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SOON! edition.The previous thread: >>13465450The Starship program goes very fast now. Check the latest posts here, twitter and other places frequently for up to date info.Also, a very insightfull Everydayastronaut video wich is a must-watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw
>>13468669Reminder that Starship will reach orbit before SLS
arcachads assemble
>>13468683>electric kettle propelled rocketpretty fun concept, but nothing earth shattering
>>13468685it will shatter the oceans and trample them underfoot
>vaccinated are 54% of the population>vaccinated are 2.3% of infections>vaccinated are 3.9% of hospitalizations>vaccinated are 5.2% of deaths>there are 6.58 cases, 0.37 hospitalizations, and 0.02 deaths per 100,000 vaccinated people>there are 341 cases, 11 hospitalizations, and 0.48 deaths per 100,000 unvaccinated peopleWhy do retards keep saying the vaccines don't work?
>>13468449No vaccine is 100% effective. This has been known since forever. This one has an efficacy of 60-80% for preventing infection (still >90% for death)), herd immunity is impossible under these circumstances. So you either get a vaccine shot, or you try your luck with a natural infection.The latter would be a nice choice, but I guess governments don't want to be called responsible for full hospitals and mountains of dead when the free running infections affect the 10+x% of old people where the vaccine fails. The situation with vaccine is still strictly better than without.I wonder why is that so hard to understand?>waterAnd I thought it was literal poison.
>>13468479Not him.I think controled natural infection should have been the correct strategy. e.g. Lock down the entire country and open a few section/s so as to not overwhelm the hospitals. Once herd immunity is reached, in that section/s open the next sections. People who have been infected don't get a second infection, it's very rare unlike the vaccines. If the population is high enough vaccinated people can still overwhelm the healthcare system. The UK is following this trend.
>>1346607075% of total infections among the entire population. How much do I need to spoonfeed you data
>>13468618There's no high quality data out there that I've seen stating prior infection with WT virus prevents delta transmission more than vaccination. If you have it, please post it here.But even if we assumed that were true, hospitals were significantly more overwhelmed in the winter in the UK and parts of the US than they are now. And even with rising case counts, this wave in the UK is fixing up to be the least deadly one. Preventing hospitalizations and deaths altogether does a lot more than just hospitalizing people piecemeal.
>>13468618>e.g. Lock down the entire country and open a few section/s so as to not overwhelm the hospitals. Once herd immunity is reached, in that section/s open the next sections.I want to see how many fucking protests that would cause all over the country. Note that such a lock down would have to be harder than what most countries dared to do in the last 1.5 years. This virus is too easily transmitted.
A region of several states (in this case, Oregon/Washington/California/Nevada) had skies like pic related continuously for about 2 months last year. If we go to mass solar panels for the bulk of energy production, how does the grid make it through that time without completely collapsing? Just have 2 months or so of energy storage on hand for the entire grid?
>>13468547You mean like Texas?And yes, I do like the idea of SMRs powering every town independently. Regardless of weather and geography.Tell me what's wrong with that
>>13468609>You mean like Texas?>Tell me what's wrong with thatRemember when everyone in Texas lost power for weeks because they got a whole inch of snow? It's extra funny because they refused to hook up to a larger grid because they wanted to be more independent.
>>13468644YawnTexas, Wyoming, lioussiana. Completely independent and EXPORTS energy for the other statesTell me again why we should not be independent.
>>13468659Because none of the other states have had blackouts that last longer than a week and greater competition means cheaper power. An HVDC grid would also help deal with the duck curve so it benefits fossil fuels too. Really the only power source than doesn't benefit is nuclear because of how expensive it is.
>>13468674That's not how it works, you fuckYou import because you cannot supply shitImports are always more costly than local as you have to account for the loss of power and extra workers who would handle the load outside of their borders
If they're completely vaxxed, what does it matter if Cletus next door isn't?
>>13466363They literally have no independent thinking process and rely entirely on “experts” (aka the media) to make all decisions for them in the name of science, despite the fact that true science or the scientific process is completely the opposite of blind dogma
>>13468006>pushing us apart instead of bring us together.Yes. I don't want to be around negative self-esteem freaks (libs and leftists) who want to drag others down with them.
>>13466923take your pills
>>13468525Good thing the vaccine doesn't allow infection and transmi--
>>13466363*causes a resurgence of polio and measles*
I understand how we are able to perceive sounds coming from the left or the right - it a matter of the delay between our left ear and our right ear. But how are we able to send that a sound is coming from behind us?
DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOUWE LOVE YOU, DON'T LOOKJUST WAKE UPWAKE UP SWEETIE, DON'T LOOK
>>13468621I figure the back of our ears are shaped to force sounds coming from behind us directly into the bone behind our ears which are picked up by separate auditory nerves that those that receive sounds coming from the front. ie quadraphonic receivers.
>>13468616All sound you hear directly above you and behind you sounds like it comes from the same place
>undermines the validity of modern mathematics(compared to the classical rigor approach) to the point where even pop sci brainlet Veritasium makes a video on it highlighting the logical inconsistencies>nothing personal,kid
>>13468191No. My issue is with the real numbers.
Fractional Distance: The Topology of the Real Number Line with Applications to the Riemann Hypothesishttps://vixra.org/abs/1906.0237>Recent analysis has uncovered a broad swath of rarely considered real numbers called real numbers in the neighborhood of infinity. Here we extend the catalog of the rudimentary analytical properties of all real numbers by defining a set of fractional distance functions on the real number line and studying their behavior. The main results of are (1) to prove with modest axioms that some real numbers are greater than any natural number, (2) to develop a technique for taking a limit at infinity via the ordinary Cauchy definition reliant on the classical epsilon-delta formalism, and (3) to demonstrate an infinite number of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function in the neighborhood of infinity. We define numbers in the neighborhood of infinity as Cartesian products of Cauchy equivalence classes of rationals. We axiomatize the arithmetic of such numbers, prove all the operations are well-defined, and then make comparisons to the similar axioms of a complete ordered field. After developing the many underling foundations, we present a basis for a topology.
>>13468068>even a world-class theoretical physicist can't into platonic formsOf course it's impossible to tell whether Reals exist in the physical universe, since it would be impossible to measure, that doesn't means that the ideals don't exist within an ideallic plane.This is what happens when scientists aren't thaught philosophy of science.
>>13468040You're not very bright, are you?
>>13468666>I have no argument
Does this schizo actually post on /sci/ or its all just LARP
>>13466596What was the story again?
>>13466790Google search of arson and Tooker's smile, then over 9000 hours in Paint.
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>>13468576Did they make you get the jab?
how scientifically accurate is this prediction?
sup /math/
Why are so many young women unable to eat normal everyday food without getting an upset stomach?
>>13468171Please be bait
>>13468201>crystal cafeEveryone on that website is a trannyWomen don't frequent anonymous imageboards
>>13467035America has no real food culture and the American diet is extremly unheathy.
>>13468242>t. feminine distance runner
>>13467060>>13468319Rent free. I'm not American.
Medical staff tiktok videos made me lose immense trust in modern medicine. The last bastion of apolitical work joined clownworld. The nurses are now not only dumb 20yos; they are malevolent actors seeking to create "equity outcomes" as the highest ideal which justifies even racist murder.
>>13467433Bip bop I have an opinion bip bop
>>13467433I know a retard like you probably doesn’t have the imagination for it but try to imagine nurses on Pearl Harbor doing silly dances while thousands of patients are dying next door I unironically hope there’s war in the west and degenerate npc like you can be killed like the bugs you are
>>13467608>calling him a racist since the Nixon administrationThat was Biden actually.
>>13468633>try to imagine nurses on Pearl Harbor doing silly dances while thousands of patients are dying next doorThen perhaps not so many patients would have died, since the nurses would have been more relaxed. There's no reason to have strict standards if people do things better at their own pace.
