Quibblekrust
@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
- Comment on Gottem 3 days ago:
Strongly suggesting the placebo fooled their body into releasing it’s own endogenous opiates.
I don’t get it. Why would they assume that? You’re given a placebo pain reliever and it relieves pain. Then you’re given a nalaxone, which you, the patient, knows blocks opioids. In both cases, it could just be the placebo effect. You could be given water and told it’s nalaxone, and it could have the same effect.
Were they not told they were being given nalaxone? Were there four cohorts? Were some of the people who got placebo painkillers also given placebo nalaxone where it didn’t block the pain relief?
I can’t read the paywalled article.
- Comment on time for learn 5 days ago:
They? You mean the A.I. that made this? You think they ever gave shits?
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 2 weeks ago:
x² = n isn’t the same thing as x = √2
I guess that’s what I was thinking. I don’t think I can even blame my math teachers.
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 2 weeks ago:
Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number
Nah, dog. You’re arbitrarily ignoring negatives. The square root of 4 is ±2.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 3 weeks ago:
I’ve read about capitalist governments doing the same thing. All groups can make mistakes. Unions have done stupid things, too. This doesn’t mean that we should never seek collective power in a battle against other forms of colllecive power.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 3 weeks ago:
That’s why we need guilds.
- Comment on Just vibing 3 weeks ago:
What joke?
- Comment on Just vibing 3 weeks ago:
My main concern with his video was a lack of a real explanation. He never once used the word induction, for instance.
The AlphaPhoenix video I linked proves Veritasium “true”. It wasn’t even a rebuttal, really. It’s just that he had a problem with what Veritasium was saying about current and what it means to light up a light bulb.
Just because no one made another video after Veritasium made a follow-up one, just means everyone was tired of the subject. I have not watched Veritasium’s follow-up video because his first one offended me so much I blocked his channel. It’s not the content that was wrong, necessarily, it was the way he presented it. It was all hand waving without trying to get people to truly understand the thought experiment. It pissed me off.
- Comment on Just vibing 3 weeks ago:
AlphaPheonix has a few real cool electricity videos.
- Comment on Just vibing 3 weeks ago:
Heat is kinetic energy and the water is part of your food, so the microwave does heat your food.
- Comment on It's pronounced OI-lur, not YOO-lur 3 weeks ago:
Hummus vs humus.
Title is about some Swiss math nerd.
- Comment on Tiny ramen shop 1 month ago:
God, I wish Cup noodles tasted as good as real ramen.
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 1 month ago:
hunchbacked, deep-jawed mega-goose
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
My god is YouTube. TV is dead.
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
And definitely don’t marry him!
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 2 months ago:
This is all wrong! You can’t just connect the batteries like in the photo. You have to put the batteries on rose quartz! You will hear an amazing improvement! It is not good to put them next to each other, they must be in contact with the crystal!
Spoiler
Content stolen from a totally serious comment on the blog post.
- Comment on all the proof i need 2 months ago:
Lack of space was Fermat’s excuse for not proving his last theorem.
- Comment on Let's stick with just the one observer from now on, then 2 months ago:
[Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester](en.wikipedia.org/…/Elitzur–Vaidman_bomb_tester
- Comment on Let's stick with just the one observer from now on, then 2 months ago:
I would argue it’s still mysterious. If it were simple, we wouldn’t have what’s called the measurement problem.
Also, there is more than one way to measure something, and not all of them require a real photon to hit some particle. In the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, you can “measure” whether the quantum bomb’s sensor is working or not without actually hitting it with a photon. Instead, you hit it with the “chance” of a photon hitting it, and that’s good enough. (It’ll still blow up half of the time, but you can design the tester with multiple recursive tiers to increase your tested-but-unexploded bomb yield to arbitrarily close to 100%.)
That’s pretty mysterious in my mind.
- Comment on Soup 2 months ago:
Water can be up to 15% vegetables!
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
Starvation is a great motivator!
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 2 months ago:
Nazis will take any data they want and turn it evil, even if it’s only half true. And they’ll ignore data that conflicts with their belief. It doesn’t matter what science discovers.
We already have evidence that some forms of “evil” are inheritable. This isn’t new. For instance example, I saw a documentary like 20 years ago that showed how one adopted baby—in a nice suburban family, with a couple other perfectly normal kids—was a criminal at a young age. Like stealing-a-school-bus-at-age-nine criminal, and that was just one of many examples. They showed two family trees: his adopted and his biological, and highlighted people who had been arrested, convicted of crimes, etc. They used a few different colors, and sometimes colored in one person’s node with two or more colors. His adopted family had like one spot going back 3 generations. His biological family was a rainbow! Remember, he was adopted as a baby and raised with love, and the other kids were fine.
Now what do we do with this kind of data? Be proactive about helping certain kids if they have certain genes. Give them safe outlets for their impulses, or what have you. Extra monitoring. I dunno.
What would a Nazi do? Nothing. Nazis don’t care if people are evil. What are they going to do, eugenics themselves? They’re the ones with the most colorful family trees.
Just some food for thought. I don’t think we should suppress science just because Nazis exist.
- Comment on TAKE MORE TYLENOL 3 months ago:
What is this implying? That the kid only has 29 neurons?
- Comment on fragile masculinity 3 months ago:
I’ve seen literal fucking science YouTube channels imply they are sea creatures. SciShow to be specific. The narrator was talking about sea creature and said something like, “And your corals, sponges, luffas and such”. I was like, wtf? Even SciShow doesn’t know they are plants?
- Comment on spaghett 3 months ago:
You spooked me!
- Comment on Discuss: 3 months ago:
An angel
- Comment on I c it! 4 months ago:
You made a parallel sentence construction:
- pinholes diffract light.
- lenses refract light.
You directly contrasted them. Refraction is obviously key to how lenses work. So it seemed to me like you were saying that diffraction is key to how pinholes work. 🤷
- Comment on I c it! 4 months ago:
Only if you know the sun’s size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
- Comment on I c it! 4 months ago:
Pinholes diffract light.
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work. In fact, diffraction makes the photographs worse than they otherwise would be. The pinhole makes an effective aperture for photography because it’s small size produces small circles of confusion on the film plane. Ideally, you would make the hole as small as possible, but beyond a certain (small) size, defraction becomes the dominant source of blurring. So the size of the pinhole should be chosen to yield the best balance between geometric blur and diffraction blur.
The diffraction is merely a limit to the smallness of the aperture, and not what creates the image.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 5 months ago:
What do you mean they won’t let you? There’s no time limit on edits.