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tchrist
tchrist
00:29
@Xanne kidney beans
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@CowperKettle FDA, not ministry of health. Any schmuck could get to a high-up position in ministry of health.
@jlliagre I've had raw olives
Then wondered why I insisted on having raw olives
I mean, people eat worse stuff.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@M.A.R. From the tree? More than one bite? I don't know what food can be worse as far as bitterness is concerned.
tchrist
tchrist
Acorns?
jlliagre
jlliagre
00:54
@tchrist Not sure acorns are "bitterer" that raw olives and I'm not volunteering to compare :-)
alphabet
alphabet
Antifreeze? I hear they don't make the sweet flavor anymore.
I remember the good old days, when you could get antifreeze that tasted half-decent.
Don't remember much else from those days. I think all the antifreeze musta erased all the bad memories.
Word of the day: behaved. I've recently noticed that some people use it to mean *well-*behaved (as in "She was a very behaved child"). Dunno if this is a new usage that's slowly catching on.
(Of course the verb behave already works this way, but it seems much rarer with the derived adjective.)
jlliagre
jlliagre
Ethylene glycol poisoning
Ethylene glycol poisoning is poisoning caused by drinking ethylene glycol. Early symptoms include intoxication, vomiting and abdominal pain. Later symptoms may include a decreased level of consciousness, headache, and seizures. Long term outcomes may include kidney failure and brain damage. Toxicity and death may occur after drinking even in a small amount as ethylene glycol is more toxic than other diols. Ethylene glycol is a colorless, odorless, sweet liquid, commonly found in antifreeze. It may be drunk accidentally or intentionally in a suicide attempt. When broken down by the body it results...
alphabet
alphabet
01:17
@jlliagre The proper term is "chillaxing."
alphabet
alphabet
01:33
Ethylene glycol toxicosis in a free-ranging raccoon (Procyon lotor) from Prince Edward Island
> Therefore, due to the potential risk of exposure of hospital personnel to zoonotic disease, the financial expenditure involved, and the guarded to poor prognosis, the raccoon was euthanized with an IV overdose of pentobarbital. The body was submitted for a postmortem examination.
Yep. If you're a raccoon and end up in the hospital, the hospital will kill you to save money.
Imagine if they did this to humans. Though I suppose this did happen in Canada.
Xanne
Xanne
02:00
@tchrist Thank you!
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:26
Говновоз, но поет Фрэнк Синатра
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Vacuum Truck Driver (Govnovoz), a Russian song, by Frank Sinatra
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:42
Confirmed! Entire Universe Is Ringing Like a Bell At All Times
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alphabet
alphabet
03:53
@CowperKettle Wrong metaphor. The study detected signals up to 30 nanohertz, which strictly speaking is closer to the frequency of a typical vibrator (~100Hz, per this table) than to a typical bell (~8kHz or so).
(Sorry, not ~8kHz, closer to 500 Hz depending on the bell in question. But the point stands.)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:12
Ah!
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:31
Операция Ы, Напарники International - Переведено с ИИ Merlin Clone
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AI-dubbed in English, Hindi and Spanish
And old well-loved Soviet comedy
About a hobbledehoy guy Shurik (Alexander) and his adventures
Mindscape 280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
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> "Patients with Alzheimer's and the 677 T allele showed hypoperfusion in the left precuneus compared to patients without this mutation, which mediated the relationship between low folate level and cognitive decline in patients carrying the 677 CE T allele."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38908503
Why would a hypo-folate mutation act so specifically? Sounds fishy, and the article is Chinese, so double fishy
alphabet
alphabet
04:57
Idiom of the day: to discuss Uganda. Defined by Wiktionary as: "(UK, informal, euphemistic) To have sex."
HippoSawrUs
HippoSawrUs
05:31
@alphabet You would think so, but no, they'll just f*ck it up anyway. Just buy them some Onesies and pull-on pants, a few jackets, 30 Crocs, 4 or 5 meals a day; that's all, oh, and notebooks, #2 mechanical pencils, and Pink Pearl erasers (if you want them to be smarter than everybody else), and that's it. The rest is up to nature. The good ones will thrive, and the sorry ones will use 'want' for 'won't' when they tell you: 'I want ask you for nothing else!' b/c 'want' is all they know, ofc.
By 'tell' I mean 'text' ofc. They can't actually verbally communicate or spell out 'of course' ofc.
HippoSawrUs
HippoSawrUs
05:48
@Mitch Right, there's nothing more irritating than middle-aged people who think they've got a handle on things, right before they nearly go bankrupt, or do, and everybody starts dying, non-stop, and whatever train wreck derails their whole entire lives. The nerve of those people.
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
12:48
@CowperKettle cripes I swear in Chinese articles the whole department is acknowledged as authors.
Robusto
Robusto
13:29
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Robusto
Robusto
14:20
Daily Octordle #885
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Mitch
Mitch
14:48
@HippoSawrUs That took a dark turn. I was going more for grandparents getting the grand kids ice cream against the wishes of the parents.
While at the same time that parent's 'sandwich' generation is stuck caring unappreciatedly, for both the needy kids and the ailing grandparents.
sigh ... I'm gonna go get me some ice cream.
@M.A.R. One might think you're suggesting that the Chinese are gaming the academic publishing system for rep points. Or that they're doing exactly the right thing for those associated with the science.
One would prefer that -every- author be fully cognizant of all the issues laid out in the paper of course even if any individual wasn't responsible for every dot of ink.
But yeah, likely not the situation.
I've been seeing a lot of the genAI papers, especially those created within non-academic/corporate entities, with > 5 authors, often many more... and then you look at the bibliography and some of the papers they reference have a hundred names to them.
First it was padding the bibliography with lots of irrelevant papers, often suggested by reviewers as a boost to rep... but now it's padding the author list.
tchrist
tchrist
@Mitch were
Mitch
Mitch
As a beginning researcher, it's nice to be listed as an author. even if you brought in coffee to the conference room where the caption to a figure was being discussed.
alphabet
alphabet
15:31
@HippoSawrUs Good to know, I'mma write that on a post-it and start trying.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
15:59
AI godfather Hinton sees ‘50-50’ chance AI is smarter than humans in 20 years.
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
17:11
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer (88): Speaking of data: Large, big or extensive?‭ by PROSES4D‭ on english.SE
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Mitch I'm saying that based on what I've seen, a huge majority of articles with more than, say, six authors are Chinese.
There are much worse ways of absuing the system, like excessive self-citations and what-not, and those I'm sure everyone will be equally guilty of, more or less, Asian authors (Iranian, Arabic, Indian and Chinese) being a bit more so.
 
