jacinda

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by jacinda 2mo ago
I will refer you to my ER physician friends, who have stories of people attempting to use adhesives of all varieties in the most absurd ways. People will apparently attempt to put anything, anywhere.
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by jacinda 2mo ago
Last night some neighbors set off some illegal fireworks a few blocks from our house. My husband was out on a walk when the paramedics arrived because one of them had burned off half his face and another his arm.
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by jacinda 3mo ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/ Churning out the blog posts isn't a bad idea if it's true. Repetition isn't inherently bad.
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by jacinda 3mo ago
Amen to childhood leukemia rates improving being awe-inspiring. I had a friend I rode the bus with around 2001 who was diagnosed with leukemia and didn't make it. They let us know over the PA system at school. I suspect these days she
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by jacinda 4mo ago
It's misleading because a single murder in this case is not statistically significant, but phrasing it using probabilistic terminology (i.e. percentages) obscures that fact and implies that you have enough data for the probabilistic la
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by jacinda 5mo ago
It would be good (especially with the replication crisis), but historically to earn a PhD, especially at a top-tier institution, the criteria is conducting original research that produces new knowledge or unique insights. Replicating existi
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by jacinda 7mo ago
This is an excellent point! People often forget that something uncommon out of a much larger pool is still larger than anything that comes from a smaller pool (base rate neglect). https://www.simplypsychology.org/base-rate-f
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by jacinda 11mo ago
I think many people in the Bay Area also see careers as a game.
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by jacinda 11mo ago
I think this was meant in jest, but Florida is not that wide on the peninsula. You can drive from Clearwater to Cocoa Beach (the entire width from west to east) in about 2.5-3 hours. So if you live in the middle like near Orlando or Gainesv
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by jacinda 11mo ago
The funny part of this is, you just described not only travel, but all of life prior to about 2003ish (at least in the United States). This is when, in my social circles, we transitioned to most people having cell phone access and the abili
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by jacinda 1y ago
On the one hand, this seems nuts. On the other hand, the mechanism compared to all the other things biology can and has done doesn't seem that crazy. Create egg, remove nucleus of egg, replace nucleus of egg with one or two nuclei from
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by jacinda 1y ago
+1 to the other comments recommending Zulip over Mattermost. The threading model is fantastic. Also, for a non-profit teaching coding note that they regularly have interns under the Google Summer of Code program and it's open source, s
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by jacinda 1y ago
I would recommend trying it anyway. The really poor reviews are from 5-8 years ago when it was legitimately difficult to use. They recently rolled out an overhaul that's significantly improved. We used Zulip at a company I was at (abou
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by jacinda 1y ago
What I would love to see happen from a safety perspective and which I think might happen (but zero timeline on when) is that a human driving a car will be relegated to something people do purely for enjoyment and only in areas designated fo
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Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare(venturebeat.com)
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by jacinda 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
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by jacinda 1y ago
Exactly what "late-comers" do you mean here? Epic was founded in 1979.
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by jacinda 2y ago
And this reminds me of a wonderful parody blog post - https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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by jacinda 2y ago
Related (and hilarious): https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatc... > What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a
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by jacinda 2y ago
YouTube was also one of the easiest ways to share family videos back then (the files were too large to be emailed, Google Photos didn't exist yet, pretty sure Facebook could share videos but the quality wasn't as good, etc).
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by jacinda 2y ago
Warning - some of these can be reasonably graphic. I came across this which is live footage of a hammerhead shark being caught and killed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHEsOPIr28 Also got some cute things like a dad giv
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If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers (1995)(paws.kettering.edu)
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by jacinda 2y ago
That might also be because you're not in the office every day, people use those days to talk more (scarcity bias). I'm in-office 5 days per week and because we don't have this scarcity of time, there are lots of periods of qu
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by jacinda 2y ago
Currency in the real world has many, many backups. For example, if I forgot the PIN number to a very old bank account that I later find a long lost relative recently put hundreds of thousands of dollars into when they passed away, I have ot
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Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks(bbc.com)
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by jacinda 2y ago
Second this: https://regex101.com/ Super intuitive and great definitions / descriptions of everything.
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Tiny Japanese Startup Is Turning 'Her' AI Dating into Reality(bloomberg.com)
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Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets(thestack.technology)
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by jacinda 2y ago
Also the dinosaur and squid-shaped distribution graphs made me smile.
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by jacinda 3y ago
I needed this laugh so much. Thank you.

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