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Are psychometrics valid scientifically?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0nnseg7YTU
>>8130254
yes
>>8130254
yes, brains perform functions. the performance of how well different brains can perform these functions can be assessed. in principle it's no different than measuring engine performance.
Alright scifags, is there any way I can compare my calculator with a friend's, I am trying to prove the might of my gods. Basically, he thinks his phone can do anything my calculator can do, and I have to prove him wrong to compensate for my ridiculously small penis. Plz hlp
>>8130176
Why would that be true, you retard
>>8130176
>My $100 single-purpose super-low-energy-consuming product is more capable than my friend's $1000 general-purpose pocket computer, right?
>>8130179
I didn't say it was true, I just said I had to prove him wrong. Help me cheat my way out of this bet.
When will we be able to claim (small amounts of) real estate in space? It seems like Mars, for example, at some point will just be an extension of the Earth. Once we are able to start colonizing I think then we could have personal property. Do you guys think real estate on other planets in the future are going to be a thing?
Because right now it's not recognized by any states at all
>>8130074
>When will we be able to claim
When you get there.
>Because right now it's not recognized by any states at all
They won't be able to stop you from claiming once you get there.
>>8130074
>It seems like Mars, for example, at some point will just be an extension of the Earth.
>>8130074
The Outer Space Treaty forbids claiming ownership of land on other planets. The only things you own on Mars will be those you put there.
>Article II
>Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
How do I reconcile the fact that as a Hispanic American, I live in a culturally and state white-derived society?
Scientifically and technologically, Hispanics haven't done much, and in fact, although not as bad as blacks, statistically commit a lot of crime and violence and on average have lower IQs than Asians and whites
Will Hispanics ever be of similar economical stature as whites in similar ways that indian, Asian, and other immigrants have?
Or is it a question of cultural heritage
Hispanics built some awesome pyramids. And did achieve a couple of great civilizations.
But if you're talking about the Hispanics of today, who are genetically native-Spanish hybrids? They've only been around since the 1500s, and they were born into a world that was already Europe-dominated. So don't be too discouraged.
Mexican dude here too. My parents didnt finish elementary, i dont think my dad even went in the first place. So i definitely think resources will help increase our presence in science and upper economic classes. But even then we probably wont perform as well asians academically. Fuck it senpai
Mexican american here. Im doing a chem phd in the fall. My chem,professor was hispanic, and so were two of my other professors. Soon....
Link to your published papers.
I expect no replies.
>>8129998
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/papers-english.html
>>8129998
Start with yours, OP. Oh wait, even if you have any you don't want to identify yourself either!
>>8130000
Checked. Welcome to 4chan, Mochizuki-san.
hey /sci/, actual science/tech question here.
trying to make a heatmap of sorts.
overview:
working on a project that involves analyzing my 1000 or so entries of origin/destination co-ordinates from a CSV. I want to connect each origin/destination pair with a route (freeway, etc.) Then create a heatmap of those routes, to show me which stretches of highway are the most frequented.
also, i'm only using california for this.
what's the easiest way to do this? most methods i have found for creating heatmaps are heatmaps of points, however,...
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bump for luck
>>8129937
what can't you do exactly? find routes?
>>8130048
well, what I have is just a CSV of origin and destination coordinates.
what I would like to do is make the origin/destination coordinates into routes, then display them as a heat map.
I don't know where to begin. I'm trying to decide what program to accomplish this with.
all the things i can think of: matlab, python, etc, won't convert to street routes.
Does the government actually have significantly more advanced technology than the public?
If so, how advanced do you think it is?
>>8129901
Idk you should send them an email
>>8129905
cool lol do you have their address?
>>8129901
yes the U.S. government is capable of making anime real
>>8129855
>>8130319
requesting webms of lightning sprites
Were these men of science really creationists?
>>8129821
Most of them, old Earth creationists probably, with some of them possibly being deist clockmaker-god believers. Young earth creationism was silly even back then.
>>8129829
That's funny considering AiG's view of Old Earth, as well as naturalism (study of natural sciences).
