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- Comment on If at first you don't connect 16 hours ago:
Is that a USB to USB adapter?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 16 hours ago:
Came from Italy and to be fair I didn’t try too much American food, I guess some corn meal and pancakes, meat was really good; but the real greatest thing I found in the US is the HUGE sandwiches they make in the Publix supermarket. Great stuff, loved it.
- Comment on More CUDA please 1 week ago:
As a computational chemist, I agree: a lot of computational chemistry studies are useless and just a bunch of calculations on a molecule nobody cares about and that will never be synthesized. In most cases, computational chemists get a good result, publish a paper and then delete the files and forget about it because now they have something else to calculate, generally the information of such results will never reach a laboratory. Then there is the other part of computational chemistry: calculating stuff that has already been determined experimentally. For… Reasons. Just a couple days ago I reviewed a paper of this kind: very nice setup, good calculations and so on. Then I went to check the list of molecules they used, and they had experimental results for every one of them. Mind you, they were not testing the computational methods for accuracy, they were genuinely trying to predict those values…
Well anyway, I’ll go look my 50 GPUs burn now.
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- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
So what? Everyone who understands how things work knowns that dogs meow when placed inside black holes.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
You can spend your entire life thinking about it and you Will never reach a definitive answer. Or, you can spend a day to set up an experiment and throw a party.
- Comment on One way to guarantee your paper blows people away 2 weeks ago:
Not only genius mathematicians, we have good examples of genius biologist with Kary Mullis. Though to be fair I’d much rather live in the same city of Kary Mullis, I’d probably enjoy a beer with the guy every once in a while.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the resource. I’m unsure as to why my comment above was removed as I received no notification about it and nobody gave me an explanation. I’ll start by saying that my field of research is quite different from social sciences and that I am absolutely not an expert regarding transgender people: I am not one and I only have few friends that are. I have not read the articles from the authors mentioned in this thread, I do not know whether their research is sound or not, @daannii above was saying their research is sound and I take it at face value; but the following stands even if that is not the case.
The review you linked does not appear to address these issues that are being discussed in here. They do find that gender transition tends to be positive and that in most cases people do not regret doing it.
- Regrets following gender transition are extremely rare and have become even rarer as both surgical techniques and social support have improved. Pooling data from numerous studies demonstrates a regret rate ranging from .3 percent to 3.8 percent. Regrets are most likely to result from a lack of social support after transition or poor surgical outcomes using older techniques.
However this does not seem to address differences across demographics, such as could be transitioning when minor vs transitioning when adult. It would be interesting to know whether people who transition as child tend to have higher regret rates than adults.
We eliminated studies, for instance, that did not assess the outcomes of gender transition, that investigated minors instead of adults
In fact they specify in the methodology that they specifically did not address research involving minors and they excluded any paper that investigated minors.
Littmans research aims to discover which trans teens will continue being trans and which will flip back to their biological based gender.
This statement from above does make sense to me. I would not see one such research as damaging towards anyone. I don’t see how that is bias. In the review you provided is stated that some people, a vast minority, do regret transitioning. I don’t see how identifying those people before they do transition would be bad.
It’s not science. It’s bias, wearing a veneer of science
That could very much be, as I said I did not read the articles from the authors above. But the review you refer to does not disprove any of their findings. Moreover it is an article that I would never myself reference. I am from a different field of study and probably we do systematic reviews in a different way, but if I was one of the peer reviews I’d be asking a major revision. This is not a scientific publication: it is not reviewed by anyone for what I can tell. They do at the very least show the methodology on how they selected the papers, which is nice, but they do not explain at all how they analyzed and reviewed the papers. This would at most classify as a review article and not a systematic review in any authoritative journal. They have no quantitative analysis of the papers, besides number of papers with negative results and only give some qualitative analysis of the aggregate results without justifying how they got to such conclusions. I’m not saying the results are incorrect or that their research is wrong, but there is also no way to verify it is, since they do not provide that fundamental information which would be required in any peer review process. It is nevertheless a good read as a piece of diffusion, to inform people who are not actively working in the field.
Here’s what the science actually says
Given that, this statement feels a bit out of place.
I am unsure on what was your point. It is very possible that the authors of this survey are not doing a good survey or that they are manipulating results, but then you should point that out rather than another (bad) piece of research which does not address the main point of the conversation.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 month ago:
Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.
Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.
If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.
I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.
