"Arch these are all physiological or developmental hypotheses. If you want an evolutionary hypothesis you need to do [other experiment that I'm not doing unless my DDIG gets funded]"
That was pretty soul-crushing I tell you what
Expertise, shattered
so also basically don't listen to anything I have to say
oh professors
you are like, I am a grad student I am pretty smart
and they are like, hmm I have been reading, writing, teaching, and thinking about this and related topics pretty intensely for a couple of decades now and let me give you 10 things to go read about how you are dumb
this never happened to me they always told me i was super clever thus shattering my confidence in them and the world
i now live underground in a hut of my own devising snorting crack and drinking weed
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did you guys know that the reason why women date assholes instead of NICE GUYS is because they are biologically programmed to want to stay in the tribe and not get kicked out into the wilderness to die so they gravitate to men who can help them achieve that goal this is also why women cry and defend their foul actions
to be fair, I wouldn't want to be expelled from a hunter-gatherer group into the savannah to survive with some guy in a fucking trilby as my only backup
sorry, nice guys
i dunno he probably has a katana
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before my boss gave me that speech, I got into a facebook argument with someone I didn't know (lolol)
I tried to put forth the thesis that the way both researchers and the general public talk about evolution biases a lot of the research and conclusions
Specifically I was talking about the use of "derived", "ancestral", and more importantly "primitive" or "advanced"- which are still phrases that turn up in the evolutionary literature, even today
I tried to argue that this is a convention dating back at least to Haeckel, and probably further to the last vestiges of the original great chain of being (which Origin of species tried to get away from, sort of) and this guy said
"What the fuck are you talking about? Evolution is all just statistical chance sorting out natural variation, it can't be biased. You don't know shit about evolution."
At the time I was offended, but I guess my boss agrees!
did you guys know that the reason why women date assholes instead of NICE GUYS is because they are biologically programmed to want to stay in the tribe and not get kicked out into the wilderness to die so they gravitate to men who can help them achieve that goal this is also why women cry and defend their foul actions
Oh yeah. We also need to stop using words like "programmed" when discussing evolution.
What with there not being a programmer, and all.
That kind of thinking seems to be a direct and inevitable outcome of the vast majority of people believing, and our culture constantly harping upon the idea that the universe (which consists in its entirety of parts of North America and a few strange foreign enclaves) is observed and controlled by a Mind / Higher Power / Deity / Petulant Fuckwit that is responsible for a totally indefinable but necessary substance they call "meaning".
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I'm looking into HabitRPG since recent panicked last minute paper writing has convinced me I need to do something. It seems pretty cool. If I get started using it we can be accountability-buddies 21stCentury . And you can shake your head in frustration at the Danish names I will assign to all my tasks.
@jakobagger
Sure! Let's be habit buddies! i have no clue how, but let's try!
cool I am Bygasto in the thing
I think I might get into using this seriously, if I ever figure out what specific tasks I want to put in
i just put in a couple tasks i need to do every day for easy points.
>_>
like for instance, i put in "take meds" as a daily thing
as for habits, i just put in a couple things i need to do that aren't on a fixed schedule, like preparing an actual meal or doing the dishes or designing things...
that seems very reasonable!
And I don't think having the meds on there is like, cheesing the system or anything, if you were implying that.
for me, there are lots of things that would be cool to do, just need to think about what I want to prioritize. I have very few scheduled external obligations, which is why this system might be really handy.
#2 Use the developer tools in your browser. If you use Chrome, hit F12 and bring up the Elements tab. (Or you can right-click on anything and choose "Inspect Element"). If you use Firefox, install Firebug to do the same thing.
#3 When in doubt, set a border. Can't figure out how stuff is behaving and why? Declare a really ugly border around it like
that will show you exactly where it is and what it's doing. You can always remove it later.
Pro-tip: you can do that straight in the browser if you're using Chrome developer tools or Firebug.
there is a rule I have found very useful for debugging XAML that probably applies to HTML5 and other declarative markup as well: when debugging first look for attributes and nodes to remove before trying to fix the bug by adding more
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
#2 Use the developer tools in your browser. If you use Chrome, hit F12 and bring up the Elements tab. (Or you can right-click on anything and choose "Inspect Element"). If you use Firefox, install Firebug to do the same thing.
#3 When in doubt, set a border. Can't figure out how stuff is behaving and why? Declare a really ugly border around it like
did you guys know that the reason why women date assholes instead of NICE GUYS is because they are biologically programmed to want to stay in the tribe and not get kicked out into the wilderness to die so they gravitate to men who can help them achieve that goal this is also why women cry and defend their foul actions
Oh yeah. We also need to stop using words like "programmed" when discussing evolution.
What with there not being a programmer, and all.
That kind of thinking seems to be a direct and inevitable outcome of the vast majority of people believing, and our culture constantly harping upon the idea that the universe (which consists in its entirety of parts of North America and a few strange foreign enclaves) is observed and controlled by a Mind / Higher Power / Deity / Petulant Fuckwit that is responsible for a totally indefinable but necessary substance they call "meaning".
