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<|im_start|>user What are your main reasons for being anti-capitalist? [assuming you are]<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The duty to maximize profits can lead for example to environmental degradation, colonialism and worker exploitation. The incompatibility of the unfettered accumulation of private wealth with democr...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is a credit score, how does it work, and why is it so important?? I’m sorry if this basic knowledge, but I honestly don’t understand any of it.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A credit score is a number that financial institutions use to judge how likely you are to pay back any loans or cred...
<|im_start|>user How come when ice is in my cup, and i rotate the cup, it stays in the same position? This isn't really a joke post, ive always wondered and its so annoying when the ice is in the back of the cup, you have to put the cup down and walk around it OR put your finger in the cup, which isn't that nice.<|im_e...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How does an algorithm prove a mathematical theorem? I recently heard in a talk that machine learning algorithms can now prove some mathematical theorems .what do they mean when they say that?Theorems aren't some mathematical problems that can be solved by following a series of steps that can be a...
<|im_start|>user Are quantum fields in any way similar to classical fields? I understand classical fields as being functions of space with spatial(-temporal) coordinate inputs and scalar, vector or tensor outputs (like temperature being a function T(x,y,z,t) with a single scalar output). But when people talk of quantum...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does adapting to high altitudes work in the body? Today is my first day in Bogota, Colombia. Elevation of 2.6km. I don't have altitude sickness like some, but I'm very short on breath after even minor exertion (walking one flight of stairs). I know this goes away after 1 - 3 days, but what ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can car insurance companies adjust their prices for people based on age/sex and not be sued for discrimination? What stops them from adjusting rates based on race? I know they base their rates on actuarial information, but what is to stop them from doing the same thing with regards to race? I...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When you speak to people that understand fractals, they say everywhere and everything is fractals. I have tried to understand fractals but I am completely lost, can someone please explain it like I’m 5? Side note: I tend to find these people very eccentric, I sorta feel like they can see the matr...
<|im_start|>user ELi5: What is White Privilege?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant White privilege is how things are generally better for you because you're white compared to those who aren't white in the same situation. While you not many people these days actively think and act upon you being white just that fact you a...
<|im_start|>user [DeadSpace]What kind of considerations have to be made when cracking a planet? Surely removing/harvesting a planet can have knock-on effects on a solar system when we begin harvesting a planet. What kind of decisions are made, are there things that could go wrong? What are the risks beside the marker i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why don't psychologists and psychiatrists work in tandem? If psychologists made the diagnosis and psychiatrists reviewed it, the entire process would be more comprehensive.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Psychologists and psychiatrists normally work together, more or less. A counseling psycholo...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There is no such thing as ‘the one’. My theory is that there are actually many ‘the ones’ in each city. It’s just a matter of whom you happen to meet first out of that pool of people. Most of us know someone who has been widowed. Many of those widows/widowers will eventually remarry or at least ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does Tea and Coffee taste bad when it's watered down, even though they're mostly water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Coffee and tea are a specific ratio of water to "stuff;" the stuff is the oils and other chemicals from the coffee beans or tea leaves. So when you brew a cup of tea, the b...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is the 4th dimension something that we know actually exists? Or is it just a concept?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We have three spatial dimensions. Length, Width, Height. Using those three dimensions you can plot a spot in any space. We do not know if there are more spatial dimensions, if ...
<|im_start|>user Are the better educated more likely to be left wing or right wing? I have often heard that their is a positive correlation between education and left wing believes. At the same time, however, I know education level also correlates with wealth, and the wealthier are more likely to be conservative. So ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Attractive people with bad personalities are still more accepted than any unattractive people. As a woman who is very young looking, not developed physically (tiny breasts, and skinny with no curves in general), and just generally not attractive also due to difficult skin and a chubby, undefined f...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do I feel like I'm losing weight by eating 2000 calories of grilled meat and vegetables, but not when I consume the same amount in ice cream, fried foods, and fast food?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Biologist here! Our body gets calories from three main sources; fats, carbohydrates and pr...
<|im_start|>user If you have a single molecule of a substance, what state of matter is it in? If you had say 1 molecule of water is it a solid, liquid, or gas and how do you tell? What is the minimum number of molecules required for something to be classified as a solid liquid or a gas?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do so many pieces of classical music have only a technical name (Sonata #5, Concerto 2 in A minor, symphony #4, etc.) instead of a "name" like Fuhr Elise or Eine Kline Nachtmusik? I can only speak for myself, but this makes it really hard to keep track of the songs I like. I love listening to...
