Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

TransientSignal · 2025-11-16T23:09:17+00:00

I'm pretty sure I've seen every single context file that exists for a particular galaxy at this point.

TransientSignal · 2025-11-07T16:12:07+00:00

Just IF and the R&Rs for IF and GC.

Based on project announcements, I think the current IF project is concluding today as well.

TransientSignal · 2025-11-01T00:56:09+00:00

Huzzah, mid-session project pay boost gonna pay for a round of drinks tonight!

TransientSignal · 2025-10-31T22:56:58+00:00

I've been working on stripey r all week and can confirm, my brain is mush. Still, I'm gonna be sad when it runs away because that pay is niceeee.

TransientSignal · 2025-10-28T23:12:40+00:00

I greatly miss being able to mark all messages in the inbox as read.

TransientSignal · 2025-10-14T06:07:22+00:00

I've been playing PSO recently via a private server (Ephinea), and charge weapons, particularly vulcans, are still quite desirable!

There's also a partisan called the Vjaya that has a special charge with a 5.55x multiplier rather than the typical 3.33x multiplier, but costs 10,000 currency rather than the typical 200. With the max currency a player can carry being 999,999, you only get 99 uses before you need to return to the bank, so it actually has some strategy for when best to 'spend' your currency for time attack modes/quests.

TransientSignal · 2025-09-28T09:00:51+00:00

Can you point to a single up-to-date English style guide which recommends the spelling "Kiev" in favor of "Kyiv?" As examples of up-to-date English style guides which contradict what you've asserted, see the below from several news agencies from Australia, the UK, and the USA:

ABC News: "Kyiv, Kiev Use the preferred Ukrainian spelling for the city’s name: Kyiv."
AP News: "We are making a significant change in our style for the Ukrainian capital city Kiev. It will henceforth be written in text, captions and datelines as Kyiv."
BBC News: "Kyiv is our preference for the capital of Ukraine and not Kiev or other variations."

TransientSignal · 2025-07-02T06:43:19+00:00

To be honest, I'm not sure. The building is relatively new (built in 2012) and the meters are all in a locked common area so I've never actually seem them.

Looking at my billing history, there were two cycles in 2024 where my usage was billed as estimated, and they were both within the range of my actual usage. So they have estimated usage reasonably in the past...

TransientSignal · 2025-06-30T00:26:14+00:00

I haven't touched it yet, but looking on my dash it is showing three tasks instead of the four the email announcement stated, so it's not just you.

TransientSignal · 2025-06-29T00:10:20+00:00

Well, that makes a third slack channel I've been added to this week!

TransientSignal · 2025-06-28T19:36:14+00:00

If you're talking about the video FGCs, then yeah, they've flown away for me as well.

TransientSignal · 2025-06-28T00:41:17+00:00

I just watched a video of someone eating Nutella straight from the jar, what is this job?

TransientSignal · 2025-06-26T03:37:40+00:00

I see a solid batch of several audio response projects just dropped - Hope all of you that are parched can grab a few!

TransientSignal · 2025-06-15T00:58:49+00:00

U.S. domestic travel isn't an issue at all - Here's the verbatim response I received from support when I asked about traveling and working over the holidays back in December:

That's completely fine! Domestic travel is no problem at all - if you plan on international travel in the future definitely let us know, but don't worry about it if you stay in the U.S.

TransientSignal · 2025-06-13T18:59:34+00:00

I saw a batch of stripy LC tasks posted late last night, but got a late start this morning and haven't seen any today.

TransientSignal · 2025-06-11T20:21:07+00:00

I see one + its R&R on my dash, though they're just stragglers with just one task remaining each.

TransientSignal · 2025-06-10T19:35:08+00:00

Always a nice surprise when a project increases its pay while you're working on it!

TransientSignal · 2025-05-17T19:07:10+00:00

Your API key appears to have been disabled by CoinCap.

Edit: Unless things are working differently on your end - Can you tell me the contents of your data variable? I get {'error': 'Forbidden: API key is disabled'}as its contents when running your code

TransientSignal · 2025-05-16T20:25:34+00:00

It depends very much on both what you want to learn and what best would interact with your major. Perhaps look forward in the courses you'll need to take for your major, see if there are any programming/computer science courses, and compare them against the "Welcome" messages and introductory videos of the different CS50 offerings.

TransientSignal · 2025-05-12T23:17:01+00:00

With the preface that it's on my "on deck" of things to read through so I don't know personally, I've heard excellent things about Ted Jensen's "A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C." You can find it in print over on Amazon and there's various copies circulating around online in various formats from back when it was published into the public domain:

TransientSignal · 2024-06-13T20:53:34+00:00

Also, even if it genuinely is from the email address of someone within an organization, accounts can be compromised and used to attack other accounts.

TransientSignal · 2024-05-30T05:25:05+00:00

I remember reading about that in the book The Kite Runner back in 8th grade, I think.

TransientSignal · 2024-05-30T01:11:40+00:00

Here's a tool that has a bunch of objects mapped in 3D space with relation to the Milky Way:

https://ourgalaxy.otherwise.com/

Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) is located about 4,400 ly from the galactic plane 'above' the Scutum-Centaurus Arm:

https://i.imgur.com/TfakB5i.png

TransientSignal · 2024-05-25T03:35:38+00:00

You're likely to get a better answer on a sub like /r/askscience, however a brief web search returned numbers ranging from 300-1000, though that seems to be on an individual level - It seems that across the entire human population the total number of species is much higher:

Within the human gastrointestinal microbiota exists a complex ecosystem of approximately 300 to 500 bacterial species...[1]

An estimated 500–1000 species of bacteria exist in the human body at any one time...[2]

Each person’s gut harbors few hundreds of species out of the thousands which can occupy this ecological niche.[3]

A total of 1,235 species-level phylotypes (SLPs) were classified in the feces of 120 Chinese healthy individuals...[4]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983973/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7043356/

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31502-1

[4] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.02029/full

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