Emasculated goes a bit far but I kinda get it. It doesnt bother me if a sexual encounter starts with a toy, but “let me grab my vibrator so I can finish” is a night that ends with me feeling like I’m not good enough and probably going to bed feeling bad about myself. It’s something thats turned a few dates into one night stands for me when I told them how it made me feel and they were dismissive of my feelings

Foreplay / longtime by Boston. The intro is the coolest thing little kid me ever heard and I will never forgive Boston for the lame meandering bullshit that is the rest of that song

I like the brehmsstralung restaurant myself. The vibrations make my teeth feel funny

e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x)

That is the euler relationship. You can use that relationship to convert any expression with a trig function into an expression of exponentials and imaginary numbers. “Euler’s formula” is a good search term if you want to learn more

Shout out to the euler relationship for allowing me to forget every single trig identity I ever learned

Kinda. The bald jd vance meme format should be having a field day with this image and my greatest regret right now is that I dont have the digital photo manipulation skills to make that a reality

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(Sorry if this was a joke that went over my head and not an earnest question)

Afaik its a strategy to scare off predators. The general idea goes like… predators dont want to get stung --> predators less likely to eat wasps --> fly pretends to be wasp --> predator less likely to eat fly for fear of being stung. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimicry here is a Wikipedia page if you feel like reading a much better longer description written by people who know a whole shitload more about biology than I do.

Yeah. That’s the most frustrating part of it to me. Statistical learning is really limited in the applications it’s good at, but it excels wildly where it excels. Its a specialized scalpel, but the people who are the public face call it “ai” and market it as a cure all for the pesky problem of having to pay workers

That’s a fair distinction. That being said, at their core llms are just big functions. You could cover a dartboard in subfields of physics, toss a dart randomly, and I’d bet money you hit a field that finds use for the bessel functions for instance. I am not informed enough on the specifics of llms to say either way, but there’s definitely precedent for “we found this really powerful function and it turns out it accurately predicts 10 shitloads of unrelated systems.”

To double down on my devils advocacy, the projects I have personally seen or been consulted for that fit the form “use llm to solve non-nlp problem” are 99% propelled by “funding for Ai buzzwords flows freely” and “understanding of the limitations of different kinds of ai is rare”

Medicine discovery is one of the few fields with ai where the juice is worth the squeeze. Filtering through billions of different molecule geometries to compare them all to eachother is a task that ai does well and humans do extremely slowly

Idk about yall but I am better than a stegosauraus. Im social (allegedly), intelligent (allegedly), and my thagomizer is magnificent (undeniably)

This is a shit take. The meme is showing two different stereotypes of college freshman. There is not a qualitative difference between the “hard” sciences and the others; the biologists climatologists and psychologists I’ve known all adhere to the same scientific method and mathematical rigor I learned getting my handful of grad and postgrad degrees in physics math and compsci. The only real difference I’ve seen is that “soft” sciences tend to work on problems with more stochastic moving parts, making them harder to understand on average. They’re not easier, you’re just ignorant of the complexity and too arrogant to consider the expertise and accomplishments of others.

I have literally designed and implemented aircraft parts based on inspiration I got listening to somebody infodump about an animal they were studying. Learn the things other people care about. It will make you better at what you care about and probably a better person in the process

It’s hard while traveling, but eating even remotely healthy will make your experience a lot better. One of those fruit and veggie trays you can get from grocery stores plus like a loaf of bread and a thing of hummus can make a great dinner on the road for a family, I try to do something like that at least twice a week when im traveling. Panda express is a surprisingly decent place to get fairly plain rice chicken and broccoli, which is great for both nervous stomachs and people trying to maintain any kind of fitness on the road. Last I’d say careful not to give yourself kidney stones with energy drinks if youre doing a lot of long haul drives between stops

They should be. Russia would have never set a toe in Ukraine if they kept the nukes, and the fuckery of Russia invading and the ‘civilized world’ sitting around with thumbs up their asses since 2014 seems like proof that having nuclear weapons is a prerequisite to maintaining sovereignty

I still vote we do it. Guaranteed Nature publication for whoever figures out the infrastructure required to pull it off

(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.

Vibes. I look at it and try to guess and submit a number within 5 or 10 seconds. It may not be as accurate but I feel like I get more benefit training my ability to estimate at a glance than I do training my ability to do math and spatial reasoning assisted by math. Im already really good at math and math assisted spatial reasoning