Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

EMF radiations can have some effects if they are damn strong. My father was a specialist in high voltage transport and also other things like fire security. He was called on a site because people had migraines and equipment, mostly cathodic tubes had parasites. So, the first thought was that it was related to screens. Then he saw that the electric board was not wired correctly, making some cables part of a big electric loop ^^ The fix was to do the wiring properly and ground the circuit properly. Those things are very rare occurrences and usually the result of someone fucking his job. People were good as soon it was fixed, no realm harm beside when they were actively subjected to a very strong field. He also had the case of almost imperceptible noise making people uncomfortable and that was coming from generators not shielded properly and transmitting sound through the ground hundred of meters away (and the fun stuff is that it travel long distances until it can resonate with some material and diffuse at random places, making it extra difficult to find the source without proper equipment). The common denominator to those event is the rarity both in time and occurrence! We are speaking of two events spread over a country and a lifetime of employment and due to people sucking at their job, in combination of unfortunate location... It's a case of it could but...but...but...but 🤣
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@zed1stwizard More and more people skim texts with "apriori" and end up reading quite the opposite and not even getting the salient point as a result. Then they go with personal attacks :-D But the good things is that very rarely, people realize it and apology. I wish more people would take the time as you did! Thanks!
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@theultimatereductionist7592 Streisand effect. Tacking no action is the best course as it organically keep the material contained to the initial audience. When you are inexperienced, you think that you've to eliminate all bad communication. With experience, you know that even bad communication can be good. In few years, those videos would have been partially forgotten, but the brand will have stuck in people mind. So, new exposition (ads) would highly benefit from that priming (prior exposure).
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At 7:56, you say how dangerous it is. But you are not marking it.
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@kengartner204 To be fair, only heard it from my father who was a rare specialist in Belgium, working for RTT and being "landed" to other companies. His labl worked on peculiar cases and he was often very drawn out from it. Also dealt with equipment which were unique pieces. They also made the big mistake of having him "break" the new engineers. He was too good at it 🤣
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People know little and believe they know a lot. I am learning basic mathematics and a sentence like "You can see that the circle lies on one of his four sides" makes total sense and I would infer that one is working on distance infinite. Yet, everyone knows what a circle is :-D And many times I got bitten by the "obviously, there is an algebraic symmetry so ..." then when "just checking" see that the implication is way off. We know almost nothing on almost everything ^^
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@TheDimentoGraven To be fair, we still do not understand magnetism. We know it propagate in environment devoid of any perceptible matter...and that's all we know...it propagates. So, any good scientist will just admit defeat on that front and it's basically "magic". We assume there is a field we don't know of course. And we can model it etc. It even has good predictability (hence, it's a good model). We also call those "models" because we are aware that they may be totally wrong. It's also why we classify models according to their predicting abilities. As an example, for the shape of the Earth, Mathematicians quickly came with a "ball" shape. That was the model with the best predicting power. Then we went to space...and it's a ball! But it's not always that easy. A lot of model can't be confirmed as we only see "shadows". That's why most people (and not only Flat Earther) don't understand Sciences. It's not at all about the truth, it's all about validity. Sometimes, though, Sciences can bump on the truth (i.e. shape of Earth).
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@zed1stwizard Obviously, reading course for K5 would be very beneficial to you. Yep, don't be condescending when you can't understand a text properly. If you know how magnetism propagate through void, just publish your findings! This would be the leap of the millennium.
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@zed1stwizard Oh, and we knew it was a ball in 900BC...yes, 900 BEFORE CHRIST..
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@robertminneman1727 You failed the reading comprehension test. Time to take serious remediation classes. There is zero excuses for arrogant ignorance. Also excessive writing to end up in the wrong. That the Earth was a ball was proved in 900BC...But it proved a MODEL. This is exactly what I was pinpointing, very few people understand sciences and you are not one of them. Go read my comments AGAIN and with a slow pace. Ponder each statement that is made, you will learn a bit about sciences. And no, I don't believe someone can read it and understand in one go...unless he already had prior understanding and it is a refresher. You see, the premise is deadly simple, but you have first to unlearn your own misconception about sciences. It's also good to have historical fact right to not be two millennium off. A good exercise is to answer these questions: - In the comment, the word "model" is employed. What is a "model" in that context ? - In the comment, you can read "Sciences seeks validity, not truth" (paraphrased). Explain with your own words. (Hint: use your answer to the first question) Good luck!
