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Null models for weighted bipartite networks, and why people choose dumb network summary stats because they are lazy

Linguistics and the prescriptive bias of assuming a word’s meaning based on its blatant etymology

How skill makes games less fun and we need to embrace more chance in board games and video games

How cool it would be if we wrapped copper wire around the moon and used the earth-moon system as a huge electrical generator

Trains are awesome and we should have more of them

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I used to like them, but then a month or two ago they ran an op ed on their front page that was basically “how dare you teach my children that gays exist, that violates my religious freedoms, we don’t have gays where I come from”.

On the front page.

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“We killed our space anomalies long ago. They were more trouble than they were worth”

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Basquiat couldn’t draw the cool S hahahaha

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There was never a world where we would deflate back to any reasonable dollar value.

The stock market cannot handle deflation, as it would be more valuable to hoard cash than to invest. So the rich would lose tons of value.

Almost nothing will ever really get cheaper.

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  1. Adopting a baby is insanely expensive. More so than giving birth. They are absolutely sold for insane prices, it’s messed up but that’s how it is. There is huge demand, lots of people want to adopt babies.
  2. Adopting older children is seen as a terrible idea because they are “universally fucked up” and will have behavioral problems, mental illness, etc.
  3. Babies happen by accident all the time
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Hi I have one. Grad school was the most fun part of my life, but let me give you some advice:

  1. Your relationship with your advisor makes or breaks grad school for you. Don’t take a gamble.
  2. Research is not what most people think it’s going to be. Almost regardless of field these days, get ready to learn how to write code, and get ready to teach yourself everything.
  3. If they don’t have a plan to pay your salary for at least 4 years, don’t bother. No, you can’t count on external money in this funding climate.
  4. Read the book “getting what you came for”
  5. Talk to potential advisors. The ones you want to be with won’t have time to talk to you. It’s a paradox.
  6. You want to be a person who wants a “hands-off” advisor, and then you want to get one. If you want a hands-on advisor, my advice is to go do some work on your confidence, and come back when you think you’re ready to teach yourself everything.
  7. Don’t go into grad school thinking you know what you will work on. Projects evolve and change based on funding and whims and chance.
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That’s all fantastic advice, thanks for adding to my post! Especially agree about not worrying about broad impact in grad school.

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This just in: the least-stinky shit you ever took still smelled like shit

NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights (www.cnn.com)

In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators...

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Airplanes are public transportation though

My mother-in-law lives with us and has been diagnosed with Alzheimers. We've been dealing with it for about a year but things are progressively getting worse. What are options for care?

She gets social security, and we don’t have a lot of money ourselves and are no longer able to be with her 24/7. We are in Maryland, and are scared of what we can do. Will her medicare do anything? Is it too late for something like long term care insurance? We have no idea where to start....

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Can I set up some kind of will so that if I get Alzheimer’s or dementia, my family can euthanize me even if I object? Being a burden like that sounds fucking awful.

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Well that’s stupid

If you can kill yourself whenever you want, you should be able to kill yourself in advance too

I mean you kid of can with a “do not resuscitate “

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I understand that concern

I’m saying it would be better for society in general if I could be euthanized against my will if I have dementia, and I really do think it’s that simple. It’s like a trolley problem. You have to make the trolley run me over, so my loved ones aren’t tortured and burdened. We euthanize animals against their will all the time and while it’s very hard, we recognize it’s necessary. I think the same logic should apply, and it’s made easier with prior consent.

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The purpose of widening the highway isn’t to make individuals move faster or to solve congestion. It’s to move more individuals, and therefore more money.

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They say 1070ti… will my 980ti run it??

Also I hope it runs on Linux

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For me, 2 hours of meetings, 1 hour of actual work.

Meetings are so draining, we should get rid of them.

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Yes, I think people don’t like it because they think any time you use a word with a positive connotation (“benefit”), you must be speaking positively.

Another example is “brave”. Let’s talk about the woman who got shot to death while storming the US capitol. If you say she was brave, people will assume you side with Trump and the insurrectionists. But she was absolutely brave. But also deluded.

These mental shortcuts are reinforced all the time, and we really have to force ourselves to think critically (and cynically) to overcome them.

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What the fuck is that, holy hell. Wow I can’t believe that.

Also no wonder his support for the GOP primary is so low, he forgot to use the n-word.

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Not how it works.

It’s just a fancy version of that “predict the next word” feature smartphones have. Like if you just kept tapping the next word.

They don’t even have real parameters, only black box bullshit hidden parameters.

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Exactly correct, I agree. LLMs will change the world, but 90% of purported use cases are nothing but hot air.

But when you can tell your phone “go find a picture of an eggplant, put a smiley face on it, and send it to Bill”, that’s going to be pretty neat. And it’s coming in the next decade. Of course that requires a different model than we have now (text to instruction, not text to text). But it’s coming.

Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?

Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?

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That’s because in most cases, you’re paying for the cost of the land, not the house itself. Just look at how much unimproved land costs. The house itself is a depreciating asset, the land appreciates so much that it overwhelms the cost of the house. Even condos are subject to this, simply because they take up space (which is worth money) and their price is tied to traditional houses because they are (imperfect) substitutes.

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No way, I think we are going to find out that circus is more important than bread, very soon. When people start needing to eat expired food and bugs, they won’t revolt as long as they have TikTok etc.

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My entire city burned down a year and a half ago. The burned lots were selling for over half the price as surviving houses, right after the fire. Like they were only 20-30% off. Most of the value is in the land.

