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- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
Things appear to have changed; thanks for drawing my attention to that. I may start editing some articles in my broader area.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
I can’t without doxxing myself more than I’d like. It wasn’t an article about himself, nor his research. This was about 10 years ago, so the rules may have changed. I’ll take a look and edit my post accordingly if so.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
A problem with Wikipedia is that experts are not allowed to contribute to their areas of expertise because they’re “biased”. I know a professor at a top university who used to spend his free time editing Wikipedia outside of his specific area but in his broad area of expertise as a method of disseminating science knowledge to the public. When the higher-up Wikipedia editors found out who he was, they banned his account and IP from editing.
Having the lay public write articles works when expertise isn’t required to understand something, but much of Wikipedia around science is slightly inaccurate at best.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 month ago:
Thanks, I appreciate your perspective! The job wouldn’t be in Copenhagen, but I do hope to visit before the offer deadline.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 month ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 month ago:
Would you recommend Denmark to someone from the US considering taking a job there?
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 months ago:
Blue light is important for night vision, so either of those options would lead to less of an ability to see well after sunset.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 months ago:
No, glia support neurons; they do things like redirecting blood flow to more-active-than-usual neurons, mylenate axons, etc. They wouldn’t form a mesh around neurons’ photoreceptors the same way they do neurons’ somas and axons. What the article describes is that glia actually are critical at allowing for color vision during the day and night vision at night, since on land we’d get too much blue light to see color with much fidelity were it not for glia, and a similar filtration process helps us see at night. It’s not that it’s not as bad as it could be, it’s actually that vision is better this way (barring one small blind spot outside of our fovea–which, being outside of the fovea, would have low acuity anyways).
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 months ago:
This arrangement actually optimizes color vision in the daytime and night vision at night. Evolution selected for the correct arrangement for those of us living on land:
- Comment on modern coding environment 5 months ago:
Honestly going to use this lol
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 6 months ago:
My merit review this year specifically noted my high volume of peer review for why I exceeded expectations in the 20% service part of my contract. Again I say, faculty are remunerated for peer review. It’s better to do peer review for the service part of my contract than it is to sit on faculty senate. Doing peer review helps my research. It’s a win-win, unless I don’t want to get my full merit raise because i ignored service.
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 6 months ago:
Faculty are paid for doing peer review just like we’re paid for publishing. We’re not paid directly for each of either, but both publishing (research) and peer review (service to the field) are stipulated within our contracts. Arxiv is also free to upload to and isn’t a journal with publication fees.
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- Comment on 7 for me 7 months ago:
Even somewhere warmer, I’m a 2 year-round, too. I just have one very cool sheet that I use in the summer.
- Comment on Do it 8 months ago:
The pot in my ass
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 9 months ago:
I actually don’t know the way you’re supposed to beat Super Metroid “correctly.” I’ve always done what I ended up learning was a major sequence break resulting from a bunch of bomb jumps to get the power bomb early, and use that to get some other stuff that allows me to beat the game out of order.
I also never start Metroid Prime without immediately getting the double jump. I used to be up there on speed running that game. I don’t play the player’s choice or switch versions whenever I decide to crack it out. The original was literal perfection.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 9 months ago:
Mrs. Davis is one of my favorite shows period. That was a masterpiece.
- Comment on What are your top 10 series of all time? 9 months ago:
- House
- Legion
- Breaking Bad
- Futurama
- Scrubs
- Dexter
- Ozark
- Mr. Robot
- The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Snowfall
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 11 months ago:
Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn’t actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn’t know that this was more forceful than a request.
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 11 months ago:
They weren’t asked, they were mandated to do so directly by executive order. I get the desire to not comply, here, but if I’m NIH, I’m probably thinking that complying to keep the doors open for four years will do a hell of a lot more for the country than if they refuse and Trump totally dismantles their entire architecture with enough time that it’s difficult to reinstitute when he’s gone.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 1 year ago:
Just as an aside, I hadn’t heard of that cursor feature before, and this is wonderful. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. I have to keep my work phone loaded with all the Google/MS spyware, so I still use Gboard on that phone. This will make typing work emails a lot easier.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 year ago:
Deflecting blame by subtle ethnic discrimination. Nice.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 1 year ago:
A bit of an exaggeration, sure. But only a bit. The lay summary of the article I referenced states the following:
Venkataraman et al. find that the paper commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper: leaving out important papers, including irrelevant papers, using duplicate papers, mis-coding their societies, getting the wrong values for “big” versus “small” game, and many others.
“commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper,” and, “completely incorrect,” aren’t very different.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 1 year ago:
This study this meme is based on is completely incorrect and should be retracted. Here’s a lay summary of its issues:
whyevolutionistrue.com/…/new-paper-debunks-the-pr…
And the published article detailing the problems with that study’s issues:
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 year ago:
MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.
- Comment on Anon tries to be ethical 1 year ago:
The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don’t trust those above you in a business setting.
- Comment on Oregonian driving 1 year ago:
Oregonians almost take pleasure in driving slowly in front of you. Maybe they’ve just gotten used to going slow because the entire state freeway system is always under construction. People driving crazily is infuriating for a completely different reason.
- Comment on We all know it's true 1 year ago:
I’m back on my BS is also a solid contributor
- Comment on Halo: Combat Evolved remaster reportedly in the works, being considered for PlayStation release 1 year ago:
The online play is garbage. I played in H1 tournaments around the US back when it was good and would love for them to do it better than they did with their remake. The remake actually remade Halo 1 PC, not the Xbox version.
