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Anonymous (38 replies)
https://shikshanews.com/bill-gates-a-womanizer-bully-clean-image-just-good-pr-report/
When were you when you realized your childhood hero was literally the devil himself?
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>>13350632 >Another female Microsoft board member shared that Gates was uninterested in any suggestions regarding diversity planning. She claimed that Gates just was not interested in hearing something like that and would often reply- “Are you trying to effing destroy the company?” insanely fucking BASED
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>>13351315 Wow he was a good business man who fought to make his company successful. Literally worse than Satan
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>>13350866 Which is about 1% of the population. It's easy to forget how much people aren't interested in how the sewage system of IT works. For us geeks, sure, back in the twentieth century Microsoft was the land of demons. There were many who took the movie 'Antitrust' to be a documentary. Microsoft and Gates deserved quite a bit of the hate they got but none of that changes the fact that for mot normies, Gates was a modern Thomas Edison (this was before most people knew anything about Tesla).
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Oh shit he sounds actually normal in the article Thats something I would do, fuck diversity hires and bring over girls for long work nights, based
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my childhood hero was joe morgan, i don't know what was wrong with my parents letting me watch niggers on tv, i'm still holding out hope that i was secretly adopted and am not genetically related to those chumps
Anonymous (5 replies)
>roastie'd
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>>13351772 definitely there are no problems with the oversaturation of stem degrees
no problems at all
Anonymous (5 replies)
What is your academic search engine of choice? Do you just use a single one, do you run your queries past a bunch, do you use specific ones for a specific purpose? I'm writing a literature review and I feel like a noob for using just google scholar, but I have no idea how warranted that is.
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Uhh depends on the topic I'll usually search: google scholar, arxiv, baidu scholar (xueshu), ieeexplore, etc. I would love to hear if anyone has some secret good one. I have a really hard time with it myself, I'm usually scanning through references in papers trying to find morsels of content on my topics.
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>>13351681 Scopus is usually pretty good for STEM, but it excludes some sources because of their quality.
Anonymous (5 replies)
Why do we still teach the current schizo meta you see in Calculus (real numbers) and WHEN will it shift to NJ's framework ?
source :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SFI9QbRpzg
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>>13350072 As long as engineers and physicist will keep needing to use transcendental functions. Try obtaining and solving Schrodinger's equation and getting the spectrum without use of sin and cos. Real numbers werk
Anonymous (8 replies)
If simple life were created from non-living material in a petri dish tomorrow, would that be evidence for or against creationism?
Neither?
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>>13351065 >Life >with non-living material The process of living grants the adjective, so it would just be reclassified as "living material". The distinction is already pretty useless on its own as the behavior of matter is dependent upon its environmental context. "Living" material is "non" when in a vat of acid for example*.
>* "B-b-but my prokaryotic culture happens to flourish in highly acidic solutions"
This is proving my point, it is contextual
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>>13351065 I feel like there are two different types of creationism.
1) Entity/God created life
2) Entity/God created all that exists
So, it would serve as maybe not evidence for but support, in some way, that 1 is/was at least possible, but it has little to do with the second type.
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>>13351363 >reclassified as "living material" This is actually more or less what I meant.
I'm a comp sci/math guy BTW so I won't try competing with your chemistry/biology knowledge but my understanding of life in this context is allinged with Schrodinger's definition of matter which avoids decay into equillibrium.
So inert matter forming mocrobial life through some emergent (likely chemical?) process.
It most certainly does appear to be contextual, in fact I believe that we haven't even arrived at a consensus on defining life in this context, i.e. the debate regarding whether or not viruses are alive.
So going by these terms we seem to agree on, as someone who generally doesn't lean towards creationism, I can see it as, at the very least, proof of concept for creation - remembering what I said earlier about association fallacies.
>>13351401 This sounds pretty spot on too.
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>>13351411 >I'm a comp sci/math guy BTW so I won't try competing with your chemistry/biology knowledge I'm just a mechanical draftsman taking a shit at work.
And yes, life appears to be an emergent property from complex physical systems that is poorly defined. I don't let anyone gate-keep the subject, I just avoid spiritual psychedelic mumbo-jumbo-toting hippie stuff; paradoxically, I do like the juxtaposed images of micro-scale biology and cosmic-scale formations because I find it thought-inducing.
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>>13351065 Neither, you can't prove or disprove creationism so just believe what you want.
Anonymous (8 replies)
science niggers: muh science and technolojew is important, science gonna save the world and make star trek come true in irl life
also science niggers: it takes us twice as long and ten times as much money to build a space telescope now than it did in the 1980s
explain the discrepancy /sci/, how it science going to bring us the future if scientists are getting less competent as time passes?
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>>13350217 Government sucks at managing money, because the beaurocrats have no skin in the game. If they make retarded decisions that waste millions or billions, they remain in their positions, get full pay and suffer no consequences.
Even ancient China knew you had to punish government officials severely if they failed to deliver results, for example capital punishment. It's the same for modern politicians, they suffer no penalties for making bad decisions.
There is nothing magical about free markets, except that the guys who fail go out of business and suffer accordingly, thus you have very motivated people competing hard, which benefits the customer in the end.
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>>13350217 Projects costing more than the estimated budget is pretty regularly seen in many fields. But the really bad schedule estimation is what makes me tired and sad. I am hyped for the shit that JWST will capture but it just gets pushed back further and further. Maybe the technical difficulties with Hubble will expediate the process since many astronomy groups rely on non-earthbound telescopes. The only thing I will say about your question is that tech gets more intricate and complex over time. There is simply more theory and engineering going into this than it was with Hubble. Still, they are taking way too much time.
