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Due to the probability space of quantum mechanics, you can have 100% goku and 100% vegeta for a sum of 200% probability. hell, you could go over that. Imagine hybrid vegitos with mutliple saiyans. You could add broly into the fusion. I guess the oracle is the great space fish that knows the future.
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It is theoretically possible to have 150% goku and vegeta, therefore making the calculation come out as a 15% collapse on whether it is vegeta or goku and thus make a more powerful, but unstable vegito.
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To distinguish the two we can use a hadamard gate, and actually filter individual gogetas and vegitos with enough qubits.
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Behold my Super Saiyajin Ketto!

How do I motivate myself into studying this shit. Yes, I won the "picked the wrong field and can't change out" award.
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>>16789295
Power does seem pretty whack. It happens, you'll find parts of it you like. Or you won't and you'll bail into a different field.

t. Guy who switched to systems EE after being miserable in a biomed program for 2.5 years.
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>>16789295
>How do I motivate myself into studying this shit.
Inshallah, this knowledge will come in very handy for crippling the enemy.
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>>16789295
ever build shit?
make a tesla coil and modulate it with an electric guitar
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>>16789398
Kek. My man is not working a day in his life. Live large, King.
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>>16789295
Fuck around with coils.

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if free will is real, how come the past is fixed?
according to relativity, time is just another dimension in space, and the past exists today and doesn't get erased. then why aren't people from the 15th century able to change the course of history?
why are they forced to take actions that lead to 2025 as we know it? if we really had free will the timeline would change every few months
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>believes in relativity because it seems like its true
>believes in mechanistic causation because it seems like its true
>does not believe in free will even though the hardest determinist still feels like its true within their experience when deciding whats for dinner

there is no real reason to believe any of these things over the other, yet the debate is always shuffled to free will. I for one reject causation. Its all merely coincidence we have read too much into.
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>>16788896
free will just means something isnt actively opposing your will to make a decision.

it doesnt have anything to do with determinism.

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are there any drugs that can instantly knock someone out via dart administration? is it even theoretically possible by having some sort of pump that pushes the drugs as fast as possible through your bloodstream?
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>>16788306
try 3 parts Everclear to 1 part fentanyl in your dart, should do the trick
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>>16788784
this would probally kill them prettty quickly since most drugs don't mix up well with alcohol. fentanyl should do the trick though but if you don't want to kill the person you are trying to knock out properly dose it so you don't cause an overdose.
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>>16788306
Anesthetics are exactly this, you want to look at things like tranquilizer darts but with human doses of drug
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>>16788306
>instantly
What does this mean? A few seconds or one Planck time?
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Leather sap.

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/sci/ btfo.
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>>16789489
Second line is wrong. dx and dy are not zero, they merely approach it in the limit.
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>>16789500
This matches up with Marxism as an ideology; the specter of communism also only appears at the limit of history.
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>>16789489
i dont see the problem.

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If the aquatic ape theory is "pseudoscience", how do we explain people in landlocked areas used to have constant iodine deficiency until we started to artificially iodize table salt? How could a savannah species have evolved to be so dependant on iodine?
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>>16789429
But elephants/proboscidae are certainly descended from a semi aquatic species too, closely related to sirenians.
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>>16789456
That was 60 million years ago though. They would have had more than enough time to evolve out dependence on marine iodine
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>>16789300
Most land animals get their iodine from plants in iodine rich soil.
When humans stopped being migratory animals, not all of them settled in regions where iodine was common in soil.
Iodine is not just common in soils near the ocean, but also in places that used to be ocean.
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>>16789468
Not if they stopped being semi aquatic fairly recently and evolved strategies (geophagy) to supplement iodine (just like we did with fish trade and now salt iodization).
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>>16789496
>Not if they stopped being semi aquatic fairly recently
They didn’t. Large terrestrial elephantiformes have been around for 30-40 million years

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If functions are a mapping of values to other values, why can't I subtract two functions to get the difference in domains? eg
f1(x) = {1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, 3 -> 4}
f2(x) = {1 -> 2}

f1 - f2 = {2 -> 3, 3 -> 4}
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>>16787280
that's just set subtraction between functions encoded as relations
you are essentially restricting the domain of function f1
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>>16787405
no its not libtard
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>>16787280
Depending on the qualifiers and restrictions, there are some operations you can perform "on functions." The calculus of variations is all about finding "the best" smooth function to optimize some integral/integro-differential equation.
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>>16787280
Actually you can do this, exactly in the way that you described
But doing this for e.g. a function over the real numbers is just not practical, so instead we subtract the bodies of functions that we know have the same codomains
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>>16787344
>imagine being able to define
Imagine actually doing the work instead of asking others to imagine you did the work.

