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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has an h-index.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  PIs often have no idea what people in their group are actually working on. They may at times just give a general direction of what research should be about. It is common for people doing research for a company to list the CTO or whatever relevant figure as author. The fact that you do not do it reveals nothing regarding the fact that this is quite common practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has an h-index.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He paid for the research. While I do agree, this is very common in academia. The PI will most often be last author even if he didn’t read the paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has an h-index.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would that be? He’s probably just the last author of a bunch of valid articles published by his employees. He probably did not take part in the ideation or writing of those articles, but that is quite common in academia as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.

  If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨----E⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am convinced editors got the joke and now shuffle reviewers around just so that the worst one is reviewer 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that involves statistical mechanics is just black magic. There should be a Nobel prize just for people who are able to wrap their mind around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: oh it’s a reaction scheme, so they start with this and end up with this. I’ll assume everything in the middle is correct and they get what I asked them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.

  The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.

  This is a problem that has been known for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see. Indeed anonymised data should be fine under GDPR. However it is often very difficult to anonymise data. Some things are easy to anonymise, other are very complex.

  For a small company who does not mainly work with data, the easiest solution to comply with GDPR is indeed just deleting the data altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That happens. Still, many companies do not. Some companies are unaware of the legislation.

  I was informing one worker of a company of one such law.

  Many companies do not break the law even though there are no controls just because that is the right thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you advising breaking the law just because nobody checks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure GDPR requires websites to abide to user requests to delete their data. You may wish to review that with your company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, prioritise people who actually work and do things. They deserve housing before anyone else.

  Then also people who do not work and make money off of others people’s work may have a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a merry band of fungi spotted today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that is true. I was looking at the one turned over which appears to me to have brown spores. It’s difficult to tell these things from a single picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rented a flat from a family for 3 years. The flat had not been renewed in over 60 years, but I was alright with that. The flat had several problems, they never wanted to fix.

  One day the electrical system starts going out over and over again, fuses would burn every few days. I had to tell them that in case of fire they’d be responsible for everything I had in the house before they agreed they should fix the electric system.

  Since they were going to fix the electric system, they decided to do a bit more work and change the floor and a few things more. They wanted to increase the rent 50% to account for these improvements; even though that is illegal I accepted, since they were in fact improving the flat.

  I had to move out for two months while the works were going on. One week before the end of the works, the flat was really not done yet. I asked several times whether it would be ready, because I’d need to find and accomodation in the meanwhile. I asked for a discount of half a month so that I could cover expenses and because nobody knew when they would actually complete the works.

  The day before I was supposed to get back into the flat, they decided that I was posing way too many conditions and kicked me out. They decided to keep the safety deposit because a plastic floor old over 60 years had started cracking. 8 months later, they still have some boxes of stuff which is mine but never have time to meet me to give it back to me.

  Time has passed and I still have to go to a lawyer, because I the meanwhile I had a bunch of trouble to solve. I’m sure I can win a trial against them, but even if I do win the trial I’ll have gone through a bunch of trouble just to get my safety deposit back. I’ll be doing it just because they need to fuck off, but still…

  Now, most people renting places were I live are exactly like this. It is not big corporations, it people who got one or maybe a few flats on rent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Professors started writing books for the students to study. Will students get smarter or stop thinking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a merry band of fungi spotted today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the picture it looks like brown spores to me. I had never seen Armillaria sp, but from pictures I must say it does look very similar.

  I’m not sure about the spores color, could be white or could be brown. That color resembles very much the color of cyclocybe just picked. It goes more brown a while after picking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow they believe this will increase their user base…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Te technology Is not really designed to prevent that, it is designed to be decentralised. Now, email is decentralised but everyone uses Gmail.

  Imagine Reddit closes and everyone from there flocks into lemmy. Will small instances stand the influx? Will single maintainers with a small server allow 10 million new users in their instance? Most likely not, either they will limit subscriptions or they’ll close down.

  As such the most likely thing to happen is that someone with money opens a big instance which can host all those people. And there, you got Reddit exactly as it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a merry band of fungi spotted today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Can’t be sure from pictures alone, but it does really look like them. I don’t know many lookalikes, but I guess there could be. If that is the case, that is one very tasty mushroom to pick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a merry band of fungi spotted today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that cyclocybe aegerita?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Chicken of the woods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s large, but it feels a bit dry already. Not sure whether I’d eat that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be amazed if you were the first person testing if those things work. However, I would not be surprised if your specific peripherals do not work as they are supposed to.

  If you know someone with a Linux pc it could be easy to test it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did have troubles passing the Anubis check from time to time. It does not offer an alternative way to prove you’re not a bot and locks you out of the website completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love public transport, it is basically the only form of transport I use. I do occasionally drive a car, maybe once or twice a year. That said, I really prefer not to need transport in my day to day life.

  I live in a city in Spain. It is an important city, but it is not very large. I walk to work in 20 minutes. From work I walk to the city centre 15 minutes. From the city centre I walk to the woods outside town in 15 minutes. It’s not even worth it to wait for the bus to arrive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the US with my sister. Didn’t know whether the bus to get us to town would pass as it was already sunsetting (yes, it did pass we later figured out) as the trip was a couple hours long. One guy stops with his big truck towing a boat and picks us up. Apparently he did not figure out we were hitching, he thought we were waiting for the bus and was afraid for us. Apparently the previous day he had taken the bus for the first time in his 65 years of life and that was one of the most traumatizing experiences in his life. He figured we should not go through the same pains he had to go through…

  But yes, American public transport is terrible. While travelling I had decided not to rent a car. I ended up having to make friends with people travelling with cars so that I could go around with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medicine questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine they do not react when mixed. I do not know whether the mixture is shelf stable and can be stored like that or if additives are required. I’d look into the formulations of the actual injectors you’re mentioning to see whether they provide any useful information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sent them a video begging them to give me a spot in their bunker. I love Replacement.AI, I already sold all my stock to buy theirs.