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Anonymous (5 replies)
If a full rotation of the earth is 23 hours and 56 minutes, and a day is 24 hours, then after 180 days we'd be 12 hours out of sync. Why then isn't the sun up at midnight halfway through the year?
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>>13726691 A day is 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes.
The ratio (1,440 minutes / 4 minutes) is 360.
Is there some way this might suggest to you the answer to your question?
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It is because we are orbiting the Sun as well as rotating. In the time that it takes for the Earth to do a full revolution (which is called one sidereal day, and is 23h56 minutes long), the amount that the Earth has moved along its orbit (a little less than one degree) has "lengthened" the day by four minutes. This Solar day is almost 24 hours (actually 24 hours and 2 milliseconds).
Anonymous (55 replies)
/sci/, what level of academic competency do you consider to be the borderline between dumb, ""smart"", and genuinely intelligent? Personally, I believe people who finished calc 1 have a bare minimum level of intelligence at the least, while those who complete the calc series plus linear algebra and diffEq (standard engineering mathematics) actually have intellectual potential.
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Undergrad was such a fucking joke so it's gotta be beyond that. Haven't gone for a masters yet, the mixed grad undergrad electives I took weren't remarkable outside of CFD, that was a decent challenge but I think the wya the class was handled wasn't good, at least not for my learning style
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>>13712849 >Personally, I believe people who finished calc 1 have a bare minimum level of intelligence at the least, while those who complete the calc series plus linear algebra and diffEq (standard engineering mathematics) actually have intellectual potential. With math classes, there's no telling. Math education in the US is really bad, and most people who are "bad at math" were probably never taught it well.
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>>13712849 Dumb people do to problems and assignments for the sake of grades and without thought of the applications of the material. Smart people can perceive the big picture, implement theory in practice and apply their knowledge to improving the world. A genius can see connections between fields, can invent novel solutions or apply cutting edge research across fields. The ascended genius understand how to make the biggest advances with the least amount of work. One single skilled administrator makes an enormous difference for a faculty. He's usually also an incredibly big piece of shit.
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>>13712849 If you get tunnel vision on the insanely mundane and refuse to acknowledge you're the problem, then you haven't passed the brainlet filter.
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>>13712849 Lmfao at the people in this thread saying calc 1 is a filter. Your standards are in the fucking gutter. You could teach a fucking 10 year old to do calc 1. Anything below graduate level as a "filter" is a fucking joke.
Anonymous (73 replies)
Will there eventually be more autists than not?
How will this affect society?
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>>13724567 There are measurable changes down to the cellular level in in vitro models of autism. It's not just about when symptoms appear.
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>>13725203 Wow, cool it with the antisemitism.
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>>13725763 >vitro models of autism I can assure you, I've read plenty of studies which claim measurable changes/abnormalities etc. on a cellular or even chemical level (think of brain tissue, hormones, neuronal paths, myelinization, de novo mutations, epigenetic changes etc.) with pretty much every psychiatric condition (ADHD, depression, schizophrenia, OCD etc.). If Autism really was manifested on a cellular level in a consistently measurable and somewhat predictive way, we would not diagnose it by means of questionnaires. It would not even be listed as a psychiatric disorder but as a neurological one. The term 'neurodevelopmental' really is only a fancy word for something going 'wrong' in development.
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>>13725185 >just accept not every male is George Clooney Lolno. Considering women are becoming more privileged while at the same time most will not date/marry down, it is more likely that they will stay single. I think something like 40% of all women between 30 and 45 are now single.
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>>13726461 I guess men finding women in Thailand will prevent population implosion around here then.
Anonymous (35 replies)
I absolutely hate modern gender theory and other stuff, but how does pol refute this?
It's basically saying that if gender is a state on a vector space V, then it can be deconstructed into pertinent operators with the male, female and non binary state on V. Some people also assert that gender can be considered an n-k dimensional vector space within itself, other genders being elements of the basis of that space with k dependent vectors. This is pretty political jannies, I just wanna gauge what an average poltard thinks about it cuz I absolutely loathe the idea of these abominable extra
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>>13725298 >>13725328 Yes. This philosophy is innately chaotic and will eventually lead into a complete reinterpretation of what it means to be a human being (transhumanism). It is my belief that if this continues we are probably bound for destruction. If one were to speculate, it could be the case that the elite (who want to transcend their bodies and live forever) are using them for that exact purpose.
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>>13725011 >kant.png >you cannot accurately model it I see what you did there.
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>>13724869 WHatever that is looks like garbage.
It's called intersex.
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>>13724925 >Trump was once a shitpost too No that's called priming, just like they foreshadow other ideas, take the 2012 olympics closing ceremony and the current corona hysteria
Anonymous (76 replies)
if the Indian college entrance exam is so difficult, then why are all the indians i knew in school and indian coworkers, so dumb, when compared to indians that were born in the US?
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>>13726576 6000*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols First proven translated languages is cuneiform 3500 BC.
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>>13726576 We are talking about the beginning of human civilization itself, not a sub group of civilization. Here is the definition of civilization from Wikipedia:
> A civilization (or civilisation) is a complex society that is characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication (such as writing). >Civilizations are intimately associated with and often have characteristics such as centralization, the domestication of plant and animal species, specialization of labour, culturally-ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionism. >Historically, "a civilization" has often been understood as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly primitive cultures. Anonymous
>>13726633 Yes, Sumeria was first. Any other obvious statements?
