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>After 6 IVF attempts, no northern white rhino pregnancy has been achieved
>All 2 living northern white rhinos are unable to conceive naturally and IVF is their only option
Conservationbros......
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>>17032570
>we just NEED to keep harvesting animal body parts until extinction because my PP cant get hard without them
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>>17032577
Who cares if we poached them
We're top dog on this rock until shown otherwise
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>>17033088
please off yourself
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>>17033088
>We're top dog on this rock unt... ACK!!!!
>goes extinct because of climate change
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>>17033152

we probably won't go extinct, but we'll definitely get knocked back to little better than stone age tier for the rest of our species' existence. and there won't be another one after us, considering all the resources we used. to yeah

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The science of wanting and the science of having.

You live according with what you believe.

If you believe Nature already gave you all that you need, all that is essential, then you live well.

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What do you think,/sci/, what should be more focused on in the science/math part of the general community of the world?
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>>17032637
People should work on whatever they are interested in and find joy in life. To the extreme ends. As long as you do something, the world's knowledge base will accelerate. And prosperity follows.

Extreme tail ends leads to breaththroughs in knowledge
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>>17032637
More data centers.
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>>17032637
All of our resources should be put towards making us effectively immortal then we can start living as a species
But nah we gotta kill each other over dumb bullshit
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>>17033090
Only if you halt reproduction. Otherwise we would have a planet populated by 100 trillion indians and chinese
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>>17032637
The Cognitive basis for ideological capture of institutions causing it's arrested development and counter-definitional results (Nutritionists describing toxic foods as good so MDs can prescribe more Rx, same for vaccines).

This occures at every level of society from presidents, intel agencies, to forum mods and farmer's markets that sell grocery store foods repackaged.

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>>17022281
What will be your cope when they do it?
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>>17030817
calm down, Ahmed
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>>17022281
>he calls it Riemann conjecture
>not the Riemann hypothesis
Shut up
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Goodnight STEM pride.
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>>17028900
go to sleep Descartes

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And is it true that there are some disputes on who came to the standardization of general relativity earlier?
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>>17032503
Not Einstein. Relativity gave physics the wrong direction
>>17032519
Feynmann is a pseudo and con man. Einstein gave the predictions of GR. That's something. Feynmann was just a complete fraud.
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>>17032503
apples and oranges, anon
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>>17032503
The actual facts of who discovered what aren't disputed. The "dispute" is who deserves recognition for what they contributed. Einstein's biggest contribution was mass/energy equivalence which was an eye-catching claim that didn't take much background knowledge to understand. So he became a household name.

People saying Einstein "stole" the idea of relativity don't know what they're talkig about. Most of the time they just heard it somewhere and are mindlessly parroting it because they're contrarian retards.
The "basis" for the claim is he referenced the work of others and didn't explicitly cite them. The insistence on explicit citations wasn't really a thing in academia at the time. He never tried to pass their work as his own and the people reviewing his papers would have already been aware of the things he was referencing.
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>>17032503
Non-schizo answer is Einstein is greater. Without Einstein, it would just be fancy math with no meaning.
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>>17032868
>The insistence on explicit citations wasn't really a thing in academia at the time.
Not true, citations were normal, just not as many as today. Not doing any was crzay.

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>When tested in their secure lab, the researchers found that these novel phages were more effective at killing the common microbe E. coli than the natural phage ΦX174, which served as a template for Evo 2 to work on. The results were published on Thursday in the journal Science.

>“Our study is a proof of concept showing for the first time that generative design can generate entire functional genomes,” said Brian Hie, the project leader. “We chose to work with phages because they are small viruses, well studied and have broad applications in molecular biology and therapeutics.”

>The approach could be extended later to larger organisms such as bacteria and then to more complex forms of life, he added.

https://www.ft.com/content/5ab33fb4-2636-4bb0-aa0e-3da6a8f71838?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657
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Did it work? IDK, feed it to some test mice to see what happens. It kills an sentient creature off the universe completely. Life was here for a reason and you did the opposite to it.
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>>17032747
If they actually had a statistician, they wouldn't need to do this.
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now imagine it being used to engineer unkillable viruses
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This is Wuhan-dangerous but also very perspective, cool and futuristic.
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>>17032753
Evo 2 has a 7B variant btw

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English is not my native language, though I've learned it through public school and the internet. My native language is a romance one, so I guess there's still some similarity as it's still in the indo-european branch. What would my verbal IQ approximately be in my native language?
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verbal is independent of language or rather it encompasses all symbolic language, think of math/programming and human languages
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>>17033027
I guess, but openpsychometrics tests vocabulary
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>>17033046
that's not verbal, just language although you can use it to test precociousness in children since having a large vocab at their age means they learn faster than their peers, testing it in adults is not an objective way to test intelligence, it's just a way to test language proficiency which you could learn if you were studying english in university or some other language related course

Throughout 2026 I have watched people who don't like math and science applying to get into computer science and maths related degrees. They are doing it for the money not because they are good at it.
Why is it legal for people to throw themselves off cliffs at an industrial scale like this?
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There are many other pointless degrees.
At least CS is still needed to understand how LLMs work.
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They could use AI to distribute people and own the nation.
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>>17032493
We can see clearly that you're going to betray us.

I make war with you.
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>>17032494
kek. It could be like the ultimate Terminator movie with AI taking over and threatening the population with nuclear annihilation, but it should be to make people better.

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New research shows China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies & ignoring this means we're living in a delusional bubble, where we still think the West is the Sci-Tech leader.

I think a lot of people are in denial, or just can't accept that China is already the world's leading nation for science and technology. I can't blame them for their ignorance. Most English-language media studiously avoid mentioning it. Time and time again, I see topics like AI, space & robotics covered, with only developments in Western countries talked of, as if China doesn't exist. Despite the fact that it's now the leader in so many fields.

