5 / 1Welcome to /sci/ - Science & MathThe new /sci/ wiki
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9 / 1If all of humanity got wiped out except for one man and one woman, could the human race ever re-emerge, or would the survivors' descendants all be too crippled with incest defects?
8 / 0Trump cuts funding to a massive project about finding anti-biotic resistance, for being 'anti-semetic'
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/Eqv6KdDYNk6-7M_aXEEApA/project-details/11011835
https://x.com/baym/status/1922435976602743069
What is the future of science research in the united states? Will it regress backwards to satisfy politicians' egos?
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/Eqv
https://x.com/baym/status/192243597
What is the future of science research in the united states? Will it regress backwards to satisfy politicians' egos?
117 / 9Why does racism exist if genetic diversity and racemixing is literally evolutionary advantageous? Shouldn't our monkey brains have learned to actively seek out partners of other races?
59 / 1If there are a finite amount of ways to arrange atoms in a human brain, how can there be an infinite amount of logic that brain can do?
120 / 8Virology is pseudoscience>be virologist
>mix snot with monkey kidney cells and fetal bovine serum
>add antibiotics, antifungals, god knows what else
>some cells die = "the virus did it"
>publish, collect grant money
No isolation. No purification. No control. Just belief.
>no actual experiment showing a virus causes a disease
>can't even find one paper that fulfills basic logic of causation
>every "virus" is inferred from indirect signs: dying cells, genetic fragments, models
>genetic sequence? assembled via software from a soup of unknown material
>EM photos? no proof what's actually being imaged
>immunology? just layered ad hoc excuses for why germ theory keeps failing
>Koch’s postulates? "b-b-but those are outdated!"
>PCR? "not for diagnosis, unless we feel like it"
>Symptoms? "we don't need transmission studies, bro, everyone just knows"
>ask for one falsifiable experiment
>get links to textbooks, cartoons, and wikipedia
Virology isn't science.
Virology is the astrology of biology.
It's a cargo cult with pipettes.
Change my mind.
>mix snot with monkey kidney cells and fetal bovine serum
>add antibiotics, antifungals, god knows what else
>some cells die = "the virus did it"
>publish, collect grant money
No isolation. No purification. No control. Just belief.
>no actual experiment showing a virus causes a disease
>can't even find one paper that fulfills basic logic of causation
>every "virus" is inferred from indirect signs: dying cells, genetic fragments, models
>genetic sequence? assembled via software from a soup of unknown material
>EM photos? no proof what's actually being imaged
>immunology? just layered ad hoc excuses for why germ theory keeps failing
>Koch’s postulates? "b-b-but those are outdated!"
>PCR? "not for diagnosis, unless we feel like it"
>Symptoms? "we don't need transmission studies, bro, everyone just knows"
>ask for one falsifiable experiment
>get links to textbooks, cartoons, and wikipedia
Virology isn't science.
Virology is the astrology of biology.
It's a cargo cult with pipettes.
Change my mind.
52 / 1What is the point of uncountable sets?What is the point of uncountable sets, specifically the set of real numbers? Most reals(100% of them) literally can't be interacted with in any meaningful way. So why not restrict the reals to just the definable reals?
75 / 6Electrical engineeringI'm confused about the field of electrical engineering. What is it actually about? What are the main motivations to study it?
It seems that in the US it's one of the hardest and most prestigious degrees to do. Same e.g. in Switzerland. But in many other countries, EE is where CS dropouts go. This makes me confused about it because I think EE can actually mean different things in different places. What the fuck actually is it?
It seems that in the US it's one of the hardest and most prestigious degrees to do. Same e.g. in Switzerland. But in many other countries, EE is where CS dropouts go. This makes me confused about it because I think EE can actually mean different things in different places. What the fuck actually is it?
68 / 3/scg/ - STEM career generalattendance edition
Previous Thread: >>16635710
This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:
>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)
>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)
Information resource:
>https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/
>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.
No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:
>https://academia.stackexchange.com/
An archive of some of the previous editions of /scg/:
http://warosu.org/sci/thread/15740454
Previous Thread: >>16635710
This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:
>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)
>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)
Information resource:
>https://sciencecareergeneral.neoci
>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.
No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:
>https://academia.stackexchange.com
An archive of some of the previous editions of /scg/:
http://warosu.org/sci/thread/157404
0 / 0If space and time are unified, why do we use different units for both of them?
If they're so fundamentally different that we can't even measure them the same way, what's the point in unifying them? It's not a true 4D manifold, it's a 3+1 manifold. Okay, but why have them together at all if they're incomparable? What do we actually gain?
As far as I'm aware, rotations are extremely limited because the +1 axis isn't isomorphic with the 3. Like a 4D rotation requires you to define the basis of the rotation as a plane of 2 of the axes. But in 3+1 minkowski spacetime, you can't have the plane be an axis of space + the axis of time. So if we can't even treat this thing as a normal manifold... what's the actual fucking point? Are they the same, or are they not? If they're partially equivalent, can you boil the degree of their similarity down to a single fractional value? If you can't even do that, how can you say they're the same?
If they're so fundamentally different that we can't even measure them the same way, what's the point in unifying them? It's not a true 4D manifold, it's a 3+1 manifold. Okay, but why have them together at all if they're incomparable? What do we actually gain?
As far as I'm aware, rotations are extremely limited because the +1 axis isn't isomorphic with the 3. Like a 4D rotation requires you to define the basis of the rotation as a plane of 2 of the axes. But in 3+1 minkowski spacetime, you can't have the plane be an axis of space + the axis of time. So if we can't even treat this thing as a normal manifold... what's the actual fucking point? Are they the same, or are they not? If they're partially equivalent, can you boil the degree of their similarity down to a single fractional value? If you can't even do that, how can you say they're the same?
