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So, as a few of you have probably noticed, there's a new trial board, /qst/.
From what I've seen, pretty good stuff, and it's actually shaping up to be one of my personal favorite boards.
So, I was wondering how many of you would participate in a little experiment with me:
Say there were a hardcore science story driven slow-form RPG on /qst/, where you would put your education to use solving technical problems, designing, collaborating, not-so-collaborating, etc.
Would you enjoy being involved with it?
It would serve as not only a place where you...
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>>8046772
tbqh I'm not even sure how the new board works with all the dice rolls an shit. Seems like an expanded /tg/ dedicated to separate games per thread.
>Say there were a hardcore science story driven slow-form RPG on /qst/, where you would put your education to use solving technical problems, designing, collaborating, not-so-collaborating, etc.
Examples?
I guess individual posters could participate, but I doubt /sci/ as a group could collaborate on a single thread.
>>8046783
In its current early stages, when broken down to really basic levels it would follow a format something like this:
>Problem is proposed by the OP
>Players suggest solutions to problem, work together to form a coherent, objective solution
>Problem will be solved
>New problem will arise
Obviously that would get pretty repetitive.
And of course, that begs the question of how...
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>>8046794
Thanks for spoon-feeding me anon, seems interesting after all. Also, where do the dice rolls come in in your proposed format?
Anyway, the problem I see is that for someone to actually propose a scientifically literate problem... well, they would have to be /sci/ themselves, which in turn means only /sci/ autists would be able to solve the problem and so forth, which would result in /sci/ exclusive threads, which I just don't see happening.
You could propose an example here and cross post it to see...
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This guy walks up to you in the middle of the night in an alley and says, "Hey kid, wanna see that there are different kinds of infinities?"
What do?
cry
>>8046544
whip it out and say:
>I'll show you mine if you show me yours?
>>8046544
Prepare my boipussy to get destroyed.
Chernobyl 30 years. Discuss.
The radiation levels in the worst-hit areas of the reactor building have been estimated to be 5.6 roentgens per second (R/s), equivalent to more than 20,000 roentgens per hour. A lethal dose is around 500 roentgens (~5 Gy) over 5 hours, so in some areas, unprotected workers received fatal doses in less than a minute.
>>8046539
I'd rather we discuss the much more interesting biological effects of Chernobyl. Higher percentages of birth defects in the area for example. Panic over the effects of the spread of radiation. Also, dank radiation-powered fungi growing in the walls of the reactor ruins. Cool stuff.
>>8046570
Radiotrophic fungus is some cool shit actually. Imagine space travel using that stuff as one of your food sources.
Why are doctors so hesitant to prescribe medication that is of actual use?
Like, why the fuck would you prescribe shitty codeine when nature has provided us with morphine? Why would you prescribe a shitty antidepressant for an anxiety disorder when there are goddamn actual fucking useful benzodiazepines readily available? Why would you persist and persist with prescribing shitty antidepressants that do absolutely nothing besides induce terrible side effects when you could just prescribe something that forcibly removes depression by way of altering one's state of...
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shills, that's why
>>8046495
I'm no doctor bit you need to control cost and additivity. And history and what your taking
>>8046495
I've always kind of got the impression in doctors offices that they are always on the lookout for people acting sick just to get the good stuff. So they are a little more hesitant to give it out. Plus it would look bad if their boss saw they prescribed 40 people with benzos in the last few weeks. Also in the medical world (at least in the navy) you are taught to try the easiest cheapest treatment first. Then, if that doesn't work, move on to the more expensive ones. That's why the famous "drink...
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why do people post about math on the internet constantly without knowing even slightly what the hell they're talking about
>>8046399
(pic related)
>>8046399
replace
>math
with
"any subject"
>>8046399
I don't. I know exactly what I'm talking about and that chart is all kinds of out of order.
>Number Theory after Galois Theory
>Smooth Manifolds after Algebraic Topology
>Grobner Basis that fucking high
>Complex Analysis after Abstract Algebra
Terrible list.
Can someone please explain binary code to me.
Normal numbers are base 10. Binary is base 2. This means the columns represent values of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 instead of 1, 10, 100, 1000. You "carry the 1" when a column gets to 2 instead of 10.
The value 0b1011 in binary is 1+2+8 = 11.
In programming binary can be used to represent things other than simple numbers. For example a game programmer could make different bits of a byte indicate what items a player has possession of.
>>8046332
>Normal numbers are base 10
10 in what base :^)
expounding on the previous anon's post, this is essentially how addition is performed in computers on adders. Depending on how much detail you want, you may want to look into computer architecture to see why binary is convenient and necessary. It may also help you understand more.
