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Cool it with cosmetic procedures, Sabine.
You're failed spergy physicist turned YouTuber, not a supermodel.
You're starting to look like an alien.
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>>16872958
She's "German", her real loyalty is, like all other Jews, to Israel.
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>>16872915
She's the face of chud science. The IFLS! crew hates her.
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>>16871908
Yeah she looks like a nigger now
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>>16871908
She looks like a /fit/ troon on half a dozen endocrinology misadventures now, kek.

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Why are math textbooks so expensive? Do other STEM fields face the same thing? Whats your favorite textbook that isn't ungodly expensive? Can't believe a reference book is worth 34$ more to a Bible.
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>>16871578
Books in general have become more expensive in the last few years. Despite the quality going down since textbooks are now all print-on-demand on shit paper and binding.
Get a printer.
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>>16872427
The authors are dead too most of the time. Where does the money even go.
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>>16871578
>Why are math textbooks so expensive?
Pirate them
>Do other STEM fields face the same thing?
Yes, physics and software also suffer from same publisher jew tricks.
>Whats your favorite textbook that isn't ungodly expensive?
All are expensive, just pirate them from annas or libgen.
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>>16872817
Fucking software textbooks are priced high?
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>>16871578
Smaller audiences, higher per unit costs.
Read a math book and learn to math, maybe.

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irl I'm an esteemed doctor.. but here.. here you don't respect me.. why?
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>>16872383
It is my right to know the genetic heritage of any blood transfusion I receive. You need to respect that.
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>>16872383
and im the queen of england
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>>16872383
Desu most of the stuff you prescribe is probably outdated boomer garbage mogged by all sorts of random research chemicals.
>t. using dozens of non-FDA-approve anti-balding treatments and no FDA-approved ones
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>>16872979
Sometimes the discount Chinese doctors try to use that pigs blood in you. You need to watch out for that. Pigs blood is close enough to some, but it ain't the same, really.
Green Monkey blood too. It's got the AIDS.

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I'm looking to learn graph theory and am wondering which book would be a better choice, "Combinatorics and Graph Theory" by John Harris or "Graph Theory" by Reinhard Diestel? Thanks in advance, autists.
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>>16870019
I checked this series and found it hilarious that it has like 5 linear algebra books with programming applications and exercises. But none for graph theory relevant to this thread.
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aww shieet topological optimization cuh
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>>16871218
>every matrix is certainly not a directed, weighted graph
>and every graph can not be represented in matrix form
Dear me.
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>>16871218
I skimmed the "Linear Algebra, Data Science, and Machine Learning" from the series. It looks promising. Covers everything, a lot of exercises, has programming exercises, has solution manual for 1/3 of the problems on website, 1 chapter for graph theory stuff.

The main issue is the typesetting imo, feels like they try to cram as many things as possible on a page, making it hard to read. Doesn't look like older springer books. But it could be just the pirated version. Also a lot of the figures like the plots needs colors. So you can't just print the book B&W.
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>>16869110
Annas, etc. unfortunately doesn't have a good copy for the 6th edition. But there is one for the 5th edition.

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I have this ambition to learn everything I can, and I would like to ask for advice and may get other people to join me.

I'm making a roadmap of science. Simply put, a series of subjects and projects (since that is how I learn best) and I would like some contribution from others , since I don't know what I don't know.

So tell me! Things about your field, experiments and projects, easy or hard ! How to get there and where to go from there !

Maybe I one day when this is complete I can figure out a way to distribute it to school with appropriate resources (science education is lacking imo)

my level of respect for this man is falling RAPIDLY
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>>16872787
hi hank
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>>16872193
You see a dangerous career criminal.
I see a poor young engineer in making
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>>16872714
Ideologically compromised tranny cultist
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>>16872830
I know you are but what am I
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>>16872671
The reason why the core and mantle of the planet are so hot? Lol

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Did we overreact to Chernobyl?
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Chernobyl is actually not that dangerous of you have proper gear
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>>16871930
the problem is that isotopes ACCUMULATE through the food chain. yes you can visit chernobyl just fine, but you wouldn't want to live there, drink the water, eat from a garden and hunt in the forest.
incidentally, because of that the wildlife is doing amazing. theres large populations of wolf, moose, european bison, beaver, wild horses...
turns out human activity is more harmful than a reactor blowing up.
some with the bikini atoll. theres no fishing going on there because its all irradiated and no theres large healthy coral reefs and incredibly healthy fish populations
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I have published papers on the subject.