112 / 11/mg/ mathemathics general[math]/\mathfrak{mg}/[/math]
Danmaku geometry edition
Talk maths, formerly >>16627609
Danmaku geometry edition
Talk maths, formerly >>16627609
3 / 2Flat sun theory argumentsAnons in /sci/ what are your arguments for or against on flat sun theory
3 / 0Madonna-Whore ComplexI just figured out that I have this after discussing sex and relationships with some people.
>In psychoanalysis, a Madonna-whore complex (also called a Madonna-mistress complex) is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed and loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud, who called it psychic impotence, it is a psychological complex that is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased whores. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (Madonna). Freud wrote, "Where such men love they have no desire, and where they desire they cannot love." Clinical psychologist Uwe Hartmann wrote in 2009 that the complex "is still highly prevalent in today's patients".
Is this something that is common? I don't think it really is, at least not the actual complex, but it definitely exists. People who don't understand it have applied it to other unrelated behaviors. Also, why does Freud absolutely nail certain complicated aspects of psychology, and go off the rails on others? Or is he right about it all, and I don't realize it yet?
>In psychoanalysis, a Madonna-whore complex (also called a Madonna-mistress complex) is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed and loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud, who called it psychic impotence, it is a psychological complex that is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased whores. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (Madonna). Freud wrote, "Where such men love they have no desire, and where they desire they cannot love." Clinical psychologist Uwe Hartmann wrote in 2009 that the complex "is still highly prevalent in today's patients".
Is this something that is common? I don't think it really is, at least not the actual complex, but it definitely exists. People who don't understand it have applied it to other unrelated behaviors. Also, why does Freud absolutely nail certain complicated aspects of psychology, and go off the rails on others? Or is he right about it all, and I don't realize it yet?
2 / 0Any tips for firmware dev interview?Hey anons, really need your help. If any of you have interviewed for a firmware / embedded dev roles please share your stories with the competency screening process. I've had lots of exposure to the field in a professional setting but I've never worked for a massive company and am more of a jack of all trades when it comes to this.
I am pretty worried about what sort of trivia they will be asking me. Interview panel said it won't be anything intense and no wrong answers but that's bullshit and I want to nail this so I escape my small company jewish shithole I work for right now doing 3 people's worth of hardware bring up for industrial applications. I would really appreciate any information. In case anyone asks no I'm not a jeet or asian so I can't use the race nepotism card.
I am pretty worried about what sort of trivia they will be asking me. Interview panel said it won't be anything intense and no wrong answers but that's bullshit and I want to nail this so I escape my small company jewish shithole I work for right now doing 3 people's worth of hardware bring up for industrial applications. I would really appreciate any information. In case anyone asks no I'm not a jeet or asian so I can't use the race nepotism card.
23 / 2What’s the point of Mercury? It’s the most uninteresting, boring, and inconsequential planet in the solar system. Even kuiper belt objects are more interesting
13 / 2In my studies of logic I've come across this idea that there is a difference between an explanation and an argument. I don't think any explanation (ironically) of this difference which I have seen was satisfactory. Do you think there is a difference? Can you explain it?
37 / 3Norman Wildberger solves a polynomialHow are we not talking about this? /Ourguy/ has made finitist polynomial history...
2 / 0Does calorie restriction actually slow down the aging process?Does calorie restriction actually slow down aging or is it bullshit? I've seen studies claiming it works but I've read others say it actually doesn't work and actually speeds up aging.
278 / 21>but this one study-
It’s wrong.
>but they found that-
No they didn’t.
>look at the evide-
Don’t need to.
Science has spoken.
It’s wrong.
>but they found that-
No they didn’t.
>look at the evide-
Don’t need to.
Science has spoken.
9 / 0I built a cancer vaccine. Not a joke.Most cancer treatments fail because:
They target surface proteins, which cancer cells mutate or mask
They rely on immune responses, which often misfire or cause collateral damage
They treat cancer as something foreign, not as a broken internal logic
This is different.
It uses mRNA that activates only inside cells with:
High MYC (a growth gene overexpressed in many cancers)
High ROS (oxidative stress from rapid metabolism)
Low let-7 (a silenced tumor suppressor microRNA)
All three must match. If not, nothing happens. No immune system needed. No surface markers. The logic runs entirely inside the cell, like an if-statement.
This avoids common failure points: immune evasion, mutation escape, off-target harm.
Folding verified at -274 kcal/mol via RNAfold. GenBank and FASTA files complete. Patent filed. Other vectors were excluded to reduce risk in healthy tissue, but the system is tunable per cancer. It’s as simple as profiling a cancer type, identifying its consistent markers, and implementing them.
Perfect match:
Triple-negative breast cancer
Ovarian cancer
Small-cell lung carcinoma
These show the exact MYC-high, ROS-high, let-7-low profile. No targeted treatments currently exist for them.
Why am I not in a lab? I’m not a biologist. I’m a programmer.
Out of curiosity, I started studying cell biology and realized it’s code. State machines, logic gates, signal flow. Same patterns I use every day in software show up in gene regulation and cell behavior.
I don’t have access to grants, journals, or labs. If this doesn’t get support, it dies with me.
I’ll answer anything. If you can help test, fund, or pressure someone to pay attention, speak up.
This is as far as I can go alone.
x.com/fixitorgotojail
They target surface proteins, which cancer cells mutate or mask
They rely on immune responses, which often misfire or cause collateral damage
They treat cancer as something foreign, not as a broken internal logic
This is different.
It uses mRNA that activates only inside cells with:
High MYC (a growth gene overexpressed in many cancers)
High ROS (oxidative stress from rapid metabolism)
Low let-7 (a silenced tumor suppressor microRNA)
All three must match. If not, nothing happens. No immune system needed. No surface markers. The logic runs entirely inside the cell, like an if-statement.