>"Nuclear" reactor
>It just boils water into steam that moves the turbine to generate electricity
How is this any different in principle to my kitchen kettle?
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>>16788869
There are alternatives to working fluids but all of them are vastly inferior in thermal efficiency and cost. It turns out that heating some fluid is a simple but effective way to turn heat into work.
And most alternatives still uses a working fluid because at some point you're using matter (if you're rely on chemical reactions), things like magnetohydrodynamic generators are "just" replacing the turbine with a magnetic field.
The alternative of fluid-less generators are things like photovoltaic generators that need an absurd temperature to work (like the sun) or thermoelectric generators that are ~10-100 times less efficient than a normal turbine or piston.

And if you go full contrarian and ask for a direct nuclear fission/fussion to electricity conversion then the result is just like the magnetohydrodynamic but with worse because it's far more complex and problematic on Earth (where you're forced to make it compact instead of like the Earth's magnetic field take advantage of a huge "ball")
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>>16788860
>nta but ya it does dumbass lmao
No it doesnt. Geothermal energy is not related to the sun
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>>16787154
Your kettle has a turbne?
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>>16789381
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Water is just a really fucking special molecule

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I'm slightly autistic.
Alcohol makes me feel somewhat normal.
Why can't scientists extract the part that fixes the autism but without the negative parts that ruin your health and then sell it as a cure?
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>>16788245
low doses of dxm
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>>16788566
This seems right
t. pint glass stacker
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counseling, acceptance, and SSRIs

t. clinically diagnosed. used to drink booze to loosen up inhibitions and lower anxiety enough to be able to play multiplayer games online. (I had a full time office job and could chat with coworkers no problem, the issue was with strangers). After diagnosis and medication and a shitload of effort in CBT and DBT I don't drink anymore. Still smoke a lot of weed, the psychiatric team is aware of this
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>>16789004
"low" LOL.
That stuff is fun but look out for bromism.
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>>16788261
Ethanol is directly neurotoxic btw, even setting the liver effects aside
>>16788455
Not the same but close
>>16789004
Worse but arguably has a cleaner phamacological profile

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>buy Ph test paper
>test every liquid you come across
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>>16788250
I just peed.
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>>16788250
Have some for my aquarium. Because the range of acceptable values is narrow, the strip colors are half a dozen shades of magenta that are difficult to distinguish from each other.
>You're color blind
Lots of people, including women, say the same thing about the difficulty in matching up the shades of magenta.
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>>16788250
You should swallow one end and feed the whole tape through your digestive tract.

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what do you think of this explanation scientist?

https://youtube.com/shorts/7cYcXptAg7Q
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>>16789478
Nigga wtf you tryna make us watch?

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Did anime glasses as well. Theoretical pseudophysicists on suicide watch.
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>>16788810
you know the only answer is to conclude causation is an illusion
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>>16788868
That's some retarded Islamist shit or something. I'm a compatibilist which is another way of saying i have common sense. You can do as you will you just can't will as you will.
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>>16788443
she got cancelled for her controversial trans comments and now reddit is calling her a right wing grifter LMAO
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cringe
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>>16788779
Her future is so bright she's gotta wear shades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY

Numberfags take a look at this.
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>>16789056
Here's an interesting video to prove what I have written in my last post.
https://youtu.be/sQR124XByxA
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>>16789157
https://youtu.be/PIpvIVLQ2Dk
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>>16787476
I dunno, whenever I've looked into the various iterations of stuff like this, I then find someone doing it with regular texts like Moby Dick and whatnot.
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>>16787476
what's the point of doing numerology on a translation of the bible? use the original text
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>>16787476
1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 72....... are all big time "sacred'" numbers based around known, astronomical/astrological values of the time. They pop up in almost every religion on Earth.

Good ol' Astrotheology: 101

"As above, so below."

