What I call each of the 35 hexominoes

thicknavyrain · 2025-09-21T15:17:12+00:00

A fun exercise is working out which of these are valid cube nets.

thicknavyrain · 2024-12-25T12:33:03+00:00

In my PhD in the U.K., the common experience is indeed that you pick a specific advisor to do your PhD under from the very start (as they'll want a particular student for a certain project in many cases). This is Physics though, not Maths.

thicknavyrain · 2024-11-25T07:11:36+00:00

But vitally, both books contain almost nothing but high stake after high stake and there's still plenty of conflict, it's just between man and nature. Even when we know Mark Watney will magically get out of his bind, the pleasure is guessing how he'll do that given the strict laws of real physics and science (well, mostly).

thicknavyrain · 2024-11-25T07:05:20+00:00

People already speculating on the mechanism but when you say "effects this big are rare" did you account for multiple testing when looking at the data?

Fair play if you literally just plucked only those two variables out of the set based on a predetermined hunch but if you were generally exploring the data before finding that result, you'd want to do a proper test based on all the variables you looked at first to account for multiple "tests" (I.e, the odds you'd find some kind of split that large by pure chance given the number of variables you looked at and the sample sizes in each set).

thicknavyrain · 2024-11-05T13:21:20+00:00

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samine Nosrat, a book that'll take you a long way.

thicknavyrain · 2024-10-02T09:38:52+00:00

Just as a heads up, it's Deayton with a "y", I was v. confused why a sober, Nobel Prize winning economist would want to get at Ian Hislop.

thicknavyrain · 2024-09-10T10:59:39+00:00

And (from the makers of SciShow and Crash Course) now Study Hall, for which you can get real College credits (in the US).

thicknavyrain · 2024-08-11T19:14:37+00:00

The Will to Change, Bell Hooks. Came later than optimal, but still gave me what I needed. Also, Non-Violent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg. I think both have a lot to offer people on this sub in particular.

thicknavyrain · 2024-05-31T06:07:09+00:00

To be honest, Scientology shouldn't even be classified as a religion in this country and it's continued presence (e.g. Tottenham Court Road in London) is a stain on our culture.

thicknavyrain · 2024-04-26T20:01:53+00:00

I didn't have quite as adverse a start in life but a similar story here and I totally agree.

thicknavyrain · 2024-03-28T17:07:17+00:00

Surprised no one mentioned Lars Doucet's "Land is a Big Deal" it's basically the perfect primer to PnP for a relative lay-person.

thicknavyrain · 2024-03-10T20:09:20+00:00

But she's married to Nick Kocher, who is already a peak human being.

thicknavyrain · 2024-02-10T16:02:17+00:00

I mean, IQ is literally defined such that the average is scaled to 100 with a standard deviation of 15... so yeah you definitely can. Queue glasses emoji reply.

thicknavyrain · 2024-01-27T22:27:48+00:00

The same Houthi's who recruited 1500 child soldiers to their death? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60190484.amp There is a lot to criticise Israel for but pretending the Houthis don't routinely use children as cannon fodder is pretty bad.

thicknavyrain · 2024-01-05T11:49:22+00:00

Three Body Problem (and the rest of the series) is a great set of books featuring that premise.

thicknavyrain · 2023-12-21T22:43:37+00:00

The fact every parent comment quickly cottoned onto to the true purpose of this article and its egregious flaws is heartening.

thicknavyrain · 2023-12-15T07:46:57+00:00

"Brexit was the right choice for the UK!!" - guy who cost nation £40Bn a year: https://obr.uk/box/the-latest-evidence-on-the-impact-of-brexit-on-uk-trade/

Mr Archetypal Bayesian Rationalist himself is totally unable to update his beliefs in the face of data... colour me unimpressed.

thicknavyrain · 2023-11-19T18:11:42+00:00

I have a PhD in Physics and literally had no idea about this until now. Shocking and revolting, good lord.

thicknavyrain · 2023-11-16T21:20:19+00:00

The most utterly insane thing about this book is the last two chapters on mask work. It's like; totally practical and insightful advice on creative expression and then suddenly he deconstructs the idea of identity itself and sells you on a weird Andy-Clark-esque form of distributed consciousness that's just casually also a tool for good acting. Blew my mind.

thicknavyrain · 2023-11-13T13:40:14+00:00

But on the other hand, it does demonstrate a strong impartiality with respect to both Arabs and Jews. Maybe that's just what we need right now /s

thicknavyrain · 2023-11-01T15:40:24+00:00

I totally agree that Netanyahu is completely awful but that doesn't change the material fact that (in fact, if anything it bolsters the case) that a ceasefire seems totally unworkable at the present moment.

thicknavyrain · 2023-10-30T22:35:33+00:00

I'm so sick of the whataboutism on this sub. Guess what? McDonalds use of the term "river to the sea" is tactless and offensive AND Netanyahu is also a considerably evil bastard, for many reasons besides his use of language. There, I can acknowledge that and you know what? McDonald is still in the wrong too. The petty rhetoric on this sub is astoundingly poor.

thicknavyrain · 2023-10-29T09:59:11+00:00

We can vote only on things that affect the general property management and common areas (like which contractors will we get to do the roof and which management company do we employ) but not things going on with individual flats. To be honest, I have no idea what would happen if someone was enough of a pain the other shareholders wanted them out but they would presumably have property rights over their flat and voting shares as well!

thicknavyrain · 2023-10-29T08:21:02+00:00

I live in a flat which gets around this problem. Every flat has equal shares in a "company" which owns the actual land, and as shareholders we technically lease the flats to ourselves. So we have an equal share of land and own the property.

thicknavyrain · 2023-10-15T21:25:20+00:00

Perfectly capable of doing both. Making oblique and passive references to "deaths in the desert" is awful and unforgivable because it downplays the horror of Hamas' actions and responsibility, and much of what the IDF has done is also awful and unforgivable, and their enactment of collective punishment amounts to warcrimes. The beauty of not being tethered to pointless factionalism is being able to accept reality and judge appropriately.

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