blackbirdbiryani

@blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plotly has the most pain-in-the-ass syntax compared to ggplot2 IMHO. And that’s from a guy who uses a tonne of plotly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a tonne of apartment balconies that are just afterthoughts by the developer though. I see plenty that are narrow to the point of being useless, or 30 floors up with no enclosed overhang which just generally feels kinda terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dk lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus this community has some of the worst jokes, I can’t believe someone wasted time illustrating this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breast Cancer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s entirely an arbitrary distinction. AI, for a very long time before chatGPT, meant something like AGI. we didn’t call classification models ‘intelligent’ because it didn’t have any human-like characteristics. It’s as silly as saying a regression model is AI. They aren’t intelligent things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pacific Drive | Drive Your Way Fall 2024 Update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I liked it initially but it got boring quickly, just generally the same pattern of runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess so, but in my head every body has feet so the supply has to be high, compared to having the skill to draw furry stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely this kind of market is oversaturated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Live: Police condemn violence as dozens of protesters arrested, 24 officers injured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could literally be yoghurt or vinegar, if it was actually anything worst they would’ve stated what it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ceci n'est pas une pipe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have it, you can easily download the original screen saver file and put it in the right folder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breast Cancer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly they should go back to calling useful applications ML (that is what it is) since AI is getting such a bad rap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In January, is it winter in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The river eels are considered ‘trash fish’ to some here but they’re delicious, tastes just like Japanese eels. They’re just a bit of a pain to skin and prepare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Singapore Plans To Pipe Electricity From Australia | Asianometry (15:17)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Singapore is on the equator, within the intertropical convergence zone which is known for windless weather. Wind farms wouldn’t be as efficient there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are soooo common on old houses in Melbourne. I’ve never met anyone who lives in one, but they’re often closed all year which is insane to me (are these people sitting in the dark in their living rooms??)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids are gowing up faster and faster⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a tidyverse zealot and I just cannot stand fixing people’s 300 line base R spaghetti that can easily be refactored into 10 lines of dplyr. Especially annoying when researchers can’t move away from doing everything in matrix format (when it’s unnecessary).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, because when I ask them for info they stare at their directory and have to randomly open files for 20 minutes until they land on the item of interest…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My files are all perfectly stored but it’s impossible to enforce proper naming on your colleagues… No matter how clearly you spell it out they will always mess it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this is one I the reasons why I love Google sheets (controversial I know) as it has a built in version control system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have colleagues who have 20 copies of the same document with slight variations named like this in a folder. I honestly don’t understand how they function at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not wanna mess with narcissists though, it’s not worth the trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I desperately need this. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even consider search results from 2023 anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being so colossally stupid that you think researchers don’t account for ‘hours worked’ when they investigate stuff like the wage gap…