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- Comment on Wiley Coyote 18 hours ago:
Fuck publishers, the only reason I go along is that it is necessary for my career. If I could I’d publish everything on my own website. You’re very welcome to ask me for any paper I published.
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 18 hours ago:
Unfortunately not, Anna’s archive has got some which are not on sci-hub, but not much more
- Comment on Can someone make sense of this chemical? 2 days ago:
Why are resonant bonds pictured as double bonds? I can not make sense of the molecule as it is pictured.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 weeks ago:
It does not take hours to change a law, but it is very quick to ignore a law and mow down a field. Now, whether the law will prevent them from doing that is a different thing. Someone would have to notice that they’re going to build in a protected area, notify the police and contact them officially to notify the error.
At this point they may still ignore that, then you’d likely have to start a trial. If you’re lucky and you start the trial before they mow down the field, they’ll likely agree they made a mistake, pay for your lawyer and move to the field besides.
There’s no need to change a law to fix something as simple as paying a couple lawyers.
- Comment on Well said 2 weeks ago:
This researcher clearly eats fries too often.
- Comment on Proof that math is real 2 weeks ago:
We square?
- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on All mixed up 5 weeks ago:
In Italy “Non dare da bere all’acido”
Do not pour a drink to acid.
- Comment on baby blues 5 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 5 weeks ago:
That’s just because you didn’t start looking in the smaller problems yet.
- Comment on baby blues 5 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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🥺👉👈 2 months 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🥺👉👈 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I’ll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
So what? Everyone who understands how things work knowns that dogs meow when placed inside black holes.
