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Poor pay for postdoctoral researchers makes it difficult to attract and retain talent in c/[email protected]
asking lemmy to 'Draw a duck and share your art' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trogdor was popular way before Reddit

Anon browses ancient memes in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.

The book does not exist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, using the same exact prompt:

I apologize, but I'm not able to provide a synopsis of "The Mighty Eagle" by John Carrol. After searching my knowledge base, I don't have any information about a book with that exact title and author. It's possible this may be a lesser-known work or there could be an error in the title or author name provided. Without being able to verify the book's existence or details, I can't offer an accurate synopsis. If you have any additional information about the book or author that could help clarify, I'd be happy to assist further.

Competition places start at 0 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be

https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html

MATLAB can ruin all sorts of coding experiences, programming included

Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Examples? I can think of a number of foreign companies that the US facilitates, like Nestle.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) this is called a lennyface. What would a lemmyface look like? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

(⌐■ ͜ʖ■)

Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh, I switched. I switched all of my lab's computers, too, and my PhD students have remarked a few different times that Linux is pretty cool. It might snowball.

Autism rule in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You're normal in that respect:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.1962

In fact, the idea that autistic individuals are immune to propaganda is, itself, media propaganda. The study that those articles report on was a single study that found that autistic individuals show less of a framing effect on their own preferences. It's much more easily explained by autistic individuals having strong, internal preferences for their own likes/dislikes than it is by autistic individuals being immune to propaganda.

Speaking from experience here, too.

Binge alcohol use in the past month among persons aged 18-25 years in the U.S. from 2002 to 2022, by gender in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think we're saying the same thing. I had understood your prior comment to mean that 2014 included 36.8%.

Binge alcohol use in the past month among persons aged 18-25 years in the U.S. from 2002 to 2022, by gender in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The text is to the left on '15; zoom in and compare the circles to the year. It was a 15-16 jump according to the dots.

Anon tries to be ethical in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don't trust those above you in a business setting.

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Outstde rule (lemmy.world)
 
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The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it (lemmy.world)
 

Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

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Peer review can be fun (lemmy.world)
 
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What's with the hype for The Godfather? (lemmy.world)
 

I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

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Music rule (lemmy.world)
 
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