part of the ECE master race
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>Attending lectures
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>going to lecture
just go stud at home and learn the shit in just 1/3 of the time
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Can you even see or hear anything from that far
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In continuous probability functions an event has exaclty 0 chance of happening, so why does any event related to that function happen at all?
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>>8589944
>In continuous probability functions an event has exaclty 0 chance of happening
Nonsense.
You're confusing probability with probability density.
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>not realizing that the continuum is an abstract mathematical model
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/sci/, let's calculate this : 1^x + 2^x + 3^x + 4^x + ... + n^x
all we need to do is express it as a simple formula.
PS : making it as a sequel of exponential numbers doesn't help, but an interesting approach would be to integer it among Relatives number
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>>8589921
[math]\zeta(x)[/math]
DUH
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2n^x.
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JUST HOW MUCH THREADS ABOUT ZETA CAN /SCI PRODUCE PER SECOND HOLY FUCK
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If I only have a surface understanding of the trigonometric functions, will I be fucked in pre-calc?
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>>8589916
Those brain meme edits are insane.
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doesn't pre-calc teach you about them?
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Did you ever fail a course/module in uni?
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>>8589869
I feel like if I ever fail a module I'm a dumbass who should kill himself. Is this true?
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>>8589871
No.
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>>8589871
yes
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We are a collective of like minded individuals dedicated to publicizing scientific discoveries which have been silenced or otherwise stolen by public or private agents. We do not support the release of technologies which are legally owned and controlled by any group. Rather, we toil day and night to shed light on that scientific knowledge which is being illegally hidden to exploit an unassuming public. We subscribe to no political affiliations, only the self evident rights of man, paramount of which is his right to the general knowledge of his existence and place in the universe.
The Starset Society is always accepting new members to assist us in our mission.
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>>8589810
http://thestarsetsociety.org/
Thats a noice webpage there
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>>8589817
Yes.
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>>8589810
this sounds a bit like /x/ material
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what happened with the drive?
are they still testing it?
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jews shut it down
inventor was found dead
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Classified
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They were talking about polarized meme-waves or smth
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Holy shit /sci/, you've just been teleported back to 15th century central Europe.
What do you do to advance science and mathematics ahead of schedule, and how?
Let's assume you speak the language, and there are no time paradoxes involved.
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>>8589498
I would probably kill everybody upon arrival with my highly evolved flu strains I'd be carrying around
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>>8589498
Warn the Pope of communism and the protestant revolt.
Teach them symbolic algebra, limits, and proofs.
Out Aristotle as the fool he is.
Build a telescope for them.
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>>8589498
If we're advancing sciences and maths ahead of schedule, we're creating time paradoxes.
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What do we do about peak oil?
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renewable energy alternatives
all other answers are wrong
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>>8589383
no such thing.
its a created fear of scarcity because it has the word "fossil" fuel. Oil comes from a layer of soil known to contain fossils, or so they say.
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>>8589383
Gradually transition to a combination of renewables and nuclear to provide clean and consistant energy
Still mine for natural gas and oil though, we need that for plastics and chemicals.
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Does the educational system suck at selling math, or is math just inherently disliked?
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all math can be one by knowing how to input it into a calculator.
the educational system in America is purely business and not for the welfare. thus the difference between a "private" school and a "public" school.
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sucks at selling it. hard.
it's not the fault of the educational system though, it's the goddamn students. A lot of teachers come into the classroom with really high hopes and dreams. I guess they watch too many culturally binding movies about some white woman fixing inner city thug life teens with choreographed dance and get crushed when they realize 99% of the students really just don't give a shiiitttt about anything other than what's playing on their iPod and what Janet Roscro stuck into Timmy Turner at the homecoming dance.
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Unlike a lot of subjects, math can't always be learned. It has to be practiced, understood. How well you can do math is very much tied to your intelligence. Teaching math is about the teaching of concepts, not just the teaching of information.
This is the reason why philosophy requires that you be intelligent, and why it is up there with math and physics in pic related. philosophy isn't just information, it's also concepts and ideas. Your performance hinges on your understanding, not just your knowledge.