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Inquiry is the process of seeking information, knowledge, or understanding through questioning, exploration, and investigation. It involves asking questions, gathering data, analyzing evidence, and drawing conclusions based on findings. Inquiry can occur in various contexts, including scientific research, education, and everyday problem-solving. In education, inquiry-based learning encourages students to explore topics deeply and develop critical thinking skills by formulating their own questions and seeking answers. This method often promotes active engagement, collaboration, and a deeper understanding of subject matter.

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A scientific law is a statement that describes a consistently observed phenomenon in nature under specific conditions. It is based on empirical evidence gathered through repeated experimentation and observation, and it often can be expressed mathematically. Scientific laws summarize the results of many observations and generally apply universally, providing a concise description of how elements of the natural world behave. Unlike scientific theories, which explain why phenomena occur and can evolve over time with new evidence, scientific laws do not attempt to provide explanations; they simply describe what happens.

TODO:

www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/bscsur/catalogue-id-bscsur10011/lot-c6605b41-1a14-40e5-a255-a5c5000866e0 (archive) Cannot exact same product on official website, but here is a similar one: www.fishersci.co.uk/shop/products/lm-26-2uv-transilluminator/12382038 (archive).

Good shortcuts and user experience.

No waveform viewer: github.com/otsaloma/gaupol/issues/49 so unusable.

Not to be confused with Subtitle Edit.

As of 0.54.0 this feels featureful, but extremely buggy or lacking UI obvious enhancements that would be simple to implement, and offer huge value:

It is hard to understand how that project reached this weird featureful but crappy state. Feels like they just gave push permission to a bunch of random people.

biochromspectros.com/spectrophotometers/simplinano-cat/simplinano-spectrophotometer.html (archive)

Manual: biochromspectros.com/media/wysiwyg/support_page/support-simplinano/Simplinano-UM.pdf (archive)

Term invented by Ciro Santilli, similar to "nuclear blues", and used to describe the feeling that every little shitty job you are doing (that does not considerably help achieving AGI) is completely pointless given that we are likely close to AGI as of 2023.

Man-made virus!

TODO: if we had cheap de novo DNA synthesis, how hard would it be to bootstrap a virus culture from that? github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/60

Is it easy to transfect a cell with the synthesized DNA, and get it to generate full infectious viral particles?

If so, then de novo DNA synthesis would be very similar to 3D printed guns: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printed_firearms.

It might already be possible to order dissimulated sequences online:

Term invented by Ciro Santilli to refer to problems that can only be solved once we have AGI.

It is somewhat of a flawed analogy to NP-complete.

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