This avoids common failure points: immune evasion, mutation escape, off-target harm.
Folding verified at -274 kcal/mol via RNAfold. GenBank and FASTA files complete. Patent filed. Other vectors were excluded to reduce risk in healthy tissue, but the system is tunable per cancer. It’s as simple as profiling a cancer type, identifying its consistent markers, and implementing them.
Perfect match:
Triple-negative breast cancer
Ovarian cancer
Small-cell lung carcinoma
These show the exact MYC-high, ROS-high, let-7-low profile. No targeted treatments currently exist for them.
Why am I not in a lab? I’m not a biologist. I’m a programmer.
Out of curiosity, I started studying cell biology and realized it’s code. State machines, logic gates, signal flow. Same patterns I use every day in software show up in gene regulation and cell behavior.
I don’t have access to grants, journals, or labs. If this doesn’t get support, it dies with me.
I’ll answer anything. If you can help test, fund, or pressure someone to pay attention, speak up.
This is as far as I can go alone.
x.com/fixitorgotojail
7 / 0nikola teslawhat do you guys think about nikola tesla? was he a genius or a dreamer or both?
it seems like he was natural gifted but needed a hard hand to guide him
it seems like he was natural gifted but needed a hard hand to guide him
46 / 0How do anti-determinists justify something coming from nothing, which is essentially what they believe when they support quantum uncertainty
25 / 3Son, we live in a world of mathematical principles, and those principles have to be understood by men who use real numbers. Who's gonna do it. You? You Professor Wildberger? Real numbers have a purpose greater than you can POSSIBLY fathom. You weep for John Gabriel and you curse real numbers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not grasping, that the use of real numbers, while confounding, PROBABLY saves time from vapid toiling. And their existence, while grotesque, and incomprehensible to you, saves time.
You don't want to ignore real numbers because deep down in places you don't talk about at conferences, you WANT infinite precision, you NEED infinite precision.
We use concepts like "infinity," "irrationality," "convergence." We use these concepts to understand the universe. You use them as fodder for your skepticism.
I have neither the time, nor the inclination to explain myself to a foundationalist who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom real numbers and limits provide and then QUESTIONS THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY PROVIDE IT. I would rather you just said THANK YOU, and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you grab a Cauchy sequence, and take its limit. Either way, I don't give a DAMN, WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE ENTITLED TO
You don't want to ignore real numbers because deep down in places you don't talk about at conferences, you WANT infinite precision, you NEED infinite precision.
We use concepts like "infinity," "irrationality," "convergence." We use these concepts to understand the universe. You use them as fodder for your skepticism.
I have neither the time, nor the inclination to explain myself to a foundationalist who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom real numbers and limits provide and then QUESTIONS THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY PROVIDE IT. I would rather you just said THANK YOU, and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you grab a Cauchy sequence, and take its limit. Either way, I don't give a DAMN, WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE ENTITLED TO
9 / 0can someone give me as much information as possible about what is shown here? obviously these are neurons coupling, but what does that accomplish? what kind of logic circitry is being set up here? how did these two find eachother?
16 / 2I'm convinced the Monty Hall problem does not actually filter out brainlets, but rather, it simply confuses everybody and most people do not understand what the question is really asking, which is why so many people get it all wrong.
0 / 0One reason IQ debates are so heated is that people crave for some solid rock proof of their status & immanent worth. Basically, a proof of their immanent positional status in the imaginary hierarchy that would be detached from their personal achievements
"IQ" debates serve as mental gymnastics for wanting to not be at the bottom even though you don't own any land
"IQ" debates serve as mental gymnastics for wanting to not be at the bottom even though you don't own any land
5 / 2Does /sci/ have the highest IQ variance among boards? You see threads where giga autists casually argue about algebraic topology alongside threads where retards fail to grasp high school Newtonian mechanics. I’ve never seen anything like this on any other board.
4 / 1am I low IQ?
whenver I encounter some problem / situation that is new to me my mind sometimes just goes into some kind of "blank" state where I literally can not think
I noticed this happen the first time in 4th grade while taking part at a math puzzle contest, and it kept happening in college during some CS lectures (did get my degree doughbeit)
is this anything that can be done or is this it?
whenver I encounter some problem / situation that is new to me my mind sometimes just goes into some kind of "blank" state where I literally can not think
I noticed this happen the first time in 4th grade while taking part at a math puzzle contest, and it kept happening in college during some CS lectures (did get my degree doughbeit)
is this anything that can be done or is this it?
28 / 0"Artificiality" doesn't existMan evolved from nature, therefore, everything made from his hands is also natural, there is no such thing as "artificial".
80 / 11Why is 3/3 equal to 1?
Ok, so 1/3 is 0.33333 forever. 2/3 is 0.6666 forever. So, if that's the case, why is 3/3=1 and not 0.99999 forever? Where does the last little bit get added to 3/3 to have it equal 1?
Ok, so 1/3 is 0.33333 forever. 2/3 is 0.6666 forever. So, if that's the case, why is 3/3=1 and not 0.99999 forever? Where does the last little bit get added to 3/3 to have it equal 1?
33 / 8Königsberg Bridge ProblemIs this a valid solution? It seems like recognizing the true size of the plane allows for an easy fix.
Any other topographic questions with similar answers?
Any other topographic questions with similar answers?
11 / 2Is it true that sideburns determine how thick your penis can be? The thicker they are, the thicker your penis is
5 / 3>trust me goys erm i mean guys i know better than the leading scientists on black holes from my laboratory in my kitchen
20 / 3Nobody gives a fuck if you scored high on an IQ test, what useful skills and accomplishments do you bring to the table? None? Okay then your IQ score doesn't mean jack shit, retard.
