AnarchoEngineer

@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET THAT BREAD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait didn’t Reddit have its own .onion domain? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the hypocrisy at this point lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Male Fantasies (by Nhim)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
  • Megalomaniacal takeover of the world that ends with you being universally hated or basically being the maid for all humanity so you restart the fantasy because that ending sucks but the building cool shit and dramatic destruction of bad people / systems is fulfilling
  • Thinking about living in a world where you can make cool science that won’t immediately be weaponized and instead will have fascinating impacts on society
  • Exploring space
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I think I know what this is about now. If you come from a country like Canada where “Engineer” is a protected designation, then I can understand you thinking it’s a lie and I apologize for that misunderstanding.

  In America and my state specifically, the word “professional engineer” is protected and requires certification, but “engineer” does not. There were several people in the civil engineering firm in my hometown who were called engineers and only had highschool diplomas, but that didn’t change the fact they were experienced engineers and called engineers.

  In other fields of engineering, like software engineering, you’ll find lots of people with the title of engineer without a degree.

  I’m sorry that you felt mislead by me calling myself an engineer despite the fact I’m still in school and only an engineer by title for my research. But that was not an intentional deception, simply a discrepancy between our cultural definitions of the term/title.

  Also, I have made it far and will likely continue to push on in academia (though I’d like to get out of this country before starting a PhD so that complicates things).

  Anyway, I’m sorry that I’ve offended you and that my attempts to explain/defend myself have come off as petulant. I’ll stop engaging with your comments and you should feel free to block me if you don’t want to come across my posts and comments again.

  I’m sorry I wasn’t able to explain things more clearly/calmly sooner and for what it’s worth I’ll try to avoid calling myself an “engineer” without a qualifier stating I’m a student or researcher now that I know some places are more strict about the term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where were the Egyptian cats supposed to go when Egypt fell / was conquered? The Ottoman and Roman Empires were prosperous, ergo they were the perfect societies for cats to enslave next lol

  Kind of funny to think of cats thriving in so many countries that got repeatedly raided, conquered, and reestablished by multiple different empires and cultures. Everyone dies eventually but the cats stay haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Necrobumping this because @chloroken@lemmy.ml linked to it with a misleading description.

  TL;DR: @chloroken@lemmy.ml purposefully misrepresented the argument in his link. I didn’t lie nor did he ever prove me wrong, nor was I talking out of my ass in this thread or the other. I share science I think is cool and I find all sorts of science cool even if the research is outside my main field of study. I’ll even admit when my claims are proven wrong or are less certain than I thought (which you can see if you read this full comment section about liver vitamin A).

  I’m not “talking out of my ass” in this thread. (Read it btw I mention interesting science) I was doing the research, just like I said, for a personal project on trying to structure a Spiking Neural Net more similarly to human vision, just like I said. This lead me to look into visual processing in the brain and to the structure of the eye since the initial pre-processing of vision actually might start within the retina.

  I never mentioned “cuttlefish” but I guess that’s the only cephalopod he thinks of because this was the initial theory of @chloroken@lemmy.ml.

  Did you just see that other post about Cephalopod eye anatomy and write this?

  I ask because you have a poor grasp of how evolution actually is when you say “evolution makes a mistake”. The truth is that our eyes are one of many layouts in the animal kingdom, it’s not some binary thing like you’re making it out to be.

  This was in response to my casual comment about how evolution fucked up our eyes. Obviously evolution can’t really make mistakes because it isn’t conscious but it is the general consensus that our eyes are “inverted” because by the time it became an issue, the system was too complex to easily flip back around (the recurrent laryngeal nerve is another good example of this kind of “fuck up”).

  Also obviously there are more kinds of eyes, I never said there weren’t nor did I mean to imply (or think I even accidentally implied) this was binary. Idk why chloroken got the impression that’s what I was saying…?

  Anyway, I actually am (and was) doing graduate level research despite being an undergrad. And guess what: you don’t need to have a degree to learn things or read research papers.

  I do not write bullshit for people to “be dazzled by the academic tone” (in fact I’ve heard I write to casually in my papers), I “write bullshit” because science is cool and I want to share what I’ve learned with others. Who cares what field of science it’s in, it’s fascinating no matter what.

