Where does oil really come from?
>>16297576How do you know the oil wasn't already there and is now flowing into the barrel?After all, oil in a barrel is a more natural state of things don't you agree? So the oil is very likely flowing into the barrel instead out of it.
>>16297184dinosaur's nuts
>>16297547>There are an estimated 550 gigatons of carbon of life in the world. A gigaton is equal to a billion metric tons. A metric ton is 1,000 kilograms, or about 2,200 pounds.Source:https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/all-life-on-earth-chart-weight-plants-animals-pnas550 billion tons of carbon in life, calculated 375000 billion tons of total free carbon on earth
>>16297223The price of oil is driven by supply and demand, just like everything else. Supply is limited mainly by the costs of exploration, production, and transportation, none of which are ameliorated by renewability. But if you really believe in your theory, you're welcome to sink some holes around Kilgore, TX and get rich.
>>16297223Russia drilled Titan?
You have access to your dick at all time; you can clean it later; minimum chance of infection.Just have running water at all times you dirty bastard.
>>16295957If we're not supposed to piss in the sink, then why is it placed perfectly at crotch height? What other scientific explanation is there
>>16295957I piss in the kitchen sink not because /sci/ told me to,but because I am drunk and my roommates are hogging the bathroom
just leave the water running while pissing and noone will ever know
>>16297239best and the pill is the color scarlet
for me it's pissing out the window
Maps like these are very interesting but they only provide information about settlement and not what environment these people have actually adapted for. Yes, for some it could be true but definitely not all, especially the southern and eastern ones that had more migrations and wars with different types of people. How is one supposed to then find the best possible environment for their genes and what about mixed race people?
>>16297700apply darwins theory of evolution.
>>16298043Like?
>>16297700This regional variation is not a result of environmental adaptation. It's mostly the result of patrilinear clan dynamics, sexual selection, and the mixing of neighboring populations.
>>16298278I mentioned that. The point is to find out what's the best place for everyone based on their genetics.
>Hello chud>look at this ai/quantum vaporware headline>[reddit tier joke] (I am german btw)>[phone rings] "Oh hi Elon" (proceeds to asskiss elon musk 3 more times during the video)>hydrogen is badHow does this clueless whore have any reach at all?
>>16297685Even to build the solar panels themselves will need huge amounts of rare minerals and land. Plus you have to do it again in 25 years because they break that quickly (and cannot be economically recycled) meanwhile coal and nuclear can last a century or more.
>>16297685P.S. I agree hydrogen is hopeless but I don't really care whether it is more or less hopeless than solar or wind
>>16298261We're on the same page about nuclear, but this continent spanning retirement home is too ossified to ever relax regulation on it. Coal will run out and while it shouldn't be decommissioned it will eventually lose. I'm sure 25 years from now there will be enough spent panels that recycling them economically will be incentivized and solved. I don't know, I'm optimistic. I'm expecting the low cost per watt combined with the complete inconsistency and unreliability will lead to some semi automated industries with a high per unit cost from electricity to adapt somehow, so instead of five acres and a transformer you have 20 acres with a little factory in the middle with stuff shipped in and out daily. You could fill otherwise useless land. Like 100,000 acres of desert
>>16298262Wind is shit as well. You should check out how much the amortized cost/watt of solar has changed over the last few years. It's sort of nuts how cheap it's getting. We're at the point where there might be an economic forcing function to adapting around the inconsistency, like battery packs in substations or in your house, or local industrial processes tailored to the weird timing. Seriously though check those numbers out, if you formed that opinion even five years ago I think you'll be surprised
>>16296252Original GGG girl.
So how can you prove that who you are is random and not "what was meant to be"? I am asking because that statement is often used in religious debates, for example, and I don't think it is fully understood.
>>16298099Good point.The notion of "positive" and "negative" claims or a "burden of proof" that might depend on that distinction makes no fucking sense once you understand the concept of double negation. Literally any claim can be expressed as a "negative" statement. The notion of a proposition being "positive" or "negative" is therefore not an inherent property of the proposition itself, but is rather entirely contingent upon how we express such a proposition in English (or whatever language you happen to be speaking). If we want to assign something like a valence to statements, so as to classify them as "positive" or "negative", we can do so, but this will be purely a syntactic or phonetic property of a particular sentence, and not an inherent logical property of the underlying proposition encoded by this sentence. *If the terminology is confusing, in logic and linguistics and "proposition" is a more abstract object that expresses a meaning or "logical form", whereas a "sentence" refers to a specific sequence of symbol in a specific language that provides just one way of encoding the more abstract meaning or "proposition" underlying this sentence.
>>16298099>>16298207i'm going to kill myself because i wasn't smart enough to come up with these two insightful tidbits on logic/semantics/whatever. go jack off with my compliment, assholes.