24 / 0Magnetic pole flipCan somebody debunk this channel or are we really all dying in the next 5-15 years
44 / 5How would you un-desert africa?Sahara desert is expanding FAST, millions of square kilometers that weren't desert a few centuries ago, are now desert.
Definitely the worst terrain in existence. What can be done to stop desertification and replace it with savannah?
Definitely the worst terrain in existence. What can be done to stop desertification and replace it with savannah?
307 / 26Evolution is Bullshit.Before the process of evolution can begin, you first need a self-replicating system.
The smallest self-replicating organism is Mycoplasma genitalium (a parasitic bacterium). Their genome size is approximately 600,000 bases long and contains around 500 genes.
Thus, in order to create the first self-replicating system that is needed before evolution can begin, the "primordial soup" would need to first spontaneously create a chromosome with ~600,000 base pairs that contains the correct sequence for ~500 genes; plus some additional molecular machinery to transcribe and translate the very first copy of this genome.
For reference, there is not enough energy in the known universe to crack a 100 character password via brute force; let alone crack the correct sequence of 600,000 base pairs needed to create a self-replicating system.
Thus, life cannot have been created by a "primordial soup" and life cannot have been created by evolution.
Prove me wrong. (Pro Tip: you can’t)
The smallest self-replicating organism is Mycoplasma genitalium (a parasitic bacterium). Their genome size is approximately 600,000 bases long and contains around 500 genes.
Thus, in order to create the first self-replicating system that is needed before evolution can begin, the "primordial soup" would need to first spontaneously create a chromosome with ~600,000 base pairs that contains the correct sequence for ~500 genes; plus some additional molecular machinery to transcribe and translate the very first copy of this genome.
For reference, there is not enough energy in the known universe to crack a 100 character password via brute force; let alone crack the correct sequence of 600,000 base pairs needed to create a self-replicating system.
Thus, life cannot have been created by a "primordial soup" and life cannot have been created by evolution.
Prove me wrong. (Pro Tip: you can’t)
18 / 3Parachute out of a plane?Why couldn't people have parachutes on planes. If a plane is about to crash, why can't people just put on parachutes and when it gets to a low altitude, just open the door and the people would get sucked out of the plane. At least there's a chance of surviving, no? Am I crazy for thinking that would work?
4 / 1"It's a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors...."https://news.utexas.edu/2025/05/05/university-of-texas-led-team-solves-a-big-problem-for-fusion-energy/
Fusion energy "took one step closer to reality," announced the University of Texas at Austin, as their researchers joined with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Group and "solved a longstanding problem in the field" —
>how to contain high-energy particles inside fusion reactors.
When high-energy alpha particles leak from a reactor, that prevents the plasma from getting hot and dense enough to sustain the fusion reaction. To prevent them from leaking, engineers design elaborate magnetic confinement systems, but there are often holes in the magnetic field, and a tremendous amount of computational time is required to predict their locations and eliminate them.
The research team described having discovered a shortcut that can help engineers design leak-proof magnetic confinement systems 10 times as fast as the gold standard method, without sacrificing accuracy... "What's most exciting is that we're solving something that's been an open problem for almost 70 years," said Josh Burby, assistant professor of physics at UT and first author of the paper. "It's a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors...."
This new method also can help with a similar but different problem in another popular magnetic fusion reactor design called a tokamak. In that design, there's a problem with runaway electrons — high-energy electrons that can punch a hole in the surrounding walls. This new method can help identify holes in the magnetic field where these electrons might leak.
Fusion energy "took one step closer to reality," announced the University of Texas at Austin, as their researchers joined with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Group and "solved a longstanding problem in the field" —
>how to contain high-energy particles inside fusion reactors.
When high-energy alpha particles leak from a reactor, that prevents the plasma from getting hot and dense enough to sustain the fusion reaction. To prevent them from leaking, engineers design elaborate magnetic confinement systems, but there are often holes in the magnetic field, and a tremendous amount of computational time is required to predict their locations and eliminate them.
The research team described having discovered a shortcut that can help engineers design leak-proof magnetic confinement systems 10 times as fast as the gold standard method, without sacrificing accuracy... "What's most exciting is that we're solving something that's been an open problem for almost 70 years," said Josh Burby, assistant professor of physics at UT and first author of the paper. "It's a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors...."
This new method also can help with a similar but different problem in another popular magnetic fusion reactor design called a tokamak. In that design, there's a problem with runaway electrons — high-energy electrons that can punch a hole in the surrounding walls. This new method can help identify holes in the magnetic field where these electrons might leak.
9 / 0semiconductor or organic semiconductors?what is less cooked to work as a researcher? I want to work as a researcher, but I don't want to work on a topic which has little future. Does the semiconductors based in silicon still have future? is there any issues or problems that still need to be solved? what are some of the frontiers for semiconductor?
2 / 0For Mental or Manual Calculation (Humans)
The most efficient known techniques include:
- Vedic Mathematics (from India): Fast mental math techniques like "vertically and crosswise" for multiplication.
- Trachtenberg System: A set of rapid mental math rules, especially for multiplication.
- Japanese Soroban (Abacus): Trains users for extremely fast and accurate mental arithmetic.
- Estimation and Decomposition: Breaking numbers into easier chunks (e.g., 97 × 102 (100 - 3)(100 + 2)).
The most efficient known techniques include:
- Vedic Mathematics (from India): Fast mental math techniques like "vertically and crosswise" for multiplication.
- Trachtenberg System: A set of rapid mental math rules, especially for multiplication.
- Japanese Soroban (Abacus): Trains users for extremely fast and accurate mental arithmetic.
- Estimation and Decomposition: Breaking numbers into easier chunks (e.g., 97 × 102 (100 - 3)(100 + 2)).