  Do science. Share what you learn. Tell people like @chloroken who just want to be mad at you to fuck off instead of engaging them like I have lol

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  Oh and to defend myself (and actually brag a little haha) as of now I’ve officially prototyped a real, novel, mechatronics system for use in prosthetics and augmented reality systems, and there’s now a paper in the works with my name first. Point is I don’t think it’s wrong to call myself an engineer. Especially to strangers on the internet who don’t need to know whether I’m a grad researcher or working for a company.

  Also I’d go into more detail about my research (the federally funded ones not the hobby ones) but @chloroken@lemmy.ml seems like the kind of person who’d stalk/doxx me. So I really should be more careful about what I say about my personal life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t intentionally misrepresented myself in this comment section or the previous one or any others as far as I can think of.

  I also have not lied.

  So, what is the real reason for the aggression mate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes my wildest fantasy: to find out that the ideas I think are new and original have been studied well beyond my level of understanding by other people lol

  I hope you’ve never worked in academia. You sound like you really like discouraging people from enjoying science unless they meet your arbitrary education standards.

  Anyone can do science. Sure, sometimes people who don’t know a lot learn a little and think they know a lot, but you shouldn’t just shut them down. If someone has a passion for exploration you should encourage them to keep going, catch their mistakes sure, help them question their thought process, but remind them that making mistakes or thinking an idea is novel when it isn’t is something everyone does and they shouldn’t be ashamed for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, we build on the backs of giants. The issue is, typically, anything I discover myself is typically very far below the level where new science can be done OR it is far enough above my current knowledge that I just don’t even know where I’d begin.

  Bi intuitionistic logic is the latter category. I was expecting truth tables and instead had to add a ton of words to my vocabulary like “Heyting Algebra” and “Kripke Frame” etc. just to understand what the paper was saying (not that I do fully understand what the papers are saying lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First, I said the “new things” were already discovered by dead guys. They’re new to me, not to the world. That’s the point of the comment.

  Secondly, I am an engineering undergrad and I don’t think I ever claimed to be working with “ocular algorithms.” I had been experimenting with spiking neural networks and was replicating a research paper on using a two layer inhibition structure to recognize MNIST numbers.

  That lead me to question how images were processed in the brain which lead me to read up on the structure of the eye (which you tried to call me out on previously) as well as the structure of the neocortex and the supposed function of each of the visual processing areas of the neocortex.

  I’m sorry if I’m coming off as condescending or as “an intellectual giant” I’m a kid with ADHD and curiosity. I like explaining the cool things I’ve recently learned.

  As for “what would happen if a professor for an undergrad lab you work at saw the way you write” they definitely already know. In fact my supervisor is pretty supportive of my random tangents into other kinds of science (so long as it doesn’t distract from the work I need to get done). Oh and remember how I said there might be an application for spiking neural nets in one of the grad students projects? My supervisor thinks so too! (though it’s not the one I was thinking of lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I am an undergrad in engineering not math or physics or bio or anything like that. I just get curious and end up going down rabbit holes of niche science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing kills my motivation more than discovering something new in math and then finding out some dead guy beat me to the punch by several centuries lol

  Then again sometimes it’s worse when I expect there to be literature on a topic and then discovering there isn’t even a wiki page for it.

  Hell, most recently it was bi-intuitionistic logic. Originally studied in the 40s by one German guy who took bad notes. Main body of work done by a single math grad in the 70s (Rauszer) culminating in her PhD. Turns out there were errors discovered in her proofs and it was proven inconsistent in 2001. Only for two relatively young mathematicians to clear up that there are two separate versions of bi-intuitionistic logic which are consistent. This discovery and proof are found a paper that was published only this fucking year.

  I asked a simple question about dealing with uncertainty in a logical system and instead of finding a well studied foundation of knowledge I was yeeted to the bleeding edge of mathematics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louvre security vs CVS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the Walgreens w on the wall? Stop gaslighting us! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do xenomorphs, if prepared correctly, taste like shrimp?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering people seem to correlate scarcity with value, yeah, big time.

  I also doubt people would be willing to hunt/farm xenomorphs if they couldn’t get paid exorbitantly.

