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From the untrained layman to the skilled mathematician. With how powerful the brain is , why can't it do what a super computer calculator can do? I remember watching 60 minutes and it showed this idiot savant who was born with the gift of doing large sums in his head and even counting pi decimal values to over 1000+ correct places. It made me wonder if maybe little configurations to the brain would allow it to do other things like do large sums in head and tasks people currently find hard. Question also reminds me of P vs NP question for some reason.

Hi guys! Just wanted to know your opinion about medicine masks. Do they actually prevent infection of covid19? Does it make any sense to wear them?

On the news, a monolith someone had fun placing in the desert, worth spending a couple of nostalgic minutes...

Very sad news, a legend of film, and the pride of Scotland, has passed. The orginal ( and best ) James Bond, Captain Remus. Jimmy Malone and John Mason, has passed after a distinguished career. Remembering Swansont's previous avatar, I offer my condolences.

I have not wanted to enroll any master or/doctorate program but I deal with and would continue dealing with scientific contexts and research. simply,I would like to do the research on whatever I want and it seems I am a bit pragmatist (because I do not want to deal with anything that would not provide any efficacy anymore). Thus can we accept me as a scientist?

I have come up with an idea. Without going into too much detail the idea is to rent products in your area. I would create a mobile app. People would rent the product. Each transaction I would make money off of. The problem I am having is how would I confirm the transaction went through and confirm the product was returned? Also I know the basics of coding but never made a mobile app or anything really. I was thinking of starting off as an apple app but eventually developing for android. Is there a way develop for both android and apple? One problem is copycats could easily be created. Do you think the best way to avoid copycats is to get funding, assuming I co…

Question 1: Under what circumstances involving external influences could life develop on a planet made entirely of gallium? What could be the properties of these lifeforms? How would the results differ based on the physical state of the gallium? Question 2: Same question, but what if it were instead mercury? Again, what properties would this life possess, and how would the results differ between the states of matter? Question 3: What if it were a mixture of gallium and mercury? Again, what would this life look like, and how would the state of matter influence the results? Question 3.1: How would the results differ betwe…

I am not happy about my sexual orientation. I always disliked my sexual orientation even as a 5 years old boy! Something is wrong with the biology of my body. If there were scientis who would understand the neurobiology and biochemistry of sexual orientation and they could change it to heterosexual, I would be interested in it. Somthing is biologically not right with me. I hate it! We I got into puberty I had problems with gender identity! I had problems with the fact that the beard grows, had zero interests in sports, on the telephone my voice sounded like a girl. As 13 years old I looked like a girl( ouch). This has changed. Sexual orientation is f…

hi, today it is detected that my brother has been catched by covid-19. my some arrangements (normal works) has been cancelled as of today. (although I have no symptom,we have been accepted as "potential patients" (I am a teacher here)) result: 14 days quarantine. what about you?

I was wondering if when you break down all kinds of knowledge in different fields if you get something as simple as a linear pattern, point a to point b. For example people sometimes prize themselves on the fact that they have specialised knowledge in certain knowledge fields like math or science or economics etc. I am wondering if learning anything and everything since we can't change the way we are built (for now since maybe genetic engineering could or if you are born with disability/disfunction) for most people is simply from a linear pattern of going from points a to b to c to d to e etc... I don't know if I am explaining it right but what I AM explaining is very sim…

Hi all. Which is wrong ? 'Door' or all the others ? door is not pronounced as poor book wood root tooth cook boost doom roof good hood cool food loop mood boot soot school And 'here' and 'there' ; differ by the added 'T' with a substantial pronunciation difference, being actually more like 'der'. (another silent E.) 🤔

An age of information? An age of misinformation? An age of Trump? gang gang Seriously though how would you describe the age we are living in with a simple title if you could? God bless everyone

Words like like blue orange there voltage George tube range and hundreds more, to the point of boring overdose. With all the passion for shortening writing in english, why is the silent e not eliminated ?

I encountered a website with statistics for a large number of video games, specifically regarding their availability across various platforms, their sales over time and some other things and methods to visualize them I found this really helpful. Might there be other services like this that people find helpful, other than obvious ones like weather forecasting and data?

hello, I believe I am a good composer and music producer , but unfortunately currently this consists of only a belief. but as you know,all we are trying to implement our plannings and or the things that we imagine. Therefore,I am planning to fly to romania. as far as I know ,they are good in popular musics. have you any recommendation for me? I shall try to remain open to ideas...