<|im_start|>user Role of LinkedIn in academia Is it important to have a LinkedIn when you’re working in academia? If you’re not on LinkedIn, what are your reasons?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant LinkedIn is primarily useful when job hunting, both as a platform for finding jobs and just general information gathering ab...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we lose so much of our balance when we close our eyes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your sense of balance is dependent on your ears mainly, but your brain likes to use your eyes to keep focus on your environment. Without that vision, we get really confused. This is why you get dizzy whi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is walking in bad/old shoes considered unhealthy, but walking barefoot isn't?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Shoes wear unevenly and because of this puts unnatural pressures on your foot affecting your entire posture which can damage muscles and other connective tissues all the way up into y...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do Dictators maintain power when it seems that most of the country is against them. With what is going on in The Middle East and South America where is seems like significant portions of the county are against a particular regime, how do these dictators maintain control? I understand they hav...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] How has the magical community managed to keep up the masquerade this long? Sure, there have been a couple slip-ups (Salem comes to mind), but for the most part, there have been no major leaks or anything. How does the community stop random trolls from spilling the beans? Extremist groups...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Is face blindness restricted to humans or is this something that's been observed in other species? Is it understood what causes it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not many animals rely primarily on sight to recognize others, and fewer still rely primarily on facial features. I would imagine if i...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Religion should have stricter boundaries or regulation A little about me, I grew up in a very Evangelical home in Texas. My mom and pretty much everyone around me was on the far right. Democrats were effectively in league with the devil and pretty much anything that wasn't explicitly Christian was...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are employees expected to give a two week notice prior to leaving their job, whereas employers are able to terminate employees without notice?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Future employers are more likely to consider the bad feelings of a previous employer when considering a hiring decisio...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can some animals detect earthquakes before they happen? And why can't people? Ey<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some animals can react to different frequencies which are outside the range of what humans can pick up. With earthquakes, you get extremely low frequencies generated by the earthq...
<|im_start|>user Are most advancements in AI from better hardware or more advanced formulae? Theoretically, a computer could brute force a problem to figure out every possible optimal solution, but that is absurdly infeasible in most instances, so systems use tricks such as classifiers and error minimization to get a "...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is so special/healthy about sea salt versus regular salt?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Sea salt is produced through evaporation of ocean water or water from saltwater lakes, usually with little processing. Depending on the water source, this leaves behind certain trace minerals and elemen...
<|im_start|>user Could someone explain the Alcubierre "warp drive" concept at a layman level? There was an article posted over in /r/science, [this](http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-more-feasible-thought-scientists-161301109.html) one actually. However, I don't quite understand what I tried to look about the concep...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Can someone please explain to me the "multiple comparisons fallacy?" I want to understand it more thoroughly. Note: A fallacy is an error in reasoning.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant News reporting on science is hampered by the fact that most reporters are not trained scientists, largely becaus...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If my bathroom scale shows different numbers around the house, which number should I trust? **Didn't know if this was the right subreddit for my question, but here goes:** I have a digital bathroom scale, and I know it works properly. Recently I moved into a new flat, and it's an old house, s...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Some Video Games Should be Revered as Much as Classical Art Displayed at Museums. We're talkin' about a painting of a lady who can't decide whether she is smiling or not holding a place at a distinguished museum that people travel to witness its tiny fragile frame and yet there are entire worlds w...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: I keep seeing studies that say vegetables have less nutrients compared to those 100 years ago. Does this apply to organic vegetables? Is there a way to ensure you’re getting nutritious food?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes, it also applies to organic... organic just means whether chemicals we...
<|im_start|>user Why aren’t underwater windmills more of a thing? The way I reckon it, the tides go through multiple times a day in a predictable way. If turbines just sat there collecting energy 24/7 we’d get a lot of energy. You could put a nearly infinite amount of them up and down the coast line. edit: thanks for...
<|im_start|>user What kinds of regular shapes will perfectly tile a sphere?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you allow multiple shapes, the possibilities really are limitless, but if you want to use only a single shape, there is a simply mathematical property which helps understand what you can do. Any way you tess...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do men start accumulating more stomach fat at around the same age range?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Generally, as people get older they become less active and eat the same amount of calories or more and therefore gain weight. Men tend to gain more weight around the stomach than other are...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: severed limb reattachment (e.g., which tissues in what order, success/fail factors, trauma-to-care time limits, etc.)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Med student here. 1) connect small vessels and nerves first, then the larger stuff like muscle. Better and easier to do it that way since otherwis...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do so many people who emigrate from the Middle East open convenience stores?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Each culture has an 'in' to a particular business in each area. So, one Korean family will come and open a dry cleaning business. When their cousins come, they will tell them the tri...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are artists now able to create "photo realistic" paintings and pencil drawing that totally blow classic painters, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci, out of the water in terms of detail and realism? Don't get me wrong, I find many of the classic works amazingly beautiful, I'm just trying to figure o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we have to cook food in the oven for 20 minutes, but we can cook it in the microwave for 3 minutes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different types of energy. Convection is limited by diffusion. Microwaves have far greater depth of penetration and spin all of the water molecules in food....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What would happen if a syringe of water was injected into your veins? Say you were prepping for surgery, what would happen if instead of anaesthetic, you were injected with water, in both small quantities and say a syringe full or more?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If plain water were injected...