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MetaEd
MetaEd
18:22
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Vikas
Vikas
19:35
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jlliagre
jlliagre
20:19
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#WhenTaken #121 (27.06.2024)

I scored 901/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 164 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 191 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 736 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 173 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 4 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 69 km - 🗓️ 17 yrs - ⚡ 161 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 549 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200

https://whentaken.com
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Daily Sequence Octordle #885
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jlliagre
jlliagre
20:46
@alphabet 30 nHz is one cycle per year and it seems its amplitude is about the size of an atom, not the kind of vibration that wake you up at night.
Robusto
Robusto
Daily Sequence Octordle #885
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That's pretty bad.
I've been rearranging my office all day, putting the piano by the window, and now I can't get my main monitor to work.
It was flaky before. Maybe moving it caused it to fail? I dunno.
I guess I'll have to ... buy a replacement!
Aw, crap. Now it works again.
@jlliagre What is that, like 25 octaves below middle C?
jlliagre
jlliagre
21:11
@Robusto You'd need a very big piano for that and large ears too ;-)
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre We've got time. Maybe once we get the Dyson sphere going we can work on that.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto For a moment, I thought you had some trouble with your vacuum cleaner :-)
MetaEd
MetaEd
@jlliagre That would suck.
"Pro wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt."
jlliagre
jlliagre
@MetaEd Hehe
@Robusto You seem disappointed. Were you hoping its failure to justify buying a better one?
Robusto
Robusto
21:37
@jlliagre Well, truth be told, I'll probably buy new one anyway.
This one's prolly 15 years old by now, and it's showing its age.
Plus, now that I've put the piano by the window and my brother helped me put up shelving, there's so much more space in the room. So how can I bring an old monitor into this temple?
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto I'd suggest that one so you won't miss WhenTaken subtle hints ;-)
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre Oh yeah? You think I can't miss WhenTaken's subtle hints? Just watch me before I've had my coffee in the morning! ^_^
Robusto
Robusto
21:57
#WhenTaken #121 (27.06.2024)

I scored 901/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 12 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 648 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 180 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 10 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 72 km - 🗓️ 23 yrs - ⚡ 139 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 252 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 186 / 200

https://whentaken.com
@jlliagre It's a tie! I don't believe it!
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto Yes, we possibly thought about the same location in #4 (spoiler.)
Robusto
Robusto
22:16
@jlliagre Yes. That was kind of a no-brainer.
The dates were very hard to get, because it's not like they were updating their outfits with the latest styles.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
22:39
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"Jesus loves you"
jlliagre
jlliagre
23:19
I was a bit stumped by this sentence That old source control system was likely nothing to do with Microsoft's Visual Sourcesafe. I thought it was a mistake as I expected had here but it seems this turn is relatively common. How can something "be nothing to do"?

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