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  1. I explained how to do it here: https://scienceforums.net/topic/139514-edit-and-report-function-seems-to-have-died-211025/#findComment-1302077
  2. Today, I was unable to vote on certain posts (neither for nor against). Therefore, I hacked this site by following the procedure below: Ctrl-U to open the source code. Ctrl+F and searched for “downvote” and found a piece of code, i.e.: <li> <a href='https://scienceforums.net/topic/139534-the-tibetan-cretins-of-the-himalayas-should-be-attacked-on-a-spiritual-plane/?&amp;do=reactComment&amp;comment=1302070&amp;reaction=7&amp;csrfKey=e60d72a2e6e187a42e19c1f62069af79' class='ipsReact_reaction' data-role="reaction" > <img src='//media.invisioncic.com/w334195/reactions/react_down.png' alt="Downvote" data-ipsTooltip title="Downvote" loading="lazy" width="120" height="120"> <span class='ipsReact_name'>Downvote</span> </a> </li>I copied and pasted the URL from the <a> tag into a new tab in my web browser: https://scienceforums.net/topic/139534-the-tibetan-cretins-of-the-himalayas-should-be-attacked-on-a-spiritual-plane/?&amp;do=reactComment&amp;comment=1302070&amp;reaction=7&amp;csrfKey=e60d72a2e6e187a42e19c1f62069af79I visited the website and voilà. A backdoor to downvote.
  3. You send each other polite messages that make no sense and have no effect, and I still haven't seen a single line of C/C++ code... you can't be real programmers.. Programmers would write code in the first line, not nonsense.. Paste the code using MC & GEANT4 here..
  4. So you didn't get anywhere... ? ;) That's how this nonsense about “curvature of space-time” ends... You have billions upon billions of particles, and you try to create a model that describes how they interact with each other, and you have something called a “field”... (it's difficult to perform mathematical operations x vs y on each particle). In order to perfectly model the interaction between the Earth and the Sun, it would be necessary to calculate the effects of each particle of the Sun on each particle of the Earth, but this would take longer than the entire lifetime of the universe. So we do the following: “we add up the mass of all the Sun's particles, and we get roughly the center of the Sun,” “we add up the mass of all the Earth's particles, and we get roughly the center of the Earth,” and then we use the function between these centers. This only gives an approximate result.
  5. I copied and pasted your post into ChatGPT, and it replied, “That's a straw man argument”... ;) Feel the pain...
  6. It will fly very close to Jupiter, so its influence on acceleration will be very significant. It is clear that Jupiter's gravity will change its trajectory. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/
  7. Not at all. As I said, to understand why such things happen, you should start by analyzing and calculating the influence of the planets on a given object, at a given time or even time span. I gave you the formulas, all you had to do was plug in the values, and you would have seen that for example Jupiter, which is 100 million km away from the object, exerts a force 635 times greater than the 2*10^-8 m/s^2 you mentioned: Jupiter’s gravitational acceleration becomes equal to 2.0*10^-8 m/s^2 (the value from your OP) at a distance of approximately 8 billion km (53 AU = 10 times as much as it is from Sun to Jupiter).
  8. ..and when you calculate whether an object will hit the Earth in a few or several decades, you have to be much more precise. 10,000 km in one direction or the other, and it will either hit the Earth or not (some/any object).. @Bjarne-7 Even the arrangement of the planets at a given time causes some gravitational acceleration. So, first you have acceleration in one direction, and then you have acceleration in the other direction (deceleration), simply because the planets change their position relative to the Sun. Take the positions of your object and some/every planet. Calculate the distance between them. Find the mass M of the planet (Wikipedia) and use F=ma, a=GM/r^2 to calculate its approximate influence on your object. The easiest way to do this is in a spreadsheet. The wobble of a star was one of the first methods used to check whether a star had any massive exoplanets orbiting around it (=the center of mass of a star system is not located in the center of the star) (=a star attracts planets to itself, and planets attract their star to themselves). So you reverse Newton's equation and you get the mass that an exoplanet must have in order to have such an effect on its star.
  9. If you are afraid that someone is using “AI”/LLM for malicious purposes: if you ask ChatGPT to create a virus that attacks DNS servers, it will tell you that it does not do such things, and that will be the end of the session. But if you write that you need an application that creates as many threads as you want, and each of them connects to the port you want on the UDP protocol, it will generate the code for you without batting an eye. The difference between malicious virus code and a regular utility application is only in the purpose.To know what prompt to write, you need to be knowledgeable about the subject yourself. People who are unfamiliar with the subject are not even be able to formulate a prompt that works. If someone create an LLM for drug design, for example, it will work with virus and bacteria design too. It's hard to imagine it not working. Medicines will not work without knowledge about how viruses and bacteria function on molecular level. With knowledge of how they work, they can also be designed. You are talking about some non-existent yet “AI”/LLM. Existing LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are not creative in any way. For example, it will not come up with a physical theory for you. On the contrary, it will claim that yours is wrong. Most people who use this on a daily basis simply don't know anything about the subject they're asking about, so for them it's a big “wow” that it works. But when someone who knows what they're doing asks a question, they can see the mistakes they're making. And then with every answer you get, you're saying, “Why did you write that line of code that way? It's wrong.” And so you can spend hours making corrections to corrections. But to know where LLM made a mistake, you have to know the subject yourself..
