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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Penguini⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  its the other way round for bears i think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working Overtime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks matey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working Overtime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a serious question - snails must be using more than 2 brain cells right? i presume that for most beings with a brain that almost all are always working, some less activated some more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speculation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or (hear me out) - get everyone to leave their mortal bodies and be replaced by lizard like limbs (which can grow back)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speculation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  so you are in the android camp. i am in lzard camp

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speculation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So is zuckerburg just a more evolved human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you paid for the cat house, did you not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that hurt a lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyhoppin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If i am not wrong, and iirc, they have different lens systems as compared to humans (or other land dwelling beings). For us, light goes from air to a lens made of “watery” substance and then through a (different) “watery” fluid in our eyes, and then to the back. whenever you have refractive index changes (air and water have different indices(water is ~1.33)), light bends, and so, the way light would refract differently, or in other words, the angle at which “focuses” (not the current optical term here, but works in a colloquial sense, angle of cone of focus would be better) is different if you have air-watery*-watery system vs water-watery*-watery system. since fish live in water mostly, they develop for the lattery system (since most of the system is water esque, there is not much refractive difference which would bend light at larger angles), so they would have to use a more “powerful” (not correct again, better would be shorter focus) lenses, or else there eyes and eye sockets would have to be large. so if they come above water, these “powerful” lenses would resolve the focus spot before the back of eye (so they would be myopic). inverse happens with land dwelling beings going in water.

  Amphibians (and some other “beings”) have some special “arrangements”. iirc, some frogs have an extra layer of “transparent eyelid” like thingy, that they close underwater, which gives the “additiional focussing power” required to resolve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Number One' - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have probably stated it something like “We rejct the the null hypothesis that my father is not a good dad with a p value of [(insert prefered p value criterion, for example, if you pick 95%, then say 0.97 \pm 0.01 or something)]”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spinosarus through the ages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  upvoting because one piece (adn also the acquatic part, but mostly the former)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peasants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can create a python virtual environment, and you do not even have to install python for that. you can install python in a user only mode, and then create a virtual environment (these can be made anywhere, so for example, your downloads or documents folder(assuming you are allowed to access these folders, you usually do)), script would have to be modefied a bit, but still doable. In case you need help for this, feel free to reply/message

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norman Borlaug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In India, Punjab Haryana side (north west near pakistan border) were traditionally the bread baskets. But after a crop failures and droughts in 1960s and in 70s, they were experimented here and they were successful - a gree revolution for 10 or so years. But these varieties were very water intensive, and seeing the yields, most farmers just continously year on year did atleast 2 ccrops a year (a winter one (wheat) and a summer (rice)). This made the lands a lot less productive and many parts of the land since then have nearly become barren. 2 crops per year were normal, but it usually was never this intensivem and natural processes to restore the land (artificial or natural fertilisers, or burning parts of previes crops, or tilling) were just not effective. This lead to reduction in output, and today, a lot of youth just can not do farming, either because they do not want to (they have seen/heard of hard times from parents, or just do not have good land left to farming. This is also one of the reasons why a lot of punjabi-haryanvi diaspora is now outside India - many students just did not see a future here, and if their parents had some money from the good times, they sent their children abroad (us and canada makorly).

  The intention to improve crop yield was right, but the implementation went wrong, and consequences were not great. We did not have a major famine since. Many other states took the job of producing these crops (either they partially adopted the newer seeds, or just had external investments, and used older stuff in a less intensive manner), but atleast the punjab side region lost a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant was for example, if someone is weak in, let’s say, english, but understands their shit, then they conduct their research however they do, and then have some llm translate it. that is a valid use case to me.

  Most research papers are written in English, if you need international cites, collaboration or accolades. A person may even speak english but it is not good enough, or they spell bad. But then the llm is purely a translator/grammar checker.

  But there are people who use it to do the latter, use it to generate stuff, and that is bad imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am no body to stop you. If you feel that is the way you can get a leg up, feel free to do so, I do not want to do moral policing here if this helps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you would find more and more of it these days. people who are not good in the language, or not in subject both would use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  others have given pretty good picture of what you have to do, but you can also do this in some other language, for example in binary, or ascii, and then reduce the font size to something close to 1 pixel. the actual text of pdf is stored in seperate xml tags. Plus you can also write it simply in plain text anywhere near margin of page (no need to do color or size shenanigans) and simply crop pdf out. Cropping of pdf does not remove the stuff, just hides it. Unless you rasterise pdf afterwards and then submit, the stuff is simply there with no special amount of work required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that someone else in the chain of custody of my work decided to do the same, and suddenly this is attached to my name permanently.

  sadly, that is the case.

