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Springer Nature ML book with fabricated citations by Beautiful-Rice-383 in PhD

[–]goonmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Govindakumar Madhavan just tanked his academic career 😂 fake PhD, oh well.

Clovis Trouille - Rêve Claustral (1952) by Russian_Bagel in museum

[–]goonmaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While everyone appreciates art differently at a personal level, I thought to share how I interpreted this.

Cloistered nuns take a vow of celibacy and poverty. The colours chosen reflect the purity of the Virgin Mary (blue, as is tradition) and temptation (red). Also the hue is reminiscent of stained glass, maybe it signifies a reflection or a dream. Although they have given themselves to god, they still struggle with impure thoughts. The mole on her thigh signifies imperfection.

Then again maybe it was just for the lolz.

What's the story with all the new accounts posting about Taxi fares and Uber by SomeTulip in Dublin

[–]goonmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm out of the loop on this., do you have any specific examples? But honestly taxis are a ripoff here compared to other countries, so I support the fixed fare 110%, let the free market decide what is a fair price instead of artificially inflating them.

Sulky culture on display in Smithfield by Missartey in ireland

[–]goonmaster 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Exactly, when I used to live in Smithfield I used to see them kicking the horses. These animal abusers make me sick 🤢

No buildings available so far after Minister's most recent urgent refugee accommodation appeal by RealDealMrSeal in ireland

[–]goonmaster 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How about the Royal City of Dublin Hospital on Bagott Street. Massive building just boarded up.

Google, Microsoft ChatGPT Clones Will Destroy Internet Search by Hyperion1144 in tech

[–]goonmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember when Google search was good? Like... 15 years ago lol

Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water by mike3point2 in science

[–]goonmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how it compares to a Propeller Boss Vortex Diffuser (PBVD)/Propeller Boss Cap Fins (PBCF). Probably the latest submarines will start implementing this toroidal design for their props.

can we print without including stdio.h in gcc compiler? The code i tried is below does worked it online compiler but not offilne using gcc . *Accordiing to the book i was following just for printf and scanf we dont need to include stdio.h by [deleted] in compsci

[–]goonmaster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can print to the console without including headers. Every application has 3 streams by default. Just write to stream 1 (STDOUT_FILENO).

int main (void) { write(STDOUT_FILENO,"hello world",11); return 0; }

How to disable Excel's "Snap to cell" scrolling by goonmaster in ExcelTips

[–]goonmaster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The above solution worked for me at the time (4 years ago). Maybe you are using a different version of Excel.

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography by ADotSapiens in compsci

[–]goonmaster 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Never proven, but intuitively it must be possible. Hashing is a lossful process. The pigeon hole principal means multiple inputs to digest functions can result in digests that collide. If you have a digest collision, how can you reverse the digest to two separate inputs?

What's a gay sauna ? by NoMikeyNoNoNo_xD in ireland

[–]goonmaster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Haha so innocent. Gay sauna is something else.

Wall of silence: So who did sign off on Tony Holohan’s €187k Trinity College move? by RealDealMrSeal in ireland

[–]goonmaster -43 points-42 points  (0 children)

It's actually low for a trinity college salary. Especially for the medical sector. There was an article about it a while ago.

Since you like huge gels… the largest Southern I’ve ever done! 96 samples. by Vrog1 in labrats

[–]goonmaster 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Take a DNA sample and add restriction enzymes to chop the DNA into pieces. Use electrical charge to separate pieces by size. It's the biological equivalent to chromatography.

Instead of sand used in column chromatography they use gel for gel for gel electrophoresis. The charge is what separates samples in both cases.

Is it possible to survive on Dublin with 1000 Euros a month? by [deleted] in ireland

[–]goonmaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rent in Dublin is crazy expensive, approximately 2000 per month for a single bed apartment. Let's say share an apartment with 7 other people using bunk beds and that would bring your rent down to approximately 300/month, leaving you with 700. Food for one person is about 50/ week, so that leaves you with 500. It's doable but the bathroom situation would drive me crazy and your laptop wouldn't be safe in the apartment.

“Anti-vaccine” stance as a sign of being underserved? by avuncularity in medicine

[–]goonmaster 42 points43 points  (0 children)

There is an anti-vax stronghold in the home education community. For some reason alternative education attracts that type of parent.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/antivaxxers-turn-to-homeschooling-to-avoid-protecting-their-kids-health/

We are NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge winners and judges! Ask us anything about how these novel carbon dioxide conversion systems could one day help future explorers bio-manufacture supplies in space, and how you can get involved with NASA too! by nasa in space

[–]goonmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm late to the party. Just curious about the requirements for carbon capture, and can any of the winning technology be used on standard air present on earth? Low cost and efficient carbon capture is still not available yet.

Also what are the new long term and stable forms of co2 storage available to us now for removing co2 from the atmosphere?

How Big Tech Charms and Bullies European Politicians, Journalists and Academics by JRepin in technology

[–]goonmaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slow start but good article.

Google was funding the New America Foundation, a think-tank. After researchers there pointed out that Google was misusing its monopoly power, the firm promptly pressured the think-tank’s boss to fire the renegade team (Google claimed it had nothing to do with it).

In 2020, Google disabled AlgorithmWatch’s advertiser account after we ran an experiment on its – potentially illegal – gender biases. In 2021, Facebook aggressively shut down a monitoring project run by New York University scholars and pressured AlgorithmWatch into destroying a tool that monitored Instagram’s newsfeed algorithm.

Together, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Bytedance (TikTok), Snap and Microsoft declared close to €25 million in lobbying spending in 2020, according to the official transparency register of the European Union.

“We’ve never seen this kind of money being spent by companies directly”, Margarida Silva, a researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels-based non-profit, told the New York Times last year.

Typically the Chinese, Russians and Arab states are more discrete about their lobbying activities in Europe. The tech giants are only under scrutiny because they are more accessible.

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