*media coverage intensifies* 1 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
I'm a guy and manspreading pisses me off as much as people who put their arm on the divider between seats. I'm skinny and still I have to squeeze so you can take half my space? That's rude.
And now I started doing little things just to progress. :) 2 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
My exponent is imaginary, so, whatever I do my life is a mess of ups, downs, and crazy detours of unreal proportions.
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Edited 4 years ago
Why not both? 6 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
Because herbal medicine that works is called medicine. By the way, have you friends ever wondered why we look for medicines in plants, rather than rocks or other animals? It's super obvious, in hindsight, but things that go without saying go better when we say them. Plants can't move. They evolved to survive without moving. That means chemical warfare. If an animal isn't happy with the food around here then it can just go somewhere else. A plant has to fight where it stands, repelling other plants or animals. After billions of years, plants have developed an insane variety of chemical components to help with their survival. So many complex weird molecules! Even if a very small percentage can be made useful to humans, it's worth looking.
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How to get a scientific paper for free 7 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
True. Those exists. Rule of thumb: the longer the name, the shittier the journal. "Nature", "Astronomy and Astrophysics", good; "Academic Organization for Advancement of Strategic and International Studies", bad.
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How to get a scientific paper for free 7 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
And the authors also have to pay the journal in order to be published. It's not cheap. Fortunately more and more papers are also pushed on arXiv. The problem with arXiv is that it's not a peer review journal, it's just a database, but hey, it's free. Also, use "scholar dot google dot com" to search for papers, it's pretty good.
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Anti-vax logic 14 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
Science is a method that we can used to discover what is true. Do you care about whether your beliefs are true? Remember, faith is not a reliable pathway to truth. Indeed, there is nothing one couldn't accept as true purely on faith. And just in case, no need to talk about "*true* faith"; that would be a No True Scotsman fallacy. If you care about what's true, how do you make sure your beliefs are justified?
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This is what floor heating looks like 8 comments
I'm this old 8 comments
The value of evaluation 2 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
And money or not, if you collaborate with a fashion designer and post the result on Instagram, you're an Instagram model. Because you model. On Instagram. It can be a cool creative hobby.
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This is truly interesting as f**k! 5 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
I guess you're supposed to get a gut feeling for it in 2D/3D and therefore get some kind of intuitive understanding that it could work similarly in 3D/4D. Trying to visualize maths is though :/.
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Thats actually a good idea 7 comments
It was the video games! 114 comments
That's pretty neat 2 comments
niriel
· 4 years ago
Did that for the IQ test to work at IBM. I've got a PhD in astronomy and applied physics, I've been programming since the age of 12, I study abstract algebra for fun but I can't finish those arbitrary sequences of numbers or shapes. I replied A to almost everything. Apparently I did "surprisingly well". I declined the job; no way I work in a company where HR thinks this is a good idea.
Then he waddled away, waddle, waddle 8 comments
Cant argue with that 4 comments