<|im_start|>user Why do so many chemical compounds manifest as clear, colorless liquids or white powders? Even though there are millions of chemical compounds, it seems like only a few of them have an easily identifiable color (like copper chloride or the vapor of iodine) while the vast majority seem to be clear liquid...
<|im_start|>user Can you be colorblind in just one eye? I suppose what I'm getting at is - is colorblindness a disease of the eye or of the brain? Or of some stage in between?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Colorblindness affects the color receptors in the retina, and is genetic. So to be colorblind in just one eye w...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Evidence is the only thing that should be allowed steer policy. It should be regarded as absolutely holy and should supercede any other forces dictating the architecture of our society. I have always wondered how it is that anything apart from reason, logic and evidence has survived political deba...
<|im_start|>user When they measure the distance between objects like planets and suns, at what point do they start the measurement? Do they start at the center of the planet and how do they handle elliptical orbits?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the application. Typically in the solar system, we do it b...
<|im_start|>user [Alien] For a universe with sentient androids indistinguishable from humans, long-term space travel, and off-world colonies; why do computers in the far future look so primitive compared to computers in 2020?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Reliability and ease of manufacturing. Energy is cheap an...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 - In DNA there are four molecules that combine in the double helix a bajillion times to create you. Since they come in pairs, how is there so much variety to life? There's only four options - this pair, or that one, flipped this or that way. Is there a certain amount of these four combinations tha...
<|im_start|>user Kant's Left Hand Thing Hey, guys, I'm kind of an amateur student of philosophy, just getting myself started. I picked up a book that's an introduction to important philosophical ideas, and I found myself on one that I just don't understand. The page called it "Kant's Left Hand" and it was about Kant's...
<|im_start|>user What does Ricoeur mean when he says: understanding takes place in a non-psychological and properly semantic space?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is important to note in this section of the present work (*Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning*) that Ricoeur is contesting the p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are green flowers so rare in nature, and when they are, why aren't they as bright and vibrent and some other colours? While there are some flowers that are green, they look almost white. So why isn't like a day-glow green?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The point of flowers is to attract the...
<|im_start|>user CMV: If time travel was truly humanly possible to achieve, we would have visitors by now. Pretty much self-explainatory..If time travel was humanly possible to achieve during our existence, chances are, the future "us" (where we are supposedly super technologically and knowdlegably advanced), would ha...
<|im_start|>user [Avatar] Does bending require chemical energy from the bender? Do they burn calories when bending like someone would exercising? Earth benders can levitate massive rocks out of the ground and throw them with incredible speed. To physically do that would require a huge expenditure of energy accelerating...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do many African Americans speak Ebonics while most French speaking Africans in former colonies speak clear, standard French? African Americans have been speaking English in their regional variation for many generations now, but I've found that most African French speakers use clear, standardi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: I'm short sighted and have a Mirror next to my PC so I can watch the TV behind me. Why is it when I look in the mirror, the TV behind me is just as blurry as if I was looking at it? Even though I'm actually looking in a Mirror only 1ft away from me?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light rays need...
<|im_start|>user Economics majors careers I was wondering what types of jobs/careers that a undergraduate economics major could obtain. What types of jobs can I expect with no experience; or what can obtain later with experience. also what fields are most common for most econ majors? Edit: I am based in the US and no...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] Why are there bartenders and waiters in Ten forward? There are replicators pretty much every where you go on the Enterprise and the crew have legs don't they? Why bother asking someone to ask the replicator for food when you can just ask it yourself? Seems that laziness DOES still exist i...
<|im_start|>user Are you supposed to vote for the candidate who you think would be best for you personally, for your country, or for the world as a whole?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Who’s to say those categories are mutually exclusive? There are arguments to be made that, as a member of a community, your interests...
<|im_start|>user Does 'bracing for impact' actually help during minor impacts? Even mentally?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Many people here talk about grabbing onto stuff etc. but there's a much simpler view. Bracing for impact does help. You basically do this by contracting mucles and breathing out, anything else ...