22 / 4The NPC meme is painfully realYesterday I argued for 30min with 3 people who have PhDs in polarization about whether this diagram is correct. This is the Polarozation Group at my company and this diagram is our standard reference on polarization labeling.
People who aren't visual thinkers literally don't know what they're talking about when it comes to physical processes. The wiki article on visual thinking says that 25% of people think exclusively in words. This should be our lower bound on the percentage of humans who are pretending to be conscious. The article says 30% of the population strongly uses visual thinking, so this is the lower bound on the percentage of humans who are actually conscious, that is, who aren't just saying combinations of words that they've learned are correct.
People who aren't visual thinkers literally don't know what they're talking about when it comes to physical processes. The wiki article on visual thinking says that 25% of people think exclusively in words. This should be our lower bound on the percentage of humans who are pretending to be conscious. The article says 30% of the population strongly uses visual thinking, so this is the lower bound on the percentage of humans who are actually conscious, that is, who aren't just saying combinations of words that they've learned are correct.
10 / 1God made a cool fractal broccoli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli
All those forms you see in this world are made using sound. I bet you know that by now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman
All those forms you see in this world are made using sound. I bet you know that by now.
23 / 2What would happen if you filled a whole swimming pool with nothing but urine and just left it for years? Would algae colonize it?
211 / 26"Professor" DaveLiterally the personification of what's wrong with contemporary academia. An overglorified highschool teacher acting as a scientific authoroty. There is no greater charlatan than him, and the normalfags eat it all up.
42 / 5Is psychiatry a pseudoscience? First the lobotomy, now this> Literally for centuries: This guy thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte and forces everyone to call him his imperial majesty. Don't believe this anon, he will soon be locked up in a mental institution.
> As soon we entered 21st: This guy thinks he's a woman and forces everyone to call him her/them. You MUST believe this, otherwise you will be locked up in jail for calling him fucked up in the head.
Most Western countries today mass import immigrants from Africa and muslim countries - cultures where it is still illegal to be homosexual and women have always been and will always be treated like shit. It's as if by eating feminism and homopropaganda we have developed a cancer, and now we have to do cultural transplantation from patriarchal donors if we want to survive.
> As soon we entered 21st: This guy thinks he's a woman and forces everyone to call him her/them. You MUST believe this, otherwise you will be locked up in jail for calling him fucked up in the head.
Most Western countries today mass import immigrants from Africa and muslim countries - cultures where it is still illegal to be homosexual and women have always been and will always be treated like shit. It's as if by eating feminism and homopropaganda we have developed a cancer, and now we have to do cultural transplantation from patriarchal donors if we want to survive.
0 / 0>the LLM "market" is so oversaturated that silicon valley vaporware startups are now moving over to orbital mirrors
HELLO SAAR WE RAISE $20 MILLION
HELLO SAAR WE RAISE $20 MILLION
145 / 19/sqt/ - stupid questions thread (aka /qtddtot/)Previous thread: >>16615153
>what is /sqt/ for?
Questions regarding maths and science. Also homework.
>where do I go for advice?
>>>/sci/scg or >>>/adv/
>where do I go for other questions and requests?
>>>/wsr/ >>>/g/sqt >>>/diy/sqt etc.
>how do I post math symbols (Latex)?
rentry.org/sci-latex-v1
>a plain google search didn't return anything, is there anything else I should try before asking the question here?
scholar.google.com
>where can I search for proofs?
proofwiki.org
>where can I look up if the question has already been asked here?
warosu.org/sci
eientei.xyz/sci
>how do I optimize an image losslessly?
trimage.org
pnggauntlet.com
>how do I find the source of an image?
images.google.com
tineye.com
saucenao.com
iqdb.org
>where can I get:
>books?
libgen.rs
annas-archive.org
stitz-zeager.com
openstax.org
activecalculus.org
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sci-hub.st
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khanacademy.org
>charts?
imgur.com/a/pHfMGwE
imgur.com/a/ZZDVNk1
>tables, properties and material selection?
www.engineeringtoolbox.com
www.matweb.com
www.chemspider.com
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13 / 4Why can't scientists decipher whether aluminum causes Alzheimer's or not? Is aluminum safe to consume in small amounts? Should aluminum be banned from all types of cookware?
>t. worried I might accidentally consumed aluminum foil earlier in my food and worried that it'll impact my cognitive function
>t. worried I might accidentally consumed aluminum foil earlier in my food and worried that it'll impact my cognitive function
0 / 0Genealogy of DurabilityWithin the NFL, there are some of the most physically gifted humans to ever live in terms of speed, strength, and explosiveness. Any one of these humans would have been an outstanding warrior at any other time in history. One thing that is common within the NFL is injury though. The sport is a meat grinder and most careers don't last more than 2-3 years. Yet there are humans that possess all of the amazing physical traits, but that also seem to have more durable tendons/ligaments/bones/tissue. What genes are responsible for a human being able to endure high amounts of physical trauma and still perform at peak athletic levels over decades?
13 / 0Do you think it would be possible to make education free by training AI to become university/school teachers?
5 / 4What's the name of this kind Magic Square?Typical 3x3
>6 1 8
>7 5 3
>2 9 4
Msquare, but representing numbers with dots, in this 9x9 grid (3x3 in 3x3) each col&row and two diag.s has 5 dots ( 5 = (1+3^2)/2 ).
>6 1 8
>7 5 3
>2 9 4
Msquare, but representing numbers with dots, in this 9x9 grid (3x3 in 3x3) each col&row and two diag.s has 5 dots ( 5 = (1+3^2)/2 ).
35 / 0How come all scientific papers dont come with a mandatory open access reproducability guide with the raw data files, the entire streamline of the data and the assumptions made along the way, so anyone wishing to check it can do so?