The problem with complacency and ignorance is that it gives you a really distorted map of reality. You can't understand how the 21st century is developing without factoring in China, and ignoring China means you're being delusional.

Source:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-updates-and-10-new-technologies/
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>>16959946
The vast majority of research coming out of China is just a slightly altered version of other research that already exists. Copying is highly advocated in Chinese culture.
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>>17032907
Cheating is highly advocated in Chinese culture.

“We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat." - that time ten years ago when students were shocked that their teachers didn’t want them to cheat

Wow.
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>>16959946
They're 1.5 billions and burning a ton of coal.
Demographics combined with good IQ are destiny.
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>>16960613
Both have dementia but Trump has done more for the environment than anyone else by bombing Iran and causing the closure the Strait of Hormuz.
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>>17033032
If you don't understand why your IQ is simply too low.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg

>make low tier rage bait
>get millions of views and thousands of replies
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>>17032899
Sure let's just hitch a ride with some random object going who the fuck knows where in some random direction.
Brilliant
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>>17032866

Is maneuvering not an option? Would we not have equipment sensitive enough to detect small fast objects like that and course correct very slightly far ahead of time?
What about interception with high powered lasers? Kinetic solutions? Angled ERA? Spinning very long wires?
Or just brute forcing with a hollowed out asteroid(s)?
How thick would lead/water need to protect the crew from radiation?
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Its a good thing too.
Humanity in its current state is unfit to travel past the solar system. We would drag all our dregs along and they would destroy, pollute, and exhaust anything we found. Humans would be like locusts among the stars.
Currently only a vanishingly small fraction of all Humanity is fit to exist as a space faring species. Only if that small fraction became the absolute sum total of all Humanity would it be ethical and feasible to travel among the stars.
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millions of goyim will watch a half hour video telling them space big and crashing bad and basedjak over it
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>>17032904
I think it is the last known star to pass extremely close to our solar system was Scholz's Star, a dim binary system consisting of a red dwarf and a brown dwarf.

It grazed the outer edge of the Oort Cloud about 70,000 years ago, coming within roughly 0.8 light-years (52,000 astronomical units) of the Sun.

It would disturb some icy cometary bodies towards our sun.

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gb2x normnigger
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Stop crying and start trying. Adapt

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>spacetime is real, too
>it all fits together perfectly
What's that law again explaining why it's globally hyperbolic?
>....
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Because the Lorentz transformation transforms elliptical wavefronts into circles and viceversa, and ellipses are related to each other through hyperbolic geometry. Minkowski spacetime is just nonlinear aeroacoustics in a trenchcoat.

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Grothendieck on the narrow competitiveness and questionability of modern mathematics
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Grothendieck, great mathematician that he was, was ultimately just a jew, so he did what jews do and did a subversive intersectionality with feminism here. There is a kernel of truth in it, but it is what it is.
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>>17032291
Seems also mathematics is in stagnation.
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Stagnation
It might also be a case of this:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Knowledge_Event_Horizon
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>>17032379
>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Knowledge_Event_Horizon
Lol no, it's exponentially easier today to make progress than ever before.
As if just computers and the Internet weren't enough, we've just finished creating powerful summary machines trained on almost the whole of human digitized knowledge, that capable people can avail themselves of to speed up their work.

What's changed with respect to the past is that there's a greater critical mass of midwits that you have to convince in order for your achievements to be recognized at large, so you have to have the will to ignore them all the way to the goal, and the social skills to get them to your side once you reached it.
That's the heavy selection pressure placed on actually disruptive research right now.

What actually ends up happening most of the times, is that you either give up and become a conformist sheep who is unable to have any of the original thoughts necessary to produce said disruptive research, or you get so drunk on your own anticonformism that even if you stumble upon a promising new direction for your research, you end up rationalizing away any big mistakes that get pointed out from the outside, because now the stakes of the matter and your own ego depend on you being all right and them being all wrong: any little flaw becomes evidence that you were a kook, a crank, a crackpot, or whatever social shaming word du jour is in vogue with the crowd right now.

Any "big name" researcher who got their name for making infinitesimal progress in some sub-sub-sub-field of mathematics no one ever heard of is an example of the former, while Mochizuki is a high profile example of the latter.

If you want progress in academic fields again, you have to eliminate all the careerist midwits who want to just say the right words, appear smart to their friends, and coast along.

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Dark matter is not real and there's not strong evidence found that is real after decades of experiments.

Is as real as jehova and allah.
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>>17009944
>Dark matter is not real
May I see your paper?

>there's not strong evidence found that is real after decades of experiments
This disagrees with what I've heard from people with credentials. What are your credentials?
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>>17009966
>The fine Tuning of The Universe is very strong proof of God but you are correct, jehova and allah are both fake and gay. God is the creator of The Universe, who sent his only son Jesus to die on the cross so you might be saved.

Do you know how you recognize a smart 'murican christian? He keeps his mouth shut about things he has no fucking clue about.
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>>17020647
>prove a negative
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>>17009944
Unfortunately, you will make /sci/ mad with your just remarks.
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>>17009944
Is that uni

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Science used scientific method and cast experts spell. It even did musical commercials with over two dozen big name celebrities. The science was very clear: scientifically no gain of function research was done at Wuhan.

So what’s this?
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Mr Science will now be charged by the DoJ
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>>17032606
so you think lockdowns were necessary?
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Why are we still talking about covid?
Is the Iran war really that bad?
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>>17032642
No, my opinion is it's always been nothing
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>>17032883
Million people died
Trillions were wasted

Due to bad policy, bad science, bad ego trip

Accountability is necessary


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