tvawnz

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by tvawnz 11y ago
"If I'm not mistaken, enjoying the process of creativity without any results is an obvious sign of mental illness." Well fuck you too.
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by tvawnz 11y ago
The author has accurately summed up what I despise about modern P.C. (I guess youth?) culture and my main source of aggravation when trying to have a conversation about basically anything these days. "A matter of how they were raised —
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Why would you still use FB today? There are better photo sharing apps, there are better messenging apps, there are better broadcasting apps. The fact that FB monolithically encloses these is only relevant on a desktop browser. FBs biggest s
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by tvawnz 11y ago
What an annoying article. I don't really see the point of it besides it being half humblebrag half swan song. All the actual information has been covered to death. I do like the paroxysms of noble largesse regarding his wife though. St
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by tvawnz 11y ago
That does look like a refreshing exchange. The pessimist in me thinks it's a pretty optimal "showcase" example though :P On a related note, don't some fields/journals (like pharmacology is in my head for some reason
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by tvawnz 11y ago
That is true, but ref reports can definitely be nightmares, especially in niche areas where only 3-4 groups qualify to ref something. And some journals can be particularly bad about the feedback, especially some of the lower tier journals,
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by tvawnz 11y ago
I think it's fairly easy to give honest feedback about a paper you dislike without it being politically disastrous, just something along the lines of: "Is there a reason why you used method a instead of method b?" It hasn&#x2
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Interesting that one of the opening premises of this piece is: "Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’re not. Searching for emotions in this form is as misgu
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by tvawnz 11y ago
I'm not sure how it is in other fields, but in Astronomy we have a monolithic database of publications (called ADS) where you can search by author or title or date or keywords etc. And there are sort options for views, downloads, citat
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by tvawnz 11y ago
This is something that I had been thinking would greatly benefit the arXiv for a long time. Presently, when you do a scientific work, the article goes to a referee who then sends you back their comments which you account for before resubmit
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by tvawnz 11y ago
... and the author has failed to adequately communicate that person's story. I didn't say a thing about the subject of the piece. Is it poor taste to criticize everything associated remotely with something tragic? What about poorl
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Author lays it on a little fucking thick don't they? Couldn't wade through the tidal wave of forced narrative. Who starts a story with a 3 minute hero shot? Just poor. "she never lost the awareness that she had honed over a l
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by tvawnz 11y ago
First, some telescopes do do portions or all of their observations in queue or staff mode, where you just give them the required objects and weather conditions. Just not all of them. I think most 8m class ones will have a mixture-- if your
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Hmmm, great article that summarizes some of the more advanced explanations for the Fermi paradox. Some say that the Sun is young and so if there's other intelligent life, some would naturally have a 7 or 8 gyr lead on us. But the contr
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by tvawnz 11y ago
http://pasteboard.co/2bBK3iI3.png
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by tvawnz 11y ago
That was pretty interesting until it turned into a crazy-rant.
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by tvawnz 11y ago
I guess we can replace it with "prostitution-parade" to be more PC. Sorry about that.
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Is this about the vocabulary or the concept? Yes, I despise when someone begs me to force their work into my friends faces. If I like it enough I am perfectly capable of copy-pasting the link myself.
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by tvawnz 11y ago
I'm fine with the illustrations, the layout is just annoying and counterintuitive. Why would you not just have a long-ass column with some images in it like basically every other article? That's what's awesome about webpages,
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by tvawnz 11y ago
The opening page was my main frustration. According to my internet experience: 1) scroll down - failure, maybe my scroll isn't strong enough to get past some weird header frame thing 2) space bar - failure, maybe it's a side to si
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by tvawnz 11y ago
I think a magazine that intentionally spurns it's own inherent benefits in favor of pretending to be something else, like a movie or a symphony, would be for chumps, yes. Websites offer infinite scroll, that's their medium, preten
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Thanks for the tip.
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Why does no one just put all the words in a row like a book or a newspaper or something anymore? Does anyone actually enjoy this "experience" where you have to wade through a maze of obnoxious pictures and logic puzzles and shit?
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by tvawnz 11y ago
Anyone else having difficulty with their example problem? I keep getting 41 minutes difference, not 43.