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>Endocrine disruptors are natural or man-made chemicals that may mimic or interfere with the body's hormones, known as the endocrine system

If this is true we're fucked. All these pollutants may be altering fetal development and change us for life in ways that are to subtle to measure. The effects could range from autism to sexual orientation, to who knows what

“Developmental exposure to low doses of EDCs may not lead to malformation or to anything you can look at and immediately recognize as a problem,” she says. “But it still could have long-term effects, such as alterations in metabolism, alterations causing cancer later on, or alterations causing infertility.”


Reproductive and developmental abnormalities linked to EDC exposures have now been documented in birds, frogs, seals, polar bears, marine mollusks, and dozens of other wildlife species. For example, alligators in Lake Apopka—one of Florida’s most polluted lakes due to extensive farming activities around the lake, the presence of a sewage treatment facility, and a major 1980 spill of pesticides including DDT and DDE—have been shown to have been “feminized.” That is, zoologist Louis J. Guillette, Jr., and colleagues first reported in the August 1994 EHP, the males have shortened penises and low levels of testosterone, while the females have excessive levels of estrogens.

Sex reversal (in which an animal of one sex matures with the reproductive organs and capabilities of the other sex) and skewed sex ratios (in which there is an unusually greater proportion of one sex than the other) have been seen in several fish populations, particularly colonies living in close proximity to pulp and paper mills and sewage treatment plants. Other reports have shown reproductive effects among wildlife resulting from exposure to EDCs excreted into the water supply by women taking birth control pills.

More: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281309/
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>>15770749
It's possible. A friend of mine's son was born with something similar as well, but they had botched that poor kid's surgery. There's an increase in birth defects targeted on the reproductive organs because of them. I wonder what the impact is on the female reproductive system is, since that's not as easily observable from the exterior outside of a few features.
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>>15770952
Damn. F for your friend

>Hypospadias has become much more common in the United States and Europe over the past 30 years
https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/conditions/hypospadias

What a fucking surprise. Who knows how destructive these chemicals are and to what extent they're fucking up our bodies, including the brain.
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>>15769822
got a source for that?
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>>15770749
i have a similar thing. double urethra, there is a second very small canal branching out near the frenulum. i also have mild scoliosis(i have noticed alot of my peers have this, the boomers not so much) and mild pectus excavatum. im very sure they are linked to enviromental pollutans or some deficiencies my mother had. luckily they dont bother me much but still fucked up to know that im a dysgenic freak lmao.

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How long will we have to wait for it to be formulated?
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>>15770441
I could have saved her bros. She would have been so addicted to my nerdcock that she would love being a girl and getting licked nightly.
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>>15770577
a handsome man with no mental issues
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>>15770441
Incelologists have been trying to discover the grand unified theory of human socialisation for decades, yet the closest they've gotten is the "scientific blackpill", a compendium of research regarding sexuality. The main issues with incelology are that its scholars focus too heavily on observing and documenting the behavioural patterns of the worst, most r-selective specimens of the male race, and that incelologists tend to be dysgenic Untermenschen who are incapable of perceiving the world through the perspective of a normal, genetically fit male. Thomas Nagel's paper, "What Is It Like To Be A Bat", discusses the question of qualia and the inability of organisms to experience the qualia inherent to creatures of a different type. For the purpose of this argument, incels and normal people are essentially different creatures.
It is only through the introduction of fresh blood to the school of incelology that further progress can be made, and potential candidates for the acquisition of incelological scholars includes /fit/, a subculture that primarily resides on 4channel, though it must be noted that while /fit/ users exhibit the same neurotype as the archetypal incel, they are just as r-selective and fundamentally dysgenic as the current subjects of incelological research. More research needs to be done on the behavioural patterns of K-selective men, and if at all possible, the talent of such K-selective men needs to be poached so that incelologists can study male-female interactions from new perspectives and develop a more general theory of true love.
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>>15771312
>Incelologists
kek
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>>15770676
Bro you have to let it go. Sex is no different to a massage. Its trivial. Meaningless. Arbitrary. Yes it's how we reproduce, so what? Who gives a fuck. If you were a hot tight young woman you'd want to make the most of your time in the sun no? As long as she's not got any STDs or other kids, I don't see why y'all are so precious about this shit

