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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
scala is ok. better than Java.

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oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

i only know r and lol vba lol

im not a programmer tho

WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

oystertoadfish posted:

i only know r and lol vba lol

im not a programmer tho

you are a programmer if you can program in R.

There are a lot of massive frauds in computer programming. Right now im teaching a guy with a CS degree how to log things in apache and PHP. I dont know PHP, I wasn't hired for it. It goes without saying that this dude has never heard of unit tests. This guy just doesnt understand why you would log things. He's not long for this job. I learned these things while self-teaching, early on.

My point is that you shouldn't discount yourself.

uncurable mlady posted:

scala is ok. better than Java.

I mostly like scala because I find it difficult. It's definitely not well-managed compared to a language like python.

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

thanks for that, i guess what i really meant is im not a computer scientist. it's not a field of knowledge i ever pursued except as a means to an end (eg how do i run this r program on a supercomputer cluster) and i think the relevant aspects of programming being discussed here are things i dont know much about. but that's not a bad thing. its just a thing

the people who were really hardcore optimizing runtime on parallel clusters were really impressive to me, im glad people are doing that work

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
lol they fake working and post on SA 6 hours every day just like everyone else

Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

I spent years trying to convince myself I liked computers more than as things that are gratifying to use. Finally gave up and went back to school for biochem. Best decision of my life. I'm a fan of programming and all that stuff, but I can't make myself into more than that. Hats off to the people that can actually enjoy it.

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

also some guy spammed ... i guess every single person ever? i don't even know how i got this, i guess because i either went to a conference or published a paper in a journal ... with like 8 years of disputes with some grad school advisor of his who he said stole his poo poo and threatened to kick him out of the country or whatever

http://anchoredinversion.info/

this poo poo is SO GOD drat BITCHY its like eight years of emails and some extremely catty insults

quote:

A miserable failure

In [Zhang-2010-0515] (or this excerpt), which was filed with WRR and Rubin's employer (UC Berkeley), Zhang pointed out many subtle and not-so-sutble technical errors in [Rubin-2010-0427] (the accepted, "in-press" version) that are apparently due to lack of understanding and blind out-of-context copying. These errors were pointed out in the hope of supporting Zhang's claim of authorship and intellectural contribution to the method presented in [Rubin-2010-0427].

To Zhang's great suprise (and horror), some of these errors were fixed in [Rubin-2010-1006] (the published final version), exactly as they were pointed out in [Zhang-2010-0515].

However, since the fixes are mechanical and local, some of them still fail to get things right. For example,

Page 17 of [Zhang-2010-0515], above "R10 section 2.2", about misinterpretation of "M". Fixed in [Rubin-2010-1006].
Page 21, middle, about two errors in formula (5). Fixed in [Rubin-2010-1006].
Page 27, top, underlined, about "ell". Fixed in [Rubin-2010-1006].
Page 29, upper middle, wrong choice of prior. A fix to this is not obvious. It requires additional study of the literature and judgement; a fix also requires careful modification to the software implementation. [Zhang-2010-0515] does not mention how to correct this. This is unchanged in [Rubin-2010-1006].
Page 29, lower middle, misuse of the terminology "design matrix". A fix of this entails overall change to the subsection 6.1 based on an understanding of the technical details. This is unchanged in [Rubin-2010-1006].
Page 30-31, various places about the insensible superscript "t" or "T" in formulas (12), (13), (14). In [Rubin-2010-1006], these superscripts are removed. However, after a mechanical fix of this glaring error, the formulas (12)-(14) in [Rubin-2010-1006] are still wrong. With these formulas as listed in [Rubin-2010-0427] and [Rubin-2010-1006], the results in the paper could not have been obtained.

Some other conceptual and technical errors in [Rubin-2010-1006] are pointed out in [Zhang-2011-0201].

there are eight citations in that quote leading to papers or this dude's archives of his e-mails, and it's one of the less-exhaustively cited parts of the whole loving diatribe

im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad i didnt try to become a loving academic, they fight so bitterly over so little

edit: this dude cc'ed literally 294 people on his loving email about how rubin plagiarized him and some journal let it happen or what the gently caress ever

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i forget how good chicago dogs are until i'm eating one again. how can i live without 'em

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
Brock lesnar owns

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

My major is burger flipping with a focus on cognitive science. UCSD is one of the best schools in the country for aspiring managers of Taco Bell.

I used to want to do social work, but I decided that I wanted to do research fast food instead. Good on you for wanting to help people. I'm not sure that I could handle social or clinical work, seems too draining emotionally.

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

WINNINGHARD posted:

San Diego is extremely my poo poo, i love driving down there and jacking off in public so I can fit in with the locals. Definitely do C++, Java is painfully formalized as a language. Scala is much better.

Kony 2012!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0t_56ck18g8

If you're from LA or Arizona you can stay the gently caress there, anybody else can feel free to hit me up for advice on the best corners to mastubate while crying.

I hear Pacific Beach is p. good.
The locals mainly jack it in Ocean Beach though.

I went over it with my buddy who works tech support, and he showed me a Java book and went over what he'd learned in tech school. I'm less frightened now, whatever the case MATLAB is the language I have to learn eventually, and I know less than nothing about it if such a thing is possible, so I figure it would be best to go with the lowest level language available, that way anything else can build off of the experience.

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)

Solvent posted:

My major is burger flipping with a focus on cognitive science. UCSD is one of the best schools in the country for aspiring managers of Taco Bell.