  The only useful application for me currently is some amount of translation work, or using it to check my grammar or check if I am appropriately coming across (formal, or informal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that could be the case. but what I have seen my younger peers do is use these llms to “read” the papers, and only use it’s summaries as the source. In that case, it is definitely not good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can do that if you do not have integrity. but i can kinda get their perspective - you want people to cite you, or read your papers, so you can be better funded. The system is almost set to be gamed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the image shows bing though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  often this stuff is added as white text (as in, blends with backround), and also possibly placed behind another container, such that manual selection is hard/not possible. So even if someone reads the paper, they will not read this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pHun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a meme, but in case someone is interested, we usually do not want to use strong acids/bases to maintain buffers, instead, weaker acids (for eg, acetic acid), weaker bases (nh4oh), or their correponding weak-strong salt pair, or if it is really close to 7, then weak-weak, weakly dissociating salts (likr (nh4)2 co3).

  I am probably forgetting the proper names for this, but idea is that waker acids/bases do not dissociate completely. for example, iirc, nh4oh is something close to 9-10, so if you want a basic buffer, then you use nh4oh in bulk to get close to required absolute amount of oh- ion concentration (maybe, because you want some reaction to happen in proper stoichiometric ratios), and for fine tuning, use very low concentration of stronger acid/base (depending on the fact that your target is above or below the value of bulk). stronger acids/bases almost immediately completely ionise. for example, i want to make something like 8.5, then i start with nh40h with 9, and slowly add hcl to reduce ph. with this, you make nh40h + hcl -> nh4cl + h2o. this nh4cl, is now acting as weakely dissociating. this reaction is also reversible. around the equillibrium ph, if you add more h+, then reaction goes forward. but simply by adding more water (or diluting), you can reverse this. with salt like nacl(nacl + h2o -> na+ + cl-) , they will practically never recombine, and you can not use this to your advantage.

  the actual salt/acid/base to be used will also depend on solubility of present ions, miscibility, organic or non organic (in this context, organic means carbon related molecules)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is regardless of that. The meme explains it a bit wierdly, but we start with 17 squares, and try to find most efficient packing, and outer square’s size is determined by this packing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peasants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a script which fetches bib entries for pdfs, and then renames it to my prefered format (names of author (no more than 2) - name of paper).

  in case you are interested

  
  #!/usr/bin/env sh
  
  newnamefn(){
  	bib="$(pdf2bib "$1")"
  	name="$(echo "$bib" | grep "title = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1 )"
  	authors=$(echo "$bib" | grep "author = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1  | sed -z 's/\ and\ /\n/g' | head -n 2 | tr '\n' ' ')
  	echo "$authors-$name" | detox --inline
  }
  
  for i in "$@" ; do 
  	newname="$(newnamefn "$i")" 
  	mv "$i" "${i%/*}/$newname".pdf
  done
  
  

  detox --inline is just a utility which makes the file names shell friendly (removes special characters and spaces), but that is optional. Also, technically the newnamefn is what does all of the job, and below is just a loop to iterate on all files that are given as input like script file1 “file2” file3, where file2 had some special characters, so enclosed in “” quotes. you can also translate it to python, then you would not even require sed and grep (you can just get output in json-esque format). I have a small keybinding in my file manager, which renames all selected files, so I do not have to spend any amount of my mind

  you can make it work in any os (maybe use some llm for it), you just have to install pdf2bib

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  considering it is made by sigma aldrich, atleast a 10x markup plus your first born child

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tried to pull a fast one did ya⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this. I almost always pack extra information, and then skip according to time. In case someone questions back, I say, it was back on so and so slide, you might have missed it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Material scientist wet dream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  most solids and liquids are practically incompressible (when comparing with gasses). there is a relationship between bulk compressibility, shear stress and youngs modulus for solids, which can be extended for liquids. It does not work for gasses