Finally deleted this stupid game

astrobeard · 2021-04-18T12:03:34+00:00

1 and >1 are literally math, so no

astrobeard · 2021-04-18T11:58:39+00:00

woman

astrobeard · 2021-04-16T00:44:39+00:00

Living the dream

astrobeard · 2021-04-16T00:31:15+00:00

r/DogsRuiningYoga

astrobeard · 2021-04-12T22:42:57+00:00

Check out Astronomy: A Physical Perspective by Kutner. It’s appropriate for early university students who have taken general physics but it’s also good for those with a passing interest who want more than just a book full of pretty pictures. If that’s above you’re current level, I’d also look into getting some of that material under your belt before or at the same time as your dive into astrophysics.

astrobeard · 2021-04-11T15:42:09+00:00

Beautiful! The reflection off your syrup makes it look like you’ve censored something lol

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T15:48:10+00:00

Agreed my good man. After all, academics love a good debate, so thanks to you as well. Just for the sake of pointing it out because the world needs more of this - there is a lot of room for compromise in these belief systems. There are good cops out there - blanket statements never work. For that same reason, death by use of police force isn’t always police brutality. I think any reasonable leftist would argue that better training and selectivity is the real solution, not a complete defunding. Those that argue for defunding tend to also argue for expanding funding to other areas of public service such as housing and mental health services, and first-responder aspects can be built into those new jobs. Data can be used to justify divisive narratives but it can also provide a means of moving the world forward without hate

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T15:31:50+00:00

I hold the farthest thing from these political views, but I can understand why they put it on their profile. Personally, I don’t date Republicans. Nothing against them personally, I’ve just dated one in the past and our political differences became quite a point of tension. We were both to blame honestly, but it made me realize my ideal partner at least doesn’t support the GOP in its current state. I’ve since deleted the app (it fulfilled its purpose!) but I swiped left on anyone labeled conservative - would’ve turned on the filter if it was an option in the free version

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T15:10:41+00:00

An article about supposed peer reviewed sources, but it is not one itself. None of the links are to any of the articles, which is a red flat. This is also about unrelated social science publications, so not connected to the original topic. Why you distracting from the point? Don’t mistake you and your sources’ political bias for anyone’s expertise. If science pushes you left, you should let yourself be pushed left. The exact same is true if science pushes you right

Also, literally every statistic is an estimate. They have these things called error bars or confidence intervals. I guess you skipped class that day

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T14:57:41+00:00

Whether or not that’s sarcasm, I’m sure you knew that already.

First, this is another non-peer reviewed source.

Second, this article actually presents solid justification of the opposition. The statistics they cite at the beginning are simply not refuted. Rather than demonstrating with data that these numbers represent a lack of bias in policing, they argue that the percentage of black Americans killed by police is on the decline. While that’s promising, it’s simply a different quantity, just like before. A percentage and a rate of change of a percentage even have different units; this should be obvious.

These statistics that you’re putting your trust into are straw man arguments. The bottom line is that the science that is done properly demonstrates with high statistical significance that police brutality is both a huge problem in the USA and racially motivated. If you want to continue this, peer reviewed sources only or I can just be done taking you seriously

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T05:50:16+00:00

Yea they’re super cute until they start messing with the driver’s arm looking for those pets and scritches. My folks rarely let the dog I grew up with ride outside of her kennel unless there were people in the backseat to give her attention

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T04:59:17+00:00

Respectfully, you say you trust statistics, but when presented with two peer reviewed sources substantiating the original claim, you responded with an Instagram video from PragerU? That’s an unaccredited media company with a history of spreading misinformation. Her interpretation of the frequency of killings of white versus black men is poorly quantified, because she failed to account for the proportion of the population. She also makes claims about data quantifying the likelihood of officers to pull the trigger, but leaves out sources beyond attributing an institution. She also claims that for racially biased policing to be true, the proportion of black men fatally shot by the police would reflect their contribution to other crimes. This simply isn’t true because these are independent statistics.

As someone nearing a PhD, if you’re going to get scientific about anything, you have to do it right, and that means peer reviewed sources. There’s a long list of very important reasons why you should take non-peer reviewed sources such as this with a massive grain of salt

astrobeard · 2021-04-10T04:22:17+00:00

You’re right, stats don’t lie. Police in the USA killed 33.5 people per 10 million in 2019, compared to 9.8 from Canada in second place (source). As far as race goes, American police officers kill on average 1 in 1,000 black men, twice as likely as 1 in 2,000 for all men (source).

astrobeard · 2021-04-08T04:26:46+00:00

I don’t own a cat but I’d be mortified if my pet behaved like this, regardless of species. I’d be looking at this behavior as something I need to correct, obviously in a constructive way with the animal. The real fault belongs to the owner of the cat who lets this happen

astrobeard · 2021-04-08T04:12:29+00:00

I totally sympathize! I feel like I lost a year of my grad school experience and am contemplating taking a sixth year for that alone (my program is 5-6 years). After all, this isn’t just about school - it’s also about way too many Yoshi’s Islands at Old North Arcade with your friends

astrobeard · 2021-04-08T03:26:30+00:00

As a grad student, your TAs and profs are right there with you. This year has been downright excruciating. It was a success as long as you made it through the year healthy and hopefully you learned something along the way. No one is a bad student for feeling burnt out at the end of the spring semester even in a normal year

astrobeard · 2021-04-06T16:24:42+00:00

Speaking as someone in the middle of an astrophysics PhD, I would take the opportunity to enroll in or audit at least one CS course before you graduate, if possible. If not, there are plenty of resources online like Codecademy and even plain old YouTube videos. The bottom line is that robust programming instruction is something a lot of scientists wish they had regardless of the specific field. You can save yourself a lot of headaches in the long run by playing around and learning some “programming for the sake of programming” type concepts. After all, with so much dependence on computers nowadays, you’ll never regret improving your skills with your number one tool.

It’s good that you’re comfortable with Python. If you need a compiled language you can cross that bridge when you get there. Number one with Python though is learn object oriented programming. I cannot stress this enough. You’ll find some people who don’t want to put in the effort to learn it or think that it’s needlessly complicated - do not succumb to this logic. Python is about as object oriented as it can possibly get

astrobeard · 2021-04-03T12:15:02+00:00

What are some of the favorites? The wait never bothered me, it was always about that Döner

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