>>16871930
There are multiple UN and IAEA reports that has a global consensus of radiologists and nuclear power experts state that the Soviets literally did overreact to the disaster, shutting down and resettling a lot more settlements then it was necessary, which ended up doing more damage through social factors than the radiation health hazards themselves did. But then again, if they hadn't overreacted, those very same isotopes could end up doing quite a bit more damage to people, and as >>16872087 pointed out, wider exclusion did benefit the environment and natural wildlife tremendously.

>>16872087
> but you wouldn't want to live there, drink the water, eat from a garden and hunt in the forest.
True in the immediate exclusion zone around the plant in the years immediately following the disaster, but even one decade later the overwhelming majority of excluded territories are just straight up indistinguishable from the baseline in terms of radioactive isotope accumulation. There are still pockets where you definitely don't want to drink and eat the local biomass over an extended period of time, but they are extremely minuscule in scale, especially by now.
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the fossil fuel industry, one of the wealthiest and most active propaganda producers on the plant, have a vested interest in demonizing alternative energy sources. A lot of effort has been put into making nuclear power look as scary as possible.
Three Mile Island is known as the worst nuclear disaster in US history, yet NOBODY died, it was a nothing, but gets hyped up as a warning against the technology. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of US citizens died as a result of fossil fuels this year alone.

Chernobyl is another victim of this dedicated propaganda campaign. It was bad, but is way overhyped as some apocalyptic catastrophe.
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Woopsy, we made an 8th grade level mistake guys...we're very sorry.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4210929/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280/
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>>16870674
>the government can't be that incompetent
go work in a public sector job for a few years and then come see if you still stand behind this post. retard.
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>>16870674
You must not read the news
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>>16865884
Not the same poster, but also doing this
Huge changes
More hair, harder dick and better mood
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>>16872560
Yes I've noticed that, especially the mood.
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This is just saying supplementation doesn’t work as good.

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all the other tests are shit (outside of mensa), take this one
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/
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>>16827884
that's so cool
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>>16871611
that variance in your wmi and spatial must be autsim! or ADHD which is why you cant make discoveries! lmao
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The curse of one word wrong...

159 IQ
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medical school turned out to be good choice even though I have shit memory. maybe I can be a surgeon.

>A: 7/27
ESL speaker.
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>>16827884
No way fag

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Only if you formulate this problem in apple and banana
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Depends on the type of the operator. Compact, normal and subnormal operators have been proven.
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>>16872648
Should have said complex Hilbert space. My bad
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>>16872612
yes
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technically you should not be able to solve this, it is an open question even more the most gifted, 4chan isn't the place for solution to open questions
that aside

finite-dimensional complext hilbert space dim>1, yes
nonseparable hilbert space, yes
many operator classes on hilbert space yes

if hilbert space is real, no in 2+ dims

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This giant of biology has recently passed at the age of 97. What's the verdict? Gifted pioneer of scientific inquiry or scheming, bigoted plagiarist? There is no middle ground.
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>>16860147
>he seemed pretty well-connected socially
That is how they remain in power and position.

