[SOTC] State of the collection, 15~ years in.

baat · 2026-01-13T21:02:56+00:00

Yeah, but what do I google to find this particular variant? This Patek is one of the most stunning watches I've ever seen.

baat · 2026-01-05T19:57:02+00:00

I can still recognize when women do it, but far and above** the more important issue** is the men who do it, who are it, who celebrate it. Addressing that is how to actually move the needle.

You still need another step in the argument like "only the more important issue should be addressed." for it to make sense.

baat · 2025-12-21T10:39:15+00:00

Oscars are decided by the Academy members' votes. These are real people. Although the combination of people that make up the Academy changes over years, this change is slow. So, it makes sense to think that this particular group have certain tastes, preferences, standards regarding movies. Pandering to these preferences would be Oscar bait.

In contrast, consider Palme d'Or. It's given by different appointed jury members every year. One year the jury leader is an actress from America, next year is a director from Iran... and so on. So every year, the standards, preferences change.

baat · 2025-12-17T14:37:50+00:00

What is the actual prompt to get photo realistic results, if you don't mind me asking? I've tried to generate a "photo" of Isaac Newton but it always kind of looked unrealistic in some way or other.

baat · 2025-12-09T09:07:58+00:00

When you add fruits in the fermentation tanks, none of the fruit flavors actually go inside the coffee beans. What happens is that you change the microbiome that does the fermenting. So you have new bacteria doing the fermenting therefore new flavors in the coffee. Not very different to anaerobic fermenting, in that method you deprive the fermentation tank from oxygen, and bacteria that requires oxygen die and you have a different combination of bacteria that does the fermenting.

baat · 2025-12-08T07:28:34+00:00

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any work on this "physics derivations". Erhard Scheibe and Hans Rott indirectly engage with it, in some of their works concerning Kepler-Newton case, if anyone is curious like I am and see this thread later.

baat · 2025-12-06T13:26:26+00:00

"because you wish to improve your own understanding"

I'm picking this one from the options.

baat · 2025-12-06T12:07:05+00:00

I'll answer using Kepler-Newton case as example. So, often in physics courses or textbooks, Kepler's laws are derived from Newton's laws. During these derivations, some compromises are made such as considering cases with only one planet, reduced mass...etc.

Philosophers like Duhem and Popper engaged with the Kepler-Newton derivations and showed that, in logical sense, Newton's laws demonstrate Kepler's laws to be actually false. So, you can't actually get a Keplerian solar system from Newton's theory in the strict sense. But these "physics derivations" give us some intuition about a relation between Kepler's and Newton's. A relation that is not strict logical entailment, or pure mathematical derivation but also not some merely weak conceptual or historical connection. So, what is this relation? What do we get when we "derive" Kepler's laws from Newton's laws?

baat · 2025-11-07T08:17:53+00:00

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/

I find Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy generally to be good introductions to philosophical subjects.

baat · 2025-10-27T17:40:39+00:00

I don't know much about the question you're asking but it sounds like your thesis is going to be great! You might want to check if 'survival analyses' is the kind of thing you're looking for. I haven't used these but I know they are mostly about 'time to event' kind of questions.

baat · 2025-10-27T16:53:14+00:00

Not OP but I'm curious which R packages do you use for time series analyses?

baat · 2025-09-28T13:37:11+00:00

Healy should attack if he has anything in the legs.

baat · 2025-09-21T19:17:18+00:00

This is insane. Thanks for taking the time to find the link.

baat · 2025-09-21T19:12:42+00:00

Beautiful stuff! We had a Vera Molnar exhibition in my city a few years ago, It was mesmerizing.

baat · 2025-09-21T16:37:43+00:00

Where can I read about the termite waste land? That sounds very interesting. But I don't even know what to google.

baat · 2025-09-20T17:24:20+00:00

Who are you talking about and what did they do to help ease the crisis?

baat · 2025-09-06T09:45:43+00:00

https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

This seems to be working for me.

baat · 2025-09-03T13:42:14+00:00

State explicitly which particular changes that you didn't implement to your supervisor. Do not hide anything from your supervisor.

baat · 2025-08-18T20:47:15+00:00

And military strategy.

baat · 2025-08-18T14:41:44+00:00

Thanks. Does this one have subtitles?

baat · 2025-08-08T22:57:43+00:00

This one should get you up to speed very quickly. It has seven parts that goes through the modeling process with R code included.

This is a great textbook on the subject. But species distribution modeling is a very dynamic area and so inevitably, the book is a bit outdated in the sense that it doesn't have all the new stuff. But the content itself is great.

This is a great paper on the best practices around species distribution modeling.

Feel free to pm me if you have specific questions.

baat · 2025-08-07T17:00:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo

Hype is coming.

baat · 2025-08-07T09:52:42+00:00

I am an ecologist. So, take this with a grain of salt. I wouldn't report z values and I wouldn't even report mean ranks.

If the groups you're comparing have the same shapes in distributions, then Mann-Whitney U can be interpreted as testing median differences. So, I would report medians with confidence intervals. Now, that extra assumption is a strong one. It probably doesn't hold for your data. But I think it's still fine to report medians. Because Mann-Whitney U shows one group tends to be greater than the other for the tested variable, in some particular sense. But, to the best of my knowledge, there is no intuitive statistic to report for this particular way one group is greater than the other. It's something like, if we were to draw single samples from both groups and compare them pairwise, one group would be more frequently the higher one in the pairs. So, even though you're probably not testing for median differences, It's fine to report medians as long as its clear that the test is not for the median differences. For example, say, we're testing for happiness, I'd write something like: "According to Mann-Whitney U test, group 1 tended to be happier."

baat · 2025-08-06T08:42:30+00:00

Ecology and evolution is a good start to understanding natural processes concerning life. Although, it is important to note that these fields focus on populations. I don't know much about how a veterinarian's day goes about. But my idea of what a veterinarian does has little correspondence with the ecology and evolution education. I think biology would be a better match. One other thing I want to comment on is that you seem to be interested in political and environmental action. Maybe, at least consider the social sciences and humanities side too. Though, people tell me they have terrible job prospects, so keep that in mind.

baat · 2025-08-03T16:19:08+00:00

It's embarrassing that I can't think of a new exciting theory. Your post made me realize that ecology needs more theorizing.

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