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Any theories about my condition subsequent to my reckless stupidity?
I took Jujube, a lot of acid,(500 mcg dose usually) and most importantly You Gui Wan pills, which act as Nogo-A inhibitors and hence have the potential to reverse synaptic pruning when I was 16 when it was the year 2017, because I was using myself as a lab rat for boosting IQ using isochronic tones for phase-amplitude gamma coupling to delta.(and failed; also latter is just dopamine kek) I was scared I'd overwrite old synaptic strengths and such by the explosion of new synapses which would mostly be noise. I also had extremely poor sleep. It was extremely wild, sometimes I tripped for days, and my memory has been absolutely annihilated. Years after cessation of the experiment I noticed I'm stuck in the year 2016, culturally. The fact I'm stuck in the year 2016, though, means that I didn't overwrite old synapses, although I became extremely aloof with regards to my parents, so not sure, but in terms of semantic memory and writing capacity I'm probably fine. I did notice, however, that I had to learn how to spell again, my spelling ability got fucked as well as my phonetic articulation ability. Probably a lost cause with regards to maths.
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so if birds taste like chicken, and crocodile tastes like chicken, does that mean dinosaurs taste like chicken?
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Probably
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>>15771320
imagine deep frying a giant t rex leg itd be like a giant drumstick
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>>15771315
those are all dinosaurs, anon.
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>>15771325
you know what i mean

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>Your age
>IQ
>University
>Major
>Last paper read
>Job
>Content with life (y/n)
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>>15764139
25
140ish
CQU
Building Design
Can't recall
Building Designer
Mostly content
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Your age: late 30's
IQ: 162
University: Yes
Major: Theoretical Physics
Last paper read: A pizza advert
Job: Retired
Content with life (y/n): Y, see above.
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>>15764139
>>Your age
19
>>IQ
they told me I got a 91 so I guess pretty good if it out of 100
>>University
Nah
>>Major
Nope
>>Last paper read
heh, I actually have a bit of trouble with reading
>>Job
Cashier at local grocer
>>Content with life (y/n)
sure
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31
131
ETH Zurich
Physics
Don't remember
Researcher (postdoc)
Haven't been in years lmao
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>30
>IQ is meaningless
>got phd at 24 from a top 50 school in the northeast
>mathematics
>On efficient quantum block encoding of pseudo-differential operators
>quantum computing theorist
>yes

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>take calculus as required for degree
>professor is awful and just talks at you with a barrage of formulas and concepts without explaining anything
>read the textbook
>the prof wrote it
>it's the same thing and just assumes you understand everything with an unreasonable pace that does nothing to explain in case you get lost
Is there a recommended Calculus textbook? Something that goes slower and explains the underlying concepts?
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>>>/sci/mg/
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Jewart's book is good for retarded babies so maybe try that one. Wtf I meant to say Jewart... that's weird
JEWART
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Anyways calculus itself is retarded and a waste of time. Calculus itself is about computations, if you want to know the theory then read some real analysis. It's just a tool kit and shouldn't be seen as anything else. Sure maybe there should be some expoure to the historical derivation, just for the theatre of it all, but from an efficiency point of view it's pretty retarded to waste so much time on it.
I did a head start program so I went to college instead of high school and it was piss easy, but guess what? All the work I did meant fucking nothing. Only the context and intuition matters.
Derivatives: shit that changes
Integrals: area
That's it.

