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Hello, I have made a 2D/3D Dimensional 6*6*6 chessboard:

Hello forum, I am a big comedy fan and wanted to get your opinion on this case. I see Louie lumped up together with Weinstein and Spacey and I think that's not fair. What he did is highly inappropriate (I won't break down the news here) but he did not hurt or assault anyone. Thoughts?

Is it possible to love more than one person at a time? I experienced it when I was younger yet was not the reason that tore my relationship apart. It was something else. Have you ever been in a situation where you have found yourself loving two people? You might not even intend it, but I think it is always possible. But it's taboo. Not sure why the post has repeated three times.

Hello everyone The ones following my posts regularly will know that I'm writing my thesis on, among other things, nuclear imaging of primary brain tumours. Finding accepted, standardised nomenclature for radiotracers, however, is driving me crazy. I found the Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database on the NCBI website, which offers some abbreviated and full chemical names of radiotracers I'm discussing. However ... I can't seem to agree with the chemical name they give to the substance which has the INN of fludeoxyglucose (18F). Here are some of the names given in the MICAD I need evaluated by some real chemical-linguistic purists here (I'm a bit of a perf…

This thread was inspired by jingori's recent thread about English writing, but is oof topic there so I have opened a new discussion thread. Hidden in this weekend's sensationalist trash, this article from the BBC presents a balanced survey of answers to the question round the world. Most interestingly it also offers measured evidence that teaching joined up writing improves joined up thinking and reading in later life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41927258

What does it mean that some two people have a Hepburn and Tracy dynamic?

Hello Since English is not my native language, I'd like to ask you guys to find a word that describes the following: A threshold for a positron emission tomography isocontour (that is, all voxels [cf. three-dimensional pixels] with a same standardised uptake value, or SUV) could be e.g. 50 % of the SUVmax (that is, the maximal SUVmax within the region that is bordered by this "A50" isocontour). Several authors have described that the A50 isocontour may be a good cut-off to get a certain metabolic tumour volume (MTV50). However, delineation with this A50 isocontour is not fully objective or automatically done, since a cut-off value (threshold) of 50 % o…

Hi, I'm a 26 year old mom and I'm going back to school since my children are now at school age. I know that I would like to go into science and am enrolling in online courses. Biology and Physics are the two I'm most interested in.. It's a boon to be able to attend classes online, but obviously it has it's drawbacks. I'm uncertain what courses I should take and interested in any other insight you might want to offer. Thanks!

Just the other day my computer "decided that it wouldn't wake up from sleep mode anymore" this happened as a result of a bad intel graphics driver automatic update. So I had to search for an old driver that would work on my system. The problem is that no games will play on the driver that I found because it is over 2 years old. Is intel legally allowed to automatically update me to a driver that is obviously completely untested on my computer? Surely they could make the update software know that a driver will not work on my chipset.

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Hi all. I’m Sanghyun Baek from Pluto.Network, a team in South Korea developing a decentralized application (DApp) for Scholarly Communication (ScholComm) with the aid of blockchains.Basically we plan to establish a NON-PROFIT foundation to innovate the ScholComm space. I’m posting this to introduce our core concepts, explain the current stage, and get some feedback on it. If you already well recognize the need of decentralizing current journal system, skip the rest and read the design document linked at the end of this post for the detailed design of our concept.The background is very straightforward. Current ScholComm system is an Owned Business. And we believe it should…

What are in your opinion the most innovative and which are the best sitcomes in recent time?

Hello forum, I was wondering, what happens to a companies stock if the majority are shorting this company? Would the stock go up?

dark matter was a syfy show (which remindend me a lot of firefly. )it only got 3 seasons and now its over </3

This thread was inspired by a comment in a recent thread here on optics so I though I'd share my Wiki research on he subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement post#51

So I sometimes do freelance programming work and I got an email last night I am kind of worried about. Whoever it is wants to hire a black-hat hacker to hack a university for $1000 which I definitely wouldn't do but I don't want whoever this student is finding somebody who might do not so nice things to them.

Hi. My friend has been through a hard time and is suffering who has been through a lot of abuse. She is looking for video clips that give a happy type feeling or vibe. She liked the bit of this video starting at 5:27 but mostly liked the 5:39 bit (when they are all floating and morphing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OYbV2Mo8s Do you know of any video clip that brings happy /cozy/ etc feeling's. Or something like the floating and morphing part in the video above?. Any input or help is greatly appreciated. And may you please describe something that would make her feel cozy or happy. Thank you very much.

Could you advise me the best Internet sites which allow to raise money for a project such as fund commercialisation of invention in field of supercapacitors? I try to avoid the sites organized by different scammers. Can you advise some reliable sites?

After some talks with two moderators at the site, I quickly came to realise my terrninology was actually offensive under the surface, which was much deeper than I intended at the time. I won't defend myself again, this is a public post to say, I recognise that behaviour should not be tolerated and my words to you about not wanting to talk or commune over the subjects here, can come to an end. I am sorry and it won't happen again. regards. G. Lee

So much food comes in some form of packaging - from supermarkets and food outlets - that it represents a huge waste stream. A lot of it is - technically - recyclable, but a lot of food packaging ends up contaminated with food residues and almost all recycling, even when it's done well, is more correctly downcycling. ie materials can be re-used only at lesser quality and usually only a few times before ending up unusable. Separation of biological waste from other kinds of waste seems to me to be the most basic kind of separation and biological waste is the kind that can be most completely and efficiently recycled, via biological means. I can see that the kinds o…

How unhealthy would it be to go to sleep every day with the windows closed? Would the lack of air give me headaches in the morning? Or is it fine? On another note, it would probably be better to sleep with earplugs, but they always give me headaches when used for a couple of hours + it's finicky when you have an alarm clock to wake you up.

Which games are you playing or are you going to play? I'm going to play Assassin's Creed Empire. And I just heard on a YouTube video Bethesda might be making a Game of Thrones RPG.

I've always been a fan of Ray's. I read his book and love his ideas and the product of his labor. It's truly amazing to see what Google is doing with AI under his leadership, but... It's just hear say at this point but it's nothing I didn't suspect from him. Allegedly he weaseled his way into the upper echelon. I guess it doesn't matter much but it is kind of humiliating to hear that you believed in a fraud, especially when all of Google's products involving AI are so game changing. I, for one, am utterly embarrassed because I am inclined to believe it, as are other highly respected people. It's eerily quiet when it comes to rejecting this notion.

This thread concerns a discussion about why physicist need to study consciousness, and probably involve themselves in the development of artificial general intelligence. Firstly, below is a scintillating talk on artificial general intelligence given by, Theoretical Physics PHD, and former Dwave CTO, Geordie Rose. He left Dwave, and is now instead CEO and co-founder of Kindred Ai. He gives an entertaining talk in the tech-vancouver video below, about why the development of artificial general intelligence is crucial for mankind. Extra: See also a talk here, by Suzanne Gildert here (She also left Dwave, to start Kindred Ai. She has an Quantum Physics PHD…