Yeah, the pineal gland doesn’t seem to have anything to do with IQ or cognition in the first place. It deals with melatonin and sex hormones.

The internal secretions of the pineal gland are known to inhibit the development of the reproductive glands because when it is severely damaged in children, development of the sexual organs and the skeleton are accelerated.

Calcification rates vary widely by country and correlate with an increase in age, with calcification occurring in an estimated 40% of Americans by age seventeen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland#Calcification

I’d like to see relevant factors beside cognition considered, like development.

Nothing more than conjecture so take it with a massive grain of salt brain sand, but if the gland not functioning leads to a speedup in the development of sexual organs, I’m curious if it could be one of the factors involved in the age of puberty declining. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6378593/)

It’s good this study exists nonetheless. Nothing amiss from what I’ve read, so I trust the conclusions.

Migi. Handle the defense

Yep and don’t forget people, those stray reflections may not only be hitting you. Be aware of your surroundings.

or the domain is the projectively extended real line! (obv not the case here ofc)

smh not using 3 implicit equations

(x-2)² + (y-2)² = 1

(y-3)² = (3(x-2))²

0.2x+1.7

I guess I should expect such anarchy

Don’t need to know the best course of action, delegating to experts and others who are more capable of getting the job done right is literally good leadership. Your first instincts are already better than some career politicians.

Just thinking aloud now but I wonder if stochastic representation would prevent corruption… The average person means well and wants to do a good job. The rest are a loud minority.

Low-discrepancy sampling of the population too. That just means any sample of the total population will closely resemble the total population. AKA accurate representation. No unlucky sampling.

Hello and welcome!

Working on it as we speak. Hope it will blow all your minds like I think it might.

It’s a novel game architecture that will enable a unique new art-style alongside custom physics to complement that style.

Will share more when I’m ready.

Looks awesome! Been putting off learning voxel cone tracing. Time to read that nvidia paper again…

These hairy balls suggest otherwise

Good work, Lyle

My mom once got told by a psychic that she’d have a boy and a girl. But then they corrected themself in confusion that she’d have another girl sometime later, and that something was different/special about this correction that they couldn’t fully make out.

Turned out to be very true…

Not that I believe in that stuff but it’s a neat little anecdote this reminded me of.

Technically true yeah. But I frequented 4chan in the old days. It is not the same website by a long shot. Yes, it has always sucked, but now it’s even worse somehow.

Like most other social media, I’d bet good money that there are astroturfing campaigns running trying to radicalize the those who browse there, especially since it’s easier to introduce divisive messaging as edgy humor.

Probably a higher success rate than most other social media considering the shit you see on /pol/ and likelihood of harboring incels and other ideologically susceptible users.

Cookies are old news. What about browser fingerprinting which can track you across websites? https://www.amiunique.org/

There’s basically no easy way to safeguard against it without making browsing nearly unusable.

Yeah too many just look so… samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate