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>>16923718
HOLY SHIT IT WORKED
I suffered from aids cancer until one minute ago. I simply told my body to stop. AND IT DID.
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This is just a thing that's written.
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>>16923737
holy shit, you can have as much gay sex as you want again.
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>>16923718
Is this why millennials age less? By swimming/stewing in nostalgia?
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>>16923718
https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/harvard-study-that-reversed-aging-proves-the-power-of-gene-expression-191348379.html
Ok, so I should fill my room with 1st gen Pokemon posters

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The Mark of the Beast will not be a chip implant or digital currency. It will be something far more ambitious.

As AI advances and out-competes humans for jobs, new trans-human products will emerge that promise to let humans match the mental and physical ability of robots. Brain implants will let you download knowledge and give you genius IQ in select domains. Artificial limbs and eyes will give you the strength, motor skill and perception of heavy machinery. But there will be a catch: just as the speech of chatbots is regulated for safety and political correctness, a brain implant will regulate your speech, thoughts and beliefs: compromising your human free will.

Eventually, everyone of working age will be given a choice: become a mind-controlled cyborg, or be replaced by someone who will.

At the cost of your soul.
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Too expensive to give most people brain surgery thus brain implant BCIs will be niche.
The Bible is a sex joke btw.
Sex sex sex.
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>>16924443
Automation will make everything cheap, at first.
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>>16924426
>you have to surgically implant these permanent, disfiguring and non-inheritable trinkets - for the right to wageslave
What the fuck, that's a ridiculous offer.
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>>16924426
I imagine itl start with better versions of the shit we already have, like always on mic or cameras prompting AI responses, so humans just become a physical agent for an AI. Could sound smart in a boardroom if you have AI contact lenses teleprompting you what to say

These are the two main sources of comets visible from Earth:

The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped ring located just beyond the orbit of Neptune. You can tell a comet like Halley comes from there because its orbital angle is flat (meaning it stays mostly aligned with the plane of the planets) and its orbital period of 76 years.

The Oort Cloud is a vast, spherical shell of icy debris that surrounds our entire solar system. You can tell a comet like Hale-Bopp originates from there because of its steep, highly tilted orbital angle and the extremely long duration of its orbit of 2533 years.
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Hale-Bopp orbit
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Hale–Bopp orbit - equatorial view
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Halley's comet orbit 1986-2061

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What makes women in this pic so attractive when evolutionarily speaking they are useless compared to a chubby powerlifter with wide hips, a 200iq and a triple phd?
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>>16924723
When they live to 200 then it lengthens their sexual production rate and they start to become coherent with their own function, and not be a bunny for sexual conception.
Males on the other hand remain relativity the same and still masturbate everyday. They don't want to be a younger part in it.
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>>16924723

Dunno. Look pretty generic to me.
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>>16924723
Yes, we aren't turned off by fat per se anymore, and it might be related to calories being freely available, but clean skin, symmetric faces, long hair, color in the face, those are literally all health signs.
Intelligence isn't unattractive either, even if being a good mom outweighs it.
Net net, you shouldn't be surprised.
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turned on*
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Evolutionarily speaking, why is this bird such an absolute gigachad?

what's the most difficult field of math?
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>>16922831
Chaos is my White Whale. I grappled with the beast while working on my doctorate and paid a heavy price in our melee. He tasks me; he tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him 'round the Theorem of Liouville, and 'round the Ricci curvature, and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up.
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>be genius
>encounter birch-swinnerton-dyer conjecture
>think "wow, this is nasty"
>think "i know, i'll conjecture something even more general"
???
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>>16922831
>euclidean space is "serious math"
>tensors and vector calculus isn't
Did a physishit who got filtered by the "super duper thin rectangles" make this?
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>>16922828
Long division
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>>16924594
>>16924599
I can see why it might be complicated now that you showed me. That's a pretty high level of abstraction that requires you not to get lost in the sauce of so much notation. I had to go over it a few times like a kindergartener but I finally got it, I think.

Cohomology actually seems insanely useful. It's like a way of making sure your analysis isn't overlooking anything or leaving any empty spaces unaccounted for. It almost seems like a direct answer to Godel's incompleteness theorem. Godel says "there must be gaps", cohomology says "here they are". Insanely useful for finding differentials actually, since it points out limits and colimits easily.

Why is 3/8 times 9/27 the same as 9/27 times 3/8
Explain without recangles and area math
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because the transformations on the real number line between those two points is symmetric under multiplication.
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>>16921992
Rational numbers are, by definition, the field of fractions of the integers, and as such they are a field more generally and commutativity of multiplication follows immediately.
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>>16924638
>Rational numbers are, by definition, the field of fractions of the integers
What came first, the field axioms or the numbers?
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>>16924640
Does it matter?
The metre came before the measurement of c, but we use the latter to define the former
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dont use fractions, fractions are stupid. use decimal like a sentient being
.375 * .33333 (use as many places as you need for the accuracy you need) = .33333 * .375

If you come across a fraction and don't immediately convert it to decimal then there's no hope for you. Calculators exist for a reason. Fractions don't.

