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Anonymous 20/11/18(Wed)14:49 No. 17053 ID: ef3a67 [Reply]
17053

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Why is the racial intelligence gap so taboo?

You even mention that 70,000 years of evolutionary divergence in separate environments MIGHT have played a role in differing powers of intellect and reason and you're basically blackballed.


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Anonymous 21/04/21(Wed)21:11 No. 17462 ID: c92f2d

>>17455
>IQ is used as a measure of intelligence by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists across all ages
Considering it has zero purpose but to classify and label people (you can't improve your IQ), knowing it doesn't help adults do anything. It would be like saying that a person's fingerprints are "used" by psychiatrists and psychologists. They are not, and IQ is not.


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Anonymous 21/05/14(Fri)21:01 No. 17540 ID: 4c24c2

>>17462
It helps inform public policy decisions, and may be used by high IQs to interact with low IQs in such a way that they benefit from the exchange.
It is far easier to push oppressive policies on a segment of the population that literally lacks the capability for coherent thought.


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Anonymous 21/06/17(Thu)23:37 No. 17671 ID: 96fcaa

Everyone know the gap exists and that race plays a role, it's just that no one wants to get Watsoned

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fury-dna-pioneer-s-theory-africans-are-less-intelligent-westerners-394898.html




Blinding laser weapons Anonymous 21/06/03(Thu)23:47 No. 17614 ID: 54a03f [Reply]
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I like laser weapons that blind people. Do you?


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Anonymous 21/06/04(Fri)05:57 No. 17615 ID: cf9d5b
17615

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This isn't science, engineering, nor maths.


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Anonymous 21/06/07(Mon)02:20 No. 17631 ID: a0cb60
17631

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Yes it is




Abiogenesis is a fairy tale for Darwinists Anonymous 21/03/26(Fri)20:48 No. 17384 ID: 7d5109 [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
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A major unresolved issue when dealing with the origin of life is that prebiotic syntheses invariably generate very heterogeneous solutions of organic compounds. This makes it impossible to imagine how ordered linear polymers, amino acids and nucleotides could be assembled. Prebiotic chemistry could produce a wealth of biomolecules from nonliving precursors. But the wealth would become overwhelming in the prebiotic soup and one cannot fathom how organized chemical processes could emerge from such a mess. At the heart of this problem is a dreary and vicious circle: what would be the selective force behind the evolution of the extremely complex translation system before there were functional proteins? There could be no proteins without a sufficiently effective translation system. How a random collection of proteins would assemble themselves into some kind of proto-cell capable of primitive replication is not even remotely answered. Modern cells require hundreds of proteins carrying out specific tasks when assembling a new protein molecule and if only a small portion of them were crudely made it is impossible to manufacture a new cell. The cells translational system is highly dependent on accurately made proteins and a faulty translational system is by default a biochemical paradox in evolutionary terms. A primitive cell is faced with an impossible task: in order to develop a more accurate translational system is has to translate more accurately. Each imperfect cycle introduces further errors and the cyclical nature of self-replication in the cell means that imperfections lead to autodestruction. A complex system like a cell cannot be gradually achieved because of its many complex and perfectly coadapted proteins.


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Anonymous 23/02/14(Tue)22:24 No. 18492 ID: 0af699

>>18274
>>18315
The dedication of this strawberry is bewildering.


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Anonymous 23/04/10(Mon)13:12 No. 18506 ID: 7d5109

>>18492
>strawberry

Is this the latest schizo babble meaning delusion?


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Anonymous 23/04/11(Tue)08:29 No. 18507 ID: adb842
18507

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>>18506
it's that autist again, lmao




simple identity verification scheme Anonymous 21/05/26(Wed)23:24 No. 17567 ID: 424a5a [Reply]
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Once, while idly wondering, I came up with a simple scheme to prove the authenticity of a chain of messages given the authenticity of the first.

It consists of putting a hash at the end of each message (but the last, if you know where the chain is going to end) and the input to the previous hash at the beginning (or anywhere really) of each subsequent message.

That's it. It's really simple but I was wondering if it had a name?

SHA256 Hash: d29bde9ef6607caa1f99bd06434449bb972bae43718a7701b2e878bc5fe452a7


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Anonymous 21/05/29(Sat)03:05 No. 17580 ID: be6f8f

>>17578
Oh! You mean you include in each message the input to the hash in the previous message. Sorry, I misunderstood. What you're referring to is known as proof of knowledge.