>>8129821
These people were alive during a time when we didn't have the knowledge about the history of life on earth that we do now, so it's understandable that they wouldn't have believed in evolution
Tycho Brahe was a geocentrist, but does this somehow validate the idea that we can teach 21st century children that the sun revolves around the earth and still expect them to become competent scientists?
WHY the FUCK is RuBisCo an oxygenase /sci/ WHY THE FUCK I mean all world hunger problems would be solved if RuBisCo was an oxygenase why the fuck did that evolved in the first place internet throws me nothing come on /sci/ you got to know why RuBisCo is an oxygenase
>>8129772
World hunger is almost entirely a political problem. World hunger is not a matter of it being hard energetically nor hard in terms of human labor.
>>8129772
>why the fuck did that evolved in the first place
Because evolution doesn't lead to perfection. In most cases the product of evolution is mediocre at best. It doesn't have to be efficient, it just has to work.
>>8129772
>posting the reddit frog
How smart are ants? These fuckers on my front lawn seem pretty smart. They were coming inside so I put poison bait by the doors and they stopped coming inside. I sprayed their anthill and they seemed to move the dirt further away from the hole.
How the fuck do they know what poison in and how do they know to avoid it?
How smart is the queen? She seems to be out-smarting me slightly and her brain is tiny as fuck.
How does this work?
>>8129769
Burn them all lol
>>8129769
Collective intelligence, which I'm sorry that I can not describe well as I have not studied it. Anyhow, ants "observe" ants being killed by unknowable factors which by the smell and placement of dead ants is localized. So they work together to move the hive away from the source of pointless death, none of them actually quite "knowing" what they are doing beyond moving dirt and digging.
>>8129819
I would but my neighbors will get pissed. It's just so fucking strange, it's as if they know what the poison is and that it kills them.
There is no fucking way they should know, it's as if the queen told them that eating the bait is bad.
So I poisoned their nest, and they have been pushing the soil away because they "know" it's contaminated.
It's creeping me out. How can they be this smart? Even humans aren't this smart.
Let's say an astronaut is tied to a rope. Attached to a rope is a giant rock. If the astronaut throws the giant rock to his desired location, will he be able to control where he is going throughout all of space?
He will push himself away from the rock and travel at minimal speed as the rope goes taught.
>>8129583
he will hit the rope with the same force as he applied to the rock and it will stop the rope
There's no external forces therefore the man/rock system won't move.
Op plus go download us physics book with newton's laws
If there were just in theory, a big enough bubble of water in space would/could it start fusion, thus a water star?
Thoughts?
Water exists only in certain temperatures and pressure levels.
So No.
>>8129405
and when it ran out of fuel it'd become a sun made of ice
>>8129443
Prove it.
I was just on /b/ and some op was going to give out a vid of him fingering his classmate if someone got quads. So given the posts per whatever unit of time suits your fancy (there has to be statistic out there somewhere), what is the probability of a get?
I honestly couldn't come up with a more trivial probability question than this.
Well let me try:
>There is a house with 10 children and two are male. If you pic a random child, what's the probability that this kid is male?
You can answer your question exactly like the above one.
obviously quads are gotten every 1111 posts (not including 0000 which happens immediately after a 9999) but you're assuming all post numbers belong to a single thread, which they don't, so you can't reasonably calculate how long before a single thread gets quads
>>8129384
>what's the probability that this kid is male?
Depends on if I'm gay or not
Your time has come to an end, anon. You must choose :
>red
You will have knowledge in every science domain. But, after a time you will forget everything
>blue
You will live for eternity. But, you will forget how to be human.
>green
You will be the most richest person who ever lived
What would you pick and why ?
>>8129262
I'll just wait for the DLC to give me better options.
>>8129262
>you will forget how to be human
What if I never knew?
>>8129262
>live for eternity and forget how to be a human
If I live forever I can be the richest person ever (invest $1 and wait 1000 years). Also I have the time to learn all the sciences if I wanted to.
