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Aliens are just loading their ships with antimatter from the CME's
You guys don't know how antimatter is made?
Lets just say solar flares are perfect for it
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>>16845536
I've said the whole time it's a long-haul freighter refueling at Sol.
We have seen this all before. This really should be commonplace knowledge by now.

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So I tested Taleb's hypothesis myself by cleaning up the data with PCA to remove the noise (the Ns were large enough to afford that), spliced it into quartiles then fitted a linear regression model to each of them.

On the y axis is the 2022 income of an individual in the U.S. job market and on the x axis is the ASVAB test, which is an imperfect proxy for an I.Q. test.

And well, there is a very weak correlation in the first quartile but beyond that there is nothing much to say. Again, this is not a professional, clinical WAIS-IV test done on a huge cohort, which works very well when gauging success from brain injury recovery (see: Amy Cuddy case).
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>>16845585
It's called logical reasoning.
Please provide an alternative of a large dataset to see the effects of intelligence in the U.S. job market.
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>>16845584
>There is no large dataset that has all those measurements for a large cohort.
Ok. So you can't actually determine how intelligence relates to success. It gets swamped by factors like sociopathy and judaism.
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>>16845590
The claim that social scientists make is that it ALONE explains 1/4 of the variance in western economies, which it does not as it gets swamped by other factors, like sociopathy and judaism.
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>>16845592
>The claim that social scientists
>social scientists
There is no such thing. Why do you love being constantly wrong, anon?
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>>16845468
150. Jobless. By choice. Living my best life.

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it's over everything is fucked edition

Previous Thread: >>>16792899

This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
>If you have a question, before posting, read some of the older posts and ,if you can, try to answer their questions on your post. That way the thread isn't an endless log of unanswered questions.

Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:
>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)
>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)

Information resource:
>https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/
>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.

No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:
>https://academia.stackexchange.com/

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>>16830947
How can I get into the energy industry with a degree in systems engineering?
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>>16844423
project management maybe? though good luck getting your foot in the door without nepotism
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why does everyone keep saying we need more AI for science? we need less of it. robots arent free to take my job.
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>>16845573
Science is largely a waste of (taxpayer) money, likely including you. We shouldn't be wasting resources, even if that means replacing your job. Otherwise we end up with shit like tons of illegal immigrants flooding countries to pic crops rather than machines or unionized dock workers getting hurt and slowing down shipping because automating the process would cost their jobs.
Automating things is generally good. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be standards or supervision, but if your job can be replicated by a machine your skillset isn't worthwhile, and you are a drain on society.
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Science should probably go back to being a hobby for the rich

Hey, guys, read this xD

https://x.com/i/grok/share/SEqTxRmj5Yia0UMg6iYGWrfnK
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/pol/tard raid, spam, and anti science shitposting threads are cancer and against >>>/global/rules/3 >>>/global/rules/4 >>>/global/rules/6 >>>/global/rules/10 and >>>/sci/rules/1
OP is a faggot.
Fulfill your civic duty to help purge this board of anarchistic, sociopathic, intellectually regressive youtube/reddit/twitter immigrant subhuman troglodytes like him, who are under the delusion that all of 4chan (instead of just the designated shitposting playpens like /b/, /trash/, /bant/, etc.) is a toilet by reporting this thread en masse.
Here's a link so you don't have to scroll up to the top of the page.
https://sys.4chan.org/sci/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=16835447
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>>16840362
Honestly the two No answers in your post are actually the most frightening.
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>>16840362
Nevermind the vaxx, (((they))) gave you a raging psychotic illness using a fake """AI""".
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>>16845571
It is a very scientific thread. Challenge my expertise on genetics, genomics, genetic engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, virology etc instead of begging for censorship. You look pathetic xD

t. OP
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>>16843972
She worked in gain-of-function biohazard lab developing genome-damaging viral vector bioweapons. You think it is a normal and standard activity for a pharmaceutical company? I am not especially surprised but the public should be outraged imo xD