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Well then, when the assassin is doing so in order to preserve some status quo, they win.

Example: MLK. Killing him did a great job of preventing a very very very charismatic leader from bringing white and black people together against their corporate overlords.

Another example is the infiltration and sabotage of OWS.

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The developed world will run out of charity.

We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.

Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.

In “rich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.

The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.

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I remember when this guy was famous for his cringey takes about subs vs dubs, what color subs should be, and railing against certain subtitling conventions that were common among fansub groups at the time.

Then he made this, and totally redeemed himself.

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Management should not exist

No software project should have more than 3 contributors

GUIs should not exist either

The internet was a mistake as well

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Carrot cake should be called something else if it doesn’t have raisins or currants in it. They are so damn good.

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I have a hypothesis that all the raisin haters out there are super chocolate lovers. And they are just mad that it’s raisins and not chocolate. I’m not saying all chocolate lovers are raisin haters, but that all raisin haters are chocolate lovers.

Last I checked raisins aren’t harvested with slave labor and deforestation, learn to enjoy raisins they are amazing

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Menopause. It shuts down a lot of the growth hormone crap involved in oncogenesis.

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Please drink verification can

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Also it deletes calendar invites once accepted. People put other stuff in those emails! Like meeting links and stuff. Why would you delete that???

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I would also like to know. I drive a 4runner and there is a TON of aftermarket parts that have that black flag on them. Rear window stickers, bumpers, decals, cargo organizers, etc. what’s the deal?

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Yes but that chore stuff used to be fun for me.

I’d play morrowind for hours and hours in college. Now if I try to play an RPG, I don’t have the patience and it’s a boring chore like you said.

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Super invasive Japanese beetle.

Put soapy water in a jar and put the jar under the beetle. Push it in the jar. Sometimes they jump off the leaf when they sense danger, that’s why you put the jar below them.

They love Virginia creeper, so much that you should consider getting rid of any you have.

They live in the dirt during winter, and warm winters mean more Japanese beetles. We had a cold winter, so this year isn’t as bad as last.

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The author can’t really be implying that in 4 years, many people somehow forgot movie etiquette. Are we really that eager to infantilize people, implying they have the memory of a goldfish? That they have suddenly become ok answering the phone in a quiet theater, and weren’t before?

No, the world has always been full of some fraction of dumb people. If we accept that rudeness is a random variable with some central tendency toward common decency, we must accept that there is a left tail to that distribution, composed of crude jerks.

These people have always been among us. And perhaps in the comfort of our own home theaters, private screening rooms, and bedtime laptop cinema adventures, we forgot about the jerks.

There’s a reason home video became so popular in the post VCR world. There have always been those who talk through films, throw popcorn, and yell at the screen “oh no don’t go in there!” We just forgot about them in those 4 years. They didn’t go anywhere.

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I don’t do web dev, I write math software that makes very rich people richer. But I often hear of this centering and layout crap

Why doesn’t html just have hcenter and vcenter tags or something? Why is centering so hard?

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That’s the joke

It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming

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Don’t get mad at me I’m just explaining it

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And in the sciences and drug dealing and the military, we use metric exclusively.

But for some idiotic reason, construction engineers often use imperial units and I have no idea why. Like buildings are built in pounds and feet and stuff, with half inch bolts and 2x4 (ish) lumber and half inch plywood. It’s idiotic.

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We use both for guns, caliber is imperial (.22, .45, etc).

We exclusively use metric for science

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I like R because most everything is vectorized out of the box, and you can subset multiple ways. You can do stuff like


<span style="color:#323232;">a = c(1,2,3,4)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a - 1 # 0,1,2,3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a &lt; 3 # T,T,F,F
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a + a # 2,4,6,8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a[a &lt; 3] # 1,2
</span>

Also map (“apply” functions in R) is implemented very intuitively, and R discourages you from doing anything object oriented.

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Missing NX

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The pretty visualization in win95 was kinda great. Really good colors. Graphic design may have peaked in 1994.

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Everyone is bringing up licensing

But couldn’t you just stream music you own, to one person at a time? Like lending a friend a cd, which has always been ok.

If I own a cd with 12 songs, maybe to preserve parity with the aforementioned example, one person could listen to a song from that cd while I’m not listening to it. You couldn’t have 12 people listening to different songs from that cd, because you can’t lend the real cd to 12 people at once.

Such a library could get really huge by raising donations to buy out thrift store music collections, records and tapes and cds, to build a big catalog quickly.

And yes I know the music industry would still get mad, but on paper it makes sense.

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Yes and I’m saying if lending one friend a cd is ok, you’d thing streaming your legal copy of one cd to one person should be ok too

I know the reason it isn’t legal is because of digital copying, but maybe you can get around that by deleting your music when you send it to them. Then they can send it to someone else.

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So you are going to wear some kind of pants that you can’t take off easily for 3 days. Maybe some kind of medieval armor, or a fursuit.

Gatorade has tons of calories because of the sugar, and it will leave nothing to poop out. It will give you the critical electrolytes (plants crave them) that you’re missing from food. Take a multivitamin too.

But it doesn’t have enough calories, and you need stuff to go in your stomach so you don’t suffer being empty on your temporary Gatorade diet. eat white bread. Your body metabolizes almost all of it, so there’s almost nothing to poop out.

You will need to poop out all your poop before doing this, so good hydration and veggies beforehand will clean you out. No need for laxatives, just switch to your new and stupid diet 36 hours before you need to stop pooping.

Good luck on your medieval battle reënactment or orgy.

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