  Oh and I’d imagine people who have that eccentric desire to be the top of the food chain would probably think it’s the best food ever. “You’re not a real man ™️ till you’ve eaten xenomorph meat” lol

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  Sidenote: I just had an idea for xenomorph farming:

  1. Find asteroid with enough gravity to keep the xenomorphs from yeeting themselves into space.
  2. Place egg.
  3. Add hosts.
  4. wait.
  5. Use robot to retrieve an egg and make sure it stays entirely sealed away with no chance of human contact.
  6. Throw another asteroid at the main one fast enough it liquifies both.
  7. Collect obliterated xenomorph parts and cook them as they enter collection to make sure they’re dead.
  8. sell to patrons for enough money to buy new asteroid and repeat the process.
  9. profit
  10. Eventually make a mistake and die a horrible death
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do xenomorphs, if prepared correctly, taste like shrimp?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My mind says it probably tastes like Living Rocks which have been described as tasting like iodine.

  I’d imagine you’d have to cook xenomorph a while and possibly add lots of baking soda to death with the acid, but other than that I’d assume it’d taste like salty metal.

  In fact, Fluoroantimonic Acid is one of the strongest acids ever—possibly worse than xenomorph blood—and it is basically just fluorine and antimony.

  Antimony is relatively close to iodine on the periodic table, so I will assert it’s close enough that xenomorphs tasting like those stony sea sponges is accurate lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to look into this because I was curious.

  The unification and regulation of the French language came about in 1653 with the founding of the Académie Française and it actually took a while for the revolutionaries to pivot from “liberty of language” to “the only language in France should be French” English was already established by this time and the vowel shift was basically complete.

  According to Wikipedia, Middle French died out in the 17th century while Middle English died out in the 15th. Ergo: Modern English predates Modern French

  If we check back farther it seems the two languages developed similarly though the arbitrary divides for each age of language (old, middle, modern) seem to show with English being first by roughly a century.

  Of course this is all arbitrary since language doesn’t evolve discretely. However the Wikipedia entries for the oldest Gallo-Romance (precursor to French) is from 842CE, whereas old English poetry dates as early as 650-700CE. Once again suggesting English predates French.

  Now there is a difficulty here with French because it originates from Vulgar Latin which could be considered older than English, but I’m not sure many would call it French since lots of European languages branched from Vulgar Latin

  As for silliness… yeah no arguments there lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered why spanish speakers online use EEUU for the US. I once asked a friend of mine and he said “that’s just the way it is”; this is a much better explanation lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t meaning that it’s just an evolutionary advantage for neurodivergents. I mean hell I know several neurodivergents with the opposite problem of being unable to keep themselves from eating.

  I meant people in general might have the ability to tune out senses while being on a hunt or escaping danger etc. Being able to prioritize focus for the largest danger or the bigger stressor. Since we’re always stressed now days and the danger of starving isn’t likely to be as immediately detrimental as it used to be, some people’s bodies naturally tune down those urges to eat and drink.

  And yeah I used to hike and camp a lot and when I did, I tended to feel hunger and thirst more often. Tend to feel calmer in general too. That seems to support my theory that it’s the constant stress of needing to be productive (and the stress of seeing the news and seeing the government drag people from their homes) that contributes to the dulling of our urges to eat or drink.

  Out on fire camps in Nevada and California, 113F days will wreck you fast if you’re not downing water and Gatorade constantly. Good news, when in your in the middle of nowhere, only needing to do manual labor, there’s not much else to think about besides how beautiful the land is (before you get sick of it lol), not much to distract you from your body’s indicators.

  Anyway, I doubt it has much to do with “drinking coke and other crap” Sure, if you get thirsty and the closest drink is always a Monster Energy, you’re likely not going to drink much else. But that’s not really the fault of the Monster Energy is it?

  Hell, I don’t really drink soda at all, but both my sister and her husband drink energy drinks multiple times a day and eat much more snack/junk food than me and still I’d be willing to bet they remember to drink more water than I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of neurodivergent people don’t have as clear signals as neurotypical people do. Some ADHD people, like me, don’t get the urge to eat. Even before getting diagnosed and medicated, I only really know it’s time to eat if I start feeling shaky.

  I also don’t typically feel thirsty, but eventually my mouth will get dry or I’ll see my water bottle and think “ah yeah I should probably drink something”

  I’d imagine lots of people have varying degrees of how strong their bodily urges are and how easily they can ignore them.