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@TheDimentoGraven By preaching wrong, got the right thing. It's still one millennial earlier than what was said. Also, looks like you took the wrong account to reply ? Being older doesn't means you know science better. Inability to understand why models aren't the truth and why Sciences do not care is failure to understand the basic of Sciences. I do know the first comment came very hard on people because some realized they were not that much knowledgeable and other interpreted as "the Earth is not a ball, here is why". That's quite sad that ignorance is so pervasive besides rote learning.
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@TheDimentoGraven There is nothing to debate. I already replied to your question. What you are showing is your inability to read it.
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@robertminneman1727 I'll quote myself: <<By preaching wrong, got the right thing. It's still one millennial earlier than what was said>> By preaching wrong -> preaching is a funny way to say "write". It's still one millennial earlier than what was said. -> That means that in the reply it said "circa 1800". For that one, I can understand the confusion. I am not being childish, except memory which did not serve well. I did remember it was way before Chris. So, I was off by 600 years. Still better than a whole era though. Point was BC for that one. For the remaining, I know the words are simple, but the matter is though. Not my fault almost everyone get it wrong and not only Flat Earthers. It's one of the thing that requires you to be from the STEM fields. So, not a shame to ignore the fundamental of sciences. But shame to go on high horses about sciences when one doesn't know the ABC. The worse being being able to read that I support Flat Earth in one way or another :-D The person who did did exactly what I proposed: reread calmly and see that he misread. An adult response!
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@robertminneman1727 That's where it becomes too subtle. In fact, even seeing the Earth from orbit is not enough as a proof. That's why we will never get to the truth and always have models. One of the first thing you learn is that we use our senses and we can augment them. (primary school, first years of secondary school) That means we perceive reality. Then we create models that fit these perceptions and can predict what we can perceive with great accuracy. A stupid example is chromacy. It's only recently that we discovered that some animals can see forbidden colors. And the knowledge of forbidden colors is recent too. Still, models we use are still accurate enough and I am not even aware of the newest models integrating these new facts. We could imagine that the Earth is "flat" (but not like a Flat Earther would imagine!) because it's an holographic projection. (Holographic principle) It doesn't even contradict our models because of locality! So, yes, I am a bit irritated when someone lectures others and you can smell the "sciences seek truth" in it. It may show by the way I answer. If you conflate "model" and "reality", then it's not sciences anymore. It's a belief. Truth is inaccessible just because we are in the cavern looking at the shadows. Again, it takes time to develop such understanding and this is why it is seeded in early ages when you learn the senses and world perception.
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@someolddude3858 Can you read the comments AND reply to these questions: A good exercise is to answer these questions: - In the comment, the word "model" is employed. What is a "model" in that context ? - In the comment, you can read "Sciences seeks validity, not truth" (paraphrased). Explain with your own words. (Hint: use your answer to the first question) If you can't, I am not pursuing conversation with you.
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@someolddude3858 You did put wrong word into my mouth. As you said that you like little kids, that's quite concerning. Oh, yes, that's my observation so, don't dare to question it.
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@choronos In one company, I gave a low ball estimate of about 2 years to complete a project, based on a very optimistic projection. The manager didn't like that at all. And because I took extra care to evaluate the project runtime in the most favorable conditions, he had no leeway to say that I did a bad job. So, instead, he lied and asked other people to lie. Because I was ready for hostile work environment (as a consultant, that happens quite a bit that you land on a very bad customer and it can end your career really quick!), I had a software which took a screenshot every 10 seconds (TimeSnapper) and tag which application was in the foreground. I also took the time to annote the time frames, so I had an idea of why I took breaks and which tasks I was doing. So, the company decided to do a "confrontation" in seeking some compensation. I replied that all they sent was lies and that I would be very happy to provide the recording. The confrontation was swiftly canceled ^^ In another company, they tried to gaslight me through "experts" who knew their jobs, but every-time, it didn't last more than 5 minutes before a big blunder from them. My boss was afraid to cancel the project, because it was a huge company intertwined with the state. Naturally, I read the contract and in the bottom of one of the first page, I read "Any amount paid is due". I read that sentence an hundred times, because I couldn't believe I had a proper understanding of that. So, anything we perceived was ours. And that was a contract they did redact. So, I went to the boss and showed him that sentence he we were both in the same boat "is it really that written here ?". He cancelled the project and could keep the payments 😂 The company just went with another provider and had a website "available soon", until they just abandoned and use their old site. Now, they still had most of the analysis done by us, so it was not a total loss. They also learned what are personas, system expert, business interviews...
