Anyone else really want to learn something but too lazy to do it? Like you end up having a wank, watching anime, etc. How do you stop being lazy, /sci/?
>>9354596By realizing that you're not going to make it if you don't put in the work.
>>9354596Get your ass to the gym. Go hard. Take a freezing shower.No joke, I get in the zone after doing those things.
>>9354616Adding to this, block any distracting websites from your computer. Yes, you can disable the block if you're determined enough, but even the small effort/delay can prevent you from Ctrl+T'ing yourself to oblivion.
>>9354596when i was prepping for my ap exams in high school 3 years ago(ap physics 2, ap chem, ap calc ab, ap human geo, and ap econ)I was able to study 13 hours a day.i usually would wake up with some black coffee, hit the gym for an hour doing some cardio, and then cold shower. make like 2 meals to eat so you don't waste to much time. and if you are struggling with concentration start off with pomodero. also did nofap which helped me concentrate better. you need to also have a goal in mind and remind yourself of what you want to achieve. good luck!
>>9354596first get off this shit website, and second remind yourself what you want in life.
Do you think that we have discovered every mineral and element in the known universe, /sci/?
>>9355931No, it's my job to relentlessly shame you so that you do your research before posting.
>>9355925Americium should have really been the heaviest element. It's such a shame,
>>9355925There is no hard upper limit to the periodic table. Theoretically you can keep smashing nuclei together to make bigger and bigger ones, they just become extremely unstable beyond the ones naturally present. The practical limit is that at some point you get nuclei that are so unstable they decompose too fast to be reasonably considered to have existed at all.Neutron stars are almost like gigantic single nuclei, they have comparable densities; the difference is that all of the electrons have collapsed and combined with the protons instead of flying around outside of it.
>>9355926Unstable unnatural elements that vanish in microseconds count as elements.I mean, ok I guess? But honestly nothing 100 or so has any use whatsoever. May as well not exist.
>>9355986fuck off you fucking idiot
/sci/, Is 1 infinitely larger than 0? I'm in an argument with a friend and he says it is not, I say it is because 0 is basically nothing and might as well not exist, so any-number (except 0) is infinitely larger than 0,, so 1 is is infinitely bigger than 0. Am I right or is he?
>>9355912high school boy doesn't know what a limit is yet?you must be at least 18 to post on this board
>>9355772In binary terms, yes.
There are an uncountably infinite amount of numbers in between 0 and 1, so in that sense yes. But if by larger you mean distance, then no
>>9356049Just didn't want to use bigger 2 times
>>9356050>high school boy doesn't know what a limit is yet?Saying "infinity times 0" does not imply you're taking a limit. Even if it did, consider:[math] \lim_{x \to \infty} (x^2 \cdot \frac{1}{x}) = "\infty" [/math] or undefined, whichever floats your boat.Here we have an "infinity" (the x^2 as x goes to infinity) times a "zero" (1/x as x goes to infinity) which does not have a defined limit of zero.
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>>9355923>same faggin this hard
>>9355921on larger scales the universe doesn't have that dendritic structure, it's completely random
>>9356152No. The universe is a fractal.
Oh hey this might actually be an elementary funct.......
Women prefer big penisPenis size is geneticWill human have big penis?
>>9355973What the fuck? I'm not even american, I don't speak ebonics. It might come as a surprise to you, but only american blacks speak like apes.And I don't call black women "my women". I don't give a fuck abour them. They are ugly af. I prefer white, jewish or asian women.
>>9355995It actually happens. We have the largest penises of all big apes. Not all have the same size, but all of them are way bigger than a gorilla's.
>>9354147Average doesn't necessarily mean that it happens the most. If half the men of a given population have gigantic penises and the other half has really small penises, the average would be a size inbetween, which nobody has and all the big guys would think they are bigger than they are in comparison with the rest of the population whereas the small ones would think they are not that small. Give me the median and the standard deviation and we'll talk.
>>9354147Mine stopped growing when I was 14. Sadly, I used to think I would end up having a big penis back then.
>>9354162I can't choose what I like. Liking busty or thin women doesn't make me a hypocrite. You can only be a hypocrite with the things you control.
Is IQ an inherent trait, or can it be improved upon the same way muscles grow through exercise?
>>9355146Cross-species? It's our common ancestor and it's perfectly relevant in a discussion of DNA and how genetic variability led to the development of higher intelligence.You must have missed the boat though on that one so I'll give you a pass
>>9355155Youve missed the boat coz thats not what this thread is about. Its about heritability not evolution ("led to development"). In that context what you said is completely irrelevant. Evolution of intellligence is not the same topic as herirability.
>>9355155And common ancestor is still cross species unless youre saying we are single celled organisms.
>>9354933Hi /sci/, anon here. Just, how smart are you? well, there is this thing called IQ, intelligence quotient, that dictates just that. Yeah, yeah everybody knows that, but what dictates YOUR IQ?. Well, a lotta' stuff, genetics , environment and you.
>>9355171Your oldest ancestor is a piece of carbon, I'm not even joking. Well really is a uni-cellular organism, which contains carbon, you know what I mean.
Is there any real reason to still read this? Although it must have been quite good for its time, it's very old, and I'm unsure about the usefulness of reading something that doesn't have (at least relatively) up to date knowledge. Are there any more recent books in the type of pic related, or is it still a good option?
