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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Reposts are better than no posts. Plus, plenty of people could have missed the original.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

My merit review this year specifically noted my high volume of peer review for why I exceeded expectations in the 20% service part of my contract. Again I say, faculty are remunerated for peer review. It's better to do peer review for the service part of my contract than it is to sit on faculty senate. Doing peer review helps my research. It's a win-win, unless I don't want to get my full merit raise because i ignored service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Case studies are not scientific evidence, they're well-documented anecdotes that suggest the need for scientific study.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Faculty are paid for doing peer review just like we're paid for publishing. We're not paid directly for each of either, but both publishing (research) and peer review (service to the field) are stipulated within our contracts. Arxiv is also free to upload to and isn't a journal with publication fees.

 
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Presumably much of the propaganda is coming from LLM bots trained by Russian state actors to produce propaganda. I don't think the average Russian knows enough English or cares enough to get on Twitter and sew discord.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Feed two birds with one scone

I don't have a good alternate for the guinea pig that has the same meaning

Feed a fed horse

Bring home the daikon

Move the thicket by the thorns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Professors literally get like $0.03 per copy of a book sold. Your professors make you buy their book because no one else teaches the class like they can. It's their expertise that you're paying for when you go to college to study under them. They're making sure that you have something related to that that lasts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

They're trained on scientific writing, and we em dashes all the time in scientific writing.

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wankpuffin is actually a specific example (given within the paper) of British vulgarity considered in this study.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Even somewhere warmer, I'm a 2 year-round, too. I just have one very cool sheet that I use in the summer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Methods sections are limited in word count, and if a lab is hoping to get a few more papers out of a paradigm, they may be intentionally terse. There's a big difference between how we write protocols in-house and how we write limited-length methods sections.

 

This pauses disbursement of all federal loans and prohibits new scientific grant funding indefinitely. As written, this appears to apply to student loans, as those are disbursed via universities--not directly from the Dept of Education. It explicitly requires cancellation of awarded scientific grant funding that is in conflict with the current administration.

 
 
 

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.

 
 

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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