I’m an EE (my MS EE is in power systems) and I’m interested if I could train an AI on EE material such that it could be a “living textbook”. I don’t think this has been done before. Does anyone with a background in AI think this is feasible? How much material would it need? I’m thinking something like Z-Lib would have sufficient materials.
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then do it faggot, wtf I thought you were an engineer.
Do you want a mathematical proof?
Proof by example: ChatGPT
QED
now fuck off
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>>15771102
why would you want best guess answers based on training data quality when you could just use a AI interface and ask it to look it up online for you?
I am sure there's serious applications in it having been trained on some kind of specialized data, but I never understood why the fuck do you need it to be trained on the data instead of it being able to "understand" your natural language and look up more objective, online. or even in some local database or something.
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>>15771102
https://huggingface.co/augtoma/qCammel-13

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>professor asks a pretty basic question to the class
>waits in silence as no one speaks up
>professor raises tone and asks again aggressively
>professor calls on random person to answer it

wat compels them to do this
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>>15764537
if you know the answer why don't you want to give it?
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>>15764527
Professor here, I love cold-calling students. Keeps them paying attention. You just gotta keep the vibe positive and make sure people know it's okay to say "I don't know." Also a great way to btfo students looking at tiktok on their phones
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>>15767699
I let them do this for extra credit. Some of them (asians overrepresented) get very confused that I'm not specifically giving them a project to do, that they have to propose one to me
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I am a teacher at a maritime collage (yes I am a total loser) and if no one answer my questions i usually ask the lazy and stupid students. When they fail and say something retarded I use that as stepping stone for repetition of important topics.
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>>15764527
I increase my silence aggressively in response

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Formerly: >>15748681

>what is /sqt/ for?
Questions regarding maths and science. Also homework.
>where do I go for advice?
>>>/sci/scg or >>>/adv/
>where do I go for other questions and requests?
>>>/wsr/ >>>/g/sqt >>>/diy/sqt etc.
>how do I post math symbols (Latex)?
rentry.org/sci-latex-v1
>a plain google search didn't return anything, is there anything else I should try before asking the question here?
scholar.google.com
>where can I search for proofs?
proofwiki.org
>where can I look up if the question has already been asked here?
warosu.org/sci
eientei.xyz/sci
>how do I optimize an image losslessly?
trimage.org
pnggauntlet.com

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Is there some particular book I need to read to understand space groups, or do I just need to know they exist and reference them later?
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Why are all holes black while stars come in every color except black? Is the universe racist against blacks?
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Has anyone really been far
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Mathematics is just a religion isn't it?
I've been doing all kinds of exams and shit to become an actuary but honestly I think I might just go get a masters in engineering.
Do you think it's possible for a math bachelor to get into an engineering masters?
I did a bachelor's of science so I have two years of physics.

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How does science explain the tremendous increase in cardiac deaths amongst young people?
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>>15767403
>source is the image,
I meant: source is IN the image
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>>15767318
remember when that brit justified covid hysteria in march of 2020 with a computer model which said a billion people would die from covid?
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>>15768878
Neil Ferguson, he received a massive cash reward for producing that pilpul
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>>15670172
behind closed doors the explain it with uproarious maniacal laughter and a lot of hand rubbing
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>>15670172
anxiety

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is logic branch of mathematics or is it branch of philosophy or is it standing alone ?
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>>15771200
>Thales was a scientist not a philosopher
one does not preclude the other; he certainly engaged in philosophical thinking, which makes him a philosopher
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>>15771211
non sequitur
how exactly does its antecedence prove its superiority?
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>>15771213
correct, it is also flawed logic when applied to philosophy
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>>15771224
yes, agreed
although I've never stated that philosophy is superior to any of the sciences which stem from it, and I don't think anyone ITT has either, so I'm not sure what exactly your point is
just another bizarre aside?
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>>15770420
>If anyone disagrees I'd like to see a philosophical application of the compactness theorem
the compactness theorem essentially says that if a formula/description φ is a logical consequence of a set of formulas/descriptions S then it is a logical consequence of a finite subset of S. You can easily use this theorem to uphold an eternal universe. For example, some philosophers believe it is more rational to think it is possible that an infinite chain of causation exists in the world. The compactness theorem guarantees that even if this is the case, you will always find a singular and intelligible cause for any particular effect.

What do i win?

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Easy for those who know.
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>>15770798
>>15770956
You could choose 1 for both variables then.
[eqn]z=2 i \pi\\
x=z + \log z[/eqn]

>>15770809
Italic log, ngmi. Also e^log(0) = 0, fight me ;)
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>>15771028
>fight me ;)
Say the numeretical value of x NOW
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>>15771079
Too complex for you.
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>>15771084
yes, because ? = 123,4567890 negative or positive is complex
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>>15771097
This ain't real, yo.

