blackbirdbiryani
@blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 weeks ago:
More a reflection of people’s attention spans these days compared to when the movie is released. Read any online discussion about media and it seems like people are on their phones for 40% of the show at minimum.
Hell the original film would probably not do well if released today because it doesn’t have the obvious shoehorned plot points that the new movies have to cut through the morons.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 weeks ago:
Except y’all have nuclear weapons and the rest of us mostly don’t. When you’re done with your local genocides the US will inevitably turn outwards for a scapegoat.
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a lukewarm take now, but you can no longer expect to succeed well in biology if you don’t have at least an intermediate understanding of programming and statistics.
Without the former, you are going to be wasting a lot of time doing manual work (I kid you not but I see my co-workers waste literal hours gazing at matrices in Excel like they’re gonna land on a significant gene by accident).
Without the latter, you are going to be wasting thousands of dollars in reagents and working time running experiments that never had the hope of succeeding (what do you mean I need more than one replicate?).
Yes you can stick to lab work but don’t expect to get paid more than the average janitor, because you’re competing against literal thousands of graduates who can use a pipette but not R. Maybe if you were a specialist in an expensive niche equipment like flow cytometry or mass spectrometry, but surprise surprise, these kind of equipment require an even more advance understanding of statistics to understand/process the results.
If you’re a biologist who thinks you hate math, I promise you programming is more approachable than high school math, there’s so many tutorials available these days for free that are leagues better than any material from your professor.
Try to get as many opportunities that involve command line work on clusters, analyses with R, and maybe python as well, and you’d be a candidate that would stick above the rest. Programming and statistics is rapidly becoming a common competency, and if you don’t have those skills you won’t be able to compete with people who do.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 2 months ago:
I typically hate the force mumbo jumbo aspect of star wars but I thought the force healer bit was way more nuanced take about the force than other examples in recent films. My interpretation is that he saw his own death, and still chose it anyway. So he still had a lot of agency rather than just being a pawn of fate.
- Comment on ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life. 3 months ago:
Ggplot syntax (and tidyverse syntax in general) is incredibly clear when you compare it to the alternatives. Just try to use plotly to do anything simple and it’ll take 6x the time.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, 27 January, 2025 5 months ago:
RIP to the poor guy in the velociraptor suit.
- Comment on Guess I'll starve 6 months ago:
Jesus christ it must be painful working for such a massive moron.
- Comment on Percentages 7 months 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 8 months 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? 9 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 9 months ago:
Jesus this community has some of the worst jokes, I can’t believe someone wasted time illustrating this.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 9 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago:
Surely this kind of market is oversaturated?
- Comment on Live: Police condemn violence as dozens of protesters arrested, 24 officers injured 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 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) 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 [deleted] 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…