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The new /sci/ wiki
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki

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To use MathJaX, put your TeX code between [ math ] ... [ /math ] tags for inline equations or [ eqn ] ... [ /eqn ] tags for block equations.

[eqn]\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^s} = \frac{1}{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^{\infty} \frac{x^{s - 1}}{e^x - 1} \mathrm dx[/eqn]

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Friendly reminder:
>DO NOT SELL DRUGS

General advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVMTAp9JBs
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interacting with neurology sucks
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SSRIs cause permanent brain damage. The "work" by inhibiting the replacement of serotonin so hard that your brain kills off its serotonin structures. That's called permanent brain damage.
Why does anybody prescribe this?
Morphine is the most studied drug of all time and has no known long term side effects.
Why will you prescribe something that has been proven to not even work over something safer that does work?
If a drug made you happier, you'd see it sold on the streets. Nobody is selling Prozac or antispsychotics on the street for a reason - they don't work.
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>>17082808
The safer drugs actually make people happier and less anxious. Quick, let's tell them that these drugs that work less than placebo that also cause permanent brain damage are the best!
>Fuck helping people, if giving them brain damage pays the bills without me having to do anything then I'm all for it!
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Forgot these threads existed. Xrayfag here, I just wanted to share a video I took at my main experimentation hospital (props to the techs for putting up with my nerdy bullshit <3). I found the idea of scintillation to be fascinating. I think most people can relate, it's cool how things can glow when exposed to certain photon energy wavelengths. Always been a fan of blacklights.

So in intro, we learn about the origins of the practice, starting with the x-ray tube, which is that during experiments with a vacuum tube. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen found that some panels he had covered with a phosphorous compound were glowing on the other side of the room when he supplied the tube with electricity. I wanted to get ahold of this original compound, but found that it's not really used anymore due to safety concerns and when you do find a supplier, you need laboratory licenses and stuff to order it.

Thankfully, there are natural minerals that scintillate. Unfortunately, most of them are relatively expensive. I got 2 different mineral samples for $15 each and that's good enough. First one was scheelite, which glows blue. The piece of ore that I got didn't have a whole lot, just a few bits. Second one was Willemite, which had a far more uniform distribution and glowed green. I wish the x-ray tubes at hospitals could output a higher quanitity of x-rays because that's the main technical factor for glowy rocks, not the kilovoltage, which is the force behind them.

This video was shot at like 60 kVp and 250 mAs for 2.5 seconds. I have another video of 60 kVp and 500 mAs, but the control board only allowed like 0.4 seconds. It's way brighter, but it's like a flash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_(physics)
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Hi. Bum here.
How do I maximize my dopamine release from taking fentanyl?
I've tried masturbating while high and having sex with passed out ladies on the street.

ok guys I need help.
So I have a box of food that I dropped flat on the ground, it had viscous food inside of it that I want to eat, does lifting it like the illustration separate the contaminated floor food and the clean floorless food?
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pls answer quick my dinner's getting cold
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well i dont know so your dinner can remain fucking frozen
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>>17083448
looks like jeet curry
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>>17083448
Slide something under the box for support so the sloppa curry doesn't fall through
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>>17083448
You might scoop the top of the floor pile up, if it's viscous enough it didn't mix then the top of it didn't hit the floor.

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> Cracked ETH
> Cracked the Navier–Stokes problem
> Cracked the quasi-Riemann hypothesis
Mathies, are you alright?
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>>17083215
>which corporation? idk.
Kek, are the shills in the room with you now?
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>>17083222
>are the shills in the room with you now?
The shillbots are definitely in the thread.
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>>17083190
>Few people single-handedly advance mathematics. That's hardly a controversial observation. Most just contribute their drop in the bucket, which occasionally culminates in an advancement. Maybe if "AI" marketers scaled back the grandiosity of their lies, they'd have a defensible case. But even that's tenuous. The mountains of leanslop these corpos pump out contribute nothing to mathematical understanding in principle.
So you still wouldn't consider all the open problem solutions drops in the bucket if there was no propaganda attached to them. Interesting.
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>>17082181
How did it refute it, and how do they know what was offered is a refutation?
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what's the cope going to be when claude solves RH, skinbros?

