AlolanYoda @ AlolanYoda @mander.xyz

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Not the answer I was expecting, but I did come out of a break up recently so whatever life has in store for me I guess

Moving on with my life.

I'm near the end of my PhD. I've been at this lab for 5 years, as I joined before beginning my PhD, and I've been at the same university for 11ish years since I started my bachelor's. I deliver my thesis in April if all goes well, and can't wait to see what life has in store for me elsewhere.

I love most of my coworkers, but a few drive me nuts (and everyone else, too, and I tend to be a good mediator so I always end up in a position where I'm the only one who tries to help the troublesome guys). My main supervisor moved to another country a few years ago, and the one that took me in (the only other person with PhD students in the whole lab) hates my project (she has explicitly said so) and can't wait to get me to work on what everyone else is working on. Meanwhile my other supervisor (the one that moved) has recommended that I let go of the few responsibilities I had in this lab (apart from my project), which is a good decision, but has made me feel like I no longer belong here. Since I'm also retracting a bit to work on some papers, I feel increasingly isolated even though I love my coworkers.

Can't wait to finally get this over with and have an actual career in a lab where people don't hate my project, or even an industry job where I can feel like I actually make a difference. I'm also a bit fed up with the conditions in my country and would like to try moving somewhere where nanotech is actually in demand, like the Netherlands or something. Maybe I'll even risk a dramatic move to Asia!

It absolutely is not! They removed the split screen coop that was in Pikmin 3 and replaced it with Player 2 being able to point at the screen and shoot pebbles to hurt enemies and stuff.

Great game, but couch coop suffered from 3 to 4!

I work in a related field and while I don't know anything about supercomputers being more realistic, there is a movement to eliminate animal testing and instead use organ-on-chip models - still using cells, but in vitro. The advantage is not only that you eliminate animal suffering, but also that you can use human cells, so your tests are much more quickly applicable to humans. In fact, in a far away future, you could even test with your cells and see how a specific treatment affects you. Super interesting stuff!

Try doing something else for a while, go see other planets, other leads you've been following. A lot of places I thought I was stuck in I later realized it was a part of a different puzzle elsewhere in the game.

Where are you stuck?

Last piece of advice, don't give up on the game. It's one of those games where you'll be glad you finished it.

Mastodon didn't click for me until I started following hashtags. Just follow the hashtags you're interested in and people who are interesting to follow will come to you

You seem to be very knowledgeable about this field so I won't try to change your mind, as I can tell you're more familiar than I am. In fact, I also have my own reservations from reading the actual paper. The same authors actually have another paper in the same topic with the same material with a preprint out after this one, and I doubt someone would salami publish results as marvelous as these ones instead of just going for a single massive impact factor journal.

Everyone is righteously mad at this, but I'm just here thinking how funny and sad it would be to decide to shave and have the game refuse to boot because you have a baby face

I wrote a whole thing and it sounds super condescending. I'll leave it here but I'll let you know I only wanted to tell people about Pre-prints and ArXiv as a whole, it was never my intention to disrespect you or any others! I even had to add this first paragraph as I felt bad about it... But here goes:

Most papers I've seen are written in MS Word.

In Physics, which I admit is what these people work in, papers written in LaTeX are more common. But still, not most of them are. No clue about Computer Science and stuff, I mostly work in Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and stuff, so mostly physics and bio stuff (...can you tell which of these fields is mine and which I'm only tangentially related to? Hahaha)

After they are written in MS Word or paint, they are submitted for review. If they are approved (probably after a few rounds of revisions) they are submitted to the editors, which turn the paper into something that does not look written in MS Word.

But this is arXiv. It's a pre-print server. People submit their papers before they go through the whole peer review process. Which means that these papers can have a few very significant mistakes, or even be fraudulent or wrong. That would be my main concern.

Of course, most of these pre-prints are not the final version of any paper - typically people submit them to pre-prints for a few reasons, while the paper is in peer review. Or often the paper has even already been accepted for publication, but they submit the version without any sort of peer review to the pre print server (I'm actually very early in my scientific career and only have one paper as first author, so this is the part I don't remember as well. I think we submitted it to ArXiv after it was accepted for publication, but before it was published, and we sent the earliest draft we had submitted for review). These reasons are, off the top of my head:

• The paper gets out faster, so people can see their amazing results earlier. Especially if they are worried about being the first to publish, as it's very common for a reviewer with vested interests to block a paper from being published while they work on a very similar project. It's not plagiarism per se, as these are loooong projects and typically the reviewer would already have a very mature project that they heavily invested in.
• Most if not all journals are OK with the pre-print being freely available even after the article is published, even if the journal itself has a hefty fee for accessing the paper (or even for allowing your paper to be Open Access, which is typically very expensive for authors...)
• Finally, a smaller reason: this is the paper as the authors intended, before those pesky reviewers got their hands on it. For you and I this is a negative, for authors this can be a positive. Often, reviewers will have their own interests and ask you to change your paper accordingly, most often by citing one of their papers... The peer review process is anonymous, but somehow you can always tell when this happens!

So: don't worry about the formatting, worry about the content! Let's wait until this passes - or fails - peer review before accepting it or discarding it. It could be super exciting results! Or a big pile of nothing.

He is the best billionaire. That may not be a high bar, but it's something. If Elon Musk decided to retire and cure Malaria like Bill did (or maybe even just get back to space exploration or autonomous driving as he was doing before his Twitter craze, hopefully without fucking other people over?) I wouldn't mind him as much

Lmao me too, a stats counter with like 13 visits

15 of those were me

I love this project and have been following it since the first few videos. I wish they could find a way to release the final product!

The captains shown in Star Trek wouldn't even need to be knowledgeable of all of these weird space phenomena. They have their science officers and general advisors they can ask "What are our options". They're just good managers, essentially

Almost done with Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. It's enjoyable but nothing to write home about haha

I'm saving this comment and if something happens in September I'll come back to blame you!

Yeah, 1 + 1 = 2 is the type of comment done by an accountant, not a PhD in mathematics

How do you do that unintentionally?? Did you just blurt it out? Did she remove the mask and you couldn't hold in an "eugh"? I must know!

Oh man I want to upvote this to give it visibility, so that everyone can read it

But it's garbage so I morally can only downvote it

Just to be clear - within 3 months. no one will be shitposting on here except about eleven of you. And you'll only log on to circle jerk your own posts and those of the other ten.

Mightyjoe has not collapsed.

Your pathetic "WE WILL DO RANT COMMENTS... SOMEWHERE ELSE!" has failed. It was always doomed to failure.

Except now none of you can come back on lemmy in your previous positions of power.

You threw the baby out with the bath water.

"Why are you so mad?" you may ask.

Because in your attempt to do this, you nearly took apart the shitposting community on lemmy, as a whole - because you wanted magic powers you can't and will never have.

You failed. Whatever "power" you wanted you gave up - and have now lost forever. You attempted to tear apart 3-4 copypastas just so you could wank your own cocks off over being "enlightened" or whatever.

Revel in it, turds.

EDIT: you can't even get the community to get pitchforks, either.

You've failed, your "highness".