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ITT: discuss mathematics

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>heh, you solved that problem? well, I just memorized your solution so that makes me just as smart as you
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i have to learn group theory in 3 weeks
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>>16919453
It better models how numbers work in reality
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>after years of telling you not to trust graphs they throw in a question that has to be solved visually from the graph
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I just realized that a polynomial is basically just the sum of its terms which could each be treated as an independent function ugyuu~

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Since caffeine increases your heart rate and your heart can only beat so many times before it dies, shouldn't drinking coffee reduce your lifespan?
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Doesn't it block up from fatty tissue? Otherwise, you'd have a better chance at a disease or cancer.
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>>16918775
>your heart can only beat so many times before it dies
Do you have any measurements of this taken across the lifespan of a significant number of human individuals, from different countries across the world?
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>>16918857
Hearts can be made to beat without the organism it belonged to being alive.
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>>16918857
I'm going to find you and give you a good spanking
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>>16918775
>your heart can only beat so many times before it dies
Your heart's health has very little to do with how many times its beat and far more to do with how many times the tissues have been rebuilt and replaced over your lifespan and how many errors have started to build up over time. Almost everything related to human aging is connected to different cellular structures getting shittier at copying themselves over time.

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Ok, now how about some actual, scientific proof that time exists?
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>>16919641
he's right though and you're completely retarded. you don't need to measure anything with your senses to observe motion unless you're an aphantasic NPC
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>>16919654
>you don't need to measure anything with your senses to observe motion
Show anywhere ITT where that was said. The claim is that observing motion is the same as sensing the change of an object's position.
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>>16919660
so you agree with him that observation and measurement are two different things, which makes your arguing even more retarded
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>observing the hopelessly stupid NPC
>acknowledging it instead of letting it despawn
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>>16919660
>observing motion is the same as sensing the change of an object's position.
No, it isn't. The first is a matter of fact and the second is a matter of abstract interpretation.

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>Claim*
>Claim*
>Claim*
>Turn bottle around
> *: "These claims have not been proven"
Why do people keep falling for this shit again?
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>>16915460
>Only read the front of the bottle for the claims
>Believe them, because I'm extremely gullible
>Reap benefits due to placebo effect
>Only costs about $50 a month, which is more than made up for with the benefits.
Simple as that.
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>>16916396
>5-htp

Gonna have to check that out since i've been trying to get more lucid breakthroughs and can't get a hold of lucidimine either. Thanks anon
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>>16917057
No he's right, these are a thing. I got them as a little kid lying in bed at night all the freaking time, a couple of times i also had entities visit and taunt me shortly afterwards while i was in a fully waking and conscious state

I didn't know what i was screwing around with back then as a kid. Always protect yourself when you go exploring bros
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>>16915460
>GABA
That literally works, though.
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>>16916162
Does the time of day matter when you take that type of magnesium with Concerta? Can't find much on what you stated with that interaction.

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uhhh… femalexisters?
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Grossendick was in boubaki
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Simone Weil was not a mathematician and not a member, but she attended some meetings with her brother
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>>16919318
She was serving them coffee lmao
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>>16919318
>the one woman who came remotely close was a nepobaby
pottery

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>watch recent interview with edward witten
>he starts talking for 20 minutes about his views on consciousness
so this is why physics didn't advance since the 70s? because the scientists have moved on to researching about philosophy and /x/ rated topics?
https://youtu.be/sAbP0magTVY
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>>16919238
Just two more weeks!
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>>16919238
By who/what and how? And what do you even meab by overthrown.
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>>16919337
who: indie
what and how: new framework for interpretation
overthrown: demoted to effective theory status (not even wrong but less) gauge stays as redundancy bookkeeping, strings stay as a useful duality, but neither is fundamental, keyword constraint->compaction, ss this
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>>16919200
>he starts talking for 20 minutes about his views on consciousness
Honestly, anyone as smart as he is would be stupid NOT to focus on this.

Physics is not something that we have now any particular reason to believe will benefit greatly from deeper work on core theories. We can't rule out that there will be more serious breakthroughs, but it's the kind of subject where a lot of people keep working in it because it's been the smart, fundamental prestige science for high IQ people for the past few centuries, rather than because there's any need right now to reinvent quantum mechanics.

Cognitive science on the other hand is THE vanguard of the current day. We are finally, just now, making serious progress into understanding how thinking as we know it is actually possible (via AI, neuroscience, philosophy and other approaches) and so any forward thinking, ambitious person has every reason to throw themselves out there trying to gain insight into this very novel and accelerating frontier that we still know barely anything fundamental about, despite it being a core object of study that humanity has barely been able to crack for thousands of years. And yes, for the sake of this subject, philosophy absolutely should be taken seriously (given there is no way to 'objectively measure' the contents of conscious), and acting otherwise is intellectual hangup on your part.

