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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Paediatric medicine was much more likely to be Wong than White (10:2), whereas anaesthetists were far more likely to be White than Wong (22:4). Surgeons were distributed more evenly. Two Wongs don’t make a White. Edit: Adhemar has a new favorite as of 04:04 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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Folks, when I made this thread years ago I never thought it'd make 420 pages. I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart yadayadayada have some relevant content https://twitter.com/CNN/status/605162106174865408
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fosborb posted:less beards, though e: oh duh i misread
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Carbon dioxide posted:Folks, when I made this thread years ago I never thought it'd make 420 pages. I recall seeing a graphic from years ago that had similar content, presented in the same nonsensical way. Perhaps this is a hidden tribute from some witty staffer?
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 11:16 |
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Nothing will beat this nonsensical cannabis usage graph
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 11:36 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:Nothing will beat this nonsensical cannabis usage graph An underrated aspect of this is the source being…margin of error.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 15:07 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:An underrated aspect of this is the source being…margin of error. it's actually from their buddy Moe, but only give or take 4% of him.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 15:13 |
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There's also the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, where Dr Gamow included his buddy Dr. Bethe for a laugh, to the annoyance of grad student Alpher who correctly predicted this would be an important paper and Bethe hadn't done anything Bethe eventually made his own important contributions but Alpher expressed annoyance as late as 1999
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 15:21 |
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DarkHorse posted:There's also the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, where Dr Gamow included his buddy Dr. Bethe for a laugh, to the annoyance of grad student Alpher who correctly predicted this would be an important paper and Bethe hadn't done anything That is a solid as gently caress pun, though. I'm definitely in Gamow's team here.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 19:46 |
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BonHair posted:That is a solid as gently caress pun, though. I'm definitely in Gamow's team here. It is pretty funny, but as a former grad student who had to deal with the realities of how your judged based on publications, having someone with basically complete power over you sideline your work to make a joke you don't want is pretty lovely.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 19:59 |
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And of course there's the Cox-Zucker Machine, invented by a couple mathematicians who met in grad school, realized the opportunity they had, and spent most of a decade trying to codiscover something that would force people to use the name.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 20:01 |
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BonHair posted:That is a solid as gently caress pun, though. I'm definitely in Gamow's team here. Agreed, it's a pun for the ages, but I sympathize with Alpher. Wikipedia posted:Alpher, at the time only a graduate student, was generally dismayed by the inclusion of Bethe's name on this paper. He felt that the inclusion of another eminent physicist would overshadow his personal contribution to this work and prevent him from receiving proper recognition for such an important discovery. He expressed resentment over Gamow's whimsy as late as 1999.[2][3][4] If I was just starting out and had done a piece of brilliant, groundbreaking research, I'd be pretty drat pissed if, just to be funny, my PhD advisor gave co-author credit to a famous figure in the field who'd had nothing to do with it. Everyone would assume the well-known person had done the hard part and I had just brought coffee.
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 20:04 |
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Does physics do something other than the 'first author did most of the work, last author did almost as much, middle authors were there for moral support' convention?
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 20:11 |
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I guess my (former) field (linguistics of various flavours in Denmark) was sufficiently inbred that everyone knew everyone to the point that even if you didn't know the specific grad student, you could tell which parts were definitely the established doctor's and which were clearly not. Also linguists are a very pun friendly sort. My grammar professor was basically all about making puns. He also got an article published in Language based on the sentence "I saw Santa kiss mom".
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Tunicate posted:And of course there's the Cox-Zucker Machine, invented by a couple mathematicians who met in grad school, realized the opportunity they had, and spent most of a decade trying to codiscover something that would force people to use the name. Thank you. I was trying to remember the name of that the other day and couldn't. Like, whole rest of the story, fine, but not the actual punchline. edit: Oh nice, Cox also got a ring named after him. Vavrek has a new favorite as of 20:48 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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Vavrek posted:Thank you. I was trying to remember the name of that the other day and couldn't. Like, whole rest of the story, fine, but not the actual punchline. sadly neither of those achievements are linked from Cox's wikipedia page
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 21:02 |
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# ? Jan 15, 2022 23:03 |
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A stat that is still true even with the six games he played this season; dude has less wins since 2014 than Colin Kaepernick. Hopefully, the other hilarious stat – that nobody has ever sent a text message celebrating the Bengals winning a playoff game – still stands after tonight.
