sosodev

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been said in the thread already but I want to try and boil it down a bit. Your question is about intuition vs evidence. Science used to involve a lot more intuition. Many things that the public believed to be true were just educated guesses with little evidence to back them up.

  Over time we realized through research that a large number of these reasonable guesses were completely wrong. So now intuition in science has been largely limited to the hypothesis and the hypothesis is mostly worthless without evidence.

  We’ve also seen in the modern day just how fucked up human intuition can be. We largely have intuition to thank for: flat earth, anti vax, snake oil, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we send electric data across time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly only massless particles that travel through space are photons. Photons are what make up light so to say they travel at that speed is a little redundant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we send electric data across time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. Anybody who says no is forgetting that we still know very little about the universe. It’s possible that we’ll find a way to transmit data to other time periods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we send electric data across time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrons have mass. It’s tiny but a very important distinction between them and massless particles like photons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(I wonder if he knows about lemmy)1 divided by 0 (a 3rd grade teacher and principal got it wrong), Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions [4:51 | Dec 02 2023 | bprp precalculus]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The easiest way to explain divide by zero is to think of division as repeated subtraction. For a simple example of 4 / 2 we know that we would have to subtract 2 from 4 twice to reduce it to 0.

  When we divide by zero we’re functionally asking how many times can we remove zero from the numerator until it is reduced to zero. We typically state the answer as infinity or NaN because we know that we could do this operation indefinitely without the numerator reducing to 0.