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>>13726633 Anyway I'm going to bed. Just so you know both written language and neolithic technology is far older in Europe. The earliest "post neolithic" society is Sumeria followed by Egypt, Mycennea etc. Indus valley is later than all of those.
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>>13726638 Did you not read the Nature paper and the news articles? Or are you deliberately acting like a retard?
Anonymous (39 replies)
After talking to psychologists and watching many psychology videos I have realised that majority of psychology is just mistaking correlation for causation. For example a psychologist would say poor people commit more crime because they a bad upbringing. However the reality is that poor people are poor because they’re dumb and they commit more crime because they’re dumb.
The only valid part of it is grouping together certain behavioural traits so that you can predict unknown behavioural traits with given behavioural traits.
I’m a math major and therefore I’m way smarter than any psychologist. Psychology isn’t a real science and psychologists are low IQ charlatans. The only reason it hasn’t been torn apart as a pseudoscience is because only low IQ morons study psychology so no one realises that it’s bullshit.
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>>13724402 Street crime is a culture perpetuated and encouraged by the media because they find gangsta crap badass.
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The only not completely worthless aspect of psychology is the domain of psychophysics.
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>>13725557 Psychology is a science although half of their studies are fake the other half are fine. Sociology never really turned into a science, the desire to use scientific methods to study society was real but it was abandoned by the early 20th century (cue Max Weber) and now we only have narratives and activism.
Marx is said to have been a sociologist, he tried to be scientific up to a point
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>>13726619 >because they find gangsta crap badass. And the private prison service finds it profitable.
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>>13726630 Reddit meme. Only 8% of the prison population is in private prisons.
Anonymous (5 replies)
Is calculus worth it?
books of recommendation? I want to master it in 1 week
>EE
>dropped out of high school because teachers and administrators are human garbage
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>>13726535 >books of recommendation? I want to master it in 1 week use Khan Academy. If you have a solid foundation in algebra you can probably learn basic derivatives and integrals in a week but mastering calculus in a week is out of the question unless you're the smartest person on the planet.
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>>13726601 is 145 iq enough
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>>13726604 For what? Also intelligence is no substitute for knowledge, it just makes it easier to acquire said knowledge.
Anonymous
>>13726535 worth what?
I thought it was cool.
just pick up one for retards (read engineers) like jewart
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>>13726628 read engineers?
jewart?
I NEED THIS
Anonymous (7 replies)
What would be the best way to go about becoming a heterotroph?
I would like to start by photosynthesizing. This should be an easy switch from eating to photosynthesizing for me because I already barely eat. I won't miss food much.
Has anyone attempted this?
I think one day I'll be worthy of calling myself a white pine. God help me.
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>>13721010 Fuck I meant autotroph
I'm very sorry anon I spent a few hours yesterday typing stuff like that out and it seems eventually I made a mistake.
Please forgive me.
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>>13721694 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoheterotroph this will probably be your first evolutioinary step to becoming a pure autotroph if reincarnation doesn't exist. you'll have to go dr moreau/mengele on your offspring and then use some sort of occultism to transplant your soul into them. godspeed.
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>>13722154 Y'know, I think that occultism comment was a slight bit facetious. Me and your sardonic exchanges!
But I could engage in a little experimentation. I think this dream cannot be for me. I think I'm doomed to a life of parasitism.
However, I can still do my duty. Hmm, artificial selection on heterotrophs with short lifespans, mayhaps?
I wonder how far I could get in my time on this earth.
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First you gotta drink a lot of bleach to make your cells more transparent. I mean leaves are thin and shit so you gotta somehow get that sunlight inside your body and metabolic organs to actually benefit from it. Otherwise it just stops at you skin and warms you up a bit.
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>>13721010 why are you calling him something that has the highest IQ on planet earth? peak wiggerbrain
Anonymous (45 replies)
any /sci//lit//fit/ here?
what are you reading/ studying right now?
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>>13722371 >bodybuilders suffer from increased cardiac arrest I mean, only if you're juicing, if you're just a natural "bodybuilder" there's no way to get big enough for that
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>>13725346 It's obviously a woman.
>>13725351 I'm 100kg/6'2"/12% bf.
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>>13721965 my Calc-1 Professor was a competition powerlifter,
medium height, medium weight, stronk AF
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>>13721920 be quiet sodomite
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>>13722371 >Powerlifters have a better aesthetic build than bodybuilders. if you enjoy the frigde mode or the spider mode, then yeah
Anonymous (25 replies)
>Photons don't experience time
How?
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>>13723467 >The time between ticks is infinity There is no such thing as a smallest “chunk” of time. It is all made up of infinitesimally small “chunks”.
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>>13724290 >source: trust me, bro; i'm an expert on metaphysics Anonymous
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In a vacuum they, obviously, travel at the speed of light.
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>>13723290 time dilation by special relativity - the faster you move, the slower time flows for you (you experience less time). At light speed time stops. And photons move at the speed of light. So...
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>>13724290 experimental evidence only confirms 10^-19 seconds. and than there is the plank time, which is a theoretical smallest chunk.