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# ? Jan 16, 2022 00:12 |
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TinTower posted:Hopefully, the other hilarious stat – that nobody has ever sent a text message celebrating the Bengals winning a playoff game – still stands after tonight. lol but also it's ohio, there definitely have been scads of texts celebrating a bengals playoff win that has never happened
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# ? Jan 16, 2022 01:23 |
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TinTower posted:A stat that is still true even with the six games he played this season; dude has less wins since 2014 than Colin Kaepernick. I have no idea who Mike Glennon is and I don't follow American sports but I'm glad he's sticking his neck out for others.
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# ? Jan 16, 2022 09:01 |
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Tunicate posted:Does physics do something other than the 'first author did most of the work, last author did almost as much, middle authors were there for moral support' convention? it's in alphabetical order, op. pity poor Dr Morris, who never gets to actually do anything
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Tunicate posted:And of course there's the Cox-Zucker Machine, invented by a couple mathematicians who met in grad school, realized the opportunity they had, and spent most of a decade trying to codiscover something that would force people to use the name. My friends at university for their project named their group with their last names BoltonDixonHore much to the amusement of everyone involved.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:it's in alphabetical order, op. Tunicate posted:Does physics do something other than the 'first author did most of the work, last author did almost as much, middle authors were there for moral support' convention? https://twitter.com/phdcomics/status/727551705240334337 is pretty accurate in my experience
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# ? Jan 17, 2022 13:26 |
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Twitter thread with lots of graphs
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# ? Jan 17, 2022 17:50 |
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Embed the tweet at least wtf https://twitter.com/tophtucker/status/1471246496041476103
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# ? Jan 17, 2022 20:04 |
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Double post. Source: https://www.interneteconomist.com/netflix-and-cable-prices/ Just extrapolating prices a subscriptions more than two decades into the future. Surely no big deal
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# ? Jan 17, 2022 20:08 |
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Even if those predictions hold true, Netflix still has like three shows I'm interested in watching compared to a basic cable package which has zero, and Netflix has no ads
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Sagebrush posted:and Netflix has no ads Lol from 2025
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Can netflix not have any games? These lovely flash games suck and you need to download them anyway so they're literally just embedded ads in a service I'm already paying* for. *sort of
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jeebus bob posted:https://twitter.com/phdcomics/status/727551705240334337 is pretty accurate in my experience I’m the third author on a PLDI paper and I did a whole lot of the work and now I wonder if I should have pushed for a better position.
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Outrail posted:Can netflix not have any games? These lovely flash games suck and you need to download them anyway so they're literally just embedded ads in a service I'm already paying* for. Where are you watching Netflix that you're seeing games? Haven't noticed it yet on my TV, but I don't watch all that much, to be honest.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:47 |
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Subjunctive posted:I’m the third author on a PLDI paper and I did a whole lot of the work and now I wonder if I should have pushed for a better position. You probably should always do this, but especially in this case IMO.
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hooah posted:Where are you watching Netflix that you're seeing games? Haven't noticed it yet on my TV, but I don't watch all that much, to be honest. I've seen ads, I guess for want of a better word, for games on Netflix on Android. They all look like absolute bottom-tier shovelware
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:23 |
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Are Netflix still doing games? They did that one Black Mirror episode, a port of most of the first season of Minecraft Story Mode and a Bear Grills thing. I thought they'd given up after that.
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Memento posted:I've seen ads, I guess for want of a better word, for games on Netflix on Android. They all look like absolute bottom-tier shovelware Are you sure those aren't just regular mobile ads embedded into the app?
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:52 |
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Netflix is making a play to make something like Apple Arcade. so freemium or ad supported games with the ads and pay parts removed. dunno what the relation between that and graphs and charts is tho.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 06:16 |
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Mr. Fix It posted:Netflix is making a play to make something like Apple Arcade. so freemium or ad supported games with the ads and pay parts removed. dunno what the relation between that and graphs and charts is tho. Can't see any relationship between them at all tbqh
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Outrail posted:
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 06:42 |
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It took me a moment to realize exactly what the error was there, but in the end I sorted it out
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Outrail posted:
it's crazy how much a good graph or chart can help you understand a data set
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