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People are simply stupid: https://www.reddit.com/r/mensa/comments/c0vw5m/medium_classification_problem/er82o21?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
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You should have show this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
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14:20 Just do it!
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Here (Belgium), we invented the accordion strategy. It's not a joke: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lalibre.be%2Fbelgique%2Fsociete%2Fdeconfinement-qu-est-ce-que-la-strategie-de-l-accordeon-evoquee-en-belgique-5e8c92b3d8ad581631cacd2c Yes: quarantine, relax and see if that goes back, quarantine. No joke we are seen as dumb worldwide 🤣
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You should have shown the big butterfly thing used in hospitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
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@trevorlambert4226 She doesn't have to agree. And when you read scripts, you don't necessarily have to understand them. You can just go through the words with a clear diction and the "journalistic intonation". They should one day show it to the public by giving shit to serious anchors as a joke. If you want an example you probably lived, look no further than presentation at school. You have basically two kind of presenters: those who go with the flow and know their material inside-out and those who run through the script and watch their own slides. The first ones can jump left and right after having answered a question, the second ones get quickly lost if interrupted. The first ones are less prone to tell bullshit, the second ones could tell anything without realizing it. Another example in school, people who write down what teacher dictate. Then the teacher says some stupid stuff and some students write it down. Boils down to the same mechanics, we are able to focus on one task to do it better and ignore the rest. A news anchor can read a script without needing it to make any sens. It's how blooper arise when the script is wrong, then the anchor read it and while reading the next lines, feels something is odd and "remember" what he reads then can't read the next line because he is distracted.
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Student: accuracy at the tens "Ah, yes, I took exactly 100mL" Thunderf00f: accuracy at the thousand "It's about right". I noticed that people who are scientifically versed tends to speak in approximation and it also shows on graphics where whiskers shows ^^ We had a physic homework (I am going back to school to switch career) and I was the only one to include the instrument precision into the graph. That information is quite vital because when your precision is the millimeter, it's possible that two values are about the same or really different. Without the whisker one reading the diagram may assume that two values are equals. Sadly, I seldom see those in diagrams. And on the abscissa, it's even rarer. Though, as much important. All that to say that you can spot someone who got some education without him having to use big words, but just how he handle data and report it. I find that quite amusing. The other funny thing is the use of the word "Theory" ^^
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They don't ask if you cheated, they simply say you did OR that you will not be working properly with the group due to the big difference. I once went for psycho-technical tests (not IQ) and it happens that IQ can give you a big edge on such tests. So, I did breeze through the questions then had to wait. They took my papers first and called me to their office were they asked how I knew the answers and that IF I really did answer all that without cheating, then the training wasn't suitable for me because I was out of range; Would learn too fast and be annoyed. That was a risk they didn't want to take as some people becomes themselves annoyances. There was no recourse. Then decided I should fake it, but frankly abhor it. So, I ended up crying in another place and explaining how stupid it was because I could train myself, but it was not enough for companies as they want you to follow a training. Training I couldn't follow, because I wasn't in the range. So, they accepted me and I became "assistant". These kind of problems can really happen to gifted people, but it's far from what he depict: no interrogation, pure dismissal 😁
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8 months and nobody came with it: that's because the better people understand something, the most they invest their intellect and not their faith. As an example, if you need to fix insulation in a nuclear plant, nobody would care and everyone would be like "let the experts handle that". But if you need a new bike shelter, everyone will discuss it to death.
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