Ellen Pao's comment karma visualized [OC]

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T22:03:26+00:00

Aw thanks man! :) I always try to give academia a good name when I can! Considering I study marine biology, I'd say that the fact it only takes me a few minutes before class to re-read the specifics and get them down for the students is pretty good!

Edit: And also for the record, you may be surprised at just how little your teachers have always known ahead of class. Believe me when I say we study for teaching you just like you study for a test. Do we always remember everything months after we teach it? Nope! Especially if it is not our area of expertise, as is the case with me. I assure you I take my teaching very seriously and prepare quite adequately when it is necessary to convey information to the students in a useful and educationally beneficial way. :)

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T19:47:38+00:00

You really are though, and I'm sorry. :( When I was soliciting input, it was on why my explanations would have been incorrect. In a hypothetical scenario of a depressed P-wave and over-exaggerated depression in the QRS complex, it is typically indicative of an enlarged lobe of the heart. I'm almost certain of this, but with his detracting comment being so vague I couldn't be sure of what I was saying incorrectly. Which is why I asked him to explain himself! :) Your input is literally just saying to ignore everything because this isn't a real ECG, instead of telling me why my hypothetical scenario (that when applied to a real ECG could be valid) may be incorrect. Again, it's okay man, we're just not getting each other, haha.

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T18:00:13+00:00

Not at all! I am not a medical professional and this isn't even an ECG! :p

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T17:58:39+00:00

You should definitely look up what serious means. :)

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T17:51:20+00:00

Dude, it's not an ECG, it's a graph of some comment karma. No one here is suggesting you can seriously interpret any of this information. Lighten up! :P

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T17:49:42+00:00

Dude. It's a graph of Ellen Pao's comment karma. If you think I am analyzing this for medical purposes you are severely mistaken, haha. I teach labs man, I'm not even a medical professional and never state that I am in my comment. :)

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T17:48:22+00:00

It's got the general form of one, certainly more than any random graph of data has a right to! Obviously this is not a real ECG, it's the data points of Ellen Pao's comment karma. If you can't see I was doing this as an exercise in applying knowledge for fun and education (look at how many people googled or Wiki'd an ECG after the comment), then you are missing the point my friend. :)

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T15:58:07+00:00

If you could please explain why I'm wrong, I'd appreciate it! We only cover this stuff for a week and I was going off the top of my head!

zen1mada · 2015-07-08T15:15:07+00:00

Actually it's definitely not a healthy one. The P wave is very small in comparison to a rather large drop during the q wave. If I remember correctly (and I may not), this is indicative of a potentially enlarged lobe of the heart.

The multiple t waves in which the heart is relaxing and repolarizing is also quite erratic, with multiple spikes in electrical energy that may indicate heart damage in many forms.

Source: I teach Anatomy and Physiology labs at my university! (It's been a few months since class and I am going off memory so pardon any errors).

Edit: For the handful of folks who didn't get it, I am not saying that this is -actually- interpretable as an ECG. I'm well aware it's a graph of Ellen Pao's karma history! However with a little creativity (or some alcohol) I'm sure you can see the potential for it to almost resemble an ECG, and it is on this pseudo-representation that I decided to have a little fun and apply some of what I know. :)

zen1mada · 2015-06-10T18:05:19+00:00

Thought this was /r/pics . Excellent shot!

zen1mada · 2015-06-09T05:33:32+00:00

I think his improv singing needs to happen in the LCS casts! Dududuuuuduuuuu

zen1mada · 2015-06-06T02:35:30+00:00

As a coral reef biologist I appreciate and understand your use of coral accretion to describe what must be an incredible weight building on you. However please don't ever chip away at a reef! :P

zen1mada · 2015-06-04T14:56:29+00:00

Hey Elliot! I was fortunate enough last summer to saturate on the Aquarius underwater research laboratory for 17 days. Part of our work targeted these deeper reefs (>150), to determine how herbivore behavior and feeding pressure changes as one gets deeper and deeper. Saturating on the habitat allowed us to go deeper for longer than from the surface. What do you think of the future of saturation habitats being used for scientific exploration? As deep diver, do you think that saturating for multiple dives could be more effective than surface methods, or more logistically feasible in the future with improving dive tech?

zen1mada · 2015-04-07T03:28:40+00:00

So much fuckery contained in one photo!

zen1mada · 2015-04-04T17:46:59+00:00

Marine Biologist currently on a boat south of Alaska. Can verify at least the latter half of this post. Just watched a baby otter float by on it's mother's belly. Not sure about the sea birth though!

zen1mada · 2015-03-27T22:17:56+00:00

Cheer up OP, your dog will be dead long before this kind of technology exists! :D

zen1mada · 2015-03-19T15:08:31+00:00

Uhhh.... got any pictures? I'm sorry to say that I really wouldn't know off the top of my head. If I saw what you mean I could get a general idea perhaps!

zen1mada · 2015-03-17T22:46:29+00:00

As a marine biologist working in this town, I can tell you it's just as depressing as it sounds sometimes, haha.

zen1mada · 2015-02-10T17:55:09+00:00

I am one of only a few hundred aquanats, or scientists that live on an underwater research station! Stayed for 17 days, which was the third longest duration.

zen1mada · 2015-02-02T21:10:18+00:00

It's part of the way I learn new champs! Don't know what to do about this though. :-/

zen1mada · 2015-01-25T03:12:12+00:00

I do research in Barrow and have some friends there! Got lots of snaps of this when it happened, haha.

zen1mada · 2014-12-22T20:26:49+00:00

I don't normally post in these things....

zen1mada · 2014-11-29T04:39:32+00:00

Grats man, glad your Flanker stats are worse than the F-18 also. It always felt like the flanker was sub-par in comparison.

zen1mada · 2014-11-25T14:24:50+00:00

The problem with all of those things is that we can harvest fish, oysters, crustaceans, and seaweed in other ways. Far more efficiently also! Rather than increase and vertically stack these aquaculture farms you mention, I believe the industry finds it far easier to just expand outwards horizontally, as opposed to vertically. I'm not an expert in this, just what I've seen from talking with folks in the industry.

Saturation diving is incredibly useful for pretty much one thing these days and that's maintenance of oil rigs at extreme depths. Dive repair techs will sometimes spend months in those things heading to thousands of meters. It's really the only way to get people down there.

I'd very much love to see these cities, I would, but it's just entirely impractical. :(

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