2 / 0Deccan Traps VolcanoDid the Chicxulub meteor impact make the eruption worse? What are the chances there was a epic volcanic eruption going on while a killer meteor hit?
6 / 3>10 years later
>Still no rebuttal that doesn't include major concessions to their worldview
How do hereditarian chuds cope?
https://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-i/
>Still no rebuttal that doesn't include major concessions to their worldview
How do hereditarian chuds cope?
https://www.unz.com/article/closing
2 / 0Wait, if homosexuality is caused by an adverse hormonal effects in the womb on later born males, why can't doctors just give hormonal treatment to these babies in the womb to prevent the gayness from occurring at all?
219 / 22Reminder - Earth is the only planet that we know of that has a perfect solar eclipse, since our moon happens to be about the exact same size as our sun when viewed from the Earth.
Nowhere else in the universe does this happen.
Nowhere else in the universe does this happen.
24 / 10You should be able to solve thisOh no!
When 4chan went down Kurisu got trapped in a timeloop on /j/ with nothing to do but eat hotpockets!
She gained 250 pounds in 11 days. Assume her metabolic rate was 2000 calories a day to start and 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories; How many hot pockets did Kurisu eat? And given that number, how many liters of tears did 4chan's ~200 janitors shed?
When 4chan went down Kurisu got trapped in a timeloop on /j/ with nothing to do but eat hotpockets!
She gained 250 pounds in 11 days. Assume her metabolic rate was 2000 calories a day to start and 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories; How many hot pockets did Kurisu eat? And given that number, how many liters of tears did 4chan's ~200 janitors shed?
52 / 2Anyone here who was bad/average at mathematics and related subjects(physics, chemistry, etc...) but eventually got extremely good?
What did you do? What is your learning strategy? How do you practice? How much? What main things helped you build mastery and what changes to your approach contributed to elevating yourself past your previous mediocre level?
Preferably I'd like the advice of someone in the 115 to 125 IQ range or below. Even better if you perform most poorly on numerical reasoning on IQ tests and your score is carried by visuospatial ability, logic and memory. Great as well if your WORKING memory is below average (but your long-term memory average/above). Thanks
What did you do? What is your learning strategy? How do you practice? How much? What main things helped you build mastery and what changes to your approach contributed to elevating yourself past your previous mediocre level?
Preferably I'd like the advice of someone in the 115 to 125 IQ range or below. Even better if you perform most poorly on numerical reasoning on IQ tests and your score is carried by visuospatial ability, logic and memory. Great as well if your WORKING memory is below average (but your long-term memory average/above). Thanks
1 / 1Could you feed patients on a metabolic drug like olanzapine and then perform surgery removing excess fat of the quantity of food served to them producing edible lard? Butchery is expensive and the target consumer of human fat is unlikely, but where does the excess energy production come from overweight subjects?
15 / 3thoughts on university professors AI-proofing their homework? is this fair to strudents?
>https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
>https://www.chronicle.com/article/
90 / 10Is Science Finished?>NIH, NASA, DOE, ARPA-E, NSF face 24-57% budget cuts
>ivy league schools all facing funding cuts
How are we supposed to do science with nearly 60% of funding cut? That's more than $100B+ a year of R&D being cut, combined.
How is the US supposed to compete with China?
>ivy league schools all facing funding cuts
How are we supposed to do science with nearly 60% of funding cut? That's more than $100B+ a year of R&D being cut, combined.
How is the US supposed to compete with China?
12 / 1Okay no, but seriously. What's so hard about proving/disproving an integral equals zero? I thought calculus was a cracked field.
10 / 0if abiogenesis is how life arose on earth why did it only happen once
isnt earth more habital now? why doesnt it keep happening
isnt earth more habital now? why doesnt it keep happening
1 / 0>Muons behave like electrons but are heavier than electrons
>Electrons would get closer to the atom if they were heavier
>The distance between atoms is based on the distance between electrons
>Muons stop existing after a nanosecond or two and don't last longer
If muons didn't decay and stuck around like electrons, could the alternate version of them be used to make a shrink ray?
>Electrons would get closer to the atom if they were heavier
>The distance between atoms is based on the distance between electrons
>Muons stop existing after a nanosecond or two and don't last longer
If muons didn't decay and stuck around like electrons, could the alternate version of them be used to make a shrink ray?
7 / 3>economics faculty
>optional "advanced" mathematics course barely covers differential equations
>average student doesn't know how to use logarithms
>classmate needs help isolating a variable
>optional "advanced" mathematics course barely covers differential equations
>average student doesn't know how to use logarithms
>classmate needs help isolating a variable
7 / 0>electric charge
>weak hypercharge
>weak isospin
>color charge
>helicity
>spin
>chirality
>lepton number
>baryon number
What the fuck is this shit? There's no way reality is this complicated
>weak hypercharge
>weak isospin
>color charge
>helicity
>spin
>chirality
>lepton number
>baryon number
What the fuck is this shit? There's no way reality is this complicated
17 / 2Let’s say everything everywhere, every when, exists all at once. All goods and all bads. A big fat annoying “multiverse”, or “omniverse”, or whatever pretentious word you want to use.
By such a point, is existence deterministic or one of pure probability?
By such a point, is existence deterministic or one of pure probability?
16 / 2Since we can't cure genetic illnesses, does it mean the quality of a population's genes gets worse in the future? Or is it possible to improve our genes for our descendants?
41 / 2You can scientifically prove the validity of a conspiracy theory by looking at the mode of occupation of its adherents. Sample size should be at least 100 observations.
If the mode is "college professor" or "civil engineer", the theory might merit further investigation.
If the mode is "truck driver" or "waitress", the theory is BS with 99.9 % certainty.
If the mode is "college professor" or "civil engineer", the theory might merit further investigation.