I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 month ago:
I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.
This past year I’ve been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
- Comment on Chocolite 1 month ago:
British food Is not a race, just terrible food nobody should have ever come up with.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 1 month ago:
What do you mean? The 2 weeks surrounding Christmas are just cooking and eating. Meeting people to cook together, meeting people to eat together. Visiting distant parts of the family you only see once a year and eating together. Visiting friends you only see once a year and eating together. I mean, chocolate is good; but there’s way too many dishes you want to eat that you likely don’t have enough vacation days to prepare them all. Then it becomes a point of optimization and huge discussions regarding what to prepare for lunch and dinner, attempting to make it so that none of the 15 people at dinner had already had that dish in those days or were planning to have it on another day. This is clearly impossible and that is where the real importance and respect of a person amongst the group of people he’s meeting becomes evident as he will muster support towards the dishes he was proposing by parts of the other people.
Well, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a few people; respect is very high: in fact yesterday I just said I’d cook something and nobody actually asked what I’d cook. I don’t know yet what to cook. A couple days ago with one of the people in there I made risotto, I’d rather not repeat. I guess we could go for a pasta to keep it moderately simple as they work tomorrow morning and we don’t have much time, but I’ll accept suggestions.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 month ago:
This is all good, but give us the insult now: I just got a Jewish Asiatic mexican lesbian with African origins to deal with right now.
- Comment on Fantastic 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that onion did not cook 5 hours. Just cook it 5 hours and the plastic will go away.
- Comment on Platypuss 1 month ago:
Great depiction of peptide based protein inhibition.
- Comment on lets fucking go 1 month ago:
Is tobacco advertising allowed in the USA?
- Comment on Why are dogs? 1 month ago:
Even in the most basic research having an hypothesis is important, even just to say “I was completely wrong, but in the end extremely lucky and found something I didn’t expect nobody cares about”.
Hypothesis Aerodynamics experimentation does not damage internal organs of dogs.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that wind tunnels are not dangerous to the well being of dogs. Such findings open new research opportunities in the field of dog aerodynamics.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 2 months ago:
Might be worth making a list on wikidata.
- Comment on Authentism 2 months ago:
I’m sure there was a good reason to make this. I just can not imagine what that reason would be.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 months ago:
Don’t know about the small window thing. We had turkeys for a while, but to be fair it was more about domestic animals than food source. Those things would get huge. I remember once some friends were coming to visit at night and seeing them on the roof got scared and ran off.
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 months ago:
TIL animals may be allowed in chemistry labs. But then again, still remember my professor’s being very clear that mouth pipetting is bad idea, to then show us how to do it just in case.
- Comment on We've got it all worked out 2 months ago:
Recognizing our knowledge is limited does not mean we believe the earth is flat or that we have no reason not to believe it is not. Attempting to say that everything is pretty much explained just increases the confidence of someone believing in the flat earth, as that is very clearly false. There’s a bunch of things we can not explain and there’s a bunch of things that in theory we can explain and forecast, but in practice we can not. Go ahead and do some quantum mechanical calculations to describe a system with more than 3 electrons with the nuclei of the atoms moving…
- Comment on We've got it all worked out 2 months ago:
Recognizing our knowledge is limited does not mean we believe the earth is flat or that we have no reason not to believe it is not. Attempting to say that everything is pretty much explained just increases the confidence of someone believing in the flat earth, as that is very clearly false. There’s a bunch of things we can not explain and there’s a bunch of things that in theory we can explain and forecast, but in practice we can not. Go ahead and do some quantum mechanical calculations to describe a system with more than 3 electrons with the nuclei of the atoms moving…
- Comment on "Wierdyellowmushroomycin: Towards Good, Natural Drugs Instead of Bad, Synthetic Drugs Full of Chemicals" 2 months ago:
I am a chemist specialized in drug design. This article opened my eyes. I’m up to a great scientific discovery. Way too many people have been avoiding amanitas due to disillusions and ingesting large quantities of organic chemicals. Tomorrow I’ll start my new sampling of mushroom properties using myself as evaluator, see you all at the Nobel candidature.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 2 months ago:
I may be very stupid about it and not know the normative, but what is the safest option for me is the following. No informed consent -> no research on any samples from the patient.
Does not matter how important your research is. I myself would like to be informed about that stuff. I may decide to donate my organs to research after I’m dead, but I have decided that.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.