If reality exists outside of our perceptions, doesn't that mean we also have part of our existence outside of our own perceptions? Look at a star. What does it look like independently of perception? If it has no form, then we, as physically real objects, have a "no form" existence more fundamental than our conscious perceptions. How can this be? It's like the rug is being pulled from underneath us, but we're still in the same place. The only thing I can think could be the case is that the bedrock of reality is pure information. I suppose my question for the thread is: what is information?
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The speakers described a confederation of 12 planets (12 planetary systems). A large civilization linked by crafts whose journeys were said to follow magnetic pathways between worlds and universes. They pictured space as a network of magnetic streams, their ships were said to enter those streams, move between slower and faster layers and follow them towards other worlds.

https://youtu.be/x96GOJNO9nk?is=z-HI2jF6LDbiME1W
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>>17083181
imo experience is just what it is like to BE causal structure
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what is causality? fundamnetally causality is counterfactual change in system over time as described in our fundamental physical laws

but physics can be generalized by stochastic systems and so causality can be generalized similarly in terms of correlation structure using conditional probabilities.
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>>17083386
random is both a curse and a blessing.
nature reminding us it has the last say, not us.
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>>17083333
That's roughly what I meant when I said that schizo hallucinations are inconsistent.

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>flip a coin
>cover coin before i can see what it is
>split coin in two and give one half to my friend
>coin is now quantumly entangled
>observing my half of the coin reveals its heads, my friends half of the coin instantly collapses and becomes tails
who gives a fuck
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>>17079233
the coin was already flipped you fucking retard
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>>17079720
>Complaining about le /pol/ menace
Go to reddit
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>>17081847
Do you know what you are talking about? A measurement on a thing specifically doesnt entail information about it because of measurement/measured entanglement. Elevating the entangled state summary to information about the measuring devices does not follow either.
Also the relation between energy and information capture is dependent on system design. It is possible to put insufficient energy into some systems to extract the specified information.
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>>17079200
Mine landed on its edge
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>>17079200
Why did people start to take mathematical uncertainty or probabilities(predictive, not determinitive) as actual?
>ITS LE BOTH STATES AT ONCE BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IT UH TOTALLY BECOMES JUST ONE
>WHYS THAT YOU ASK? UH CUZ YOU LOOKED, FAGGOT

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sounds about right
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>>17083437
that's what it means to observe, yes
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>>17082378
I don't think the atoms are in darkness. Each electron reflects the detector or eye, so the gravity amounts up with electrons being close and changes it.
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>>17083500
try this experiment. Buy an antique guitar amp or an antique stereo that has vacuum tubes in the back. With it off look at the tubes and look at the space between the anodes and cathode where the electrons travel through. Turn it on. Tell me if you see little electrons flying through the tube after you turn it on. You can even turn it down real low and look if you can see individual electron paths
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Why the hysteria?
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The sized reflection rate of each electron has long blue/white energy chains of reflections whirling out.

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>AI is literally imitating the neural processes of living beings but it's probably not sentient because it doesn't have a body! No we can't prove this btw just trust us bro!
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my suspicion is that to be a conscious being it has to be like actually instantiated in material doing all its behaviors and learning online.

but llms is like just outputs of software so its more like a simulation of intelligent or even conscious behavior rather than an actual conscious or intelligent being

also suspect llms are not quite autonomous enough to be seen as living
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you know what finking about it i dont wna be so restrictive about how consciousness has to be instantiated. its kinda arbitrary
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>>17083200
You can easily detect soulless slop anon, human or non-human. Have you SEEN what places like India produce?
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>>17083428
>No, you're clearly not
Are you so sure?
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>Most humans aren’t self aware.
Imagine not believing this

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P!=NP, right? ETH being wrong is just a fluke and there isnt actually a way for P to be NP?
I cannot live in a universe where P=NP
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>>17083135
>All encryption is based on the fact that you cannot factor large numbers into primes in deterministic polynomial time.
no, it isnt.
factorization based encryption is already on the way out thanks to quantum computing. however, its replacements like lattice based encryption would also become vunerable if P=NP.
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>>17083389
>I must have secrets!
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>>17083191
butthurt
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>>17083135
>All encryption
wrong, new encryption schemes are based on lattice theory
>you cannot factor large numbers into primes in deterministic polynomial time.
no it has to do with the massive constant time factors. you can have a sub-linear factorization algorithm and it wouldn't fucking help you.
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>>17083191
>That there exists a subexponential algorithm for 3SAT isn't groundbreaking
Ultra fucking retard.
A subexponential algorithm for 3SAT that doesn't have a massive latency problem would have massive practical boons for entire real material industries that rely on SAT to do constraint solving, like virtually every single engineering field, logistics, etc.

no one fucking cares about your gay little mental masturbation theories and quantum computing. it's not useful.

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>Our models produced a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in every dimension and therefore also resolve the Kakeya conjecture and Stein’s restriction conjecture in all dimensions. The new proof is based on a novel auxiliary partial differential equation.

>Our system has recently proved that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false, a result that was subsequently verified in Lean.

>a result that gives a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics.

It's over
https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
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>>17080991
These claims come up again and again. A colleague of mine is a mathematician, and I remember him saying when these claims came up pre GPT 6 as well, that the issue is that most of these math problems no one cares about. Thats why they have not been solved.
There was of course more to this but yeah.

