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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

While we're on a thread about English grammar, "who's" means "who is." The possessive of "who" is "whose."

Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago
  1. House
  2. Legion
  3. Breaking Bad
  4. Futurama
  5. Scrubs
  6. Dexter
  7. Ozark
  8. Mr. Robot
  9. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  10. Snowfall
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

You can buy a share or two of TSLQ to hedge against TSLA while still holding your index funds

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

I don't internet without uBlock. I honestly couldn't imagine it any other way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ONLYOFFICE (sorry for the caps, poor name) has better docx compatibility than WPS or any other suite. It's the only thing I've found that can do everything in an academic style paper without issue. In addition, its source code is open (unlike WPS) and it has Zotero and Mendeley integrations. Its Zotero integration was better than its Mendeley integration last I checked.

I'm a professor and use ONLYOFFICE as the only word processor on my office computer.

Edit: apparently the Zotero plugin needs to be updated.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Same. I still occasionally browse Reddit, but I have a rule that I don't post or comment there. I do post and comment here.

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

Not sure? Maybe a moderator deleted my comment, but it's still visible with some Lemmy clients?

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

I completely agree on all points.

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

I can't imagine that flags will get awards automatically cancelled. Any human (f)MRI work is going to describe its participant inclusion or exclusion criteria, because you can't put people with any risk of metal in their bodies within an MRI machine. Republicans tend to like brain research because the military really likes it. Additionally, virtually all NSF broader impacts will contain at least some speculative verbiage like, "this could help to increase representation." My guess is that flags return an AI or actual person review, which then makes a decision. Some folks at my university have been told that their awards have been cancelled. My awards that have some of these words haven't been cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This has essentially no overlap with ADHD. It's just a pop/incorrect understanding of ADHD. People with ADHD won't do many of those things, and people without ADHD can do all of them. There's even some reason to think this graphic could be inversely indicative of ADHD. For example, the only research of which I'm aware on ADHD and metaphor or analogy is actually that individuals with ADHD are worse at processing and understanding metaphors and are worse at analogical reasoning.

 

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn't actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn't know that this was more forceful than a request.

 

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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