>>16298099>>16298207>>16298224On further thought, I realize that both of your critiques on the "burden of proof" as a fallacy are lacking in a sense.We are dealing with the empirical world of knowledge, not with a deductive one. The adjective of "exists" is often synonymous with "credible observation"--as is the standard. As such the burden of proof idea works well with existential claims--such as God.To claim that something exists from an empirical perspective, it must be observed somehow. Nobody is waving the "burden of proof" flag when somebody says "I believe trees exist", and yet if somebody says "I do not believe trees exist", the burden of proof would rightfully be invoked.The burden of proof as a concept then rests soundly upon the principles of empirical knowledge--it must be observed, and there must be evidence of its observation.Your critiques still work well with claims that have nothing to do with "existence/non-existence", however those are seldom applicable from an empirical point of view.
>>16298099>nobody has proved" there is a God who made the universeto be fair atheists merely deny the existence of that abrahamic god
>>16298099Thanks, that's a pretty good response. I always appreciate these. Well, too bad we don't know that, because if we would, everything else would become obvious and order would come. What I think we should do in the light of that is to formulate a procedure to live as a world's society "meanwhile". Stupid people will insist on taking one of the mentioned sides, like it's a fucking game and then they will argue and poison their lives, not realizing it all might be completely futile. And it's all just to prove to others that they supposedly know something. They so easily forget that "only truth can set you free" and therefore they don't act accordingly. They just want to represent their side/team and fulfil their plans.
They are having their annual sale. Are you getting anything? What are their best sci books?
Going through their probability and statistics book right now and it's great
>>16297657I'm looking into their catalog...and I can say that De Gruyter got de good shit.Put that on a card.
I'm a simple man. I don't do; I teach. Sometimes I look up things on wikipedia and if it's spelled wrong, I correct it.There is a cancer in wikipedia. Please submit names and examples of administrators using automation to revert *non political* revisions. If you were banned after correcting the automated reversions, please include that, too.Known fascists include>Materialscientist>Orangemike>Drmies
Wikipedia says that the Kalergi Plan is a debunked conspiracy theory
When I was a kid I was thought we were not allowed to use Wikipedia as a source since it was unreliable because "anyone could edit it."Back then I complained and really thought my teachers were wrong. But many years later having seen a few mistakes here and there, poor pesentation and wording, sometimes utter incomprehensible nonsense, chaotic vandalism, meaningless irrelevant information, and above all else politically motivated terminally leftycel online wars I have come to understand my teachers were right all along. Wikipedia is just a spring platform for midwits to reach newer heights of dunning-kreuger and denial
>>16281690Just make an account. What's the problem?
>>16298177>thought
When Elon bought Twitter, one of the first thing he did was fire thousands of people. There were literally over 100 FBI agents working at Twitter. For some unexplainable reason, this was never an issue, no one care, and it was never brought up again. Do you honestly think Wikipedia or any of these other corporations are any different? People thought it was draconian that China requires CCP members to sit on the board of every company, but the US literally does the same thing. There are probably dozens to hundreds of FBI/CIA employees at Wikipedia
This board used to be a lot more active before COVID, and the level of discussion was a bit more sophisticated. A lot less pop sci discussion and more math/logic/physics. Did all the people whining about muh antivaxxers and the lab leak hypothesis being "Russian disinformation" end up driving away a lot of the /sci/ user base? This board was basically unusable during COVID because there were so many people completely hysterical about shit like antivaxxers and the Lab Leak Hypothesis, and it makes me think the insane over-the-top hysteria and constant name calling and accusations that other posters were working for foreign governments ended up ruining a lot of peoples user experience and drove them away from the board. Now /sci/ literally gets like half a dozen posts an hour.
>>16297610>active discussion groups on /sci/ for discussing graduate level mathA huge number of the graduate level people were extremely liberal, and they couldn't ignore the politic threads and got ass hurt over /sci/ ridiculing the (((science))) and most of them just fucked off forever.
>>16297634There might be a main guy but I don't buy that there's just one guy. There's territoriality being asserted. This can't become just a hobby board because of that. Even in this thread you can see they have an urgent need to prove /pol/ is superior all the time.
>>16297744Damn I really hope so. I would be proud to know the /sci/zos and chuds drove out the soientists.
>>16297587This site has always been mostly popular with a certain generation. And that generation graduated, got jobs, got married, and now spend much less time bullshitting with their online friends about math and physics. What remain are the trolls, schizos, retards, and shut-ins that create the majority of the discussion you see here today.