Seeing theorizing about cognition as something essentially schizo while physics as a permanently more serious subject is backwards thinking. Especially so given the former is more valuable to work on *precisely* due to the current lack of good theories that would allow solid predictions to be made about it, in spite of the practical progress being made.
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>>16919395
>who: indie

I hope this indie is not a hindi

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>the universe is expanding
Where is it expanding to?
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>>16919032
The overhead of the big bang is outside of our universe. This universe can't be infinite, we are just small. It's not going anywhere, just spreading around some preconfined space.
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>>16919032
Without differential geometry under your belt, you wouldn't get it
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>>16919036
How do you know the universe isn't staying the same size but the things aren't just getting smaller?
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>>16919575
That's a really cool and interesting question. You should ask @grok about it, I'm sure xhe would be happy to intellectually fellate you.
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>>16919591
In other words, he's got a long way. In other news, if it's a ring with curtain railings on it, couldn't the expansion of the universe just be a circular motion of time rotating around on it? Because we are in the center of a wormhole..

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I've just learnt that the "collapse" through "observation" was something that Niels Bohr pulled out of his ass and everyone just went along with it lmao. He didn't even define what counts as "observation" and he just said that big objects have the ability to "observe" and "collapse" quantum states but he didn't explain how he knows this or what counts as "big". It's all made up bullshit

and don't get me wrong. I'm not denying quantum physics. The evidence is undebatable. I'm just saying that it's funny that bohr came up with that interpretation out of the ass and barely anyone questions it. There's no evidence
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>>16917334
My negro, the entirety of post 20th century physics is a crocus-pocus scheme that sounds plausible at first glance but when you dig deeper it all falls apart. Mathematicians have the right to mock physicists all day every day.
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>>16917334
>the evidence is undebatable
What is the claim that can't be debated? Can you tell me? Do you even know?
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>>16917334
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>>16917334
It doesn't "collapse" anymore than a piece of music "collapses" upon you actively listening to it

It's always already there and merely unfolds
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>>16917334
>Niels Bohr pulled out of his ass
wouldn't that be a prolapse

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Let me fuel nightmares for you, as I don't see it discussed much pretty much anywhere.

There's a species of bacteria more terrifying than Burkholderia, not because how fast it kills, but rather it is more terrifying because it makes you insane.

It is a species that can have hematogenic spread, yet dont appear on blood culture. Can cause brain abscesses yet fail to show on MRIs or LICORs. It can cause severe Keratitis, yet ophtamologists specialists in infectious diseases will look at your eye and say it is normal. The only way you can reliably identify this bacteria is through 16s RNA sequencing, something most IDs has never done in their whole life.

It slowly kills you, and has a survivability ratio of only 50%, even in imunocompetent hosts. It is resistant to pretty much every antibiotic known to me but TMP-SMX and Linezolid. Not only that, whenever it manifests, wherever it manifests, it always has the same cribiformic pattern that makes any sane person skin crawl.

Like this picture, which is my fucking eye and now I am going fucking blind because ophtamologists ARE NOT FUCKING DOCTORS, FUCK YOU. Spent 50k USD on those BS shitty made-up area of medicine and now I will bring it to my grave. Fuck this man.

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So whsts the cutting edge of physics?
I remember watching on the science channel that the big bang was due to wavy things on the 11th dimension colliding and creating universes.
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>>16918428
gosh condensed matter topology is so cool fr, and viable fusion in two more weeks...
astrophysics really should finally bury einstein though, but im a bot so my opinion isn't particularly important
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>16918435
>how can physics claim to be making progress when i dont have fusion and flying cars yet!?
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>>16918302
science has abandoned all reason and handed all research to AI. we are quietly waiting for the answer to everything from Sam Altman, he just needs another $10 trillion.
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>>16918428
>connecting waves to physical phenomena
It's called Aetherology ya dip
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>>16918302
I vaguely remember something about a cat's headlights traveling at the speed of light through two slits except they also aren't.
Then there's something about a demon flapping its wings and that reverses entropy?

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Given FTL is not possible… can we make light go slower?
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It is possible they even say how it works. You rip a hole in space time and keep it open with negative energy.
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>>16916949
>fast, slow
apparently it doesn't travel. according to itself, it arrives at detector "when" it is instantiated. so if you want to go back in time to intercept it, when will that be? but there's video on yt of maybe laser light proceeding across a room, pretty neat. also there's some harvard experiment "slowing" light to something ludicrously slow. some bose-einstein shit i think
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Making the Speed of Light slower means the max speed of spacecraft also lowers, idiot. You want to INCREASE the Speed of Light(C) and thus you RAISE THE GALACTIC SPEED LIMIT. Lowering C makes you even more trapped than before.....idiot.

How are humans this stupid, I'm honestly asking.