<|im_start|>user Who gets to define what “God” and other controversial words mean? I’ve spent quite some time looking into philosophy over the past few months. I’ve read quite a few Stanford Encyclopedia articles and I read AC Grayling’s book on the History of Philosophy. As an atheist myself, I can’t help but feel t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we elevate injuries to promote recovery? If this is the correct thing to do, why does the body send more blood to the injury?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Elevating injuries makes it easier to recirculate the blood at the injury site. Excess blood can cause unwanted swelling which could...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why is it that our bodies are symmetrical on the outside, but not on the inside? I have always wondered but, well, today i was prompted to ask. We are from head, to genitalia to feet symmetrical and then our heart, stomach etc is all wack, please explain.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Overall s...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is it possible to rid humans of certain diseases/illnesses by "selective breeding"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is commonly called Eugenics, advocating the use of particular practises that could potentially improve the human gene pool. It obviously has its upsides and downsides, but yes...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do magnified mirrors work? And why do they seem blurry if you look into them from a distance?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A lens is a piece of glass that bends light so that the rays converge to a single point. If you bend a mirror it will make all the beams converge in the same pint, so ...
<|im_start|>user How to move past "pop-philosophy' to actually understanding serious and legitimate philosophical ideas/works? I just watched a video critiquing Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape". I had no idea how inept "intellectuals" like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris are when it comes to talking about philosophy. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: did playing video games shape my intelligence and personality in a positive way? Basically all my life (age: 27) I have played video games so I'm wondering whether they had any positive effects on me (especially on my brain) or they just robbed thousands of hours from me. I read it once that play...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do calculators solve complex problems like matrices graphing etc. do programers have to write out every solution or are there shortcuts?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ingredient 1: Computers are machines that perform simple operations VERY fast. Ingredient 2: Most complex math can be decom...
<|im_start|>user Is there a certain philosophy that says nothing holds any inherent meaning, only that which you give it? I was wondering, is there a certain type of philosophy that states nothing has meaning until you decide that it means something to you? I guess it's similar to nihilism, but I can't find a proper de...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is a slow resting heart rate good, when it is also healthy for your heart to beat fast during exercise? EDIT: So several answers have come in, but I'm not sure my question is being understood. I'm asking, if it's healthy for your heart to beat fast during exercise, why isn't it healthy for i...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Universities in the United States should not require students to take General Ed classes I've always thought that higher education was meant to give the opportunity for students to learn. GE diminishes this opportunity by telling students what they MUST learn. I can think of two arguments of why...
<|im_start|>user [Pacific Rim] How come Jaggers fight without any kind of support? Jaggers go on one to one melee combat with Kaijus without any kind of support. No spotters, no artillery, not even diversions like flares. This is not how a modern military operates, even a tank gets a lot of support from ground troops....
<|im_start|>user AskScience AMA Series: We are women scientists from the Homeward Bound expedition, recently returned from the inaugural voyage to Antarctica! Ask us anything! Hello /r/AskScience! [Homeward Bound](https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/) is a ground‐breaking leadership, strategic and science initiative a...
<|im_start|>user How does a computer know what adding is?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Computer doesn’t know or understand the concept of what adding is. Its just bunch of circuits that turns on or off. You put bunch of these circuits together in a specific way and it will be able to add binary numbers together and ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A congressman shouldn't be able to head a committee unless he has the appropriate degree or experience in that field.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are three problems with this view: 1) This standard would mean that unless you had the proper experts in the respective houses, you could nev...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What changes (if any) occur to the circulatory system when someone becomes an amputee? Are there pros, cons, or does the heart just know to account for the lost limbs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant At first, your blood pressure would increase, as the heart is working just was hard to push less ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why do airline pilots print off large piles of paper on a dot matrix printer at the gate? What is on those sheets of paper? Is there not an electronic way to do this? Do they rip off the edges of the dot matrix paper and call it “printer bacon” like I did when I was little?<|im_end|> <|im_start|...
<|im_start|>user Why do intuitionists reject classical logic and mathematics? I am on a section of my Philosophy of Mathematics course on intuitionism, and am having a difficult time wrapping my head around the idea of intuitionism. Most of the primary reading I've been assigned, especially the Brouwer, is very difficu...
<|im_start|>user Hi, are there non-lattice solids? My physics textbook mentions most solids are in a crystal lattice. Are there non-lattice solids?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant To the answers given here (glass), I'd like to add polymers. It's a completely different type of solid material in the way it's made from i...
<|im_start|>user How come every lake and pond has fish? Where do the fishes come from in newly formed lakes and ponds?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They can get there a few different ways. The most common methods of populating a new lake or pond by fish are either swimming there (whether due to temporary flooding o...