Exact sequence edition.
ITT: Discussion of math

Previous thread: >>16803023
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>>16843555
https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/GL/Arkh.pdf
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>>16835326
damn...I hope it comes back
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You can define a smooth manifold without defining a topological manifold first, and the topology will come from the smooth structure you define.
But how can I prove that a smooth manifold defined without its topology beforehand will be, in fact, a topological manifold?
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>>16835273
I finally got off my ass and started relearning math. I've always been poor with math and get tripped up doing basic arithmetic. I've tried a couple times over the past decade--literally twice--but didn't stick with it for long due to various factors. Anyhow I'm starting with khanacademy again and working my way through the very beginning with its baby early math review and Kindergarten-through-grades
to IDK I was thinking of getting to something like Algebra THEN transitioning away from khan and following textbooks, as a curriculum.
If anybody has taught (themselves or others) math and has any ideas or suggestions on starting from absolute scratch, I'd love to hear them.
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>>16845597
The best advice I can give is to be consistent, rigorous, and test yourself often (or just act like anything you learn is something you will be tested on). While I did not start basic as you, I did relatively successfully teach myself quite a bit of university-level math before going to uni

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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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>>16845494
Okay, what's the difference between the first and second quantization? You and I both know you don't know. Copy and pasting AI will be obvious to anyone who knows. Checkmate. Get a better brain before you try to play this game.
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>>16845498
First quantization is what you do in regular quantum mechanics—you take classical particles with definite positions and momenta and turn those variables into operators acting on wavefunctions. So you’ve got a fixed number of particles, and the wavefunction tells you the probability amplitude for where each one might be.

Second quantization (quantum field theory) flips that idea. Instead of treating particles as fundamental, you quantize the field itself. The field becomes an operator that can create or destroy particles. The number of particles isn’t fixed anymore; it can fluctuate because interactions can produce or annihilate them. In that sense, “particles” are just excitations of the underlying field.

And yeah, I’m not an AI. If I were, I’d probably say something stilted or try to sound overly polite. I just know how to explain this stuff without hiding behind buzzwords or auto-generated filler.
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>>16845503
I accept your concession, Mr. GPT
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>>16827884
I put in the minimum effort and did it in like five minutes
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i feel like i got so many wrong. Especially with the memory ones. I know my short term memory is fucked because I've smoked so much weed in my life, I'll probably forget I even took this test a few minutes from now. Also I know I'm an idiot.

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Why don't geniuses use this board anymore?
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>>16845502
Same reason thooft reads vixra. It's 99.999% garbage. But there is the rare gem that would otherwise be missed.
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>>16845490
Here’s what 99% of threads on /sci/ look like today
>eceleb thread
>schizo thread
>real numbers aren’t real because I failed my analysis class
>politics thread
>pseudophilosophy thread
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>>16845490
They do, they just get buried by the endless /x/ and /pol/ spam because the janitors gave up policing this board a decade ago.
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>>16845608
there goes another dead board, nice!
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>>16845502
90% of threads are what dna makes blacks dumb and did it come from the dinosaurs because I want to CRISPR it.
PS men can't get pregnant and 0 is not a number.

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Is it true that we're going to achieve immortality soon?
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What if immortality is the last thing invented through science, and everyone who believes in God just lets themself die naturally and then all the immortals are left behind in their perfect hell just waiting for the day they all finally get sick of each other?
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>>16844826
only if you get christed
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHyR92MQic
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>>16844826
No, "we" are not because, as you can see, everytime this topic comes up the thread gets shitposted to the bump limit with religionfags and schizobabble.
There is real research into aging process happening and we(excluding you) will reap the rewards but in order to learn more about it you would have to bother reading actual publications and maybe even attend a seminar or course in person. Things WE all know 99% of posters ITT(including you) will never do.
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>>16845019

Neurons are probably naturally "immortal". Or long lived enough to allow for the very slow regeneration rate to do its work (stem cell niche management could be a long term issue). Now glial degradation and slow failure will be our main topics here.
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>>16844826
yes look at my post

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What went wrong with American college students?
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>>16845221
money
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Mathematics is nourishing for the soul.
It should be treated the same as philosophy in this regard.
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>>16844978
Excepting your obsession with America, yes, humans normally do not learn algebraic notation at the same time they learn basic arithmetic.
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>>16844944
I guarantee the deciding factor was the exponent. Most of the people trying it probably have no idea what it means, so they fail the question outright.
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>>16844650
>remedial
25% arent meant to be in college but are pushed there by propaganda. They should be trades.