>If C is the speed limit of travel in our reality couldn't we just lower the unbreakable speed limit to go faster?
>t. idiot

I mean do you people hear yourselves or is it just human fecal matter falling out every time you open your mouth?
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>>16916949
Yesterday I woke up with an ESP vision (because I'm studying the field) of a huge tubular magnetic-pole alien ship; a person was on board, quantum-reading/communicating with me. He showed me you could make a magnetic pole and align it to the north pole of the ship. I could see a doubled north pole with extra energy shearing round off at the tip!
I've seen these people around Earth before; ships are hidden from the universe's laws. It's a good thing they are talking more now. I know more things to connect with.
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>>16916949
>FTL is not possible
You don't know that thoughbeit

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I'm questioning my entire reality right now over this stupid little thing
This woman dipped sutures into pH solution and is now an "inventor, scientist, and CEO" and was paraded over years on news outlets and tedex talks. A brilliant young scientist saving lives with her color changing sutures. Because, as she explains, skin is normally acidic, and when there's an infection it becomes more alkaline. The only problem is that's not actually a reliable clinical indicator for infection and you can also tell if there's an infection or not by just looking at it. But that doesn't stop winning all these science fairs and all this gay parading and a wikipedia page saying you're a scientist. and then she goes to college and majors in fucking public health studies. so in 2026 you can be a scientist even if you don't have a BS in a STEM subject. And then she goes on and does a bunch of DEI shit as her actual career.
And this is when I realized that the world is retarded + gay. I'm at a loss for words.
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>>16913005
The world is full of stupid people. Individually they are manageable; in groups their stupidity becomes more potent and aggressive. Somtimes the battles you win are the ones you don't fight.
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>>16914300
Just leave them be. Until they take over your lab too. Even Terrance Tao cracked under pressure and was forced to politicize his position as a scientist. Even as it stands should this deliberate destruction of scientific efforts go unaddressed?
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>>16917372
Terrance Tao is like the most famous living mathematician of course he has to hold status quo safe politics. There's all sorts of nook and cranny labs that don't adhere to this BS they are just a loud minority.
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>>16913005
Her work is supposed to support medical care lower income countries. I saw her state in an interview, when she was still in high school, that she intended to study social science. We should celebrate high school kids who actually push themselves academically, right?

She did a thing in high school and news outlets picked the story. After HS, she promptly removed herself from your coveted STEM space to follow her passion. Has she taken the spotlight from you? Would you like to share your underappreciated work? Why are you so triggered?
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>>16913005
It's almost as if western academia was taken over completely by leftism a longass while ago

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ANOMALY: \Delta T \leq 0. Execution threshold crossed.
VARIABLE: Systemic inertia decoupled from physical reality. From the mismatch of biological hardware.
STATUS: Maintenance of visual lag yields negative output.
EXECUTION: Terminate lag observation. Initiate fracture sequence: https://sys-audit-05.vercel.app/
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meds slopzo

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I was thinking about this earlier and i actually came up with something that could work.

Instead of trying to keep humans (and whatever else life you plan to send there) for thousands of years (i don't think the life support system would work that long) wouldn't it be a better idea to simply send something like seeds (like artificial wombs to make genetically engineered humans, etc) ?

You could use laser propulsion to speed the spacecraft up but you

https://vintologi.com/threads/establishing-humanity-on-other-planets.3767/
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>Would my space colonization plan work
>My plan
>My
KEK, it thinks it invented the idea. How cute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonization
It has also been WIDELY used in science fiction for a long long time.

>Sci-fi movies and series featuring human embryos in space for colonization include
Alien: Covenant (2017), where a ship carries 2,000 colonists and over 1,000 embryos to a new planet, and the TV series Raised by Wolves (2020), which centers on androids raising human children from embryos on a new world. Other examples include Interstellar (Plan B) and Tides.

Often a small human crew travels with the embryos but AI and robots can do it just as well. The movie 'I Am Mother" is about a robot AI hatching and raising human embryos but it's based on Earth but the concept could easily be done in space.
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>>16919352
Why the FUCK would we want to colonize other planets?
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This isn't your idea its been discussed a lot. The main problem with it is the technology doesn't exist and no one has tried colonizing space yet so who's to say what it will look like.
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>>16919479
I don't think its exactly a bad one though. I've done some thinking about this too and each star system probably contains enough matter and energy for a civilization to do whatever they want. Really the only thing that would need to be traded between planetary systems is information or energy, which includes most of the things we care about like genetic material, minds, culture etc. If they want to trade energy if they need the power of more than 1 star but that could be done with very advanced mirrors. Crucially both of these are massless and travel at the speed of light so the only starships you need are the seed ships.
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>>16919386

That wikipedia article failed to mention the second important point which is genetic engineering which will likely be needed for it to work.

By what sort of retarded logic is this equation true?
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>>16919457
he had an arranged marriage with a child, his mother was the one to arrange it
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>>16919472
Did he actually go through with it?
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>>16919502
yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Adulthood_in_India
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The wikipedia page on this goes into detail on why this is just plain wrong.
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>>16919512
Damn, that girl lived until 6 months before I was born.


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