>Also, blockchains have consensus mechanisms such as PoS, FBA and PoW.
A blockchain is merely a data structure where each block is linked to the previous block (or some number of blocks) via a hash. It does not imply a distributed system. Even if there is a distributed system, the consensus algorithm can be as simple as "whatever the authoritative source says", which is pretty much how Git is typically used.

>>17579
>I said prove authenticity "given the authenticity of the first", not absolutely.
If that's all the assurance you want, you could also include your ECDSA public key in the first message and the signature for each subsequent message. Then you wouldn't need to keep track of which secret message you used as input to the previous hash.
Needless to say, neither method protects you if the site's operator decides to rewrite you messages.

>All in all, it seems like a pretty useless protocol compared to something like RSA or Lamport signatures. Oh well, it might end up being useful as part of something else, or in a different form.
Well, you're just using it wrong, I'd say. Proofs of knowledge are typically used to prove that you had a piece of information at an earlier time that you decide to disclose that information. For example, you might make public a hash predicting that the stock market will crash this week, and after it crashes you make public that information, which should hash into the previous hash.


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Anonymous 21/05/29(Sat)18:11 No. 17581 ID: 424a5a

Previous password: "Rose Mary"

>>17580
I've heard of proofs of knowledge. Though I dont think I've heard of them by that name.

> you could just use ECDSA
How fast is it to generate an ECDSA keypair and sign messages? IIRC RSA is slow compared to this scheme.

Next hash: 5fcb6406566e4cbe34ceb9ee0cc2cf02f729842c369936763b550101ae8c7354


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Anonymous 21/05/29(Sat)20:55 No. 17582 ID: 746924

>>17581
IIRC, almost all naturals less than 2^256 are valid Secp256k1 private keys, so picking a private key is just a matter of getting a few random bits. I think there were exactly two points on the curve that were unusable; one was an inflection point with only a single solution to the equation and the other's tangent was vertical.
Other curves may work differently, although I think all ECDSA curves are more or less the same with only the coefficients changing. As I recall, Curve25519's curve is somewhat different.

Signing a message with ECDSA is faster than RSA, but slower than getting a SHA-256 digest, because the process involves hashing the message. In particular, Secp256k1 uses SHA-256.




Anonymous 21/04/01(Thu)14:03 No. 17402 ID: ecff09 [Reply]
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Some loser was talking shit about my trivial zero explainayion but it was objectively better than all of the ones I got and this is inaeguable and edgy losers n 4chan Sci are just trying to patch manipulate me lol.


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Anonymous 21/04/01(Thu)20:11 No. 17404 ID: 746924

[Trivial zero] explanation, or trivial [zero explanation]?

Also, what the fuck are you talking about, OP?




Sad Anonymous 20/08/29(Sat)19:17 No. 16978 ID: 7d5109 [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778
>Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests.
>"It's worrying because replication is supposed to be a hallmark of scientific integrity," 

Why do people treat the scientific method as some kind of universal solution to everything when in fact it is flawed?


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Anonymous 21/03/26(Fri)08:40 No. 17380 ID: a5f8ec

>>17378
Genetics in general disprove evolution. The only way to ”prove” it is by making up scenarios in a computer or to insert billions of improbable mutation events wherever you cannot close the gaps.


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Anonymous 21/03/29(Mon)21:29 No. 17392 ID: 0a320d

>>17378
>I've never heard of genetic homeostasis. Kind of ironic that there is a genetic process that prevents speciation.
Think of it in terms of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

We simplify it so that people think that if something evolves a benefical trait then it will proliferate across the species and if it evolves an undesirable one it won't. The reality is many desirable traits die out before they can establish themselves in a species, and contrary to popular belief, many undesirables ones don't and do become established. The hallmark of evolution is that more desirable traits propergate than undesirable ones and this is in large part due to Darwin's theory, 'survival of the fittest', you are less likely to survive to adulthood (and reproduce) if you have undesirable traits compared to a specimen that has desirable ones.

To put it in human terms; just because you're stronger/smarter than someone else doesn't mean you're guaranteed to reproduce more than them (assuming you do at all).


>>17380
Still waiting on your theory.


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Anonymous 21/06/10(Thu)21:07 No. 17645 ID: e47187
17645

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>>16978
>>16981
>science is a religion for atheists
I for one am not an atheist, oh fool who has been brainwashed and indoctrinated for most, if not all of his life, by kosher filth. I'm an Agnostic.
>YOU GOTTA BELIEVE
Faith is by no means a bad thing, but its what you believe and have faith in that matters, NOT just believing in something. Also, The Bible never says where exactly heaven is. Facts don't change and numbers by their own dont' lie. Just because someone misinterprets some pieces of data doesn't automatically invalidate it.You by your faith in the worthless Jesus of Nazareth (as with Muslims having faith in and their praying 5 times a day to ""ALLAH"") are giving energy to human hating entities that don't really care about you in ernest; you have been manipulated and lied to by the Jews/Hebes and their Reptilian masters.




Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology Resources Anonymous 20/05/13(Wed)01:49 No. 16919 ID: c95db8 [Reply]
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What are the best resources and textbooks for learning about synthetic biology and nanoscience/nanotechnology? The wiki doesn't have anything on those.

Also, what other /sci/ boards are out there?


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Anonymous 20/07/24(Fri)01:06 No. 16959 ID: b17623

>>16919
>>16931
https://boards.420chan.org/stem/
420chan has been around for a while. unfortunately, activity on the stem board is slow. but the content there is decent.


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Anonymous 21/02/03(Wed)11:16 No. 17240 ID: d80523

also have interest in it


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Anonymous 21/02/03(Wed)11:40 No. 17241 ID: 307cde

Scientists have long proven the negative effect of radiation on humans. It is enough to recall the accident in Chernobyl and the number of people who participated in the elimination of the consequences of the disaster, who fell ill with radiation sickness. So thats why I bought geiger counter on https://ecotestgroup.com/products/agent-r/ for checking level of radiation




Overrated robot threat Anonymous 17/12/01(Fri)00:40 No. 16587 ID: e4210a [Reply]
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So I've read the n:th alarmist article about how robots will replace some 800 M people before 2030 and so fucking on. It will be an endless summer citizen's wage afternoon until the AI exterminates us and so fucking on.

Tell you why this is not going to happen?


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LickmyBumHole 21/01/02(Sat)06:36 No. 17185 ID: 549c03

No you will probably become a shitty technician working 12 hour shifts everyday and earning 3$ per hour


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Anonymous 21/01/16(Sat)16:38 No. 17210 ID: ccd333

>>17119
we can see the precursor for the robot revolution right now. people should put down the screens. there is evidence they are being used to brainwash and manipulate people against their best interests. it could be argued that it is the most powerful weapon of warfare being used on the stage today simply because of it's pervasiveness and almost ubiquitous use across all the world.

and what happens? the owners of the screens win because they have power over the mind. the robots will also have power over the mind in that they will do hard jobs easily which feels nice not to have to do hard jobs. but in that pleasure will come the pain of losing your usefulness to society and your being discarded and the horrible pain of withering away.

do you ever ask yourselves why we are here because what is happening here cannot possibly be of any merit or value? it's just evil run amok and why else should that be other than to teach a lesson?

if i had power i would squash it out and so would any other. but in my leadership my errors would come to light because i am not perfect. and in those failures would i be the cause of pain and sorrow and misfortune.

the answer is that none of us can be god. and we have to have the power to become god, yet never once touch the temptation of it, to ever return to our souls.

or maybe nothing matters in which case fuck you all, i'll believe my story because it makes me feel better. you can do coke and fuck whores. everyone has their drug then, right? pretty sure your habits fuck you up just as much as believing there's some purpose to your suffering.


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Anonymous 21/02/01(Mon)08:36 No. 17235 ID: 9c6f38

>>17210
Man, you sure are a capitalism bootlicker if you think your only worth to society is your slave labor. Or perhaps you lack the imagination to figure out how you can improve the lives of those around you other than punching a clock and earning a paycheck.




Epic stomach tumour 20/07/24(Fri)13:20 No. 16962 ID: c6e9b2 [Reply]
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I'm looking for the name of the persons in this story.

In the summer of 1995, there was a family of three that toured Europe in search for a "alternative" cures. The daughter had a huge stomach tumour. She looked pregnant and had to be ride in a stroller.

The authorities took away the custody of her. And she had to take tumour shrinking meds before the tumour could be removed. Because it was so entangled in the organs.

Pic unrelated, because it is prettier to look at than random tumour pics.


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Epic+stomach+tumour 20/07/24(Fri)17:00 No. 16963 ID: c6e9b2

>>16962
Ah, found info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer#Olivia_Pilhar_case


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Anonymous 21/01/27(Wed)02:42 No. 17229 ID: 69598f

what the fuck




rtyrtyr 21/01/16(Sat)17:48 No. 17214 ID: eae170 [Reply]
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Anonymous 21/01/23(Sat)13:31 No. 17225 ID: 3cecd6

wtf?





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