I heard Solidworks may be a good program as it offers digital simulations. What im interested in is: Vibrational Analysis, decoding waves "cryptography" and being able to separate waves that are all bunched up or entangled. Before I invest a lot of money, I wanted to ask first... ThnX in advance..

IF you look at Greek and Latin scripts, you should see that it looks similar to it's predecessor the Phoenician script. How and why did Arabic script go into opposite direction evolution-wise? All other scripts derived from the Phoenician script also look kinda blocky.

On 9/20/2020 at 10:40 AM, farsideofourmoon said: I can prove time travel is real and occurs all the time but that is for another discussion all together Moderator Note We require more rigor than you’ve been providing, so please, do not open a new thread if it’s going to be like this one: assertion with no science to back it up.Don’t open a new thread in this topic, either” Swansont, you take things far too seriously. At one point in the past I was posting to another poster who was actually in Europe somewhere and at the time/date of our exchange was as follows The European poster made the post @ 3:45 on a Saturday I received the post an…

You can help scientist to find solution for design of vaccine and how the virus works and simulate shape of its molecules. Just make sure you have good cooling, it works either on gpu, or cpu, or both. If you have older computer, it may be problem, because it will render your pc useless. Because cpu and gpu will be maxed on 99% (number of cpu cores can be set). Geforce 3000 will be amazing for this. But i can watch tv, or play pc games and i don't have even latest Windows build, which has gpu scheduling and have only geforce 2070 super. It is faster on linux btw. Just go to device manager (windows) to find your components, than find max temp. for your cpu and gpu and…

I was wondering if I could use these forums again as I will be getting back into teaching myself some STEM subjects and would like to use these forums every time I have a question that is important to ask. Totally up to the staff of this site and hopefully you guys give me a chance, just know that life has taught me lots of stuff while I was away from forums such as this and hope to apply it whilst in the internet world. Hope you all have a great day reading this :)

I have a leak that I am finding hard to pinpoint and I have an idea to put dye in at the in end and see where it comes up. Is there any dye that would work better than others? The pipe is running under a gravel courtyard and so it should be easily visible if the dye comes up (maybe a foot at most) to the surface. Otherwise it continues through a long section of the long grass of an overgrown orchard and I have never discovered a damp spot so would simply need to replace the whole length of this ancient outdoor plumbing if that is where the leak(S?) is. This is not drinking water so I can be quite unrestricted in any dye I use.

Something I've seen in nuclear materials research is that all of them are basically, I have a material, I am going to shoot energetic particles at it, I am going to record the numbers, take some before and after pictures and talk about what I saw. It does make sense that you would research like this considering most materials in nuclear environments do suffer bombardment from energetic nuclei and subatomic particles. The consistency in the formula of this research process, however, is something I did not expect. Is this how it works for every field when you get into something very specific and become an expert on it like in a PhD? For example, would experimental study of …

Hi. Am not good enough and less when as blurry as this... Can someone translate the pharagraps following "14" ? Is that for a motor? 🤔 It is an image and do not know how to get a translation from images Thank you.

Here are a couple of interesting CGI Youtubes I found. They are 10 minutes each. Maybe any other enthusiasts of the history of WW2 would be interested. They are produced by Japanese, so I think they tried to be accurate about their famous battleship. Yamato is to the Japanese what the Alamo is the Americans, according to the producers of these youtubes. When you watch the videos, notice that for quite a few minutes the 200+ US warplanes swarmed the Yamato without attacking. Why is that? Then pay attention to the part where 3 Helldivers drop 2 bombs each (6 bombs) and they all land within a couple of seconds in the same general area. At the end the Yamato capsizes…

Google did changes to the search process and capability a while ago and cannot access some foreign things now. Trying to locate a russian brand/factory of electric bicycles from several years ago, to find if they are still in business or production. From USA, cannot see internal russian sites any more ¿? That manufacturer had also a video of the bicycle; and a full site for the product. Can someone capable of doing such search inside Russia post a link where I could see maaaany results to choose the correct one ?