>>9355934yes he did read a book faggotIt is called Godel's incompleteness theorem
>>9356043Actually, >>9355934 is right. Godel did not show that math and symbolic logic are not the same thing (although they're not), he showed that any axiomatic system cannot be both complete and consistent simultaneously.
>>9355857Nope. Bertrand is a shit philosopher and mathematician.
>>9356090>he showed that any axiomatic system cannot be both complete and consistent simultaneously.Which implies that symbolic logic and mathematics are not one and the same thing, dum-dum.
>>9356106Aren't mathematical proofs made up of symbolic logic? They're not magic scrolls, so what are they?
Microwaves are dangerous because the radiation can make the food unhealthykek
>>9354720>t. didn't even hunt his own dinner
>>9353974this is true though. The radiation microwaves emit can make food so incredibly hot that the food becomes not just unhealthy, but dangeroushttps://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20040429/beware-of-microwaved-eggs#1http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/superheating.htm>>9353996microwaves that lack shielding can actually be quite dangerous. Even though the radiation is not ionizing, it can still heat up and damage the eye, which lacks circulation that removes heat and gonads.
>>9354752>The radiation microwaves emit can make food so incredibly hot that the food becomes not just unhealthy, but dangerousReminds me of this one crank site an anon posted a month or so back:http://buism.com/cancer.htm>I hypothesize that cancer is caused by exposing a body part to an external source of heat over a long period of time. This requires two things: first, the heat should be hot enough to cause discomfort yet not hot enough to burn; second, this must happen frequently. In other words, cancer is the result of tolerating an uncomfortable heat for many years. I wish it was this simple but there’s one more thing: different tissues of the body have different “boiling points”. That is, certain tissues are more prone to cancer—or “overheating”—than others. The most heat-tolerant are probably skin, fat, muscle, and joints. The least tolerant—and thus most prone to cancer—would be everything else: mouth, esophagus, nipples, lungs, etc.
>>9354526Meh, I'm a wageslave who needs to save money and I microwave frozen meals at work, they taste fine to me. If you can't eat microwaved food you're a high maintenance pussy.
>>9353996Visible light is non-ionizing. You'd need to surround yourself with 30 focusing lenses on a sunny day for 24 hours to face any risk.
Post alien looking speciesImage>Goose barnacle
>>9349063>>9349706>>9349755>>9350265>>9353468>>9353470The ocean: not even once
>>9353470looks like it should be working at the DMV
>>9349708rambutan is fukin delicious goddamn
>>9355940turk alert
I fucking hate parasites
holy moly the universe sure is cool did anyone ever think that e are just small little beings and those things are made of more smaller things like wowe zowee just look at oxygen you need protons and thingies to make things isn't that awesome
>>9356093ah fuck wrong pic
>>9356096No, the pic is definitely appropriate.
Anyway, I was listening to Shadilay, missing Kekistan as I do, and the energy daving lightbulb in my room, that blew a week ago, suddenly lit up and, after a few minutes, blew again.It gets wierder, after I replaced it, I was examining the bulb to see if I could see what had happened, as it was wierd, and it briefly lit up again.Any possible causes of this?
>>9354671You can walk around with a lit fluorescent tube in your hand if you're in a strong electrostatic field. It's easy to build up thousands of static volts if the air is dry and you scuff your feet on the rug or your cat or something. You can probably make it happen again and freak out your friends. Tell your gf to wear a wool skirt over silk panties. That can generate a lot of voltage.
>>9354973>Implying I'm a hetrosexual male or honosexual female (or bisexual)>Implying I'd be on 4chan if I had a girlfriend
>>9354973Would it work if I wear the skirt?
>>9355147I tempted to try it with my boyfriend but not sure if my penis would interfere with it.
>>9354671https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLaD11LITbQ
Labrats of 4chan, what do you do?I've been doing food safety microbio for years, good times.
>>9355974>HPLCMy company offers that but I've never seen it done in person.Is that the only thing you do? Did it have a silver lining at first?I think the main thing keeping me at my job even though the pay sucks, is variety. Getting to do sample prep, petridish and plate count reading, FDA paperwork and qPCR / Vidas / confirmation steps. [spoiler]Who am I kidding it's all the free food and cheese keeping me here.[/spoiler]
>>9355832Im really trying to go do synbio in grad school, any tips? Where did you go?
Manufacturing tech. Synthesis and purification of custom mRNA. 43k salary plus overtime out of college. Astoundingly mediocre; I want something more interesting.
>>9353902>microbiomy n e g u sfirst year masters studentstudying selenoproteins and c.diff metabolismmostly just standard protein purification
Fourth year molbio phd candidate, studying plant hormone signaling
>Get into conversation with group of friends that leads into "science">3 of us have a general idea of what we're talking about>everyone else is just spouting pop sci BS like "but with that CRISPER thing we'll be able to have wings and stuff">had to argue with a literally faggot about why you can't grow a replacement human brain for transplant inside of a pig skull.>replies with "then they could just give it a human skull"
What do you want us to do about it? The average person isn't well-informed. This isn't news.
>>9356064It's just my first time meeting someone who was this hard-headed about it though.I knew that pop science had skewed how people thought and had met people who believed in stupid things they heard from youtube videos but this was just crazy to me.
Do people at your university consider ISE to be a glorified business major, or is it well-respected?There's more theory involved than a traditional engineering subject, but more statistics and analytical mathematics as well.
Its a cooler business major that probably has more versatility since banks don't give a shit about your major when it comes to hiring
Systems engineering can mean a lot of different things, some take nonlinear dynamics so....