  10. Is the world ready for man-made viruses? I don't see any difference. “AI”/LLM won't produce them in a factory, it will only design them, and then humans will have to “put them together.” Viruses mutate, so whether humans or “AI”/LLM design them, it doesn't really matter, because sooner or later they will mutate and get out of control. It's only a matter of time. If they used the bacteriophage genome, then they did not create something new, they only created mutations of that bacteriophage genome in a computer. Without comparing both variants, before and after modifications, we know nothing about what has been changed between them and how these changes affected their reactions to the world.. These changes could just as well be cosmetic and meaningless or even meaningless. DNA and RNA, unlike computer code, are very forgiving of errors. If someone has the ability to create a virus from a string of AGCT on a screen, then they probably also have the intellectual and financial resources to do so manually without using “AI”/LLM.
  11. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    ..this does not tell us anything about how many square meters per capita there are in these apartments/houses.. This would exclude most cities. Where I live, no one has a single-story house in the city. That would be crazy. Even if someone builds a single-family house in the countryside, it has at least one floor (which in some countries means it has two floors). The ground floor is the ground floor. The first floor is the next level. And, of course, there's the basement. Nobody builds without a basement here. If it occupies 10x10 m² of land, and because it has three levels including a basement, this gives a usable area of approximately 300 m². And what about the basement? Is it also included in this area?
  12. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    I see a lot of room for misinterpretation here. “House size.” Do these statistics literally include only houses or apartments in skyscrapers? If I have an apartment in a tenement building and I rent it out, will it also be counted, and how? Just because someone owns an apartment, house, or tenement building does not mean that they cannot sublet it to someone else—in which case, the space per capita for themselves will decrease. Average of what? Owner? If I own 10 houses, how does that affect these statistics? The area of the house may include the garage area and areas that are completely unsuitable for living. Or even utility areas. How do you calculate the average? In the US, many houses stand empty because banks have taken them away from their owners. Are they also included in these statistics?
  13. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    Imagine how difficult it is to be a businessman in the US in today's political reality: you wake up in the morning and don't know if the containers you ordered a few weeks ago, which are sailing from another country, will bankrupt your company if you agree to pay the new customs duty, which changes every few days, weeks, or months. You would like to have problems like European businessmen, such as making sure that bananas and cucumbers are reasonably attractive..
  14. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    You've never been to the USSR. In Soviet times, you got food ration cards, and you were allocated a certain amount of meat, milk, bread, butter, vodka, etc. per person per month. You couldn't just go and buy, say, 10 kg of beef because you were having a birthday party. You would have to take food ration cards from your guests, and even then, the store probably wouldn't give you the 10 kg of beef you needed. From what I know, these definitions apply to fruit and vegetables that are sold retail to the final customers. In other words, vegetables that do not meet the standards are used to produce juices, preserves, and animal feed. Nothing goes to waste. These weird-looking creatures would be ignored by customers anyway, because in Europe, unlike in the US, customers can choose which fruits and vegetables they want. You choose what you want, weigh it, and stick a label on it. You don't get something unknown in a sealed bag, which is disallowed to open, and then if you bought it, have to throw it away when it turns out to be rotten. If something is ugly, does not meet aesthetic standards, it gets lower prices in stores. This week, I bought garlic for $0.25 per bulb, which was a 50% discount, but then I realized that it was smaller than usual. What I saved on the price, I worked hard to get these little ones out of their shells. What utter nonsense. Over the course of a year, 1% of the local population started their own business. And what does it look like in the US? To have such statistics, 3.4 million single-member companies would have to be created per a year. When I read such nonsense on the Internet, I really need a drink... ;) You should visit him more often. ;) I think that statistics on having a private psychiatrist say more about the problems of a given society... ;) Did those who voted for him go to a psychiatrist or not? Because I'm confused. Or maybe they did go and he hurt them? Here, you can start your own business using your cell phone. And with a PC, it's even easier. You can even have a video conference with your future accountant, who will do most of the work for you. That's where it all starts. It would take less time than writing this post.