>>13351147 At least a good chunk of the money goes into an industry and creates jobs. Little consolation prize.
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>>13350217 Government programs are always wasteful , failure is often rewarded with yet more money and the main purpose is not to accomplish the mission but to get money from congress and spend it . Even so of all the things they waste money on robotic space explorations pays the best dividends. NASA is less than one half of one percent of the federal budget.
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>>13350217 It turns out that the quality of scientists and engineers matter. Society, especially government and increasingly private industry, forgot that and have been on a quantity over quality path for decades.
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>>13351387 >It turns out that the quality of scientists and engineers matter. thats racist
Anonymous (5 replies)
Do you think neurology, science, algebra I II III, calculus I II III, geometry, linear algebra, differential equations, physics, biology, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer, artificial intelligence, magic, have been discovered, studied and inherited 500 years ago? Or perhaps, 5000 years ago? By mixed European secret big society on top in hide? And blue eyed blonde hair slave German scientists as innovators?
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>>13350496 > Do you think neurology, science, algebra I II III, calculus I II III, geometry, linear algebra, differential equations, physics, biology, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer, artificial intelligence, magic, have been discovered, studied and inherited 500 years ago? No, europeans mostly stole it from Asia and MENA, and it was around there for centuries before this.
> Or perhaps, 5000 years ago? Yes, but your homosexual LARP is unrelated.
> By mixed European secret big society on top in hide? No, nut they are related to people in those regions who pooped over everything and acted as expected.
> And blue eyed blonde hair slave German scientists as innovators? Nope.
Anonymous (29 replies)
All significant economic growth in the modern world is the result of intelligent and well-educated engineers. If you want your nation to become wealthier and more powerful, you need to educate your populace in STEM. The Soviet Union had more engineers than the USA. What held back the Soviet Union was socialism itself. Look at all the advanced military technology they came up with, despite being such a poor country. They made it through due to having an educated populace. The more engineers you have, the more advanced and independent your military will be, and the faster you're economy is going to grow.
Math and science should be taught more quickly, with less emphasis on learning other subjects, which aren't nearly as important in the modern world, and there should be free tutoring for students lasting several hours after school ends to help younger students conceptualize all the math and science they're learning. It could simply be college students deciding to do their homework and study at a local high school, or high school students deciding to do their homework and study at a local middle school. When a younger students would get lost, they could come up to a volunteer tutor, and get some free tutoring.
Math is taught far too slowly in school. Kids go over fundamental arithmetic repeatedly, and kids typically don't even look into any algebra or geometry until the 8th or 9th grade. I remember going over PEMDAS for multiple years. PEMDAS would've began to make much more sense had I been introduced to algebra the same year. This would be equivalent to going over Ohm's law for years before even looking at a single electronic circuit. At least half of 4th graders have the mental capacity to understand basic algebra. The concept of plugging in for x in algebraic functions is not that difficult to grasp.
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>>13347714 >I'm 12 and I don't know nothing about the world I live in! Anonymous
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>>13347714 Take your meds, schizo.
Also fuck Russia.
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Great, we are gonna be tecno gods in 5 years and nothing will ever go wrong again... And like half the population will die due to suicide Go out man, internet's rotting your brain
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>>13349847 Fair enough. It will run out anyway and likely after your death.
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More important than education is intelligence. In fact, it's questionable if education is important at all after accounting for intelligence. There will be some areas where it is, others not so much. It would probably be better if intelligent 18 year olds went directly to engineering firms/science labs instead of university.
Anonymous (5 replies)
for too long we've wasted our efforts in science on unsolvable, petty quandaries like space travel, curing cancer, or stopping climate change. however, we've failed to fully grasp our true potential, and man's true potential. to that end, i propose the creation of a retrovirus that marsupializes humanity. surely there are no downsides to marsupializing humanity that i, nor any other can foresee.
but is it possible, /sci/? and how long?
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>>13348350 Just get a pogo stick lmao
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>>13348391 a pogo stick doesn't give favourable and more hardy reproductive traits like becoming marsupial does, nor does it allow you to survive for a long time with minimal amounts of water in a hot climate.
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>>13348350 >unsolvable, petty quandaries like space travel, curing cancer You are too late for that one. It's been downed.
https://youtu.be/MS590Xtq9M4 Anonymous
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>>13348350 That would mean no more prominent breasts.
And that, my friend, is out of the question.
Anonymous (14 replies)
The cell has a rudimentary mind. It is conservative in plants, instinctive in animals, and intelligent in humans.
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>>13351310 If you're so fucking smart, why don't you explain who are you? From where did you come from? To where you'll go? For how long you'll stay here?
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>>13351414 Intelligence is defined by the process of making a choice between one of multiple options, based on acquired information, in order to reach a predetermined result.
A reflex is not intelligence.
Cells have reflexes, not intelligence.
Wake up.
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>>13351438 reflexes and IQ correlate with G
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>>13351414 I'm anon.
I came from the internet.
I'm going to hell, probably.
I'll stay here as long as you keep providing cringe.
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>>13351442 What the fuck does IQ have to do with determining whether intelligence exists or not?
It only measures it, that's all.
Please, run a little electricity, through your leg then give it an IQ test.