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here is by the way number of posts per day historically this one is pretty funny though - this is average post length (number of characters)

I basically scraped all posts on this forum since 2013, so that's the data these are based on. color is random, but size is based on the word's importance

this sounds like a very complicated problem

@peoplesuck it would look very much like this: in terms of software it's written in a programming language called R

oh and I should mention – as last time, this thing doesn't just emphasize the most used words, it uses algorithms which will reveal your true self by weighting words inversely vs how common those words are in general. in regards to lobes, I guess it has to do with lobes in the brain

It's time for more word clouds, folks. I think it was @Animekitty who came up with the idea originally, so I'll start with his: as usual everyone in the thread gets a cloud

I think one has to distinguish between reality and our models of reality. Some scientist seem to believe those are the same, but I think such a belief requires a bit of hubris. Pi was mentioned - eg if you’re doing quantum mechanics you would make extensive use of pi to model reality (inside...

I guess I have allergy against demagogues and agitpropists

as much of a critic I am of the concept of Greta Thunberg – Times person of the year, I think it's commendable that she in her twitter feed issues supportive messages to the thousands of people affected by the virus, and voices concern over a global pandemic as a threat to humanity parallel to...

This thread is actually quite amusing. One is accused of being too scientific, too irrational, and too “intellectualized” all at once. One would think that the most human endeavor of all is to reason about things systematically and scientifically, but nay, apparently in some endeavors it’s...

Maybe one could utilize semen in a similar way

If the average-looking woman would be willing to take the same emotional risk as a man takes every time he approaches a woman, she could get laid with 30 different men every day if she wanted to. And let me say I’m not complaining, I’m quite happy with my achievements in the poontang game...

in a parallel proposition to the Freud theory where he says women have an inherent envy of the male's cock, I would extend this theory and say the cock represents male pro-activeness and a certain aggression. The cock is a protrusion, both physically and metaphysically. I.e. women have an...

Here’s my advice for dating: 1: sign up for an online dating service 2: learn web browser automation 3: use algorithms to send out standardized messages en-masse 4: meet up with the women who respond 5: refine the algorithm over time via trial and error to optimize the response rates Boom...

I have fished bass and pike before, those would be the only fish I could identify

sometimes one just gradually deviates from a path, it's sort of happened to me now over the last year or so. I've become quite lazy, stimulus-based, forgot a lot of my old principles that guided me in the past. I don't think there has to be a specific reason for it, one just sort of gradually...

everyone thinks of the afterlife as someplace where one finally gets rid of all stress, pain and anxieties of current life, and just lives a blissful pure existence. Wouldn't it be hilarious if the next life is just like this one except with like 20% more stress and anxiety, 1 hour longer...

@moody I for one don't think women act with a logic one cannot understand, but I think they act in a complicated manner which is a reasonable subject of analysis like any topic in psychology, biology, sociology etc etc. One would think that the existence of scientific writing on these topic...

obviously ideally it would be something related to the things you plan to study or work with in the future, although I assume it is quite difficult to find such jobs as a teenager

when I try to learn a subject, I pretty much have one general method: look at things you are good at and try to figure out what you did in the past to become good in them. Then just apply that to the new subject. in terms of scientific studies on learning, "depth of processing" seems to be the...

well that's a start I suppose, but in terms of turning that potential into an entelechy, it's like walking knee-high into the water at a beach in france and then saying one has crossed the atlantic ocean.

@Animekitty by "met a woman", what do you mean

from having known an individual with schizophrenia, I would say it should be very easy to distinguish murderers with schizophrenia from murderers who are just run-of-the-mill psychopaths who enjoy the power trip and simply lack the element of sympathy

by definition, to make a woman attracted to oneself, one has to make her feel good about oneself. I continue to be extremely curious why women find it so distasteful when men pose the question: what is it that actually will make a woman feel good about me, and then analyze this problem...

It has strengthened my belief that viruses, bacteria, and fungi are orders of magnitude more of an existential threat than eg climate change. School kids like Greta Thunberg have to start spinning the cogwheels in their brains about how to embed infectious decease into a social justice framework

it's pretty trippy stuff. the other day I was with some people and one of them said something regarding truffle oil. I said "truffle oil?" and then started laughing like a maniac. tbh Truffle oil sounds like something Kramer from seinfeld would invent and then pitch to people enthusiastically

it sounds a bit strange to me that you could see the effects of an object crossing the event horizon (e.g. increased shwarzchild radius) before the object has crossed the event horizon. It also sounds like you would be receiving light from events at or beyond the event horizon, which by...

i've been getting so little sleep past 2 weeks it feels like im on drugs or something

I guess this relates to point 5, but I've always wondered what the issue is, considering that from every observer frame outside a black hole time dilation at the even horizon is infinite, thus nothing actually ever goes inside it (unless you go inside the black hole with it)

I saw a bunch of cases where kids coming from well-off, well-adjusted families become young little psychopaths going after the weakest and the most vulnerable on a regular basis. Fuck all that sensitivity and empathy towards bullies. Luckily they are cowards, so even a minimal display of...

Isn’t it funny how we could easily have discussed any of the myriad of cognitive biases in humans that have been scientifically proven, or other theoretical aspects of human choice like hyperbolic discounting, or analyzed sexual selection in, say, insects, in a game-theoretical framework, yet if...

although I have learned quite a lot from women themselves about this kind of stuff, one has to understand that what women say is heavily biased in favor of their own optimal reproductive strategy, and what they say must be adjusted accordinly. Any reproduction is better than nothing for both...

@washti so if I put on a condom, this should rewire my brain on the spot and change what I’m interested in sexually?

No, every human - and especially every woman - is a unique snowflake with his/her own original thoughts and rigorously reasoned reasons for every action they do. Psychology is all wrong because it tries to generalize said unique snowflakes. I have thus destroyed all arguments about human...

they only do that stuff in movies

I tried to meditate once. After 5 minutes of just sitting around doing nothing I was like "yo this is boring as hell". I'm sure there's some monk who's been living in a cave for the last 10 years who can tell me this means I'm not zen or whatever, but who is to say he is right. He probably has...

that's existentialism, more along the lines of Sartre. I used to read a lot more than I do. I like to think it's because I found what I was looking for. I too think that when philosophy gets too deep and technical it becomes gibberish and a mere shuffling around with words whose meaning is...

Meditation is for pussies LOL

I'm so fucking tired of my parents harassing me all the time, man. Is it really necessary to call me every goddamn week and talk to me about their boring-ass vacuous horse shit? And if I don't pick up my mother sends me messages pretending it's something important, and it never is. She doesn't...

the default assumption should be that the dividend is permanently subtracted from the price, because this is money that is directly subtracted from the net income of the company. This is a case where one should think about the concept of a "free lunch". If it were as simple as the stock dropping...

I have pretty much 2 sources of news that I use: reuters and zerohedge.com. The former is obviously more raw news, latter is more interpretative. that being said, ultimately one would need to know what to look for, as there's obviously a sea of information out there. When it comes to individual...

before this is exploited by do-gooder politicians, hollywood stars, and a certain girl from sweden who is yet to learn the 9x9 multiplication table, I want to see conclusive evidence that this was caused by CO2 emissions. edit: k I looked at the daily max temperature in australia, not gonna...

@Rebis yeah trying to quit the nicotine, don’t like the dirty feeling I get from it I remember that time I quit everything - nicotine and caffeine for a couple of months. Felt nice as hell, very smooth and stable mental state throughout the day. But then one gets a taste of caffeine once and...