Just a friendly reminder that there will be a transit of Mercury across the sun in ONE WEEK, on May 9th. The last time this occurred was 2006 and it won't happen again until Nov. 2019.
And here's a visibility chart. As you see, the entire transit will be visible for the eastern North America, Western Europe, and most of South America. Most of the rest of the world will get to see at least part of the transit. Sorry Australia and east Asia; you're fucked.
How do you even view this?
>>8046278
Sweet! I'll be sure to stare at the sun that day.
This coming fall, I have to take a computational linear algebra class with my university's infamous hell professor. My goal is to graduate summa cum laude, and although everyone says you just need to take the C, I want to get an A in the class, so I'm trying to teach myself the material over the summer before i have to focus on other classes
Here's his rate my professor
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=233522
and here's the course syllabus
http://www.cs.ecu.edu/~karl/Assessment/Public/Courses/3584/syllabusCSCI3584.html
as...
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>>8046246
>forgetting calculus
R u stoopid
If you're cute then hmu.
Take your pedophile cartoons back to >>>/a/.
>>8046262
Hey /sci/, what cures has humanity found through animal testing?
>>8046183
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research
Pretty much all of modern drug development relies at least to some level on animal testing for essential data to encourage cure development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing
>Supporters of the use of animals in experiments, such as the British Royal Society, argue that virtually every medical achievement in the 20th century relied on the use of animals in some way.
>>8046183
I don't know, but we've prevented the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands of humans by testing on animals first.
Most drug designs are complete failures that never make it to human trials.
a LOT of ageing related research is done with mice
If you didn't get into your dream graduate schools for physics, but by contacting someone your professor knows, you have until tomorrow afternoon to decide whether you want to go to West Virginia University for a physics PhD or not, what would you do?
asking for a friend - I can't give him advice because I don't know what the field is like and what considerations should be taken into account
>>8046098
>I didn't get into my dream graduate schools for physics, but by contacting someone my professor knows, I have until tomorrow afternoon to decide whether I want to go to West Virginia University for a physics PhD or not, what would you do?
>Not getting in based on merit
Degenerate. Who cares what I think. Go for it if it's your dream school
>physics PhD
>>8046131
Here's more context:
So WVU isn't his dream school. There's another catch too: he'd be going there for numerical relativity (it's what he's done research in for the past 3 years as an undergraduate). But his true interests lie in mathematical physics.
Are you pigeonholed in physics? For example, for medical students, residency matters more than the medical school they pick, especially for what they end up doing at the end of it all. Does physics have a degree of flexibility...
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Fantastic animation of saturn's rings...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arjgewixaCk
>>8046079
Christ - you'd think with a multi-billion dollar mission they could have loaded the probe with a better camera. My iPhone takes better pictures than that.
It's probably due to data transmission limitations.
![Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-Inception-582163[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Q2wWMZ2.jpg "Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-Inception-582163[1].jpg")
>>8046079
>>8047032
its all coming back to me...
Any audio/sound engineer here?
Can we talk about audio/sound engineering?
I want to learn music composition and sound design for my gamus, so I would love any tip or shit you can share.
many thanks.
>>8046053
Wrong board
>>8046064
this is the board where engineers gather dumbass.
hire me dude
i could totally produce some epic tracks for your cute game :3
(1/2)I apologize beforehand if this is the wrong board to post this or if at any time it does not make sense
>In Gullivers travels johnathan swift describes a circular flying island 7837 yards in diameter with an adamantine base that's 200 yards high and for the next 100 yards its described as normal soil. in the middle of the island is a chasm 50 yards in diameter, and descending into the chasm you arrive into an observatory that's 100 yards beneath the upper surface off the adamantine their is the most important aspect of the island...
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>>8045925
>loadstone
Lodestone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestone
(2/2)>miles any higher the magnetic field of the land doesn't reach it.
So what I'm trying to do is figure out how this could work in the real world
Doing some research I assumed the adamantine base was refined magnetite which is both extremely hard and is ferromagnetic and that's how adamantine materials were described in Swifts time. So the weight of the island is at least 42,087,253,268 tons.
I'm not sure how to calculate the magnetic pressure needed to lift the island. or even whether a ferromagnetic or diamagnetic process would be better...
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>>8045937
not knowing about old timey spellings
What are some puzzle games that are interesting from a mathematical point of view?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_game
where famously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy
is incompatible with the axioms of choice
I just want to say that Simon Tatham's Puzzles is the best app I've ever downloaded
I've been wasting months of my life playing it
>>8045863
>wasting
thanks for saving my time then
Rate me, /sci/
where's the other oxygen?
>>8045756
>no enol stabilization at all
2/10
just for you guys I'll take off my proton ;)