It also shows up in all sorts of weird places. Like the idea that the balance of an ecosystem represents some sort of peaceful state, or that the concept must obviously apply to all other things too.
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Evolution is just the result of God accidentally releasing the beta for Life and then never making an update so it just kept rewriting itself.
(There I just pissed off theologians, biologists, and programmers in one post.)
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did you guys know that the reason why women date assholes instead of NICE GUYS is because they are biologically programmed to want to stay in the tribe and not get kicked out into the wilderness to die so they gravitate to men who can help them achieve that goal this is also why women cry and defend their foul actions
Oh yeah. We also need to stop using words like "programmed" when discussing evolution.
What with there not being a programmer, and all.
That kind of thinking seems to be a direct and inevitable outcome of the vast majority of people believing, and our culture constantly harping upon the idea that the universe (which consists in its entirety of parts of North America and a few strange foreign enclaves) is observed and controlled by a Mind / Higher Power / Deity / Petulant Fuckwit that is responsible for a totally indefinable but necessary substance they call "meaning".
It also shows up in all sorts of weird places. Like the idea that the balance of an ecosystem represents some sort of peaceful state, or that the concept must obviously apply to all other things too.
the whole Gaia Earth line of thinking. As pointed out by NDT, if I drop you buck naked at a random location on earth odds are you'll be dead in 30 minutes
i don't understand that diagram except that it has something to do with tetris
it's one of those super old but interesting computer science things
though there is a lot of semi-mystical bullshit kind of glomming onto it since this came out of the late 60s / early 70s
you start with a grid of cells which can be on or off. Then apply some simple rules that tell you where to add more On cells and where to flip On cells to Off. Then apply those rules again. And again. etc...
despite the state of the game being very simple and the rules being very simple you can achieve very complex results
the rules are
1.Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies
2.Any live cell with two or three live neighbours does not change
3.Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies
4.Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell
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mountains of dropped chalk and monocles as far as the eye can see
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
"This is a Hanwei Practical XL."
This sounds like RAMMSTEIN lost a guitar and found another synth/keyboard.
@Arch
That is so fucking stupid.
Evolution also doesn't have arguments on Facebook or used terms like "derived" or "primitive."
Just because the entity isn't biased doesn't mean the way we talk about that entity isn't biased.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That kind of thinking seems to be a direct and inevitable outcome of the vast majority of people believing, and our culture constantly harping upon the idea that the universe (which consists in its entirety of parts of North America and a few strange foreign enclaves) is observed and controlled by a Mind / Higher Power / Deity / Petulant Fuckwit that is responsible for a totally indefinable but necessary substance they call "meaning".
that seems very reasonable!
And I don't think having the meds on there is like, cheesing the system or anything, if you were implying that.
for me, there are lots of things that would be cool to do, just need to think about what I want to prioritize. I have very few scheduled external obligations, which is why this system might be really handy.
there is a rule I have found very useful for debugging XAML that probably applies to HTML5 and other declarative markup as well: when debugging first look for attributes and nodes to remove before trying to fix the bug by adding more
Tyranid agent confirmed
so i made fun of him for like three years
but seriously though winky doesn't really understand evolution
lmao
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lmao^2
i haven't felt this good about the onion in a minute
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Arch 8 months from now:
Thanks for the tips! i already used tip number three, that is a really handy tip indeed.
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HMM.
with his porno game money he can pay people to understand evolution for him
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It also shows up in all sorts of weird places. Like the idea that the balance of an ecosystem represents some sort of peaceful state, or that the concept must obviously apply to all other things too.
(There I just pissed off theologians, biologists, and programmers in one post.)
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
the whole Gaia Earth line of thinking. As pointed out by NDT, if I drop you buck naked at a random location on earth odds are you'll be dead in 30 minutes
RIGHT?
this is the weirdest thing about Hearthstone
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
i play hearthstone and i don't understand what is being said here
what is a full deck, in ccg terminology
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Huzzah!
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It goes big or goes home, that's for sure.
my aunt is making maybe my favorite meal in the world (white trash hotdog, baked bean and kraft dinner casserole topped with american cheese)
i have chained my leg to a bedpost and thought fibrous thoughts
*sweats profusely*
not a bit :P
wait no
conway's game of life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This is how babies are made, right?
Waaaait.
i thought Americans called it Kraft Mac and Cheese.
i thought Kraft Dinner was the Canadian name...
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though there is a lot of semi-mystical bullshit kind of glomming onto it since this came out of the late 60s / early 70s
you start with a grid of cells which can be on or off. Then apply some simple rules that tell you where to add more On cells and where to flip On cells to Off. Then apply those rules again. And again. etc...
despite the state of the game being very simple and the rules being very simple you can achieve very complex results
the rules are
1.Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies
2.Any live cell with two or three live neighbours does not change
3.Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies
4.Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell
huh
never heard of it
really neat
that sounds amazing
i love those meals where it's just like "i'm going to throw whatever's around the kitchen together and make it delicious"