Thanks, we had that issue but I think we just solved it by downclocking

Although, that would assume that companies don’t already trend towards doing so

Pro tip: don’t. It’ll make you feel worse than if you just isolated yourself.

The incentive structure of dating apps is completely twisted and makes you feel like every part of yourself is getting commodified and ranked.

Find some social groups or clubs and go hang out there. You’ll have a much better time. Many people don’t mind if you aren’t comfortable with communicating, just being present is a positive in their book.

A broad statement like “trees consume carbon dioxide” would actually be an incredible paper to publish because it means that there is 1. a lot of interesting data that could back up a statement so broad and 2. extremely applicable to a wide variety of fields. When I say “uninteresting,” I really mean a very specific type of uninteresting, like "sunlight does not affect the growth of the fungus Neurospora crassa. " It’s uninteresting because it doesn’t really tell us what affects the growth of the fungus, only that sunlight does not. If you got this result, you likely wouldn’t even feel like it’s information that’s worth making public, hence the lack of papers that have these sorts of results. But, if it weren’t published, then grad students across the globe would keep testing sunlight and keep finding the same thing again and again, wasting time and money. Hence the argument that all data should be published, regardless of how useless the results are

No reason, I suppose. In my opinion it seems to just be a holdover from the previous systems of publishing. The prestige of a journal is ranked based on how often it gets cited (or in other words, how influential the papers are within the journal). Publishing insignificant/uninteresting data would lower a journal’s average citation count, which would make it seem less prestigious than other journals. Hence journals are incentivized to only publish interesting data. It’s a shitty system that everyone knows is shitty but nobody has a good solution for how to fix it

Survivorship bias is the idea that there might be an unknown filter that’s filtering the data before you even get to see it. In the case of the plane, that’s referring to a story from WW2, where planes returning from combat were recorded for where they were shot. Famously, the recommendation was to thicken the armor on places where the planes weren’t hit, because the “unknown filter” in this case is that if the plane were shot down, then you would never be able to record where bullets hit on that plane. Hence, the most important areas of the plane are actually the places that weren’t shot in the surviving planes.

In the case of the graph, this is a graph compiled from looking through a lot of papers and recording how significant a result is. Essentially a measure of how “interesting” the data is. Here, the unknown filter is that if a result weren’t interesting, then it wouldn’t get published. As a result, there’s a gap right in the middle of the graph, which is where the data is least interesting. In recent times, there’s been a philosophical argument that even uninteresting data should be published, so that at least it would prevent wasted time from multiple people attempting to do the same thing, each unaware that it’s already been done before. Hence the reason why people made the graph in the first place

I was taught in my Micro course that lichen is actually a symbiosis between 3 organisms: fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria. The cyanobacteria produces energy, but more importantly fixes nitrogen into a more biologically available form, which would not be otherwise accessible in the environments that lichen grows in

Gives a strangely similar vibe to seeing the slide reels. Pretty cool!

How does that work? Selective breeding? Fertilizer? Growth hormones? New growing techniques? What is it that’s allowing these pumpkins to get bigger and bigger?

Like Wii Tanks, but with pee. Fun to play with your friends!

Split between wild card and corner cutter (start from one corner and expand outwards to form a triangle)

Python is extremely high level and slow. Great for scripting and prototyping but you really shouldn’t build any infrastructure off of it.

It also has dynamic variable typing, which depending on your use case (see above), can either be nice or a headache

Yes, and it’s not bad, but you need to go in with the proper mindset. It doesn’t have the mouthfeel of an egg, so you’d be grossed out if you went in expecting that.

Texture is like jello, but somewhat stiffer. Taste is somewhat like boiled egg, but significantly saltier. There’s also additional flavors that form a much more nuanced composition of flavors that I would describe as being vaguely creamy or fatty

My main complaint with it is that it’s borderline unbearably salty. IMO the best way to use it is to cut into small pieces and use as flavoring for other dishes

My understanding is that it’s basically Garry’s Mod. It’s a platform where you can host your own server and create your own game and have other people join and play those games with you.

Or maybe Hearthians are just small. Would make sense why gravity is so weak

I’m going to need some source for this

Skimmed the article. It happened over 6 months, starting from 1 week post-vaccine. Started with a tingling feeling. Patient grew from B size to GGG. Breast reduction was performed to reduce the size to DD, with further reductions being discussed at the time of publishing

This is common in scientific writing. Evidence, no matter how direct, will always suggest a conclusion, never prove it

The default mode is genuinely quite hard. I selected default and that was probably a bad idea. It did feel nice when I finally beat the boss, though.

There’s an easy mode that I would highly recommend you select. With the easy mode, there’s difficulty sliders that’ll change the amount damage taken and received. The range on the sliders is extremely wide, to the point where if you set the sliders to their extremes, I’m fairly sure you’re essentially just invulnerable

In any case, while the combat is quite a highlight, I think the story is the real star of the show. I would highly recommend the game just for the story alone. I’m of the opinion that Nine Sols is an underrated masterpiece, even better than Hollow Knight

Perhaps not that surprising. It’s the same currency that politicians use. You earn and spend support to keep yourself politically afloat. What this really means is that a good activist should have a healthy “income” of support, meaning that they need to do outreach in equal or greater measure than they do large political actions