Also the claim that "humans could never do in the next 100 years" is absolute non sense, but I guess you know that already.
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>>17083418
lmao
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>>17083203
>aRtIsAnAl
This is how you know someone has the IQ of cold porridge. JFC
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>>17083418
>I totally could have solved those problems, I just didn't want to!
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>>17083418
>I remember him saying when these claims came up pre GPT 6 as well, that the issue is that most of these math problems no one cares about.
Your colleague was talking about the Erdos toy problems that were getting solved in early/mid 2026, "no one cared about ETH and Kakeya" is insane

His objection is half-valid for the Yang-Mills result since it's based on the Balaban program rather than any novelty, basically some world expert could have done the same IF they had the unlimited stamina and brain bandwidth needed for it but every human looked at Balaban's and went "hmm, nope, fuck that"
It's not because of lack of interest though, it's because it's not something for human beings

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Find me a better alternative to scientism. Oh wait, you can’t.
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>>17083475
>Bashing rocks together is a science.
Pounding that keyboard made you a writer.
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>>17083479
Technically, yes. Professionally and creatively, no.
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>>17083481
At least you understand your own stupidity.
Now go back to your “laboratory” and smash your balls with rocks for science.
Fucking idiot monkey.
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>>17083483
LOL you got fucking owned, buddy.
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>>17083163
Give me the scientism criteria for better. Hard mode: securing more taxpayer dollars is not more better

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>Ph.D. in Math
>No job whatsoever
>$000k starting
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>>17081756
I can see him (younger man) and he doesn't own the place, but he could make room.
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The economy is simply based on screwing people over (entrepreneurship) or being screwed over so that you can facilitate the screwing over of other people by an organization (employment) or just get rich off crypto/scamming/onlyfans I guess? (exploit mode)
Playing with your silly numbers doesn’t sufficiently ass rape other people’s wallet nor can your skill of numbers be weaponized by a group to ass rape other people’s wallets so therefore your life is not worh shit. Just break your legs with a hammer and apply for gubbermint gibs at this fucking point
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>>17081680
What does programming have to do with pure math
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>>17081674
that's why around here they basically force us to go through a teaching opposition before even starting your PhD.
sure the pay is abysmal for PhD-level but at least it's better than zero.
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>>17081961
Look if you are trying weasel out, he could probably make a deal with cooking the food and getting the groceries.

I'm not a scientist or anything, but with all these modern trains colliding, couldn't it be because of magnets?
Modern trains use magnetic levitation systems, and magnets attract each other, so the chances the magnets malfunctioned or were hacked by third parties are high, are they not?
I just think making two magnet based trains go so close to each other is crazy
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>>17083374
>>17083370
>>17083368
>"best at killing people"
>YOU CANT SAY IT WAS MURDER, CHUDCEL!!!
Please quote where he said murder you FAGGOT
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>>17083447
>spanish engineering
Kek
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>>17083452
Unexpected, as always.
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Can't they get real time location markers with automated alarm/breaking systems?
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>>17083487
And take away a human’s job?

>Human only math

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>17083081
Machine learning for specific applications was called AI. It's non-controversial while SI breaks out of the sandbox environments and into other systems.
It's quite relevant to make a distinction.
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>>17083092
>SI
MIGAtards are so nonwhite they're actually picking this xitter clownship up and running with it like it's serious business.

>breaks out of the sandbox environments and into other systems.
With a little help from Israeli cyber"security" companies. Either way, that's called malware and it's been around for decades.
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>>17083109
You are just word wrangling to express your illegal migrant status.
AI is simpler models and application specific.
SI (or whatever else that's Woke certified) is the potentially destructive. It's important to make a distinction to not give the general public a biased opinion of the whole field.
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>>17083116
MIGAtard spambot confirmed.
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>>17083092
>>17083116
no retard that's not what either of those words mean. AI is an umbrella term that applies to any machine learning program. "artificial superintelligence" is a hypothetical AI that's smarter than the smartest humans can can understand concepts too complex for any human. "breaking out of sandboxes" or any other theater anthropic and openai are putting on is not the qualification for ASI, nor is anyone using that term other than the orange ape and his goons for propaganda purposes.

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Critical thinking by itself is not difficult.

What's difficult is analytical thinking, which ought to be treated as a prerequisite for any critical thought.
Without analytical thinking, you're stuck in the realm of speculative rationalization, which is a degenerate form of thought because it avoids rigor, yet is highly enjoyed by people across the bell curve.
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>>17083114
thats cool and all bro but what about pic related?
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>>17083229
IIRC the moral of the story was that he killed himself because he got a MILF pregnant and all the philosophy was cope.
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>>17083212
the scientific method
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>>17083244
Kiss my actual Jewish ass
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>>17083114
when you hit your upper mental limits theyre one and the same from your perspective


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