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- Comment on do what you love 1 day ago:
And it’s entirely the tech companies making their own bed and then laying in it. In the few jurisdictions where the engineering regulatory colleges won out in protecting their title, there’s a slough of highly qualified Professional Software Engineers who’ve graduated from accredited programs alongside the people who grad from more theory-based compsci programs
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 day ago:
They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.
- Comment on Ideal car 2 days ago:
Use the cyrillic letter А on your licence plate instead of the latin letter A. All your speeding tickets would be mailed to someone else
- Comment on number box o number box 2 days ago:
*a subtype of vector
vector is a type not a kind :P
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish Woke: Whales aren’t fish because they’re in the class Mammalia, not Pisces Bespoke: Whales are fish any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda Artichoke: Whales aren’t fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda. Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they’ve developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 days ago:
Osoviakhim was somewhat more ideologically consistent than Paperclip. The scientists weren’t invited to the USSR with promises of cushy jobs and immunity from prosecution: they were forced from their homes, loaded onto freight trains, and made to work. It was part of the wider trend of the Allies using the forced labour of Germans as a means of war reparations.
- Comment on Why are scientific journals, mags, and newspapers multi-column, while most other mediums are not? Why are they fully justified (left and right both)? 1 week ago:
The main reason is because journals and newspapers needed to fit as much text on as little paper as humanely possible. Multiple columns means you can make line spacing and margins smaller while still being reasonably (but not ideally) readable.
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
there’s a myriad of phrases like that
- Comment on Nestin, nexin, nesprin, nectin, nephrin, netrin... 2 months ago:
idk some are pretty easy. like MAP kinase kinase kinase kinases phosphorylate MAP kinase kinase kinases, it’s right in the name
- Comment on he big, he attac 3 months ago:
Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity
- Comment on Cardinals most likely to be the pope 3 months ago:
Ain’t no rule says the bird can’t be pope.
- Comment on Sun God 5 months ago:
And they stay insulating even if soaked all the way through. Perfect for hiking or trudging through snow
- Comment on A childrens tale 5 months ago:
They’ve got it pretty good compared to some animals. Like at least they get to meet their partners or have sex at all
- Comment on I love the future. 5 months ago:
Elon enters the FBI’s inner sanctum and must solve the Vat’s riddles three in order to prove he’s not a gay communist
- Comment on smort 5 months ago:
Yeah sure buddy, sportness is all made up by —let me guess— Big Sportness? Clearly you’re just mad that you’re not very sportnant.
- Comment on smort 5 months ago:
Not to mention the “stupid = ugly” wojacks
- Comment on smort 5 months ago:
Broke: The results of IQ testing are dependent on a person’s intelligence. Intelligence is an objective reality that can be observed and measured with IQ testing.
Woke: The results of IQ testing are independent of a person’s intelligence. Intelligence is an objective reality but complex and impossible to perfectly measure.
Bespoke: A person’s ‘intelligence’ is dependent on the results of IQ testing. Intelligence is a social construct and IQ testing is a means to reinforce it.
- Comment on place yer bets 5 months ago:
Also the impact risk corridor passes through states that are poorly equipped for large civil defence operations: Ethiopia and the CAR are in civil wars, Yemen is in a civil war with the majority of the country under the control of an unrecognized government, and the South Sudanese government is quite week—being at peace only for the last 5 years
- Comment on "Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!" 5 months ago:
Author-date systems create line noise that makes text hard to grok. Numeric systems (with or without footnotes) don’t have that problem. Honestly I don’t see the point of author-date. If a a paper is really important then it should be referenced in prose, otherwise “(Kowalchuck et al., 2018)” doesn’t tell you anything more than “[11]”; you’re still gonna need to look it up in the bibliography. And that looking up is actually made harder: finding [11] between [10] and [12] is easier than finding Kowalchuk between Kowal and Kowalski or whatever other names happen to be there.
- Comment on son, happy birthday 6 months ago:
It looks nothing like a centric or pennate diatom
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 6 months ago:
New palace construction drains royal treasuries, a new study finds
- Comment on son, happy birthday 6 months ago:
Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.
- Comment on Is it worth it?? 9 months ago:
There’s plenty of stuff where ML algorithms the state of the art. For example the raw data from nanopore DNA sequencing machines is extremely noisy and ML algorithms clean it up with much less error than the Markov chains used in years previous.
- Comment on anagenesis 9 months ago:
Funnily enough in Canada we have mars bars instead of the US milky way and 3 musketeers instead of the international milky way. Mars doesn’t sell anything called a milky way here
- Comment on I feel like laying an egg. 9 months ago:
this is cuckoo
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 9 months ago:
Echinoderms:
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 9 months ago:
I can tell the jellies are on the right and that they’re in the genus Aurelia. Seems like a skill issue
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 9 months ago:
That’s what makes them fluids
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 9 months ago:
gases are fluids tho…
- Comment on #notaseagull 9 months ago:
The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”