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What would be the viability of making a videogame about lab chemistry? Where the chemistry simulation is as realistic as possible (not actually simulating molecules but just coding in the well known results of a given reaction)
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>>16845251
Oh yeah that would be a great idea, like if you produce toxic fumes without ventilation you die
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>>16845252
>Hood Maintenance Due! Pay $350.
I love this game so fucking much.
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Math circus has a combinatorial puzzle of filling, draining and transferring water between juga to get a total.
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>>16845281
Now I want the 0 points labelled on all my measuring cups.
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Walter White Simulator when?

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Can math drive you mad
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>>16839184
Grothendieck got weird as he aged and someone recently wrote a book When We Cease to Understand the World. It only happens to those who both fear knowledge-death and pursue ideas that don't matter to the world yet.

>>16839192
Eyes are a convenience, although they have been influential to our evolution. Let's recall humanity did not think about space in terms of analytic geometry until Descartes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Pontryagin
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>>16842851
You don't go one way or the other. You need to be able to oscillate between the two depending on need. Personal belief and objective reason are both needed if you really want to get good at asking and answering questions. The funny part is that most people suck at both. They don't really know what they believe in and they can't even do basic math to make up for it. It's like they do it backwards and try to apply faith to logical problems and logic to questions of faith.
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>>16842851
>>16844119
Also, math isn't an illusion. It's just an incomplete model. But pretending it's all bullshit just because it can't answer literally every single question there is, yet, would be massively retarded. At the end of the day the only people who really believe math is not grounded in anything firm are people who don't like math because they suck at it, so they justify not trying to get better by just saying it's all made up.
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>laughs in 52!
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Pi? More like pie.

Status?
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It is literally aliens harvesting our solar flares
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>>16845545
There are billions of stars, many probably more active than Sun.
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>>16845553
>there are billions of gas stations many of which have more fuel in them why go to this one
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>>16845553
Have you considered our sun is on their route?
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>>16845553
The closest red dwarf is light years away

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Why the fuck is IQ shilled so hard? It's more like a measure of disability, failure, and autism than anything else, literal Golem tier bullshit.
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>>16845535
Thing is like, artists don't even go well with it, so what even is the point of taking it seriously when it's astrology tier
>>16845533
Makes sense, but wouldn't the challenged be those with high IQ themselves?
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>>16845537
Yes, though iq tests measure several abilities, with the socially challenged and mentally disturbed usually doing massively worse in at least one area.
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>>16845522
>it's another I Scored Low thread
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>>16845526
>People like feeling superior.
But not as much as they hate feeling inferior. :^)
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>>16845549
Makes sense, I guess that's one thing about them.

Why the scientific consensus says that women and men have the same iq if imperial data contradicts this statement?
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>>16845395
To twist the knife even more. Your OP claims (without evidence) that the scientific consensus is that there are no IQ differences between men and women. This is not the scientific consensus. You made that up. Feel free to quote, in full, any sentence from any study you found and I'll explain to you how you misread it. I'll accept continuation of no comments as a formal concession. Your move, chief.
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>>16845344
>woman is hysterically unable to stomach reality
he's something worse, whose essential spirit we all know is right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdV63cggmBw

but you're probably one of the smart ones if you are stubbornly arguing with men on /sci/
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>>16845392
>>16845396
And afrter that women want same rights
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>>16845392
Ok, so on what basis does """the consensus""" assert that women are as intelligent as men? How did they measure this? :^)
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>>16845433
By grades in gender studies

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33 years ago scientists produced this half hour documentary extolling the many virtues of enhancing the atmosphere is additional CO2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5ptrPN6ns

Sometime between 1992 and now they then changed the narrative from "Adding CO2 to the atmosphere will make plants grow faster and healthier and improve the environment substantially" to "We're all going to die in *two weeks* from global warming"

When did the narrative shift happen and why did it happen?
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>>16845079
>making the atmosphere unbreathable.
I guarantee you the room you are in right now is in the 4 digit levels of CO2 PPM.
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>>16844458
You seem upset
Also where's your space station?
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>>16844609
>Scientists don't produce propaganda
Good joke.
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>>16844328
Some group of people watched this exact video and realized it went against their plans for annihilating all life on planet Earth?
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>>16844458
>Scientists kinda forgot CO2 is plant nutrient


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