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- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 1 week ago:
Indeed, you should trust the other authors but that is the whole point of the response in the original post.
- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 1 week ago:
It’s quite common in interdisciplinary papers that some of the authors cover a part of the paper in which they are expert while others cover another part.
It is uncommon in those cases for all authors to read all referenced papers.
- Comment on Mint 1 week ago:
Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it’s not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.
- Comment on They got us by the balls 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on All mixed up 2 weeks ago:
In Italy “Non dare da bere all’acido”
Do not pour a drink to acid.
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you’re being served.
Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that’s quite uncommon.
As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.
- Comment on I got 99 problems 2 weeks ago:
That’s just because you didn’t start looking in the smaller problems yet.
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
I’m a chemist, I just gave a class to students today. The main topic of the whole lesson was this: we have all these theories and methodologies, we are not going to study how they work and how to use them, let’s discuss now all the limitations they have and when they do not work.
- Comment on Being Difficult 1 month ago:
Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.
Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.
- Comment on Being Difficult 1 month ago:
Calculations will happily tell you that an acutely toxic drug is the best way to cure cancer.
The reason why that does not lead to catastrophe is that there are many checks and safety nets in place in order not to blindly trust any result.
The exact same approach can be applied to an LLM.
- Comment on Being Difficult 1 month ago:
I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.
People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain “everybody does it this way, I guess it works” are there in scientific research.
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 1 month ago:
I know it is quite common to ask in gay dating apps. Many people in there have a full set of naked photos that they send out to others on request.
I’m not so sure about women.
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 1 month ago:
Nothing she wrote seems like classism to me. The way you put it, a lawyer should avoid mentioning he’s a lawyer as that would display he was educated and thus insulting people who couldn’t.
She’s probably complaining with her friends and reflecting about what happens. In her work life she is a respected person who does important things which are recognised by her peers.
In her datings she has to go over people who can not come up with a better idea than to send a dick pic. This is a terrible thing, but some people may get desperate and accept some of these inepts. She’s reminding herself that she’s doesn’t really need to have these kinds of interactions.
Is there a classist message in there? I guess the main message is: I’m a smart person, I don’t need to put up with this. She does not insult those people as Poor’s or people who did not study. As far are we know people sending those pictures may be millionaires (and I wouldn’t be surprised).
- Comment on PPE w 1 month ago:
While you may be tempted to measure volumes with a beaker, for the love of God don’t use a graduated cylinder on the hotplate!
- Comment on po-tay-toes 1 month ago:
I’ll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.
- Comment on spoopy figs 2 months ago:
I used to have some fig trees, I’d always have to be careful around them as they’d be full of wasps.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 months ago:
I’m sure a big square inside the main square would have a higher surface area than this. Calculations over the top of my head tell me this, but then again, I didn’t publish an article on the subject.
- Comment on Name this Paper 2 months ago:
Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners
- Comment on If at first you don't connect 3 months ago:
Is that a USB to USB adapter?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
So what? Everyone who understands how things work knowns that dogs meow when placed inside black holes.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
British food Is not a race, just terrible food nobody should have ever come up with.
