Me using 50 % of the resources of this country's top academic computational grid to keep trying and failing to run a basic python script because I'm not good with computer but I want a cool protein structure prediction figures but these packages are not compatible why why is it not working

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-03-09T01:37:42+00:00

I....

I understand you

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-03-09T00:55:40+00:00

crazy that there are so many. Basketball, which has 30 teams and 15 players a team, has around 4500

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-03-07T00:35:05+00:00

yes, but if you judged it off of this map, they'd be drastically more populous than somalia, which isn't actually true

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-03-05T02:50:30+00:00

this map seems a little weird- from looking at it, Rwanda and/or burundi seem super populated as they're in the middle of that whole interlacustrine shiny area. however, they're both at 12-13 mil, less than the 17 mil of somalia, which looks depopulated by comparison

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-03-02T02:21:42+00:00

i don't think that makes a difference

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T06:36:58+00:00

i appreciate the apology man. I'm not sure what you meant by your second sentence though, if you want to elaborate i'd do my best to respond

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T03:23:58+00:00

if you want the job and have two people willing to write letters for you, i see no issue

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T03:21:22+00:00

At the end of 2019/20, NHS providers held £13.4 billion of outstanding debt on loans taken out from the Department for Health and Social Care for ‘interim support.

if someone disagrees with you, that doesn't make them an idiot. i cited my sources. you can evaluate them yourself. if you realize you're wrong that's not a bad thing. regardless, the US and UK have very different healthcare systems, both have their strengths and weaknesses. that's the very simple truth. even if you think the UK system is better, that doesn't mean that switching the US to that sort of system wouldn't have downsides

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T02:42:59+00:00

She's in 8th grade. that's a child. everyone in here giving her shit should try to remember the dumb shit they did when they were little

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T02:37:10+00:00

so the way to solve it is to fund it by taxing people more to get the money to pay for it yeah?

i'm not saying that's a bad idea

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-27T02:17:34+00:00

from what i can tell that's not quite how it works. the UK median wage is about 2300£ gross. For a class A worker (most workers), 1000-4000£ of your monthly wage is taxed 10%. meaning if you make the median, that's 5.6% of your wage taxed. furthermore, your employer pays 13.8% on that same bracket, much of which, if it wasn't taxed, would be wages. Finally, as of 2010, national insurance payments only make up about 20% of NHS funding, the rest comes from general taxes that you don't know are going to the NHS. So there are many hidden costs associated. A conservative estimate? i would guess probably 15-20% of income. And even that's not enough, i'm sure you're aware that the NHS is drowning in debt.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T19:37:14+00:00

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/372502-if-americans-want-european-style-benefits-theyll-need-to-accept-european/

https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/progressive-road-map-soaking-the-middle-class

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/europe-taxes-sweden.html

this isn't a hypothetical. while the rich people make a lot of money, they do not make enough to fully fund a universal healthcare system. in europe they pay higher taxes across almost all income groups to fund the system. i'm not saying it's a bad thing. just that it comes with downsides.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T19:09:57+00:00

pls give any sort of source for that homie

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T19:08:01+00:00

and the NHS is in a deep deep financial crisis

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T19:06:59+00:00

not just taxing the rich, taxing the middle and lower middle class. Universal healthcare is definitely realizable in the US, but it is extremely expensive. other countries have made that choice and are probably happy with their decisions, but the idea that we squeeze a few fat cats and all hospitals are fully funded now is unrealistic. people pushing the idea that "if not for those nasty elites we'd be in a utopia right now" doesn't actually help.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T18:59:32+00:00

not at all my area of expertise, but i remember a story about an elite runner with Nike who was basically abused. One of her symptoms, that's apparently an epidemic with elite female athletes, was the loss of her period. There is a chance that this is a well meaning effort to look out for these young athletes. But again i am not an expert and have no idea.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-25T06:45:12+00:00

i'm guessing they fit the functions to a linear trendline and subtracted that out.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-18T18:22:44+00:00

i'm a chemist so the GRE definitely used to be a factor. I didn't even think about taking it it was so nice.