If the mode is "truck driver" or "waitress", the theory is BS with 99.9 % certainty.
8 / 1AI safety and doomerism, Effective AltruismTo the surprise of nobody, it turns out all the BS about AI destroying the world was purely schizo mumbling and lore from morally narcissistic and ethically paraphilic deranged Jews/Communists, central planners and adjacent traitors to humanity larping as scientists and saviours from their billionaire financial scams wrapped as elevated cultish wisdom and altruistic preparedness
10 / 0MathWas thinking of this thing, this morning, although I know that this is a very cliche topic, would be glad, if I had people pointing errors in this or otherwise improving/generalizing more on this topic. I have attached the png file, do have a look! Cheers. If you are genuinely interested in this, I can post more such stuff online, although I must say that I am new to this site, and unaware of the details, so please be considerate in grilling me in the followups...
[eqn]
e^{i\pi} = -1
[/eqn]
yeah...just a noobie checking out whether LaTeX works in this platform or not.
[eqn]
e^{i\pi} = -1
[/eqn]
yeah...just a noobie checking out whether LaTeX works in this platform or not.
0 / 0>A fish-like thing appeared among the annelids one day;
>It hadn't any parapods or setae to display.
>It hadn't any eyes or jaws, or ventral nervous chord,
>But it had a lot of gill slits and it had a notochord.
>It's a long way from amphioxus
>It's a long way to us…
>It's a long way from amphioxus
>To the meanest human cuss.
>It's good-bye, fins and gill slits,
>Hello, lungs and hair!
>It's a long, long way from amphioxus,
>But we all came from there!
>It hadn't any parapods or setae to display.
>It hadn't any eyes or jaws, or ventral nervous chord,
>But it had a lot of gill slits and it had a notochord.
>It's a long way from amphioxus
>It's a long way to us…
>It's a long way from amphioxus
>To the meanest human cuss.
>It's good-bye, fins and gill slits,
>Hello, lungs and hair!
>It's a long, long way from amphioxus,
>But we all came from there!
47 / 4Is mathematics a form of magic, or divination?Mathematics, as we know it, is a series of rituals done in a specific fashion in order to access a well of objective knowledge that can be applied in order to benefit us or predict the future, albeit highly specific and concrete.
This is pretty much divination.
That isn't to demean math or exalt traditional divination or woo woo, it's to say that math is just a correct form of divination, or more accurately, physical prediction.
Now there could be an ontological argument about how true this is, but as far as how mathematics fits into the study of culture and religion, would calling math a form of divination be correct?
This is pretty much divination.
That isn't to demean math or exalt traditional divination or woo woo, it's to say that math is just a correct form of divination, or more accurately, physical prediction.
Now there could be an ontological argument about how true this is, but as far as how mathematics fits into the study of culture and religion, would calling math a form of divination be correct?
10 / 0/crpgg/ is having a discussion about wizards casting lightning bolt under water
There's some differing opinions on if/how it would work. Can you help us clear it up?
There's some differing opinions on if/how it would work. Can you help us clear it up?
19 / 5ChatGPT calculated 1 in a trillion chanceof these prime number spirals matching spiral galaxies, hurricanes, and other natural features is purely coincidental, is it correct?
https://3b1b-posts.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/featured-content/prime-spirals.mp4#t=0.001
https://3b1b-posts.us-east-1.linode
7 / 0Are men unnecessary in reproduction?I found a radfem claiming that semen does not determine the sex of the baby and that all life comes from the mother's egg. Is this true?
4 / 2Are people interested in college mathematics (amateurs, dropouts, graduates or phds) the biggest cucks in modern society ? I can't imagine a worse way to waste your time than learning anything that has to do with functions and up as an intellectual pursuit. People interested in modern mathematics are complete weirdos if you really think about it.
11 / 1"TOPOLOGISTS could be here" he though, "I've never been to this department before. There could be TOPOLOGISTS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE TOPOLOGISTS" he thought. The Freyd-Mitchell Embedding Theorem reverberated through his head, making it pulsate as the $9 dover textbook crumpled in his powerful thick hands and washed away his (merited) fear of counterexamples in the wild. "With a Module, you can compute anything you want" he said to himself, out loud.
7 / 1If they found viruses or virus-like creatures , with even just RNA, on another planet, they would confirm extraterrestrial life
And yet we're just supposed to believe viruses aren't life, proto-life, or life adjacent because muh cell
And yet we're just supposed to believe viruses aren't life, proto-life, or life adjacent because muh cell
18 / 5Does the fine tune constant hint at anything or was Feynman superstitious? The rounding is suspiciously even
321 / 51/med/: ancef pump editionRemember
>Do NOT give advice
>Do NOT feed the nursoids
>Do NOT engage with premeds
And most importantly
>Do NOT respond to psych patients
>Do NOT give advice
>Do NOT feed the nursoids
>Do NOT engage with premeds
And most importantly
>Do NOT respond to psych patients
11 / 2Having PhD or MsC degree does not makes you intelligentDear ,,Scientists''
Finishing college does not makes you intelligent.
You slightly above average IQ won't make me respect you.
It doesn't matters how hard you have studied.
You have knowledge and experience. But not higher intelligence.
You are just doing boring stuff that no one else want to.
That's why you think you are smart and bright.
But smartest mind knows you are nothing worth their attention.
Over 150 IQ profesors and aspergers looks at you with boredom.
They know you are nothing valuable.
They are not equal to you.
You will never make a breakthrough.
You will never be a genius.
~High IQ retarded anon
Finishing college does not makes you intelligent.
You slightly above average IQ won't make me respect you.
It doesn't matters how hard you have studied.
You have knowledge and experience. But not higher intelligence.
You are just doing boring stuff that no one else want to.
That's why you think you are smart and bright.
But smartest mind knows you are nothing worth their attention.