>>16298244Maybe not drive them out, but certainly shut them the fuck up and put them in their place. /sci/ is still one of the most based blue boards
I've read that if you examine the rate of mutations in any genome and run the numbers that it's impossible to achieve homo sapiens within the given timeframe of the evolution of life on earth. Any truth to this? Anyone else hear this argument?Pic unrel
Religion vs Science thread.evolution goes through waxes and wanes, times where selection is more harsh and encourages adaptation and times where things are pretty stable and niches don't change much.
Every academic job application makes me write an essay about how much I love DEI and makes me want to kms
>>16298168>Writing a DEI statementI am strongly in support of increasing the number of minority females in Academia.
>>16298176Lol
>>16298168>GravitasMust be a faux humanities Ph.D.I wonder if these people had the presence of mind to push back against the obviously subversive nature of DEI policies that goes against every single national priorities, or the academic morality of the institutions they claim to serve?
>>16298210>every single national prioritiesAs foretold, you can't help but indict yourself in every post. Good night and we'll catch up in 16.
>>16298228I haven't had a single occasion where these types actually address the points made. Do you think our deceptive enemies care how you are mindful enough about not 'indicting' yourself?We're talking on a different wavelength here.
I've spent a lot of times trying to learn thing in my life, still, it's clear to me that I'm below average in intelligence and that I'm not smart. I used to think that I was a genius, I genuinely used to believe this, then I realized that I was actually dunning-kruger, I'm just shocked at how smart and educated most people are. I'm going to use a midwit example to illustrate my point, it's like in calculus when you approach the limit of a given value, and you get infinitesimally closer and closer, but you never actually reach. Why is learning so difficult, why is understanding things so hard, why am I so dumb?
For whatever reason I had a much easier time learning higher level math 30+ than I ever did university age We all know raw horsepower of the brain declines with age, but I think in my case I had just learned how to focus by then.
>>16298226Dunning Kruger implies that you talk too much. Consider the idea of talking less and listening more.
What do we know? What are some theories?Its hard to find any serious material on it
>>16297617it's like music taste. there is objectively better music but no one knows what it is.
>>16298141>but no one knows what it is.Could this be a result of the objectively better music changes between qualities of person, e.g. the dumber lower class humans like X while the smarter productive humans like Y; then when researchers attempt to find the "better music" this fact is noticed and due to taboos over eugenics etc they can't openly state this correlation, so have to result to "there's two types of objectively better music".
>>16298163i know highly eugenic people who hate music or have shit taste in it, and i know dysgenic people who are extremely gifted in music. it's almost not correlated. why would psychological affinity be different from physiognomy if it's all genetic
>>16298232didn't mean to put sage
If I can always decide the Halting Problem for a specific Programming Language, does that demonstrate that the Programming Language lacks Universal Computation?
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>schizo makes another thread to shit the board up withJannies, You missed a spot.
>>16297678Computer Science is a /Sci/ence and this is a maidposting site.
>>16297614>How do we know this? Is it just because we know the halting problem is undecidable for any Language that has Universal Computation? So if we can decide it then then Language can't have Universal Computation?
>>16297614>>16298044>Is it just because we know the halting problem is undecidable for any Language that has Universal Computation?Yes. If the language has universal computation, then it can do two things:1. Express the decision procedure for its own halting problem, if such a thing exists.2. Perform arithmetical calculations (or more precisely, model first-order Peano arithmetic).But Peano arithmetic is formally undecidable by Godel's second incompleteness theorem, so the language's own halting problem must be formally undecidable as well. In other words, even if a decision procedure exists, it cannot be expressed as a computer program. Whether you want to say "no decision procedure exists" or "a decision procedure exists, but it cannot be computed" is up to your philosophical taste.
I'm using the AI a lot, I ask it for obscenely complicated and boring jobs.Sometimes when I ask him to do things I almost feel the immense effort it would take to complete them.And she, obviously, does everything (almost) perfectly without batting an eye.This inability to experience fatigue is shocking.Needless to say, even these stupid and primordial AIs are already changing my way of working completely.It's not just hype, I'm realizing it firsthand by using them.
>>16298204Wow. It still didn't get it. What sort of retardation is this?
>>16298206Maybe because your question is fake and gay?
>>16298211Explain?
>>16298069AI is a boring job. I agree. It will never permute the arrangement of powerful people. It will paint watercolors of their children.
>>16298214object 1 accelerated with constant force for 10 secondsobject 2, same mass, accelerated with the same force for 10 secondsWhy should the initial velocity make any difference? You didn't specify that the final velocity will be the same
>Is there a doctor here?! This man isn't breathing!>I'm a doct...uh, nevermind. Ph.D.s are a joke.
>>16296559Tard'm'cake
>>16296559What? That you're it and you're using it to do it? Yes, I know this. I have had you.
>>16297913Hi Bob. What does Dark Matter taste like?
>>16298190dark chocolate t. bob
