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naught101

@ naught101 @lemmy.world

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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • That sounds like an interesting story! Up for hearing it if you wanna share. Either way, glad it worked out ok :)

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • Nice recovery 😂

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • The question is "what would they say about your current self", not what advice would you give them..

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • The question is not "what advice would you give them?", but "What would they think of your current self?"

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  • So "unqualified labour" might make more sense? Makes you sound like a bit of a wanker saying it, but maybe that's a good thing.

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  • That, and dealing with dipsticks who think your job is easy

    I've done one or two nights of hospitality work. It wasn't fun, and I had fairly easy roles. I appreciate it when others do it for me.

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  • Yeah, but it's not gonna grow unless people use it...

    Also, Lemmy's Scaled sorting algorithm (which everyone should be using, though I'm not sure it's the default), will up-weight posts from low subscriber count communities.

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    Statistics vs. Computer Science

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    Statistics vs. Computer Science

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  • This. I've done a bit of all of it (science trained), and worked with others too. People with good science and stats backgrounds seem to have a better grasp of the pitfalls of data analysis. People with only software or data science background sometimes struggle with stats concepts.

    Basically, it's easy to pick up enough coding and data viz skills by yourself if you understand the stats. But it's NOT easy to pick up statistics by yourself if you only understand coding and data viz.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • Zipf's law is just a specific example of a power law. Other power laws exist for lots of different things, just with different exponents.

    the jury seems out about cities. This paper suggests they don't follow a other distributions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275124002592 , but this one suggests that they do: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2013/12/on-city-size-distribution_g17a2442/5k3tt100wf7j-en.pdf - specifically it suggests they DO follow Zipf's law, within a given country. Inter-country differences are likely due to different developmental trajectories over time.

  • I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.

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  • How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?

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  • Are there open bugs/feature requests about it?

  • How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?

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  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • Yeah, I know, I meant to you.

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • What makes art good?

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • It's pleasant to see such a long post so full of good takes. Nice work!

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • It's absolutely fascinating. I was really enjoying watching it evolve. That's tapered off a lot now.

    But I also find it really off-putting when people use it for meaningless illustrations that just reek of laziness. Especially so when the images are supposed to represent something meaningful, but are full of errors and nonsense. This is particularly the case when the illustrations accompany academic texts. Fucking gross.

    Probably if we lived in a society that didn't inventivise doing meaningless, environmentally destructive shit for profit, then I might be more into it now.

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  • No disagreeing, but do you have a "why" for that last sentence?