The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread

[Ring0kp]

I was out walking my mouse on the internet, and found this place. I'm an armchair scientist with no degree but many questions. Nice to meet you all.

[Optimisticrealist]

Hi I am Elize, (she/her) I am 14 , I love science, I am quite interested in biological sciences and physical sciences. I also like solving physics problems and arithmetic problems. I am interested in the ethical debates of science and Research. I love the theories why brings up and Video essays. I also like the concept that this world is simply like a wheel were we us humans run it. With every pleasure and hardship just imagined. Its simply a tireless race till you cease to breath and a new hamster replaces you. And every trace of you erases from earth like it never even existed.

I like music too, my fav artists are Nico Collins, Elise, Rosendale, cave town, Melanie Martinez.

[Genady]

Welcome. Since you like solving arithmetic problems, you could try, for starters, a new one posted today here: https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/131993-sum-of-prime-numbers/

Tell me if it is too advanced and I will try to point you to some others.

[daniel3112]

cool

[Steve81]

Hi,

I'm Steve, and I'm a 41 year-old IT guy, though I've worked as an accountant (did double duty for a small firm running their IT and doing accounting work), and as a writer/editor for an A/V website, among other things. My scientific background, such that it is, mostly goes back to my high school and early college years, when I was a chemistry major at GWU.

As a kid, I was particularly fond of sci-fi, so naturally it followed that I had an affinity for learning about physics, and other such hard sciences. 

Writing seems to be my most useful skill; I got a promotion in my 20's working at a hospital for writing a complaint about my boss at the time 😆 I also landed the writing job at the A/V website by posting useful tidbits on their forum, which I had mostly learned by immersing myself in the science of the subject as opposed to any formal education. In some ways it was the highlight of my life; I got to interview the PhD's that are the fountainheads of knowledge in the field, play with fancy speakers, and even travel. It comes in handy in my IT work, since I try to take studious notes for every ticket I handle, and help build the knowledge base.

My weakness: trigonometry. I switched high schools and completely missed the subject 😆 That finally came back to bite me in college with multivariable calculus.

Edited August 10, 2023 by Steve81

[studiot]

10 hours ago, Steve81 said:

My weakness: trigonometry. I switched high schools and completely missed the subject 😆 That finally came back to bite me in college with multivariable calculus.

Generally a well mixed life/career probably with lots of interesting stories along the way.

 

As for trigonometry and mathematics in general, we ar estill teaching maths as a series of procedures leading to formulae that most folks then 'plug and chug'.
It follows that they need the manupilative skills to chug.

 

In actual fact most folks never need to do this as the outcome is already has already been worked out or in most modern times is available in the form of online calculators.

 

What they actually need is a simple appreciation of what the result means and what they could do with it.
This applies to calculus as well as trigonometry.
They can very quickly get the hang of sin and cos or dy/dx etc just as they can get the hang of a car accelerator, brake and clutch pedal, without all the fluffy mech eng gear and transmission theory.

 

 

 

[CodaCat]

Hi!

My name is Azzie, Im a writer and artist with a lifelong hyper-fixation on all things science! Funny how that didnt translate to career choices huh? 

 

Im always looking to expand my awareness and sharpen my knowledge and I hope to find that here. Even if I don't find that I certainly miss forums as a space, especially in the increasingly draining online spaces of today. ;~;

 

Some of my other interests are: music, photography, folklore, channeling my inner rodent to collect shiny things, and cooking. (Im also very fond of animals)(*￣∇￣)ノ

[Mgellis]

Hi, I'm Mark.  I'm a retired English professor who has always loved both science and science fiction.  I'm doing a bit of writing these days (it keeps me from hovering around my wife and annoying her) and because I try to get the science right in my science fiction I sometimes have questions.  It occurred to me that asking real scientists is probably a good way to get some of them answered.

Anyway, hello.  It's great to meet you all and I look forward to some interesting conversations.

 

 

[Phi for All]

2 minutes ago, Mgellis said:

Hi, I'm Mark.  I'm a retired English professor who has always loved both science and science fiction.  I'm doing a bit of writing these days (it keeps me from hovering around my wife and annoying her) and because I try to get the science right in my science fiction I sometimes have questions.  It occurred to me that asking real scientists is probably a good way to get some of them answered.

Anyway, hello.  It's great to meet you all and I look forward to some interesting conversations.

Your wife gets annoyed when you hover? Are you using some kind of blower arrangement indoors? You should switch to magnetic levitation. Welcome to the forum!

 

[OptimisticCynic]

An optimistic cynic is someone who believes it is possible for things to be better, but it's practically guaranteed things won't get better.

Don't you hate it when you play with an old, unsolved science question and solve it quickly? It's true, your solution is probably wrong, but now you have to dig into it seriously. This was supposed to be for fun! When your solution looks more solid, predictive and useful every time you try to prove it wrong, you have to work on it more. Then you have to improve your understanding enough to explain it to others. If they think it might be useful, you have to write a paper, find a publisher, and defend your thesis. Don't you hate it when a lazy entertainment turns into a serious and important job?