  15. In 2016. Long before the real war. Actually, many would and already have. There were no elections after the attack in 2022. Which one of these are pro-russian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election The simplest ones are the ones that are rigged. ;)
  16. Which one? After the purges, there are no competent people left there. There are only those who enter the rear without lubrication. I did deny the goal you mention - reunification, occupation of land. I did not deny the goal of making the West completely dependent on Chinese electronics. If you attack a country that produces processors, electronic elements, etc., it will stop producing them, so countries that need them will have a problem. So they would have to attack South Korea and Japan at the same time to completely cut off the West from electronics. This reunification would only be a pretext. The Chinese are not idiots. They saw what happened after Russia's attack on Ukraine. They thought it would be razzle-dazzle and voila. And here it turned out that the “invincible Russian army” was unable to cope with some “peasants and Tatars.”.. although the depth of the sea did not separate them from them.. Ordinary (and poor) people (those who would be took to fight) have some ridiculous ideas about European countries, etc., dating back to Soviet times. They can confuse Poland with the Netherlands (Holand) (Poland and Holand in Chinese are almost the same word), and they ask every Pole in China about the war, not understanding that it is almost 2-3 thousand kilometers away. The distance from Warsaw to Moscow is less than as from Warsaw to Donbas (where are the fights). And from Turkey, 200 km less.. I wonder if every Turk they meet on the street is asked, “How are things going with the war over there in Ukraine?” Google Maps is banned in China, so they can't check how far everything is. An example of primitive thinking, from hundreds of years ago, before the modern era. According to the Internet, Taiwan's gold reserves amount to 100 tons in mines. According to my calculations, this is worth $12 billion. It's simply laughable to start such a military operation to get such “pennies.”. After the first day of naval combat, the losses will be greater. If someone wants war and can profit from it, any excuse will do, even if they create it themselves, e.g., some kind of provocation. But let's be serious. I would rather focus on analyzing television broadcasts on Chinese TV channels. Are they inciting their citizens to war? You talk as if “the country” were some kind of cosmic creature that thinks for itself and does whatever it wants, but that's not how it works. These are individuals. So it wasn't “Russia that attacked Ukraine,” but “Putin who gave the orders.” The same is true in the case of China. Citizens will do whatever their (beloved) leader tells them to do. Are you in Xi's head? Then log out. Because you don't understand Chinese anyway.. For the average Chinese person, the most important things in life are peace and quiet and a good meal. It is not without reason that their greeting is “Have you eaten yet?” 你吃了吗? 肚子饿了 我想吃北京烤鸭。 You'll do anything for money.. It doesn't work that way here.. Lukoil had to sell its several hundred gas stations because no one wanted to fill up there.
  17. All this talk about Taiwan is nonsense. China is big and does not need anything what Taiwan has. Does it have any natural resources that China might want? I doubt it. The resources they want to, fly away with on the first plane after the attack. Nationalist, imperialist, and communist visions of leadership, etc., etc., can of course influence such delusional leaders to the point that they imagine non-existing things. But the same thing works for you in the US. Any attempt to attack Taiwan would result in: 1) Extreme hostility of the Taiwanese population towards China. (There is sufficient hostility toward them among Hong Kong residents) 2) The flight of those with resources, i.e., scientists, business people, and engineers, abroad. 3) The destruction of electronics factories in Taiwan. 4) The export of the rest of the factories abroad. The only result China would achieve would be a reduction in electronics production by the competitor they attacked. But the consequence would be a loss of customers for electronics and any Chinese goods from EU/US countries and the rest of the West. In their irrationality, Putin's supporters demanded that, along with the truce with Ukraine, Europe resume importing oil and gas from their country. What utter stupidity. How detached from reality must one be to even suggest such a thing during “peace” negotiations? If someone brought gasoline for $0.25 per liter here at the gas station and said it was from the Russians, no one would go there anyway, except for traitors. All it would take is a rumor that a gas station got it from the Russians, and no one would go there anymore. It could have been $0.1, and it would have been used to burn down the gas station itself. The attack on Ukraine is the result of thinking in a way that dates back more than 200 years... conquer a country, and those people will be our subjects, and they will be wonderfully happy to have a new master X instead of Y.. They completely slept through the entire process of transformation from a feudal system to a market economy, free trade, and free will for citizens. They think in their tiny, brainless brains that you can turn the tide with a stick. Intellectually, they really are 200 years behind. Remnants of Ukraine, regardless of what it looks like, will hate Russians for a hundreds years.. Before 2014, Ukrainians voted once for a pro-European politician, then for a pro-Russian politician when the former started doing what his predecessors did, stealing and behaving badly. Later, vice versa. This had been going on since the 1990s, but due to the attack in 2014 and later in 2022, the Russians committed seppuku, and now no Ukrainian, even if they were to die of hunger, would vote for any openly pro-Russian politician. How can you be so stupid as to do something so ridiculous? It's hard to find anyone as detached from reality as Putin.
