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The new /sci/ wiki
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki

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To use MathJaX, put your TeX code between [ math ] ... [ /math ] tags for inline equations or [ eqn ] ... [ /eqn ] tags for block equations.

[eqn]\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^s} = \frac{1}{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^{\infty} \frac{x^{s - 1}}{e^x - 1} \mathrm dx[/eqn]

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Reminder: /sci/ is for discussing topics pertaining to science and mathematics, not for helping you with your homework or helping you figure out your career path.

If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to >>>/adv/ - Advice.
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Are penguins birds?
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Yesnt
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>>16973052
Do they have beaks? Then yes.
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>>16973057
It's wild knowing that the real penguins went extinct and all that are left are imposters with nobody left to call bullshit.
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>>16977682
Are turtles birds?
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>>16973052
yes

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"I got ChatGPT to make this image in 5 seconds instead of trying to google something moderately interesting and will claim this as meta commentary instead of laziness" edition.

Previous Thread: >>16945727

This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
>If you have a question, before posting, read some of the older posts and ,if you can, try to answer their questions on your post. That way the thread isn't an endless log of unanswered questions.

Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:
>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)
>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)

Information resource:
>https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/
>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.

No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:
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>>16977847
I thought your research projects were determined by whatever your PI has funding for
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Wondering how fast I can get a nursing associates degree done with my bachelors credits and if there's a nursing career that can fit someone introverted and bad at talking to people.
I'm also seeing people say nursing is going to be oversatured too in which case lol
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>>16978185
>going to be
it already is. every single thot on the planet is going into nursing right now because they have no interests and know that nurses will always be needed
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>>16978194
What do I even do then
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>>16977151
usually you do one because you work at a lab since you couldn't find a real job and your boss needs you to enroll to metricsmaxx

at least that's how it works in europe

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NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE ENTROPY OF AN ISOLATED SYSTEM CAN NEVER GO DOWN BECAUSE...BECAUSE IT JUST HECKIN FLIPPIN FREAKIN CAN'T OK????????????
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>>16977564
no you can't.
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>>16974980
Not all infinities contain what you're looking for.
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>>16977566
Maybe it's like a knot that will only come untangled when it reaches a knot tied the opposite way.
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>>16975054
except they fucking are laws you fucking retard, maybe stop trying to change the meanings of words if you want to be pedantic??????
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Entropy is about typicality. Typical configurations outweigh atypical configurations at an exponential rate as the size of the system increases.

In physics this matters because of chaotic systems. Like stirring tea and milk together. Mixed configurations significantly outweigh unmixed configurations. The chance of the tea spontaneously unmixing is astronomical.

On a cosmic scale, practically valuable work is necessarily entropy increasing. Negative entropy is a non-renewable resource. You can't extract work from ambient heat.

His ideas are fascinating to me. Is he a pseud? By extension, am I?
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>>16972748
he's good at using rhetorical devices. the actual ideas behind them are stupid
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Bumperino
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>>16972748
I dont agree with the full idealism of his arguments, but his biological arguments regarding the nature of truth is likely correct. Evolutionary speaking, we are not wired for truth, we are wired for survival by balancing the act of mating, food, enjoyment, socializing, hunting, etc. Ground truth isnt part of it. Further, our impulses are to give reward to the least effort, most efficient sensory systems. Hence, what we see in this world, what we know about things, are likely false. And not just 50% false or 10% false, but 100% falsehoods due to sheer evolutionary optimization forces.

Its as >>16972943 says, its Kantian but aimed at biological evolution and nature of consciousness. You cant reach the truth. Whatever truth is "out there" is unreachable.
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>>16972753
He’s an owl?
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>>16977569
This sounds like you are debasing any chance of justifying your claim, or any claim for that matter. What is the truthiness condition which supports you?

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How does that prove Hodge conjecture
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>>16977038
Yeah gaussian primes are real; real annoying
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No two snowflakes are the same so you can compare real numbers.

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What if the Europa Lander finds complex life under the ice of Europa in the 2040s or whenever it arrives? Imagine discovering that life coincidentally also exists so close to our planet, and then remembering that we've been broadcasting radio signals over hundreds of light years for the last two hundred years.
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Its gay bacteria at best
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>>16971474
How were they not getting irradiated to death the whole time they were on the surface
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>>16964073
We learn what ayyfish are edible and what aren’t.
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>>16964073
There's no europa lander planned. Unless a lander sees fucking frozen fish on the surface, there's not a very high chance it'll detect life
>2040s
Lol. 2050s
>>16964084
Enceladus can support the biomass of one blue whale. That's fuck all
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>>16964073
>>16964084
>>16964084
>>16965848
Someone did a paper which put forth that Europa might not have the hydrothermal vents for life the way that Earth did but Enceladus might. Triton might also be another candidate and seems like a really interesting moon but I doubt we'll see any probes going their in our lifetime.