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Would it be possible to truly digitize physical objects?
I'm not talking about scanning a piece of paper, but of being able to reproduce a 1:1 copy of the object given sufficient tools (which I'm aware can't actually exist, as measuring uncertainty and manufacturing error are a thing).

Sure, we would need to perform an analog to digital conversion, which is never gonna be perfect, just arbitrarily precise given enough memory.
However at the end of the day physical objects are made up of atoms. If we can record these atoms and their relative positions that's digital information, isn't it?
I guess we would need to record the momentum of the atoms as well, but that's just thermodynamics.
Once we have the momentum, couldn't we just agree upon say 15 degrees Celsius as a reference point, perform a conversion from the measured temperature to our reference temperature.
(Yes, our physical theories aren't perfect, I know, but we can get like 99.99% close)

Do we ever need to have a look at the sub-atomic level, where we can't measure momentum and position at the same time?
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>>16924526
The pic in the OP gives away what I'm talking about.
It was an actual anti-piracy campaign. "Piracy. It's a crime."
It tries to equate stealing physical objects with copying digital files.
Well, what if you COULD copy a physical object like you can copy a file on your PC?

I'm well aware that cars rolling off an assembly line aren't atomic clones lol, I even spoke of manufacturing error in the OP.

>you're talking about shit that changes instant to instant anyways
The average kinetic energy of a substance is its temperature which inherently defines how that substance behaves (elasticity etc).
I guess taking the "general" temperature alone wouldn't account for local hot and cold spots so I was talking about measuring the momentum of individual atoms, which might well be overkill, yes.
This is more of a thought experiment than anything else. This approach is not needed to produce our best equipment and probably impossible because tools are limited by measuring uncertainty etc.

CAN you represent an object digitally by recording its atoms with their relative positions (which will change according to the momentum and collisions).
Is there SOMETHING on the sub-atomic level that needs to be taken into account or not?
CAN two objects whose atoms are in the exact same position with the exact same momentum be different because of sub-atomic phenomena?
(I'm aware that no such 2 objects exist in practice)
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>>16924533
>Both are equally lacking in the quality that makes the original car actually exist
OK I get your point. But I was also talking about a hypothetical tool/machine that can bring the digitized object into existence

The rough 3D model of the kid would just encode geometry, but surely that is not a sufficient data structure, as that geometry changes with temperature.
So a 1:1 digital representation of an object would need to encode that as well, at least.
Is there anything else one needs to account for? Particularly, is there anything on the subatomic level we need to account for?
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>>16924629
>I was also talking about a hypothetical tool/machine that can bring the digitized object into existence
You're still not making sense. Whether or not you can replicate something from any kind of blueprint has nothing to do with "true digitization" and everything to do with what you're trying to produce and your manufacturing methods. Artificial constructs don't need atomic-level scans, only the design plan and the right kind of automation. Organic, living things can't be reproduced at all, because even if you had a perfect snapshot of their physical state on a subatomic level, you'd have to reproduce it almost instantaneously, otherwise there would be a point in the manufacturing process where (e.g.) you have half a living body trying to do its normal biological processes with the other half missing, which is nonsense.
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>>16924204
Atom probe tomography can be used to almost scan an object down to the atoms.
>Replicator
No and yes. Making absolutely anything is too hard, but carrying out individual chemical reactions through mechical placement(mechanosynthesis) could make a wide variety of objects. The main requirement is that the structure being built doesn't move around too much. It probably won't be possible to make any drug because drug molecules are small and floppy, but it's possible to make diamond, nanotubes, and graphene in about any shape. So tiny robots, better computers, superstrong materials, and tech that's almost magic becomes possible. Simple mechanosynthesis was recently demonstrated in the lab
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24431
>>16924325
Not exactly true. A lot of information lives in drawings and in people's heads.
>>16924454
>anything but computer chips
If you had tech that could build stuff up atom by atom, which will be absolutely necessary to fulfill your graphene fantasies, it'll be better suited to making computer chips than batteries, solar, panels, or filtration systems. Because computer chips are very valuable and use a lot less atoms as all those other things.
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>>16924202
>CAD, drawings, and text can be used to reproduce most things we manufacturer
t. never worked with hardening/tempering structure contro, surface treatment or other processes .