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Our chances of escaping our solar system and colonizing the stars have dwindled to virtually zero.
We have nearly exhausted the easily accessible resources this planet provides. Extracting more resources will only become increasingly more difficult and expensive.
We have blown our chance of getting off this planet. At the beginning of the 20th century we had a windfall of cheap energy and minerals, but we squandered most of it on pointless wars and wasteful consumerism. For one brief shining moment, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, the dream of spreading Humanity to the stars, of colonizing new planets, seemed realistic. But no longer. We have lost impetus. We have lost focus.

Disappointing as this may be it is however it is a blessing. Humans have proved themselves to be little better than locusts. Plundering everything in sight, ruining ecosystems, wiping out countless species of other life, and then moving on to do the same again elsewhere. And in between these rampages of obscene greed we fight each other, committing dreadful atrocities, inflicting great pain and injustices. Through wars, racism, and class conflict. Through exploiting and oppressing others.

If we had traveled to the stars we would have repeated this pattern everywhere a habitable planet was found. We would have wrecked havoc across the galaxy, reducing everything to yet another sterile wasteland inhabited by morally immature and selfish people. We would have carried our worse excesses along for the ride. War. Pollution. Oppression. Callous disregard for other life.

Its better than we will remain forever trapped on Earth. We have proven ourselves unfit to be an interstellar civilization.
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>>16788516
It may as well be becasue we sure as Hell are not getting out there any further than the solar system..
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>>16788740
The Age of Humanity: Homo sapiens has existed for roughly 300,000 years. Our technological civilization is less than 500 years old. To claim that in the next hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of years we will never develop the capability to leave the solar system is a profound failure of imagination.
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>>16789042
In the past 500 years Humanity has depleted most of the easily accessible natural resources, placed strains on ecosystems to the point of collapse, caused a 6th mass extinction event, and still squanders significant output on either fighting each other or preparing to fight each other. The entire economic system is akin to a Ponzi scheme based on infinite growth. The cracks are appearing now as living standards across the globe begin to fall.
At the heart of this lies the simple fact that there are no longer any cheap energy reserves to exploit, and the era of exploiting cheap labor and natural reosurces in other countries is slowly coming to an end. Once economic stagnation and deteriorating living standards set in, which is beginning to happen right now, teleological progress also stagnates since its advancement relies upon the availability of excess labor and resources. Again, we are beginning to see this happen right now.
Once that becomes fully realized Humanity will never again have the ability to develop interstellar spaceflight. The technological advancements , the excess labor, the political will, and the relatively cheap resources will not exist to support it.
To remain glassy eyed and ignorant in the face of such basic realities is absurd.
And this is good, since with Humanitie's still primitive attitudes the last thing needed is to have some selfish apes spread across the stars, shitting everything up and flinging shit at each other and anything else they encounter, wherever they go.
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>>16783719
>Extracting more resources will only become increasingly more difficult and expensive.
If resources become scare, they price raise, driving more effort to survey new deposits or developing better extraction techniques, that makes said resources abundant again. There is possibility that at some point space mining will become economically viable and at that point we (or more precisely robots) will colonize solar system.
>>16789042
Yes, however given our current understanding it is not possible in any practical way to create civilization across the stars. We can imagine it being possible. But such imagination is not grounded and is just a space fantasy fairy tale.
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>>16783719
>we squandered most of it on pointless wars and wasteful consumerism
Shut up you boring hippie.

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Is any progress being made with anti aging stuff or is it all venture capitalist hocus pocus
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>>16789339
>several scientists working on anti ageing ... decent progress ... model organisms ... dentified several mechanisms ... identified several non ageing species ... isolated some of the main components they differ in
Nice marketing tripe, but this in no way refutes anything I wrote. They have all the incentive in the world to make you believe this shit, but no incentive whatsoever to ever let you have this.
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>>16788774
>muh schizos
Normies like you get way too caught up on issue of premediation in the top-level human actors of a system. Any dynamic you can derive from the structure, interests and incentives of a system is going to play out through its actions and the purpose of a system is what it does.
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>>16789368
Even if the operators themselves fail to foresee some dynamic, they WILL notice it when a real-world situation invokes it and they WILL integrate it into their strategy.
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>>16789364
They, they, they. More schizo babble
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>>16789419
I used to be more specific about that until I noticed how assblasted lowgrade midwits get when someone just says "they". Immediately exposes hivemind automatonism.


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