General_Effort
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- Comment on New coding model just dropped 2 weeks ago:
We pretrain METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer model […] , on a […] dataset […] sourced from a large collection of human wastewater samples,
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 3 weeks ago:
a section of small intestine
Huh. Weird. I wonder why that stayed in place. I mean, I wouldn’t have thought that you can squeeze out a person like a tube of toothpaste but since that is apparently a thing…
- Comment on The Republican Flying Doctor Service. It's funded by taxes. 4 weeks ago:
Seriously, why are they producing all these great promo shots for him? If they had done that for someone like Bernie Sanders, the US would be in much better shape now.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 18 comments
- Comment on Warning 5 weeks ago:
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
- Comment on git commit -m "depose" 1 month ago:
Gooble! Gobble!
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 8 comments
- Comment on if statement == false 1 month ago:
In normal parlance, “if and only if” rules out that something could also happen as a result of other circumstances. EG, if you fall out of a plane, you will lose your glasses. But there are other conditions that would lead to the same result.
In code, the alternative would be to have a different if statement that executes identical code. Or *cough* ~you could use a jump statement to execute literally the same code.~
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 1 month ago:
Kind of a shame that our fish ancestors didn’t have more gills. I wonder what we’re missing. I mean, we’re obviously missing something, right?
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 1 month ago:
Please babe! I can change! Here’s proof!
- Comment on Radiation Research 1 month ago:
Wait, how did they build the snowman? There’s no snow on the ground.
- Comment on Just a little guy 1 month ago:
It’s not the inflexibility of your connecting body parts that kills you. It’s the insufficient tensile strength of the connecting tissue!
- Comment on Just a little guy 1 month ago:
It’s not the different times at which parts of you stop that kills you. It’s the different places they are in when they do.
(C’mon, y’all. Help me out. I’m trying to start a thing here!)
- Comment on Just a little guy 1 month ago:
It’s not the sudden stop at the end that kills you. It’s the different times at which parts of you stop.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
jabde.com/…/haha-so-true-reply-in-text-theory/
Alternatively, here’s a somewhat similar one: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0378216616302594
- Comment on Just a little guy 1 month ago:
Ohh. Effing is a place!
I always thought… Never mind.
- Comment on Petrichor 1 month ago:
Hmm. Seems strangely on point that Ichor is the blood of the (greek) gods. (Petro- means stone, as in Petro-Oleum.)
Fee-fi-fo-fod
I smell the blood of a god
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 months ago:
So they just… f*ck off and die.
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
Obviously we’d all die but I wonder how exactly. This would make a good question for Randall Munroe.
- Comment on Grindr be like 2 months ago:
What are you doing, step stool?
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 3 months ago:
- Comment on Preference 3 months ago:
Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.
I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.
- Comment on Throw back time 3 months ago:
Meh. As a german, it just doesn’t make me tingle quite like sending tanks to the east.
- Comment on rabioli 3 months ago:
Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.
- Comment on Chemistry 3 months ago:
I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.
Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
- Comment on Chemistry 3 months ago:
It was 1943 and even in Switzerland fuel was not to be had. Incidentally, it was the same day that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began.
- Comment on Chemistry 4 months ago:
Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn’t even use gloves and lived to 102.
- Comment on Large flavored quark 4 months ago:
Huh. I thought I did check OED. Maybe it’s cause I don’t have a subscription. Or maybe I just mucked up the search.