[Alysdexic]

My name is Antigone, initials A.A.P. My username (Alysdexic) is supposed to distinguish from the common pun name Lysdexic (when I found out there were and are too many), in my usage the opposite of dyslexic, but also began as a pun on Alexander the Great who never lost, and my middle name (Alexandra).

I took two years each of fýsics, kemistry, and anthropologhy and maths up to linear algebra. I grew up with a supermarket dictionary and encyclopedia set; that and teachers were my best friend. I didn't socialize with my peers. I went to college at 11 and 12, qualified for every entry level class, but left due to astigmatism [which after adult college I got rid of by pressing on my lenses, inspired by hard contacts, after toric soft and flimsy].

I became obsessed with the origin of words and how Englisc became English then Norman then Einglish. I make appeals to etýma often and will dispute improper professional or standard terms and diction; for this I'v been indefinitely blocked from Wikipedia for puttan claims of black holes in the subjunctive instead of the indicative (and many other places for the same, on other topics, usually with mass false reporting). Earlier this year I made a video that formally accused 60 "scientists" of fraud for their black hole work. The huge amount of time I spent on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and dictionaries, and the cognitive dissonanty their nonliteral or abusive or contradictory expressions or claims gave me led to a few nervose breakdowns where I gave up on Einglish (Standard English in usual terms) and tried to reconstruct all the lost forms in a modern reflex so that absurdities of self-contradiction or categhory error are forfended. That time I had also looked at standard interpretations of scientific concepts, overdid them with proper diction and relation, identified loopholes in thermodýnamic laws, found that black holes and radiation pressure don't exist, found the weak interaction isn't elementary, and found that the field and body are identical. Many years ago I had my first online contact with members of the racist revisionist creationist cult Kristian Identity which gave me the motivation to read the two testaments in their original languages and Strong's Concordance to see whether their claims, which they took from mistranslations millennia later, held up. I then kept my own notes of passages I found contradictory with other passages; translations and context did not help, and commentaries and sermons often ignore both. The objections I found did not wane or weaken over the decade plus I'v been in debates with theists.

I'm intolerant of common illiteracy, malliteracy, and misuse and miswitth of words. If anyone cannot understand me, spend more time in dictionaries and Wikipedia, where some can pick up on the roots I browk. My spelling and ghrammatics are in refective English, Latin, and Hellènic, which sometimes autocomplete on my phone takes away if I'm in a hurry (the pathologhic need to argue is a good thing, but I can onely dictate and drive). I am generally sour and talk suchly to fulfil a need, a very deep one. If I am ever hindering the needs of other members here or anywhere, they hav not formerly expressed their needs (and ouht). Folk often meet me with rashness and, because they hav some power and I hav none but my words because I am a forever visitor, they cut me off in some way rather than talk in kind. I respect those who make an effort to understand, instead of handwave or run or flagrantly insult.

Edited December 6, 2023 by Alysdexic

[TheVat]

15 minutes ago, Alysdexic said:

If anyone cannot understand me, spend more time in dictionaries and Wikipedia, where some can pick up on the roots I browk.

Humility would serve you well.  If someone can't understand you, putting the onus entirely on them is unreasonable when you possess the intelligence to meet them halfway with your own clarification and employment of the common parlance.  As it is, you come across as cute but a bit solipsistic. 

[WhatsThat]

Hi. I just wanted to say hello.

I love science, mostly evolution and ecology  and how our own lives can be explained more in terms of those alone than even psychology. I am fascinated with things like Functional responses of ecology and how they are now being used to explain things like eating dysfunction and others are using science and biology and evolution to explain things like autism  and other things we once delegated to psychology.

I will post more about those questions and am glad to read others' ideas.

[azakv]

Hello unknown people. Is this page even alive?

I got here while discussing free will with chat GPT today 😭 I am highschool student from Poland, who likes philosophy. Not really good in remebering who exactly said what but I enjoy asking questions and negate literally everything. I truly belive that since is way to actually check philosophical ideas and that's how I started with learning neurosince. Beside that my another hobbies are art(writting, mainly short poems, or song lyrics, painting, character design), chess(for now it changes really quickly)

 

If someone is there just give me sign I really want to know if someone reads it plz🐀

[Mordred]

Welcome aboard @azakv

[Wallace]

Hello. My name is Wallace, I'm living in Argentina and I'm a fourth-year medical student who doesn't have many skeptical classmates to debate with. I found this place a while back, it seemed wonderful and I tried to create an account, but for some reason I kept getting a message saying that my IP was suspicious (I was literally connected to my college library's wifi), so I stayed as a lurker without an account until now I finally managed to register.

I really like how you guys openly discuss a wide variety of scientific topics and I find myself reading interesting topics even if they're not in my field of study. My favorite part is that everyone has to follow the rules of a real scientific debate, not use logical fallacies, and I've been amused by several of the "moderator notes".

In general, my country has scientifically oriented laws (women own their bodies here in every state, in case you want to compare it to America), but people are superstitious and some pseudosciences like psychoanalysis are still very popular. I would like to see some things change around here.