I used to want to do social work, but I decided that I wanted to do research fast food instead. Good on you for wanting to help people. I'm not sure that I could handle social or clinical work, seems too draining emotionally.

yeh i want to mainly focus on clinical social work

like i said, i know it doesn't pay much, but i've been pretty poor all my life; it wouldn't be anything new. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
if the medium is the message
wtf this fourm

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Baloogan posted:

if the medium is the message
wtf this fourm

you cant recognize what you already do for a living????

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
im a nassco certified sewer inspector

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
boss nassco

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Baloogan posted:

im a nassco certified sewer inspector

does your professional work influence your posting, boom

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)
o SNAP!!!!

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
i have been owned

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014

Baloogan posted:

i have been owned

Woah kinky

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Homework Explainer posted:

i forget how good chicago dogs are until i'm eating one again. how can i live without 'em

You fool, that sets off the MIGF beacon! You'll doom us all!!!

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)
im glad that all of us, no matter what our politics, are united on the MIGF issue

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

sprots indeed
https://twitter.com/BobRotruck/status/752204943386406912

WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE, SOCIALLY LIBERAL

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

migf pmed me and told me that the only way to create a socialist state in the US was through complete support for israel

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
that's funny, migf pmed me and told me about how much he loves pie and hates protesters

WINNINGHARD
Oct 4, 2014

migf pm'd me

quote:

Bob’s never done a threesome with two men. He’s done it with three women. So he’s a little bit nervous but he’s gonna come cuz I want him to.So what will probably happen will probably really excite you. I’ll f**k her and she’ll suck Bob off and he’ll f**k her and she’ll suck me off.

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit
That's a Kevin Smith movie.

Why would someone send you a message about that.
This is a person who is going to the Democratic National Convention if I remember correctly.


I don't understand people with boundary issues. If you're going to send someone an unsolicited private message, why not allow it to be something not intrusive, and encapsulated.
I remember sending someone a message like that, I said thank you in so many words, and that was it.


Here is a really great podcast I'm listening to right now. Its on youtube so you don't have to go to the itunes store or whatever and download it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jca4o3UbqHY

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!
Migf has never pm'd me. I'm pretty happy about that, to be honest.

Classic Comrade
Dec 24, 2012

(hair tousled from head shaking during speeches)

Karl Barks posted:

migf pmed me and told me that the only way to create a socialist state in the US was through complete support for israel

lmao beautiful

2 rare 2 live 2 weird 2 die




or 2 weird 2 live 2 rare 2 die

either one

NumberLast
Jun 7, 2014
MIGF pm'd me and said that he thinks I have a pretty mouth

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

im almost done with the history of rome podcast i want another really good long detailed historical podcast now

or something else academic, there was a like 18-hour long teaching company lecture on tape thing on biology (all of it) that i loved

but probably history

i think i still have some teaching company lectures on tape i havent listened to so there's that

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

im also slowly reading this book which is cool. rad, even
https://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Executioner-Turbulent-Sixteenth-Century/dp/1250043611
my favorite recent book, one of my favorite ever, was this one which i sperged about in some random threads a bunch of months ago
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Cotton-History-Sven-Beckert-ebook/dp/B00KAFVOUA?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&redirect=true&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

SirJohnnyMcDonald
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
Mike Duncan is doing another podcast called Revolutions.

have you tried that?

http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

oystertoadfish posted:

im almost done with the history of rome podcast i want another really good long detailed historical podcast now

or something else academic, there was a like 18-hour long teaching company lecture on tape thing on biology (all of it) that i loved

but probably history

i think i still have some teaching company lectures on tape i havent listened to so there's that

hardcore history is decent.

i've been listening to an audiobook of path between the seas, which is a very funny and informative account of the panama canal.

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

SirJohnnyMcDonald posted:

Mike Duncan is doing another podcast called Revolutions.

have you tried that?

http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

no, i haven't. no reason not to, i suppose. thanks

its too bad he didnt want to go into the byzantines (and then the ottomans! and then the russians!), i thought i was alone in thinking the byzantine empire was deeply interesting, more so than the roman empire really, until i found the europa universalis community and realized theres a shitload of byzantium fanboys out there to the point where its kind of embarrassing


Al! posted:

hardcore history is decent.

i've been listening to an audiobook of path between the seas, which is a very funny and informative account of the panama canal.

that sounds cool, for some reason it reminded me of this old-rear end book about the history of science
https://www.amazon.com/Microbe-Hunters-Paul-Kruif/dp/0156027771
it's cool and well written and also sheds light on some of the crazy casual racism and the ridiculous state of medical ethics in the early 20th century. some guy tricked africans into getting spinal taps by just straight up lying to them, and there's a whole thing where he calls the local subjects of walter reed a bunch of lazy cubans while celebrating the bravery of the good white army boys who agreed to get bit by mosquitos and have yellow fever

the author also helped Famous Author sinclair lewis of Book I Mostly Remember Because of The Coincidence WRT the Band arrowsmith write a story of a young man rising through early 20th century medicine and science which includes a dramatic episode in a tropical island hit by an epidemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowsmith_(novel)
apparently lewis refused the pulitzer prize for it bc he thought the prize's criteria were stupid bullshit, thats rad

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

Al! posted:

hardcore history is decent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOl_L31c0Yo

:smith:

I hate that I've alienated all my blue collar friends by making the decision to go back to college.

Edit: not really. I have Microbe hunters around here somewhere. I should read it.

Solvent has issued a correction as of 06:28 on Jul 11, 2016

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

SirJohnnyMcDonald posted:

Mike Duncan is doing another podcast called Revolutions.

have you tried that?

http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

english revolution
american revolution
french revolution
haitian revolution
bolivarian revolution (I)

looking forward to the bolshevik series in 2018 or whenever

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

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SirJohnnyMcDonald
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
http://12byzantinerulers.com/

this is a good byzantium podcast

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