Over 150 IQ profesors and aspergers looks at you with boredom.
They know you are nothing valuable.
They are not equal to you.
You will never make a breakthrough.
You will never be a genius.
~High IQ retarded anon
10 / 5"Unarchivable" web pages> other_cool_wallpaper.jpeg
Hi /sci/ this is just a random question. Recently I've been fixating on lost media and how information posted online is basically lost just because is not popular enough, not due to a technical characteristic.
With this in mind I think that it would be cool to think of a protocol or tech that would allow for info to be posted online but not for this to be saved or archived.
Honestly I find this interesting mostly at an artistic and philosophical level, but also can see how this very idea can be viscerally repugnant because I really hate when movies, shows, music and videogames are lost just because of the publishers and their stupidity.
Currently I'm just thinking on a single server implementation, but the application of this as a decentralized collective system also seems interesting to me. Imagine 4chan but so profoundly anonymous that the only way to be in the know would be to interact with 4chan itself.
> TL;DR;
> Lets talk about tech for posting "unarchivable" content online
Hi /sci/ this is just a random question. Recently I've been fixating on lost media and how information posted online is basically lost just because is not popular enough, not due to a technical characteristic.
With this in mind I think that it would be cool to think of a protocol or tech that would allow for info to be posted online but not for this to be saved or archived.
Honestly I find this interesting mostly at an artistic and philosophical level, but also can see how this very idea can be viscerally repugnant because I really hate when movies, shows, music and videogames are lost just because of the publishers and their stupidity.
Currently I'm just thinking on a single server implementation, but the application of this as a decentralized collective system also seems interesting to me. Imagine 4chan but so profoundly anonymous that the only way to be in the know would be to interact with 4chan itself.
> TL;DR;
> Lets talk about tech for posting "unarchivable" content online
9 / 4SuperColliderPlease Bro. Just one more SuperCollider Bro. The Large Hadron Collider was not big enough to solve the mysteries of the Universe bro.
We found the Higgs Boson bro. We confirmed that there's a field there that gives atoms mass. We can't actually do anything with it, it disappears immediately, and we can't even observe it without billions of dollars for equipment, personnel, land and maintenance... but we need more bro.
The theories and models built that predicted and factored its existence were confirmed by the LHC and it's led to wondrous... checking of the box that "Higgs field = Yes" bro.
Think of all the scientific research like Superconductors, Fusion, Genetic Engineering, Reversing Aging and Graphene research that we can siphon money and time from to feed the starving quantum physicists bro.
If you don't give us money, it's because it's 2deep4u. We promise that something good will happen.
We need it bro. Please.
We found the Higgs Boson bro. We confirmed that there's a field there that gives atoms mass. We can't actually do anything with it, it disappears immediately, and we can't even observe it without billions of dollars for equipment, personnel, land and maintenance... but we need more bro.
The theories and models built that predicted and factored its existence were confirmed by the LHC and it's led to wondrous... checking of the box that "Higgs field = Yes" bro.
Think of all the scientific research like Superconductors, Fusion, Genetic Engineering, Reversing Aging and Graphene research that we can siphon money and time from to feed the starving quantum physicists bro.
If you don't give us money, it's because it's 2deep4u. We promise that something good will happen.
We need it bro. Please.
2 / 0I know that women are less likely to deliver a healthy baby as they age, but is that strictly down to the quality of the eggs, or the quality of the incubator?
My girlfriend can't get pregnant, but she does have viable eggs. If we get a surrogate who's 22, will the baby be as healthy as it would be if I'd impregnated someone younger?
My girlfriend can't get pregnant, but she does have viable eggs. If we get a surrogate who's 22, will the baby be as healthy as it would be if I'd impregnated someone younger?
13 / 5The design flaw in the human mind that causes all the problems in today's worldEmpathy.
I'm sure you've heard the word a million times in your life, but do you really know what it is, how it works, and what was it designed to do in the first place?
No, you don't. So let me start by explaining the original function of the Empathy System.
Imagine this scene: you see someone eating a hamburger. You see them hold the hamburger, take a bite, and then go "hhhmmmm," and make a face that lets you know that they are enjoying the taste of the hamburger.
What happens is that you saw the person and you understood the action they were performing (eating the hamburger). You understood the effect said action had on the person (they enjoy it). And this created in your mind the understanding that eating a hamburger provides you with joy.
The same thing happens if you see someone perform an action that results in causing them pain. You understand the action, you understand the consequences of the action, and you learn that said action could result in pain.
This is the actual function of the Empathy System: it allows you to learn from others around you by understanding their actions and the consequences (emotional response) of their actions.
(Continue reading it here: https://artiesays8.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/the-design-flaw-in-the-human-mind-that-causes-all-the-problems-in-todays-world/ )
I'm sure you've heard the word a million times in your life, but do you really know what it is, how it works, and what was it designed to do in the first place?
No, you don't. So let me start by explaining the original function of the Empathy System.
Imagine this scene: you see someone eating a hamburger. You see them hold the hamburger, take a bite, and then go "hhhmmmm," and make a face that lets you know that they are enjoying the taste of the hamburger.
What happens is that you saw the person and you understood the action they were performing (eating the hamburger). You understood the effect said action had on the person (they enjoy it). And this created in your mind the understanding that eating a hamburger provides you with joy.
The same thing happens if you see someone perform an action that results in causing them pain. You understand the action, you understand the consequences of the action, and you learn that said action could result in pain.
This is the actual function of the Empathy System: it allows you to learn from others around you by understanding their actions and the consequences (emotional response) of their actions.
(Continue reading it here: https://artiesays8.wordpress.com/20
23 / 4Science: prehistoric women were the hunters, while men were womenScientific method just dropped this new science. Thanks, science!
9 / 0Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.