AnarchoEngineer
@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 50 minutes ago:
The cardinality of the two intervals [0,1] and [0,2] are equivalent. E.g. for every number in the former you could map it to a unique number in the latter and vice versa. (Multiply or divide by two)
However in statistics, if you have a continuous variable with a uniform distribution on the interval [0, 2] and you want to know what the chances are of that value being between [0,1] then you do what you normally would for a discrete set and divide 1 by 2 because there are twice as many elements in the total than there are in half the range.
In other words, for weird theoretical math the amount of numbers in the reals is equivalent to the amount of any elements in a subset of the reals, but other than those weird cases, you should treat it as though they are different sizes.
- Comment on Anon has a bully 2 days ago:
Fake: you think someone would just sit there and wait for you to light your fist on fire with the obvious intent to punch them?
Gay: dude wanted to “smash” his bully
- Comment on Anon reaches their breaking point 1 week ago:
I don’t know man, I’m reasonably certain I’m not the only person without blood on their monitor
- Comment on Anon reaches their breaking point 1 week ago:
Fake: no blood on the monitor
Gay: why protest/focus-on “many cases” of short-tempered, thin wristed men if not out of the desire for a yandere twink boyfriend? I mean that’s what we’re all thinking about right? …right?
- Comment on Anon gets his life in order 1 week ago:
Fake: anon has girlfriend Gay: motivated by sticks
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully I’m slightly shorter than that, but not by enough that there are many women as tall or taller than me. I think the z-score of a girl in America being as tall as me is like 3.9, so only approximately 0.004% of women are as tall or taller than me.
If you’re over 2.1m you have my sympathies
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
But I want a very tall person to cuddle with me so that I can feel smol :(
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
Okay I can’t say I wouldn’t like but I guess I really just wish someone much larger than me would cuddle with me so that I could feel small I guess or like protected? Idk it’s hard to explain
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s really spooning if she can’t bend at the hips because the end of my back is far below them and basically at the height of her knees. Not sure having to lay down completely straight is a comfortable position lol
I suppose a short girl could spoon me traditionally if she wants to be facing my lower back but that’s not really what I want either
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
Bro if I could only find a woman who’s like >2m…
I would love to be the little spoon for once :(
- Comment on GET THAT BREAD 3 weeks 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 We gotta be more encouraging 3 weeks ago:
I know :( the issue is I’m in ME and school is fucking expensive. Oh and I am working in a research lab getting paid for my work, not much though.
I would love nothing more than to stay in school and get like 82 different degrees in various topics. I would love to do a PhD in math, and one in physics, and one in cs, and linguistics, and psychology…
But the world forces me to specialize if I want to have enough money to live well. I chose ME because I knew it had a lot of overlap with a bunch of different fields. And yeah I’m taking grad level math and cs courses, but like you said, lots of the stuff I’m interested in is PhD level stuff.
Also Idk if you’re in America, but the money for research here is getting scarcer every day. It could likely be more effective for me to sell my soul to a defense company and then build my own personal lab with that blood money to do research I want to do than it would be to get a PhD and be a professor and simply hope the projects I want to work on will get funding.
Of course that’s assuming the country doesn’t fully collapse (or kill me) before I enter the job force. And assuming I could work for a defense company without deciding to kill myself out of guilt of building civilian killing murder machines.
Anyway, point is that you are right but I lack the financial security to justify trying to get a PhD in math right now.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 weeks ago:
Lead solder
Probably not good, but also why does my university have lead solder in all the design labs in the first place? Lol
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 3 weeks 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 Intelligent Design 3 weeks 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
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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the Walgreens w on the wall? Stop gaslighting us! /s
- Comment on 5 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 5 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 1 month ago:
And now, introducing Mushu the educated whale who thinks he’s BETTER than you!
- Comment on mandela effect 1 month 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 How often do guys have a haircut? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
The real question is should you? And the answer is obviously yes
- Comment on 🤔🤔🤔 2 months ago:
Why an AI slop image when any number of readily available meme images would work?
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 2 months ago:
Fake: girl is interested in anon Gay: dude likes “eating meat” lol