I am particularly interested in topics about genetics and immunology.

[StringJunky]

2 minutes ago, Wallace said:

Hello. My name is Wallace, I'm living in Argentina and I'm a fourth-year medical student who doesn't have many skeptical classmates to debate with. I found this place a while back, it seemed wonderful and I tried to create an account, but for some reason I kept getting a message saying that my IP was suspicious (I was literally connected to my college library's wifi), so I stayed as a lurker without an account until now I finally managed to register.

I really like how you guys openly discuss a wide variety of scientific topics and I find myself reading interesting topics even if they're not in my field of study. My favorite part is that everyone has to follow the rules of a real scientific debate, not use logical fallacies, and I've been amused by several of the "moderator notes".

In general, my country has scientifically oriented laws (women own their bodies here in every state, in case you want to compare it to America), but people are superstitious and some pseudosciences like psychoanalysis are still very popular. I would like to see some things change around here.

I am particularly interested in topics about genetics and immunology.

Welcome Wallace. If you find you can't post any more today in a topic, there is a post limit on the first day to limit spammers. I think it's 5 posts. You will have no limits after today.

[DeepBlueSouth]

Salutations, mes amis! [I probably conjugated that wrong, sorry]. My name is Hank, my pronouns are "he/they", I was born in New Orleans in the 20th century, and I am quite unsure whether I am qualified to be here [I'll stick to my lanes like psychology, history, anthropology, music, language learning, communications, poli, earth sciences, etc. oh, the humanities] I tell people who inform me that I'm intelligent that "the best thing we can know about ourselves is that we know nothing. none of us will ever be fully educated, so we must face every day as a new learning experience.... even if we just veg out and watch something fun or meet up with friends or new folks!"

I started college at a very young age, waayyy too young, I went in for communications and my field has been decimated by Sincl- er... a big media company with deep pockets and lucrative government connections which swallowed the FCC whole shortly after I graduated. I have worked in various fields since school, but never lost my lust for learning about the world and everything in it. my biggest barriers were socioeconomic, [major, major] family issues, and serious problems with autism, dyslexia, and particularly with mathematics. word problems and geometry...? YES. Algebra.... er, please no. Trig.... wh-what is that, exactly...? [no seriously, I wanna know!!]

my flexes are being the inaugural president of my school's first communications honor's society, sigma cum laude, Eagle Scout [Boy Scouts of America], and I have lived through a LOT of stuff that gave me... heaps of survivor's remorse. think of me as an allegedly highly intelligent Acadian [Cajun] Creole who passes for a normal southerner when I have to. ANYWAY, I am caretaking for my mother at the moment, who was a registered nurse for over 40 years, retiring in the first wave of the SARS COV-2 pandemic in 2020.

because I am an american living in a region which enshrines anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, nondenominational small "c" christianity, unfounded conspiracy theories which would make Charles Fort blush, and good ol' white nationalism [weapons grade sarcasm]; it has always been difficult for me to be myself, and even moreso to engage the more academic leanings of my personality and interests. while I have worked a lot of white collar jobs in positions ranging from academia to media production to politics [but not for HIMself]; most of my life experience during and after college lies in blue collar work. if salaries were better around here for college grads, I would 10/10 find a way to go back to school but.... I can make just as much as a bartender than I could as a civil engineer. also madre has a nice home here, and the region is currently experiencing rapid growth, so even if I don't live here forever, my current plans mostly involve getting used to being in the 40 and older set in this exurbanish suburb. so far so good.

like most in my demographics, I have never married and have no children. I am pretty open minded [sometimes to a fault], and although I can be silly, I always attempt to remain serious when it comes to academia, tolerance, and mutual respect of my peers; whomever they are that day, be it somewhere like this among academics, a romantic date, or a music festival. I spent far too much time cloistered as a child [I... still do] but I love interacting with people. IRL, one will usually find me working a counter, a bar, a front desk, a kitchen, the floor, the stage, or, well.... here. on my rare sojourns out; expect me in a bohemian lounge somewhere between East Tennessee, North Georgia, or North 'bama; a foreign family owned restaurant [or hookah joint]; or a hike in the woods [I come for the exercise, but stay for the botany, wildlife, and geology. I was born on an alluvial plain, the Delta... the geology around here, omg.... I literally find tiny fossils in my yard here, haha! the local mountains do not guard their secrets in this geologic age.]

among other personal interests are acting, comedy [I am not above doing standup], light video gaming [I am NOT a gamer, the gamers would quite agree with this sentiment], culinary arts, rescuing pets, medical discoveries, psychology, music, and [fiction] writing. I am published, but my latest is gonna be a lot MORE fun to write! I'll stop now, but I am glad to be here!!

[swansont]

43 minutes ago, DeepBlueSouth said:

I am quite unsure whether I am qualified to be here

No qualification necessary to ask questions and learn

[DeepBlueSouth]

1 minute ago, swansont said:

No qualification necessary to ask questions and learn

this is precisely why I am here. thank you, and I love your profile pfp, kinda perfect for a mod trying to shake that particular label, haha