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What goes on in the call room stays in the call room
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I graduated today now I am Chud, MD
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>>16978154
>and my priority is money over the health of the patients
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>>16978154
damn, im chud OD
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>>16978184
Gz homie
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>>16978154
Grats

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This is fucking retarded design a lunar lander must have two stages single stage landers are too inefficient.
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>>16977320
Hahaha what a piece shit
80 years gone by and trillio s of dollars wasted and all we get is an Apollo clone with a useless stylized fairing
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>>16977320
actually 2 stages is inefficient because you're throwing away hardware worth millions
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It's not inefficient if it is able to mine the moon for propellant. Two stages is inherently more risky.
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They put a condom over it.
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>>16977320
A half-century of technological progress changes things, grandpa.

>>16977360
>80 years gone by
They flew to the moon in the 1940s, retard?

What's the evolutionary drive for 5-HT2A receptors? People can take antagonists with seemingly no major ill effects.
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>>16977393
>antagonists
>posts an agonist
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>>16977393
>more potent than LSD
>easy as piss to grow
>can dry and smoke the leaves or just chew them fresh without swallowing(mucosal absorption)
>comparative intensity to dmt
>works with kappa opioid receptors instead of serotonin or cannabinoid
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>>16978178
Forgot pic, used to be available at gas stations and head shops around the country until too many retards got told its like weed before getting blasted into another dimension
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>>16978178
>>16978180
>more potent than LSD
Not even close. Salvia lasts for 10-20 min, then just feels like a mild weed high for a couple hours. At its peak, it's similar to LSD, but nowhere near as intense. Do they still sell it in shops? It's been a while since I've seen any.
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>>16977393
Okay i'm going to give you a real answer to help you understand this.

the brain is made up of different regions, which are populations of neurons that all work together to do some specific job or general function. Lets take something like picking out important information in a scene, that's handled by your visual processing network. Sometimes the network wants to gather information from a distant place in the brain like the hippocampus, the way it does this is by *growing a nerve projection* to the distant target, and then exchanging chemical messengers. The neurotransmitters are sent to very specific places

There are some very special places in the brain where the neurotransmitters sent directly correspond to sensory information. If drugs fuck with neurotransmitters here, the organism hallucinates. Its not evolved away because this specific sub-type of serotonin receptor probably doesn't encounter massive doses of a special chemical that fucks with it on a regular basis. Otherwise it would just not respond, same as toxin immunity works for other creatures that habitually eat something that would mess up the systems in their close relatives. They acquire a change in their receptors such that the toxin no longer works. But they only get that by exposure to the toxin over and over again.

Humans are not exposed to psychedelic mushrooms on a long enough time to develop an evolutionary response like a resistance via altered receptors. There is evidence however, of human populations developing genetic resistance to alcohol for instance. We just haven't consumed psychedelic mushrooms for thousands of years like people are saying otherwise there actually would be mutations

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Will gene editing allow me to create Joseph G. Newton son in the future?
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Bump

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In the two guards riddle, I don't get how the solution makes sense
Please explain
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>>16973047
can you rephrase this using cute anime girls
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>>16976323
Sorry, just a hot jewish girl, no anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOpvXBmTx8
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>>16973047
This...this is excellent
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>>16973002
Commutative property
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>>16973002
Take a gun
Shoot 1 through the head
Ask the surivior if the other is alive

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I'm trying to create a system of formulas and schemes that will aid with studying a lang.

Am I wasting my time?

Pic rel is moonrunes.
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>>16975944
idk that all looks pretty trippy. what exactly do you mean by formulas and schemes lol.

here is my tip - content. You gotta watch things in english with spanish subtitles and by brute force understand everything. Because there is a virtual language in between languages, the literal translation. So learning a language "raw" doesn't really teach you how to speak it, you have to learn how they say things.
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>>16975944
It looks overcomplicated
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>>16975944
Good thread bad idea
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>>16975944
Roman jakobson claimed that deciphering moonrunes and poneglyphs was part of what made one a ‘top rank’ linguist

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Falcon 5 - edition

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>>16978217
Not to be confused with artemis II
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>>16978219
is there even gonna be an Artemis X?
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>>16978217
The future mars program?
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>>16978148
They're being cautious
Which is a good idea because this is the biggest thing ever put into orbit, and it's a fucking tank at that, kinda don't want that coming down uncontrolled
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>Antimatter propulsion still only 40% Lightspeed
Noooo nooo FUCK

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And now we can simply ignore flat earth retards for good, let them drivel in their madness. So the big question is why is the earth a sphere and other space objects in the universe like the sun or moons?
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>>16953085
>c-classic redditism
Must be embarrassing for you if a redditism is so right about you.
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>>16946872
>h-hehehe y-you’re the religious person actually!
Christcucks coping witht their severe mindvirus induced mental illness like this is always hilarious. The saddest part is they actually think this is a clever response.
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>>16964486
It’s because most of these people are enormous pussies in real life and subconscously know they would absolutely humiliate themselves if they tried to spout that shit when in the company of people with half-decent intelligence.
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>>16970343
I respect it, if there’s losers out there making money off vulnerable retards like yourself selling them flattard hogwash, then you might as well have a few people who make their living clipfarming these morons.
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>>16945167
Spbp


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