<|im_start|>user Why are there common food allergens? Peanuts, tree nuts, soy, shellfish. Why are people more likely to be allergic to the above and not other things? Why peanuts and soy but not other legumes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A theory of why people seem to be developing so many more food allergies is ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What the hell is dirt? It sounds so simple, but it just hit me yesterday. What is dirt? Can we make it? Can we...run out of it? Like, is there a reasonably limited amount of dirt? Why do things grow in it? This feels like such a simple question but I'm so lost.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assista...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why is it that in low lighting, the quality of the image preview on my camera(or phone) is better than the actual resulting picture after I click the shutter?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Firstly, it's important to understand that individual pixels in a camera's image sensor can be affected by...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If a paramedic is the first responder at the scene of a disaster where there are many seriously injured people, how do they decide who to treat first?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Triage. They typically assist those who need assistance the most but who the help will actually end up changing t...
<|im_start|>user What does Western Philosophy answer about suffering that Buddhism did not? This isn't a question meant in any snarky way. But a geniune question.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One benefit of studying Western philosophy for someone interested in suffering is the work that has been carried out explorin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is the brain divided in two parts?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is due to something called "bilateral symmetry", a basic body plan that developed extremely early in our evolutionary history. It probably comes down to the benefits of having a spare organ in case of injury, such as a ex...
<|im_start|>user Why do people with Down Syndrome look the same/very very similar? I feel somewhat bad for asking this question, obviously I know they are all unique but they do seem to share very similar facial characteristics.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant People with Down syndrome have similar features because of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is fire made actually of? Is it even matter?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant So there are some very different sources of light from a standard fire. The first is from the chemical reaction itself. Combustion is an oxidation reaction, where some element (usually carbon, in the fires that we...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The fact that you go to hell for all eternity means that God doesn't believe in rehabilitation. Let's say you are a horrible person. You tortured many people, you killed some of them and you never kept the door open for someone. This doesn't mean you can't change after death. I agree that you have...
<|im_start|>user Why is there a movement towards 'natural' (organic vegetables, grass fed meat, anti-drug culture) and does it have any merit. This is really inspired by my flatmate, who berates any remotely processed food, doesn't 'believe' in aspirin and commonly says things along the line of "if something is good fo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why is math (statistics, calculus, etc) so important for a strong programmer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are lots of areas of programming that require only basic math. If you're doing development for a moderate-sized web site or app, it's quite possible you'll almost never use any math...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The benefits given to prisoners (in the US) should be given to all citizens. Prisoners are given health care because it's considered cruel &amp; unusual punishment to let a prisoner suffer from a medical condition. But this certainly doesn't seem fair considering regular citizens deserve it more. ...
<|im_start|>user mass-energy equivalence or E=mc2...why the speed of light squared?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is a frequently asked question. Here's one part of the answer: "c" is not really just the speed of light. "c" is the fastest speed anything can achieve in the universe. It's the universal speed lim...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: if captcha codes/puzzles are being trained by us humans to recognize stairs, bikes, taxis, etc, how do they know when we're mistaken? For example i have a set of 9 images from which i am supposed to select the ones containing bridges or traffic lights. If i dont select them all, it wont let me pa...
<|im_start|>user How was it decided where astronauts would land on the moon?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Based on what a professor in a planetary science class explained to me: * Step one: Send unmanned orbiters to take large, low-resolution photos and make a global map * Step two: Give the map to the geologists...
<|im_start|>user Does price influences demand, or does demand influences price? How would you answer this question? Sounds like a chicken and egg problem but I would like to hear some thoughts on it.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Demand affects price, which then affects quantity demanded. In other words, the genera...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Most tests cannot accurately analyze a student's capabilities I believe a student's capabilities should be judged depending on their ability to perform in a hypothetical future job. Also, I consider tests to be any type of written or oral evaluation in which one or more prompts have to be answered...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If a completely undocumented person from e.g. a poor tribe in Africa/Asia, managed to get to e.g. western Europe, he never said a word and it was 100% impossible to track his country of origin, what would the authorities do?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Assuming they were somehow mentally impa...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 how does a malicious USB download malicious code just by plugging it into your PC?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you plug a USB device into your computer, your OS asks it what kind of device it is. This is so the OS knows what it can do. USB speakers know how to accept audio data; USB print...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Automatic soap dispensers are a pointless use of technology My office just installed automatic soap and paper towel dispensers in the restrooms. While I can understand the benefits of not having to touch the towel dispenser to dry my hands, I can't get behind automatic soap. First, they often ha...