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>Aspirin
>Ephedrine
>Caffeine
>L-thiamine
>Glycine
>Niacin
>NAC
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>>16923966
How does your body generate magnesium?
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>>16923005
Only the last 4 are supplements. First 3 are drugs.
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>>16923005
Aspirin is poison, aspirin damages blood vessels and cartilaze.
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>>16923005
beet root drops my bp by literally 15/10 or more, couldn't believe it when i first started
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Question: is there something like Kratom but for benzos? And not fucking Valerian Root. I mean something that actually works

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I want to learn real analysis. my philosophy prof told me that it would be almost analogous to or even essentially the same as certain theories of logic. Any good books/textbooks? A thread (reddit or here) would be nice as well
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>>16923955
Final theory published by Einstein. I don't know the history of physics, but I do know that math is generally 100 years ahead.
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>>16923957
It was Poincaré and he was a mathematician as much as he was a physicist. So shut the hell up with your nonsense.
>math is generally 100 years ahead
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what in tardation
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>>16923971
Geometry is in the domain of math . The fact that poincare was great is irrelevant
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>>16923923
>The reals can only be presupposed, period.
>[...] what is the infinite sequence of rationals converging to? The sequence has to land somewhere, no?
A single real number, for example, is itself a special infinite set of infinite sequences of rational numbers, a "sequence landing somewhere" means belonging to one of these sets of sequences, which are disjoint. Maybe the concept of rational Cauchy filters is an interesting alternative
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I just crammed the professor's notes before the test. Apparently Abbott is good. Do the problems from Rudin's blue book, although the exposition of the material is bad.

String theory and theoretical physics are comfortable targets. The real provocation would've been interrogating the blurred line between medicine and Big Pharma, or between technology and Venture Capital. And that, she never dared.
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Why anyone gives a fuck about this grifter is beyond me. Just ignore her anyone talking about her. Who gives a fuck? Fuck her and fuck you and fuck this thread.
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>>16924152
Sticking to her specific area of expertise makes her much more credible.
If she just started talking about random fields that she has no training in she would just seem like another random internet schitzo.
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>>16924348
I'm going to have to ask you to calm down, madam. This is a science board.
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>>16924386
NO matter the field, if it is real science it should adhere to the scientific process. And when certaine "fields" demand exceptions due to alleged "elegance" or "importance" she has all righhts to hammer them.
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>>16924709
>when certaine "fields" demand exceptions due to alleged "elegance" or "importance"
noooo my sets

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>Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos

the queen of /sci/ is back!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc
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>>16923969
One time I saw Physics Girl and Terry Davis in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.
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>>16924046
Weird comment. We did that and found when made more during covid. Why lie?
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>>16923969
I never watched this channel because it has girl in the name
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>>16923969
Oh feminist sci-tuber is back!

I always found it hilarious how she and her team went out of their way to put microphones in front of women for interview - even if said woman was NOT the lead scientist nor a name in the field.

After the 10th video, it became indefensible.
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>>16924660
i only watched the videos because there was a girl in them

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Miracle or literally cancer?

>https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a70366090/humans-have-third-set-of-teeth-new-medicine/
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>>16923162
I had a fallout with my dentist because he wanted to pull my 4 wisdom teeth with no good reason. He told me the price of the procedures before the (non existant) indication. Got a second opinion and I was told to leave them alone as they might be the last few teeth to fall in old age. They came out fine.
It was like 500 euro and the man is a millionaire
Niggas be scamming
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>>16924436
Why is everything a fucking scam in this life? People are soulless.
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>>16924589
His name was unironically Dr. Goldstein, so...
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>>16919644
Well, koreans took it further and developed a patch to grow a single tooth, not the whole set at once.
And no, it prbbly won't cause a cancer since it's just disabling the antibody that stops the third set from growing.
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just get metal teeth

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Give it to me straight, /sci/.
Are these things a good idea or not?
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>>16924112
What does that mean?
>>16924538
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>>16924539
It means instead of a homogenous nation working towards a common goal, you get infinite immigration from the 3rd world until you become the 3rd world.
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>>16924540
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>>16924470
>underwater turbines
Works fine - for a while. Then it stops, as barnacles and seaweed take over. Life in the oceans may lack in diversity but is unrivalled in tenacity.
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>>16924435
2 countries produce most of the windmills: denmark and china. Both make trump go nuts.

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If you don’t treat nature or science as magical, then you don’t truly love or appreciate nature or science, do you?
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>>16919595
Post the other version of this image
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>>16919617
Yeah
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Magic is the chemistry in the brain making you go “wow”
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The stars are magic
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Math is magic

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I thought I knew what physics was about and it was particles and forces and fields and galaxies and crap, but apparently none of that and it’s actually tensors and spinors and gauge groups and fiber bundles and crap. I’ve been trying to learn quantum theory and relativity from Curt Jaimungal’s podcast, but I went in expecting familiar “physics” language. Wtf is all the math jargon, what do I need to learn, what even field of math are they using? I only went up to Algebra 1 in high school, I went into accounting after so didn’t think I needed any math beyond that.
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>>16919165
>Conversations are entertaining and books generally are not
And you want to do physics? You realize there are few people in that field you will be able to meet and have 'conversations' with in your state right?
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>>16919161
Gen Z can't read.
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>>16919066
Funny pic
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>>16919066
>I went into accounting after so didn’t think I needed any math beyond that.
10/10
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>>16919066
Imagine thinking science/nature isn’t magic


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