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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Twitter user discovers Cunningham’s law. More at 11.

  (This, by the way, is one of the main engines behind massive collaborations like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, etc.)

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is also what drives like 90% of scientific research.

    Many see a study published and think: ." No, I don’t think that’s how it works. I’m going to do my own study and prove them wrong. "

    Scientists are all just petty know-it-alls.

    Pettiness can be used productively. There is a right place for every type of person. 🙃

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The study I read said that only about 37% of scientists are petty know-it-alls, 60% are waiting for funding, 2% are waiting on peer review, and 1% are actively doing research.

      They then said there was a 82% margin of error and a bunch of overlap in the groups, so you probably shouldn’t cite their research even though they published it.

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• Bruhh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yup, that’s just Murphy’s Law.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No that’s not Murphy’s… oh you sly son of a bitch. Almost got me!

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are correct. It is Occam.

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• trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relevant XKCD

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And this is how reddit AI gets its training

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thats what bots do anyways on reddit.

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• chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a software dev parallel… tell an engineer “it can’t be done.”

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Um, actually…

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