>professor purposely and willingly makes an already hard subject even harder by teaching with shit material, shit attitude, shit attendance and shitty tests
>inb4 he's le filtering you

Every subject in STEM is already hard. There's no need to make it harder, math with filter tards by itself, you don't have to make the experience any more stressful than it already is by acting like a child forced to clean his room
Why does this happen so often? College is expensive as fuck, they all should be competing to see who has the most accessible and transparent teaching methods
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People that came before you wanted to standardize universities with accrediting associations, and turn them into job training programs for the white collar. This has effectively removed the need for professors in the context of teaching undergraduates, as it can be simply accomplished by the "X association of X colleges and universities" creating an exam bank every semester, and telling students to read from a list of books and topics. Professors get a shit attitude when government backed loans push 210 students (200 that give no fucks) into a huge class, and expects him to teach like its grade school.

>College is expensive as fuck
No it isn't. I paid ZERO dollars for my education, in fact I was even paid to study for my last five years of graduate school.

>Competing to see who has the most accessible and transparent teaching methods
They do. There are many published textbooks on all manner of mathematical topics.

Professors are better off spending time during office hours, grooming those 10 students who do care and should be there.

On your comment of filters, if you are a non-STEM major, then the requirement of calculus is absolutely intend to be a filter, and universities do not hide this fact.
Consider your university degree in the same light as you'd consider actuarial accrediting examinations. When you're taking those, there is no one holding your hand, you are paying for the right to take the test and get certified.
>"But those exams don't cost as much as my degree exams!"
Not my problem you're a dumb nigger that pays for it.
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>>15770360
extremely based
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>>15770360
>"NNOOOOOO, I can't learn this topic unless I'm sitting in a room with 50 other people and you regurgitate a section of your class notes for an hour, three times per week!!!!!"

Hard to believe there are people this fucking pathetic. Do they put the textbook under their pillow to absorb knowledge while they sleep as well?
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>>15770268
My brother, you are quite literally shifting the blame for your performance onto someone else. Have you considered just studying and then passing the exams?
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>>15770268
I'm with you OP. Academics like obfuscate the material to make themselves feel smarter.

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>i know how to solve dis lol xD
>dies
>blueballs the entire human race
>some skinny goy spent his whole life doing his job for him
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>>15770868
Okay.
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>>15770868
Okay.
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>>15770868
The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader
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>>15770868
Fermat's Last Theorem
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>>15770868
yeah sure, he "proved" it

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Ok my numbers won nothing today and I am ok with that

But

I ran the same nubers for the last five years and they would have only won 20 times and only 4 dollars 19 times and one time it would have given me a whopping 7 dollars for getting three numbers right.

Thats 780 plays costing $1560 and giving me back $83

Why dont they teach this math in schools?
Only a retard would buy a lottery ticket
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>>15760430
>Thats 780 plays costing $1560 and giving me back $83
You could do the same for coffee. Or for cigarettes, stuff that are way more expensive and harmful than lottery. Or for anything else really, apart from the basic sustenance stuff. At the end of the day, people are free to choose to spend their money on whatever they want to. And does it really matter? Would an extremely frugal life be desirable? Never smoking, not even at a party, never drinking, never sitting down with a friend for a coffee?
Plus, statistics is a curious thing. While your chance to win the lottery is indeed infinitesimal, someone eventually always wins the jackpot every now and then. Why take away the hope from people with these numbers? Why bother convincing them that they are unlikely to be that specific person? If you'd tell this to every single person who buys lottery, you'd be wrong at least 4-5 times a year. And the few who are lucky are most certainly not retards, not unless they manage to burn through their fortune in their lifetimes...
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>>15770509

The latest numbers look like ones I might have picked :(
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Its almost 800 millions guys
Wht are the best numbers to play when it gets so high like this?
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these are the actual winning numbers

16 22 23 47 65 - 1
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>>15771177
>>15771177
>>15771177
Your trip dubs are pretty compelling anon.
I will attempt those digits today
Please no one else buy a ticket using these
Thanks


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