  It also seems like it’d be evolutionarily advantageous for our ancestors to be able to tune out hunger and thirst when focused on a task. Since there’s always shit going on in the world and we’re always stressed to be “productive” constantly due to capitalism, I don’t think it’s all that surprising that many people (even those who are otherwise neurotypical) are distracted from the urge to eat or drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid Career Marine Biology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now, introducing Mushu the educated whale who thinks he’s BETTER than you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mandela effect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fake: clearly the image is wrong because I remember the one on the left being correct

  Gay: “mandildo effect” is definitely a Freudian slip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everybody loves Barbados Slim; he’s the only man to ever win Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My hair grows fast enough that if I wanted it to stay a specific style it’d need cut probably more than once a month. However, I typically just change the way I part it as it grows. It doesn’t look too bad at any stage, though I basically just slowly transition from looking like a fed to looking like the guys in the fourth Harry Potter movie lol.

  It takes about 3-4 months for it to go from 2in on top to being annoyingly long. Probably closer to 5 for it to be like getting in my mouth when the wind blows.

  And hey you can have long hair and still look “groomed” btw, just got to figure out how to style it right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Saturday night ended⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The real question is should you? And the answer is obviously yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually 🤓, the refining process for many fossil fuel products requires the use of inorganic chemicals AND are proven to be hazardous to human health meaning they can’t even fit the US “Organic” certification. (Though I suppose the oil industry has enough money to bribe lobby the regulators)

  Now if you meant “organic” strictly as in “the final product is a purely hydrocarbon compound” then you’re correct, assuming you’ve entirely distilled out any metals or other inorganic compounds of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Serial Experiments Lain, layer:10 LOVE

  As with every episode I’ve seen so far, it’s a confusing avant-garde mess, but with cassette-cyberpunk aesthetics (the best kind of cyberpunk aesthetics) so I guess that’s okay.

  But that episode in particular is weird people confessing psycho love for a protocol.

  To be fair I’m less weirded out by falling for a concept and much more weirded out by the fact this protocol looks like and thinks she is an 11yo girl, and these adult creepy idiots are confessing their love to her. Seriously, what the fuck Japan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We should start saying that neurodivergence is a high dimensional manifold.

  The lines between OCD and ADHD and Autism and even like schizophrenia and generalized anxiety and depression are all kind of blurred and all related. Within each of those it’s still a multidimensional space.

  Do you have train autism or obsession over morality autism or both?

  Is being antisocial due to the autism or the anxiety?

  Do you need to have things organized because of the autism or the OCD?

  Do you have the I-can’t-sit-still ADHD or the I-can’t-get-myself-to-do-anything ADHD? (Or both)

  Do you have difficulty regulating emotion due to ADHD, autism, or bipolar depression?

  Do you feel no reward for achievement because you’re ADHD or depressed?

  Do you have the “I only know I’m hungry when I start shaking” kind of neurodivergence or the “I just eat instinctively and compulsively” kind of neurodivergence? Why? ADHD? Anhedonia? Autism? Anxiety? Depression?

  Point is that it’s very difficult to categorize neurodivergence. It’s a mess of symptoms that generally seem to correlate in certain groups but it’s not precise.

  What’s more important (imo) is how it affects your life and you can deal with it. Have a shit ton of executive dysfunction (symptom of ADHD)? Stimulant medication might help, but depending on the way your brain works maybe Adderall works better than methylphenidate or maybe you’d be helped by an NRI or even an SSRI.

  If you have to use a different medication, then are you really the same kind of neurodivergent as the other ADHD people? Probably not neurologically, but it doesn’t matter; you’ll still be able to find support and community from those other ADHD folk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔🤔🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why an AI slop image when any number of readily available meme images would work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ask Walter Freeman he’d tell you to go through the eye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw what you did there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the second bucket would be all that useful.

  If the blade is cutting down into the wood like it’s supposed to, most likely the blood would go down into the primary bucket or go all the way around and start turn the walls and ceiling of the garage into a Jackson Pollock painting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an engineer with a CS minor and ADHD; this kind of research is what I do with my freetime lol.

  To be fair this is kind of a shared hobby project/topic between me and my friend (who is a biophysics major now in med school).

  Anyway, point is that you don’t need to have a real “purpose” in order to be curious. I work in a robotics/medical lab at my university and my friends is trying to be a surgeon, yet we’re constantly in debates about astro and quantum physics to the point we’ve gotten career physicists to weigh in on our arguments.

  No relevance to our majors or our work, but super fucking interesting and full of gaps where there are more theories than facts. Plenty of room for new perspectives.

  Normalize doing research for fun!