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by dilawar 3y ago
I feel helpless and very gloomy when I think about biodiversity loss and climate change. I even fast forward David Attenborough documentries when he talks about these things. Sometimes "its all going to hell but we are going in togethe
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by dilawar 3y ago
Antiquity can't be substitute of truth. Granted many of these claims may have strong correlations but I also hear a lot of nonsense that is as old as the civilization itself. Witchcraft is only one of them.
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Male Frogs Sing for Sex but Why Don’t They Do Their Best?(ias.ac.in)
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by dilawar 3y ago
Experimental science is much more prone to fraud. An experimental scientist can misled the whole community knowingly for decades before anyone bothers to replicate their studies. The self correcting loop of science can be very slow. A theor
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by dilawar 3y ago
Checkout kroki as well which is collection of various tools including plantuml, tikz, mermaidjs, graphvi etc. As a bonus, niolesk is a very good frontend on top of kroki. You get an editable link of your diagram which you can share with tea
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by dilawar 3y ago
Kudos to eLife for pioneering publishing peer review along with paper.
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by dilawar 3y ago
Lol. Yesterday, I was making fun of my friend. He likes drinking and like to talk about various kind of drinks. I don't drink and wanted to change the topic: "alcohol is just alcohol!". He rolled his eyes.
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by dilawar 3y ago
Yes and mostly no. Its definitely a costlier rice but not unaffordable. My dad grow rice and he doesnt prefer the taste of basmati. Basmati is softer and longer but not as sweet as his favorite "sharbati" or IR24. It tastes bland
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by dilawar 3y ago
Probably true for any other researcher. Building tools (even hardware) is worthy or a researcher resume. During my Ph.D. I worked on adding python bindings to a few simulators. One paper is still pending over a decade and other one was publ
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by dilawar 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder, even after getting caught, academics has the least to loose? The guy with still be a professor, right? Can a doctor, and lawyer remain in his profession after such a malpractice? PS: Politicians dont count. Corrupt as th
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by dilawar 3y ago
I'd recommend pybind11 for c/c++ <--> python bridge. Though you have to compile your wheel for every minor python version separately.
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by dilawar 3y ago
Mosquitos are pretty common in India and kills enough people, though roughly 8 times less than road accidents. Malaria is no longer very deadly but Dengue treatment indeed is pretty costly. Sometimes I feel that dengue cases are higher in c
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by dilawar 3y ago
I actually dont understand most of quantum stuff. When they say 16 qbits, are these simulated qbits or real? Aren't real qbits impossible to make currently because of noise problem? When I was doing my masters, people were talking abou
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady(smithsonianmag.com)
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by dilawar 3y ago
I did my Ph.D. in computational neuroscience (2020 grad). This project is often used to joke about the limitation of computational modelling of nervous system. If you can't compute the behavious of an effing worm with mere ~300 neurons
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by dilawar 3y ago
https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gogo/humor/hum_toast.html
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A Python powered task management and automation tool(pydoit.org)
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by dilawar 3y ago
Happiness, like pain, is definitely a spectrum.
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Half-century quest to create stable beryllium–beryllium bond ends in success(chemistryworld.com)
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Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse(project-syndicate.org)
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by dilawar 3y ago
Dowry, the opposite of bride price, is a way to marry your daughter into a higher status family. Ours is an extremely status conscious society. For a bride family, it is like buying status. Dowry in its most obscene form is a richer India t
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by dilawar 3y ago
https://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/12247 I am a bit surprised not finding any reference to Lauria's book. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-mystery-of-s...
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by dilawar 3y ago
> Technology startups are essential to the global economy. Yet, predicting their short- and long-term outcomes remains difficult. This is particularly true in the early stages of a venture’s lifecycle when little to no performance data a
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Founder Personality and Entrepreneurial Outcomes(pnas.org)
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JT: I Left Rust(old.reddit.com)
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by dilawar 3y ago
r/rust mod on reddit has a good summary of timeline of events. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13sqdt7/i_am_no_longe...
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https://github.com/SubconsciousCompute/poc-windows-rust-filt... We have been playing with Rust and minifilter for Windows. Its almost there. Microsoft has been working on rust driver kit.
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In my country, India, cheating in university is rampant. But there were more than a few of my classmates, who didn't. On average, it sad to see all that cheating. Aren't you saying you are incompetent by cheating?
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Google historical satellite imagery disappears for India(thehindu.com)
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TiKZ/pgf has the best documentation. Apple and Zoho docs are the worst!

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