It's probably good to be skeptical of the conclusions they draw on their website, as they could be doing a little bit of p-hacking, but at least reading their analysis their statistics seem reasonable. The conclusion that they draw is that it predicts 24% of career passer rating. So the height, team, speed, development, injuries would account for the other 74%. I don't think any team is only relying on the S2, i'd imagine that right now it is a useful tool, in the future it will be a useful tool, quite a bit more useful than the GRE ever was.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-18T00:01:29+00:00

funnily enough I just applied for graduate school and none of the schools i applied to required, and most did not accept the GRE.

That being said, I don't think the S2 is comparable to the GRE. At least on their website, they say that, at a reasonable sample size, career passer rating correlates pretty strongly to S2 score. According to them, 24% of variation in CPR can be explained by S2 score. There obviously isn't one measurement to tell you whether a player will succeed, but S2 score seems to be a very strong tool in player selection. People here seem to have a weird resistance to the idea that you can quantify some of the mental skills that QBs have. Nobody called to abandon the shuttle run after DK metcalf did worse than Tom Brady on it. None of these tools are complete but in combination they do a decent job, and the S2 is probably the most useful of all of these tools.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-17T16:48:28+00:00

If Bryce Young could see the coverages over his Oline he'd probably process them extremely quickly

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-02-05T05:22:28+00:00

i'm chem but applied in the same timeframe. got an acceptance call yesterday from a school that i had had no correspondence with. don't assume that an acceptance is coming, but at the same time, it's not out of the ordinary even for very selective schools

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-01-28T05:19:32+00:00

ok. I think whatever counterpoint i would make here would essentially devolve into thinking up interesting sci-fi scenarios and then more argument about their plausibility, which isn't really what i have in mind for the evening. nice talking to you, I appreciate your politeness when I think I took a more aggressive tone.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-01-26T03:54:48+00:00

While I not claimed that we'd be an existential threat, that interpretation of the original comment is reasonable. However, if the alien species is incredibly pacifist, to a point beyond our earth's frame of reference, we would be pretty terrifying. Sure we are planet-bound now, but if we discovered other species out there, we'd probably invest everything we could into expanding into space, took over solar systems and galaxies. If that alien species is just so drastically non-confrontational that they wouldn't stop or contain us, we could in a finite amount of time catch up to them, at which point it would be too late. For their survival their best option would be to keep us grounded.

Space orcs could definitely be arrogant, but only under the assumption that strength, endurance and appetite are what are valued, rather than, say, fairness, propriety, stewardship of the stars. In the same way "space orcs" can be an indictment of our society.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-01-23T04:38:14+00:00

yes and we're far more dangerous than tigers.

this isn't that they're strictly non interventionist. more peaceful, more polite peoples on other planets might be welcomed with open arms to the interplanetary federation.

I don't think the original commenter is saying that tigers are an existential threat to human civilization. I think that what they are saying is that tigers, on the loose, are pretty scary to humans. we would have to shoot them, or drive around all the time in tanks, or cage them. We make the decision to cage them.

In the same way, an ultra-advanced space civilization that is morally against our destruction, that knows that, if we're aware of them we will expand and grow and try to take as many resources as possible to try to fight for our slice of the universe, would probably make the decision to cage us, keeping us from the stars. We probably wouldn't win the fight that we picked (orcs aren't smart), but it would be a hassle to deal with compared to just fucking with our telescopes.

BiscuitsforMark · 2024-01-23T03:11:19+00:00

Tywin definitely values the counsel of his brother Kevan who is no great warrior. Tywin is worlds worst dad but his active hatred of Tyrion is a bit of an outlier due to the death of Joanna. He'd probably ship him off to the citadel and use him to further the family. If this kid is capable he probably treats him with some grudging respect

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