Faith, what are you doing? Rainbow Tables are for the CS class!
Dear Faith II
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 23 minutes ago
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
A friend once revived an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.
Some people just like to be miserable.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I’m defragging my harddrive.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Pastels: could be tasteful
Neon: what happened to your eyes?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Yeah.
I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Where are my dark colors? I wanna be broody and edgy
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Why do you hate UV and infrared?
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
They’re in there. You don’t see them?
psoul@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Why do you hate brown? Pastel colors?
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!
dumbass@piefed.social 9 hours ago
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
They can’t even have a pile of baking soda and some baggies?
dumbass@piefed.social 51 minutes ago
THE APA drank beer and kicked ass, they didnt need any illicit drugs to do that. Pure Spite and booze fueld them.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
There’s nothing wrong with rainbow tables. Printing them sounds a bit excessive, though.
kautau@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
What if they’re rainbow coloured rainbow tables?
Tja@programming.dev 7 hours ago
Well, for when you’re 300 pages short and you add an appendix…
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org 8 hours ago
Seeing "Why!" makes my brain angry lol
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Why, land sakes! What has your jimmies rustled?
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
I’ve only ever been academia adjacent and I’m glad. Some of the most soulless people I’ve ever met. It’s the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
I’m beginning to think Faith shouldn’t have chosen higher education.
Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I do think a rainbow table would be welcome in Elementary Ed
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Haven’t been able to locate the definitive source, but there are several of these out there with Faith and Professor Kutaywa.
Believe it originates somewhere on LinkedIn, but very rare for a LinkedIn meme to escape the platform.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I understand that colors can color, heh, our perceptions but being a primarily visual animal means that we can digest information much quicker through color.
Without seeing the charts, I can’t say if the Prof is just being a curmudgeon or not.
MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
According to the APA website, it’s more about accessibility and the cost of printing color vs grayscale
NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
My masters thesis advisor would not let us use the word “that”. In his defense, 90%+ of the time, it’s useless filler and can be left out
MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
God forbid women have hobbies.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Context, nao.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
the context is all there … Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was “rainbow colored”.
Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA style guideline on how to style & format the tables: apastyle.apa.org/…/tables
taiyang@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Interestingly your link doesn’t mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn’t do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Why, Faith?
Zacryon@feddit.org 4 minutes ago
Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it’s a win-win.
This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.
The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.