>>13468623DING DONG
/med/ in the subject line -editionold thread >>13426655 We discuss research, DO NOT offer advice (just fucking go see your doctor) make fun of gunner premeds and shitpost. Please keep vaccination/clamping/vitamin K etc. out of this thread and start your own because it takes a lot of space.>inb4 not science>inb4 poor amerimutts wanting medical advice
>>13466251nope
>>13468088>ask about brain surgery>get told to fuck off because brain surgery isnt /med/>appreciate that someone isnt gatekeeping psychiatry as "not real"read a book and then kys
>>13467873>tell patient to take tacro after his allo BM transplant >comes back a year later with GvHD shitting up his skin
>>13467873>>13468509>tell patient to go do blood work literally downstairs>no new results in the next follow up visit
greetings /med/.after much research, i am going to perform cryosurgery on myself and freeze off my warts with acetone cooled by dry ice.dimethyl ether, the usual gas used in "home freezing" cans is only -25C, which is INSUFFICIENT and causes unnecessary cell damage by virtue of long exposure times. dry ice is -78C which is not as good as liquid nitrogen's -196C, but it's still pretty good.i will report back with my success.
Sci Fi depictions of a blasterd overpolluted, overpopulated Earth bereft of natutal resources is a fear of a bygone era. It isn't likely to happen.Our technological advancements have already pushed us beyond the points of apocalyptic Maltusian predictions. We are able to feed more people and are more efficient with our resources. We aren't running out of fossil fuels any time soon and we habe become more efficient in it's consumption and we are learning to synthesize fuels. I don't know why we are still being pusjed apocalyptic crap.
>>13465124This is relevant:https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technology-come-to-a-haltAnyway, I think people underestimate the impact of stuff like AI,ML, etc. Everything's gonna change.
>>13466617I built neural networks in octave while taking Andrew Ng's Intro to Machine Learning course, years ago. Sure, a toy algorithm doesn't seem like it can become superintelligent, but GPT-3 surprised a lot of people, in spite of working fundamentally on the same principles. There are some researchers who think the current techniques are good enough for AGI, and just throwing more parameters and compute at the thing gets us there.The bottom line here, though, is that while it's uncertain rogue superintelligence is plausible, there is also no good reason to expect it to be impossible, while several of the leading AI researchers, like Stuart Russell, do take the threat seriously.
>>13467104Superintelligence is not related to consciousness, and I think the view that consciousness is generated by the brain isn't really supported by anything other than a dogmatic attachment to materialism.
>>13465096This is not a roll thread
>>13468180Do you believe in ghosts then?
Continuing the discussion on computer theory as an analogy for human intelligence, the role of language in cognitive training, and other related tidbits.
>>13468519I’m a little dubious about the term far-transfer, but it’s certainly true that mental mechanisms honed through training for tennis can also be applied outside the sport. Predicting trajectories of objects in motion is certainly one. Similarly, skill at skateboarding translates to snowboarding, which translates to surfing. But even in this case, the underlying mechanism being trained is an understanding of physics and balance, rather than merely some ability to learn sports.
>>13468528>it’s known that memorization and recall is a process of applied intelligence, not intelligence itself. And then the process can be made more efficient through training.Do you mean you can become more efficient at memorizing and recalling? I guess so, Spaced repetition and mnemotechnics are good examples of that
>>13468537We need to make the distinction between cognitive ability (intelligence, which does not change), and the application of cognitive ability through learned processes. Memorization and recall is a learned process, and can be improved through training. Cognitive ability is going to play a major role in how effective that training is. Not bashing musical training though, no matter what you have to work with, music can help you use your brain more effectively.
>>13468566Yes, it’s actually alarming how much you can improve it through training. The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne is a good quick and dirty read on the topic. But also, training memory is very similar to the “chunking” you were talking about. You’re just creating a daisy chain of mental associations, and attaching the stuff you want to be able to recall to the various nodes. Not unlike having an organized filing cabinet vs a huge pile of papers on the floor.In fact, what’s going on isn’t that your getting better at memorizing, that stuff is up there, you’re just getting better at finding it when you want it.
>>13468558We know reaction speed is highly correlated with IQ, if tennis is capable of improving reaction speed then maybe it does in fact improve processing speedAlso, I am interested in what is going on with the brain while experiencing stuffs like this:https://youtu.be/jQOJ3yCK8pI?t=74https://github.com/shaunlebron/blinky>>13468593>We need to make the distinction between cognitive ability (intelligence, which does not change)Isn't it crazy to think the brain is able to learn how to use 360 degree vision! (something we didn't evolve for) and yet we somehow think you can't improve general intelligence?.Go ahead, download that mod for quake and after a few minutes you will feel like you have used 360 degrees vision since your entire life
