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- Comment on This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 5 days ago:
finally, they have automated couriers kicking packages
- Comment on Academia to Industry 6 days ago:
i mean, that’s the point that in the process grant money becomes your money
- Comment on Academia to Industry 6 days ago:
ideally not your money, but money from grants, that’s why i mentioned it
- Comment on Academia to Industry 6 days ago:
that and if you can find lab/group with recent publications and funding. not sticking too hard to failed ideas also helps
- Comment on Academia to Industry 6 days ago:
the only thing this chatbot will be able to simulate is unreasonable persistence
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
“fun”
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
the thing that they’re supposed to provide is peer review, solve that and we’re good to go. would be easier to do with some kind of central oversight and stable funding, we’re not talking about shitposting instance for 250 people that nobody will notice if it goes down
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
you’re risking copyright nastygrams, but people still do it, and even upload preprints and full articles to scihub, because fuck that and it’s maybe free citations
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
i hear you, but this leaves this massive gaping hole filled by predatory journals
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
applied for a grant last month, now to finalize grant you need to publish things in open access format. (EU country; there’s a push for all publicly funded research to be open access, with it being a requirement from year ??? on, not sure when, but soon) there’s some special funding set aside just for open access fees, which is still rotten because these leeches still stand to profit. then, if you miss that, then there’s an agreement where my uni pays a selection of publishers to let in certain number of articles per year open access, which is basically the same thing but with different source of funding (not from grant, but straight from ministry)
- Comment on Miracle cures 3 weeks ago:
All HPLC samples that i do, before putting them on column i filter them through short layer of silica to separate all the insoluble and entirely too polar crap
Additionally there’s also short guard column before main column, so if something goes really fucking wrong it’s the 2cm guard column that is to be replaced and not the 20cm main one
I work mostly with NP-HPLC so your situation might be a bit different, but the general principle is there
- Comment on Miracle cures 3 weeks ago:
jeez dude are you using some pretreatment
- Comment on Miracle cures 3 weeks ago:
did you unclog the column or does lab has to eat up few thousand dollar loss
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
maybe if it causes liver failure, but it won’t even get into blood so unlikely
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
Kurkuma/curcuma is the name of this plant in latin, french, german, spanish, slavic languages, arabic and few others, it’s the english who named it weird (it’s zerdeçal in turkish, similar in some turkic languages and haldi or similar in some languages of india)
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
There’s entire governmental office for wasting money brains and time on this shit en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Ayush
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s worse than placebo, because it’s known by now that nothing of that shit has any chance to work yet there are still clinical trials with it. This takes away resources from things that have a better shot at working which imo makes it pretty unethical
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
A spice used in Indian cuisine. It’s intensely yellow due to curcumin, a compound that has miraculous property of causing false positives in about any cell assay (ie it seems like it does something, but really it decimposes/is fluorescent/damages cell wall/clumps up/pulls metal ions where they shouldn’t be/forms hydrogen peroxide where it shouldn’t be, all of which can look like some kind of activity when looking at cells, but it is not so)
Also it’s completely insoluble in water and shredded by liver in minutes, so there’s that. It’s great for churning out bad science tho
- Comment on Miracle cures 4 weeks ago:
mandatory quick recap on PAINS www.science.org/…/curcumin-will-waste-your-time
- Comment on He came with receipts 4 weeks ago:
are you making a testable prediction? it’s not a theory, it’s a take, hypothesis at best
- Comment on He came with receipts 4 weeks ago:
if musk was in academia he would ghostwrite some garbage, then submit it to mdpi
- Comment on "there is little incentive not to use it" 4 weeks ago:
there’s about zero public information about interstage for example
- Comment on He came with receipts 4 weeks ago:
easier if you have interns
(also probably depends on a field heavily)
- Comment on "there is little incentive not to use it" 4 weeks ago:
this makes sense if you consider timescales involved
- Comment on "there is little incentive not to use it" 4 weeks ago:
yeah this is not as surprising as it looks like
between pure fission design and thermonuke for a militarily relevant yields, say, 100-500 kt range, both designs are in principle working, but thermonuke is both compact and derives most of energy from cheap materials (natural to moderately enriched uranium and lithium deuteride). This is important if you remember that this thing has to fit in an ICBM
thermonukes have an extra advantage that they’re staged, that means dial-a-yield becomes possible - not all parts have to be used
- Comment on Ant smell 4 weeks ago:
what bricks are you crushing mon
- Comment on Protons 4 weeks ago:
unrelated but did you just dump 15+ memes at once or is it wonky federation issues
- Comment on Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution. 5 weeks ago:
doc doesn’t want to perscribe you xanax because xanax will stop working and this fucks up many other things in the process
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 1 month ago:
it’s a spicy autocomplete. it doesn’t know anything, does not understand anything, it does not reason, and it won’t stop until your boss thinks it’s good enough at your job for “restructuring” (it’s not). any illusion of knowledge comes from the fact that its source material mostly is factual. when you’re drifting off into niche topics or something that was missing out of training data entirely, spicy autocomplete does what it does best, it makes shit up. some people call this hallucination, but it’s closer to making shit up confidently while not knowing any better. humans do that too, but at least they know when they do that
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
planck length doesn’t come up even once, it all boils down to these things: 1. electron has momentum, and from that follows it has a wavelength, and at the same time 2. orbit is stable, which means that after every “rotation” electron has to end up with the same phase, which means there is only a finite number of solutions to time-independent schroedinger equation for (hydrogen) atom (don’t bother solving it on paper for anything with more than one electron) and these things are spherical harmonics