@freemo @LouisIngenthron "True by definition".
<insert sad Bertrand Russel and Alfred North Whitehead on their 370 page proof of 1+1=2>
The math around pharmakinetics of Ozempic/semiglutide (and many drugs in fact) is fun from a mathematics standpoint and not too hard to understand.
Basically it has a 7 day half life, so they dose it every 7 days. So each week the amount in your blood right after an injection is : 1, 1.5,1.75.... approaching 2. Which means after about a month you reach max dose and it naturally levels off. The curve is basically logarithmic if you did the math though.
Its a nice little intro to finite infinite series, a fun topic IMO.
do the ones you know want us to have universal health care?
@wjmaggos So as far as billionaires go I only may know one (I'm not sure if he is a billionaire but he is damn close, he was the main investor in a very long list of well known large companies).
And yes, you will often find him in pictures standing next to Obama int he white house back when he was in office. He put a lot of time and money into lobbying for democrat party interest, which included universl health care.
The problem with bias is its both directional, and the person afflicted by it is by that same affliction unable to be aware of it.
So is science biased, yea, its run by people, there is plenty of bias corrupting it all over the place. But I'd rather trust the people trying to be objective than the people who arent.
@freemo Not too many free lunches in nature. From this chart, the only way to get off the line common to all materials is structural - making a foam out of it. Not really an analog that can push you in the opposite direction, above the line.
@freemo The style of chart you're looking for is an Ashby chart. With some google-foo, the closest flavor of Ashby chart to what you want I could find publicly available is this:
@customdesigned positronium exists pretty much anytime antimatter-matter collisions take place. They go through a process where they form positronium first, and then after a short halflife will decay into photons. But they dont directly annihilate, just like any other matter they fall into orbitals first until they give off enough energy to reach ground state, their ground state is just annihilation
@freemo In your meme, they are destroying the money by burning it (not spending it). They are literally and irreversibly reducing the money supply, and hence inflation.
Wooooaaaa... something n my computer has been using one of my GPUs for some sort of compute operation. Possibly for days now... Its definitely not for video since i have 4 water cooled compute optimized GPUs and only one of them does video. The tacymeter on the one pinging is one of the ones not hooked up to video.
What the fuck could possibly be compute processing on one of my GPU.... I mean usually its shit I wrote and run.....
Interesting fact of the day: While direct annihilation between two photons (light) is quite rare, the weak interactions between photons is not just noticeable but effects intergalactic light causing scattering. It only happens with high energy gamma rays but basically as they travel over galactic distances they interact with the "soup" of normal lower energy light traveling through he intergalactic void.
Interesting fact of the day: Since a photon is its own anti-particle both matter and antimatter emit the exact same kind of light. They can still annihilate each other, they are just so weakly interacting such annihilation has never been experimentally observed, and we dont expect it ever will be, at least not anytime soon.
For those who are curious, I started Ozempic / Semiglutide at the beginning of January, Ive lost 10 lbs since the start of it, 14 lbs since it "kicked in". Attached are two charts, one of my weight since starting taking it, the other my weight as measured since January 2017, just to add some perspective.
@freemo I once wrote a space combat game where the weapons included electrino beams and poton torpedoes.
> These universal truths I describe are often incredibly narrowly defined, by necessity. I believe very few things are truly absolute, but there are a few.
The fact that you have to define them at all, let alone narrowly, make them non-absolute truths. They are only true under a definition, and thus circular... at best you are creating circular arguments with extra steps to obscure the circular nature of the argument. But its absolutely no different than 1+1=2 being true by definition, you are just using looser linguistic definitions rather thant he mathematical ones.
> For water, your quantity is not "1", but rather "blob". So, yes, blob+blob=blob, but none of those are integers. When they combine, it's not the math that changes, but rather the means by which you measure it. In different units, such as one gallon plus one gallon, the math holds true.
Blob is not a quantity, its a thing... You are acting like the question "How many blobs do I have" cant be "1".
The problem is "quantity" depends on "the quantity of what exactly".
blobs are measured in integers and yes 1 is a valid quantity of blobs. Blobs (like ducks) can also be measures in volume, in which case 1 m^3 + 1 m^3 = 2 m^3. But i wasnt measuring by volume, just as i didnt measurte by volume of ducks, i was measuring by unit, as we do with ducks.
If i make a duck into ground meat, and make it into sausage I can say "I have 1m^3 of duck meat" or I can say ""I have a pile of meat here that is 2 ducks of meat". Both are just as valid as the other.
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