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- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 weeks ago:
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Yeah, cause those cinnamon flavored sweets are disgusting!
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
I was sure the peace symbol was from combining the letters K + G from “kg of weed makes people peaceful”.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 4 weeks ago:
Very on-topic SMBC today: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mary
There are multiple types of color blindness, most of the time they affect the production of a specific cone inthe eye. Deuteranomaly is the red-detection cone being affected, and causes issues distinguishing red/green colors, but also blue/purple. It’s a “hardware” issue caused by less or lack of detection.
I’ve heard of “software” version of colorblindness, but it doesn’t seem to be as documented as others. I have a younger sibling that seemed to have “copied” my deuteranomaly despite being able to pass the “hardware” tests…
The exact neurons in the eye and the brain being triggeres are the same for detection of color, but where the “qualia” differs is to which external interpretation they are linked to. If we were able to isolate the souvenirs/associations that come from specific colors, I’m sure in general people would see the same colors.
Just like touching something hot triggers the same neurons as touching capsaicin, it creates a signal to the brain. What happens inside the brain depends on the life experience of each, but the initial signal is the same, and it can be proven with fMRI.
Off course, if we want to define a “qualia” as “the thing that can’t be proven by science”, then off course it won’t be provable using science. What is it, though?
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 4 weeks ago:
If they’re fully color blind, how could they be shown colors? That would be a bad control group.
Instead, when doing fMRI stuff, they usually create a “baseline” by showing their subjects random stuff to see how the brain fires up. For example, they could show greyscale images of grass, sun, blood, etc., then see how it differs from seeing contextless colors (ie: a uniform green screen)
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 4 weeks ago:
They did researchers with fMRI that showed that the same colors activated brains of viewers the same way, giving as much weight as possible to the idea that people perceive colors the same way.
- Comment on I said maybe 5 weeks ago:
Is it n-string rollover? How many simultaneous string pluck?
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 5 weeks ago:
The whole point was to get people sitting at the same table to reduce risks of conflicts… Without veto power, some countries would never have joined, which is unfortunate.
- Comment on Witness 5 weeks ago:
They can sell it as premium footage at a later date!
- Comment on Witness 5 weeks ago:
My understanding was that it was a risky moment, they didn’t want to risk showing astronautes dying… But that doesn’t make sense since the same logic applies to most of the launch!
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 1 month ago:
Its pronounced “I-see-pee”
Yes, I’m an official adult, why do you ask?
- Comment on Nothing Ever Happens 2024-YR4 1 month ago:
Former astronomer here! You can download a lot of data from open access websites such as data.nasa.gov or any of the big digital surveys.
I don’t know about today’s data format, but it used to be all on the FITS format, with lots of libraries in Python/Matlab/etc., and also the excellent SAOImage DS9, all available for free.
Here are some links: sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/…/download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS www.stsci.edu/…/our-collections www.sdss.org/dr19/data_access/
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 2 months ago:
No matter how bad the writing was, this is not a good thesis supervisor! It’s funny to read the sassy reply, but I’d hate this professor…
Even doctoral students are still students and are there to learn.
A better review would have been something like “There are severe issues with the structure of the text” and then refer to an external resource on technical writing…
- Comment on Why nor???? 2 months ago:
It probably produce/absorb heat somehow when being deformed. Then, we use it to boil water, turn a turbine, and generate power!
- Comment on Dogs welcome 2 months ago:
Emotional support animals wearing the official harness are actually real services animals that have been trained and such. They will behave.
One of my friend only carries the official harness because of places like this that don’t consider them to be “real”…
- Comment on Lawks 3 months ago:
Percolated?
- Comment on Menger cheese = string cheese 3 months ago:
More cheese = I eat more cheese = more missing cheese = less cheese
- Comment on Evidence 4 months ago:
Maybe it’s a bit strong to say they don’t care. Most I know, they do care but it’s low on the priority list, after “the economy” which affects their savings held up in stocks…
- Comment on Soup 5 months ago:
What? If I understand it all, do I get a PhD in salad?
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 5 months ago:
I got pictures of a duck eating chicks as well
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 5 months ago:
I’m a scientist, I can’t confirm. My specialty is signal processing.
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 6 months ago:
According to “explain xkcd”, its “The Evolution of Threat Display in Mammals”
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 6 months ago:
What’s the thesis topic?
The folding of Thorn Displays in Monroe? Doesn’t make sense to me
- Comment on Fictional 6 months ago:
In many advanced physics fields, they use an arbitrary unit system in which c=1, making equations easier to write down. E=m
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 6 months ago:
Haha that’s exactly it: perception of reality. It doesn’t change the underlying real world, and so it only affects “truth” if we are forced to redefine it based on what socio-constructivism wants it to be.
It’s just like alt-right debates: just by accepting to play the game, you already lost. It’s a logical paradox, and therefore it can’t be a valid theory.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 6 months ago:
Definitely not! It just so happened that in my life experience, I was introduced to socio-constructivism just at the same time that alt-right was beginning to be a thing…
When professors were telling us “Einstein proved that Newton was wrong” without understanding that relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics at low speed… It really failed to get me on board.
- Comment on Smells Great 6 months ago:
That simply means it must melt below 600°C.
A quick wiki check says it melts at 660. I guess if you’re in a really dark room, you could see the glow.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 6 months ago:
Considérons that our lungs and intestines are porous on a molecular scale… And also our sweat pores… Plus are blood vessels (connected to previously mentioned holes)…
Humans have a changing topology depending on the size scale at which you’re working.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 6 months ago:
It’s important to make sure our basic definitiins and assumptions are well defined… That being said I’ve always been pissed at epistomogists that opened the door to crackpots and manipulators to “define their own truth” and invite fascism.
I’m not saying epistomology is bad, but creating a debate about a well established fact is exactly what right-wing people will do when trying to impose their anti-scientific ideas.
- Comment on it's that time 6 months ago:
Wow, there’s still some shelf space left in-between Christmas stuff in your store?
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 6 months ago:
Mass generalization are always wrong!