  18. Chinese politicians are satisfied by the situation because they have subjugated Russia and have cheap oil. Getting involved in the fight would mean problems with selling goods and a possible trade blockade. The first to be hit would be oil tankers.
  19. They lost 200k just this year, 2025.
  20. The bear is a well-known national symbol of Russia..
  21. Good morning. I see there will be, sigh, a lot about AI, since you decided to generate your fake profile photo using AI..
  22. It's difficult to understand. Why should you prepare a PDF for “AI” (probably LLM??) and not the other way around? People want LLM to generate a PDF for them, not the other way around... Besides, LLM doesn't mean anything, i.e., it means too much. You should talk about preparing for ChatGPT, Deekseep, etc. It may look different for everyone depending on their capabilities and version, and whether you have a paid or free plan. In the free, unregistered ChatGPT, you can't upload your files to it, so it won't even do OCR for you, for example. Another issue is that PDF is a very complex format. You can have embedded images from a scanner that look like they were generated by an engine, but they cannot be easily parsed. i.e., the same parser will work fine with one PDF, but will not work with another PDF.
  23. Yet another ridiculous thread about prime numbers. Sigh. You can use your intuition when talking to a girl you don't know.. And even more so if you are familiar with her... ;) ..because it does not make sense.. I'm beginning to doubt your mathematical abilities.. a*b*c = d a*b*c*5 = d*5 Using a prime number (e.g., 5) still gives the same factors (if d was not prime). But you don't know which numbers are primes, smaller than ‘value’... Unless you create a database.. Reading from the database will take up a lot of processor time. In other words, you are talking about an algorithm like this: #include <stdio.h> bool is_prime( int value ) { if( value < 2 ) return( false ); if( value == 2 ) return( true ); for( int i = 2; i < value; i++ ) { if( ( value % i ) == 0 ) return( false ); } return( true ); } int main() { for( int i = 1; i < 100; i++ ) { if( is_prime( i ) ) { printf( "%d is prime!\n", i ); } } return( 0 ); }Use: g++ primes.cpp -o primesto compile the code in C/C++. No, this is not a good algorithm. Anyone who knows mathematics knows that: a*b=c and that b*a=c For example, if you are checking whether the number 19 is prime or not, you do not need to perform modulo on the numbers 11, 13, and 17. So, in the simplest form, make loops only up to value/2 (because more than that doesn't make sense). After this operation, you have accelerated your code twice. Knowing that the only prime number that is even is 2, you increase the counter by 2, skipping even numbers. This way, you already achieve a fourfold acceleration of the algorithm. When reading prime numbers from a previously generated database, the biggest bottleneck after a certain amount of time will be the lookup of data records from the database itself. Sieve is a very easy algorithm. You buy a 1 TB NVMe/SSD disk and you are able to make a map of primes from 0 to 8.796093022*10^12. One bit for one number. I just suspect that you wouldn't have had enough time. Then you have a database of these prime numbers. But why do you need them at all? I've told you a few times, learn to program. Without programming, you can't do anything here. You can figure out about the first few hundred on a piece of paper. And if you spend your life on it, a few thousand. And it will still be full of mistakes (as you can see in this thread). If you generated (algorithm in C/C++ above) all prime numbers, e.g., from 0 to 2^32 (~ 4.3 bln), put them in a database or .txt file so that they could be easily grepped (Linux: grep), you could play around with making some statistics that would allow you to assess when and under what circumstances we have larger groups of prime numbers, and when we have fewer. For example, it seems to me that decimal numbers with an even number of digits have fewer prime numbers. Take the number 1111, for example. You don't need to do any complicated calculations to see that it has a built-in pattern, 11 * 101. This does not work with numbers that have an odd (and prime) number of decimal digits. The same is true when the number is converted to binary. For example, we have %1101111011, an even number of binary digits, and we see the pattern %11011 * %100001. Based on this thesis, one can suspect that non-prime numbers occur more frequently when the number of digits (e.g. decimal, binary) is also a non-prime number. To reject a number as not being prime, it is sufficient to find any divisor of it. This can be significantly accelerated. All you need to do is find a pattern in these digits is some numerical system. However, to be certain that a number 'value' is prime, you must check whether it is divisible by all prime numbers smaller than ‘value/2’.
  24. Your post should be trashed, not mine.. I didn't talk about masturbation etc. there.. At least my post was funny, yours is gross.. and off-topic.. The OP said “I love artificial intelligence,” and ChatGPT couldn't answer on its own, so I got involved, copied and pasted the answer from it, which was more or less "the guy is lying", which made the OP laugh. It was only Swanson's malice that ruined the thread. How old do you have to be to behave in such a childish way? It is not Swansont who decides whether OP is offended or not. Only OP knows that. I am outraged by your post about masturbation.. Because it reduces you to the level of some moron.
  25. You don't know what he was laughing at because Swansont cut out the most important part of the thread..

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