>>16860468
>You don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
In the Pipeline has covered this, including one PI with multiple suicides among his juniors.
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>>16860630
The fertility rate across the world is declining. India's fertility rate has already dropped below replacement level.
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>>16870849
What is "In the Pipeline" exactly? Are those suicides linked to Summers specifically?
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Previous thread

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>>16872057
Nooo I should have bumped

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why do particles behave differently when not observed?
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>>16868549
I think it's because observing devices like eyes or cameras absorb the wave aspect of the photon
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If we live in a simulation then it could be a way to spare system resources with both unrendered geometry and foveated rendering.
If you look directly at your screen in front of you everything is blurred around it. And you have no way of knowing if everything behind you is unrendered, just like in a video game.

https://youtu.be/NPK8eQ4o8Pk
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>>16871745
This is actually a pretty good point
That makes me wonder whether panpsychism has more merit than I thought
NTA
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>>16868549
Wave particle duality is an example of the converse error fallacy: waves -> wave-like pattern => wave-like pattern -> waves. Physicists are that stupid.
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>>16872760
https://youtu.be/-JmNKGfFj7w

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The definition of infinity is that it is how many natural numbers there are. If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and… then that must mean that there are not only infinite infinities, but an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities, and… (infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and…) continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and…..(…)…
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>>16872841
>The definition of infinity is that it is how many natural numbers there are.
No, that is the definition of aleph-0, infinite means endless.
Those things you described aren't different infinities, they are just projections of the fact that numbers are endless in every direction possible.

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I feel like current neural network based AI is like half of the solution of the general AI problem.
We have the fuzzy (and unreliable, hallucinating) part of the problem solved, but we're missing the strict and verifiable logic part.
And no, I'm not arguing for symbolic AI - I know it was mostly a failure, not really going anywhere.

What I feel would fit that part is... formal verification.
I strongly believe that if we had by now - and by now I mean for at least few decades - a practical, intuitive and commonly used - by commonly used I mean it would not only be used strictly for programming or math, but often also to describe scientific and engineering models - a good formally-verified programming language and all the data available due that use - just like we do with code - due to open source, then we would already have general AI by now.
Maybe not super-intelligence still, but a tool that could reliably perform general and verifiably correct work.

Current AI is as is, because it lacks the tools to verify its own answers - human may make mistakes but he/she will be verified by reality, AI is shielded from it, it has no senses, so it has to have some other means to judge its output.
And honestly we seriously lack in the department of tools that can automatically verify correctness of solutions to all but the most basic of problems - not even due to the lack of theory fundamentals, but due to the lack of effort and investment in the area.
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>>16872258
not possible, academics still read journals, they might be surprised but really good ideas won't escape their notice
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>>16872164
What are you on about dummy? The problem is memory.
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>>16872368
kind of but not really
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Smash
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>>16872354
What if the idea is useless by itself and the utility only emerges at scale?
Or requires another component that is classified in order to be really useful?
Do you really think there is a full proper vetting of EVERYTHING?
Most researchers don't want to waste time on bullshit. And there is a publish or perish treadmill to limit low probability pursuits of needles in haystacks.
And anyone that does strike gold gets muzzled so you wouldn't hear about it.

Go find the paper that tells how to make nukes. If you can't find it then nukes must not be real.

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>>16872667
You can get significantly more out of solar panels in space even accounting for the transmission from space to ground that you can on earth per panel. It's a solid idea and not a very technically challenging in terms of the transmission and such. The primary hickup is really the price of launches (those are expensive while electricity is fairly cheap) and the technical challenges of actually building anything in orbit and all the other more mundane problems of doing anything in space. If you got to choose you would still want a space based solar plant and then ground based receiver even if you had a pristine desert to work with otherwise but the real advantage is in places where the weather and/or seasons aren't so conductive to solar like say cloudy England and the capabilities of generating power around the clock or at least with incredible consistency and predictability.

Of course the thing is a non starter due to launch costs. If Musk believed in the business he wouldn't be tweeting about it, he would just be launching the power satellites himself like he did with starlink. Instead he is merely attempting to sell the shovels for a government that tries to rush for gold.
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>>16871828
Frightened perhaps?
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>>16871897
>don't build up nuclear power, build a dyson swarm
>don't build trains, build a hyperloop
I'm seeing a pattern
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Then what type of fuel are we supposed to use to get out of the solar system? Fusion still sounds like a good idea to invest in.

https://youtu.be/9bdH6us5yd0
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>>16871828
I listen to this guy too https://x.com/Vision4theBlind/status/1999652606667555024


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