VeninVidiaVicii

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   by VeninVidiaVicii 2y ago

   The audacity you have to claim causality here is wild. I’m a geneticist and boy let me tell you that it is not easy to unravel causality. Even in the systems I’ve studied for years, I would never make claims like this.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   In my opinion there’s a general fundamental misunderstanding on the purpose of theories. I see it all the time — attempts to explain why something is useful simply because it exists (re: popular science evolution). There are loads of subopt
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   It is what it is.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   I hear this kind of “it exists because it has to exist” thing from non-bioscience types a lot. Essentially, this is just a tautological statement.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   Lately I’ve been noticing some very fast flickering when I type on Gnome terminal. Guess this coincides with the new terminal.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   Likewise people with bigger feet are better at math. Well actually that’s just because infants have tiny feet and are notoriously terrible at math.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   Sounds like you aren't trying to get the new issue resolved.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   Make a donation now, then open an issue. If it’s an ROI problem, the return is getting the issue resolved.
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   by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

   I read these comments and was very confused for a good while; somehow I thought there was a new kind of cloud robot that vacuumed your SQL databases for you.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    age:35
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Same with European Portuguese, I can’t actually use Siri or any voice controlled software because I refuse to speak in Brazilian Portuguese. It is so unnatural (frankly I don’t know how), I would just prefer to speak English.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I know this was tongue-in-cheek, but I see it as a time investment — or an opportunity cost. If you’ve got gobs of money and just want content now, maybe it’s not worth your time to stay on top of all this subversion technology.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    As a fifth year genetics PhD student, I found myself agreeing to mostly everything here. I also think the logic applies to those of us in the field! > Divergent Tasks are Hard to Evaluate and Reason About By “divergent” I mean loosely d
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    There’s almost certainly no way that we are more genetically related to plants than cephalopods. All sequencing and morphology data support that animalia is a monophyletic kingdom (diverged from one ancestor).
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Wait what? Even when I ask my elderly Iraqi family friends how they are doing, they usually just skip over the “good” and just say “alhamdulillah”.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I always make this mistake too as a computational biologist; when talking about DNA it’s megabases not megabytes.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing. This lines up so well with my experience as a translator in the ER — doctors are constantly catastrophizing and make it seem like everyone is going to die all the time and seemingly massively overtreat/overtest most
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    …but otherwise active and seemingly healthy! A hilarious non-sequitur for the dog scenario.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Thanks for being so eloquent — this was exactly what I was trying to say.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I got denied an internship at the CIA for my past drug use, which was entirely trying marijuana after it became legal in my home state. I don’t see how someone can possibly be expected to have the personality to gather (human) intel, but so
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I agree, nobody wants to chat with anyone's Chatbot -- they typically just want to ask one or two questions. The word "chat" seems disparaging.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Eh I am doing my PhD and I use ChatGPT all the time!
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Not sure how true this is, even walking around inside a museum in Lisbon my iPhone was deemed too hot to charge using a MagSafe battery and promptly died.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I speak Portuguese and just got back from Portugal with my anime-obsessed boss. It was endless embarrassment when I told him to say “obrigado” to thank people, but he just said “arigato” the whole week — even after dozens of corrections. I
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Frankly I don’t even understand why the poster above you says it’s unrealistic. Is it because humans won’t be around?
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Supposedly. But I have the same experience. I used it to create code to design a complicated CRISPR experiment, but lately it can’t keep anything straight.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I think the argument is clearly trite, .docx seems like a joke, and very more likely within the hundreds to thousands of years, people probably won’t even speak Finnish there anymore.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    It was rhetorical. The answer is immaterial, just that the question presented a clear deviation from the dogma.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    Exactly, the reason it’s called a “dogma” is semi-sarcasm, just like “big bang”.
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    by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago

    I used to smoke and chew tobacco quite infrequently once a day or so, but for about ten years, but decided to stop about three years ago. During the past several years I’ve come back to realize I was using tobacco therapeutically — specific