A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
In an atom, the electrons orbit around the nucleus in the same manner as the planets orbit around the sun.
That's been debunked for many many decades but middle scool still teaches this model. At least I wasn't told back then how misleading and wrong that is, only in high school right before graduating the physics teacher emphasized this misconception. I remember how mad she was about it lol. I have no clue how its taught elsewhere.
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
Great for automatically generating falsehoods; this is true.
Oh I've got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
It's not just about slavery. There was also state's rights (to slavery), and the economic disparity (turns out free men work harder than slaves?!), and a clash of religious ideals (people that interpret the Bible as pro-slavery vs people that believe benevolence requires abolition). There were even one or two spots where water usage rights and federal funding were in controversy.
The American South (several institutions, not necessarily the ppl) will attempt to make any minor issue as the root cause of the Civil War, except for the slavery issue.
Afterall, slavery and racism wasn't that ingrained in the society. If you look past the court cases, extra judicial killings, lynching, riots, coups and massacres.
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When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still "fringe science".
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
I always understood it as your immune system gets weaker from being in the cold and makes it easier for viruses and such to propogate in your body. We're constantly fighting off minor infections and disease, and thankfully our immune systems are pretty strong....cold does not help it.
I'd say this one is sort of true...in the right context.
My wife likes to say that so she can keep believing that you can catch a "cold."
No cold virus. No cold.
I thought the opposite. That when you're cold, and your body releases Norepinephrine, that it re-enforces your immune system.
Which makes sense to me from a personal experience. I like to run around in the snow in tshirt and shorts and embrace the cold. I very rarely catch colds and always thought it was genetics and not a product of environment
My mum says this all the time, haven't the heart to correct her though
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago.
It certainly wasn't
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
And plenty more I'm sure you could come up with
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though;
you could learn all the words to De Colores
I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
That quote is being proven true right now though?
People don't really remember what happened with the nazis. Most of the people who actually lived that past are dead now.
And the vast mojority of people lack enough empathy/understanding to be able to 'walk a mile in their shoes' as it were and extrapolate the horrors from the most readily available histories.
I had this really awesome kind of angry and nihilistic history teacher in H.S. who offered an elective course that studied the repeated patterns through history leading up to genocide. It covered Armenia, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
I don't know if it was just the fact that we looked at the repeated overlaps between human behavior vs just memorizing historical events, but if more people took a course like Crimes against Humanity maybe they would learn to spot those clear patterns of human behavior that somehow happen over and over again without anyone noticing.
push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
Yep, the Holocaust didn't happen overnight. It always starts as a slow slide into genocide, but once it picks up steam it turns into an avalanche. It drives me nuts that people keep pretending we should be entertaining any of this as just normal politics. The reaching across the aisle bullshit was insane a year ago (and really 10 years ago), but at this point it is literally enabling this shit to happen. You're a collaborator.
USA is a democracy
Wrong. It's a republic.
Don’t worry friend. We shall let you go on vacation to learn the truth of the history you should really know. Also, it is not vacation.
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn't have proper education. oops...
also, Computer Vision was considered "AI-complete" and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being "AI-complete" in a way...
Before AlexNet, SVMs were the best algorithms around. LeNet was the only comparable success case for NNs back then, and it was largely seen as exclusively limited to MNIST digits because deep networks were too hard to train. People used HOG+SVM, SIFT, SURF, ORB, older Haar / Viola-Jones features, template matching, random forests, Hough Transforms, sliding windows, deformable parts models… so many techniques that were made obsolete once the first deep networks became viable.
The problem is your schooling was correct at the time, but the march of research progress eventually saw 1) the creation of large, million-scale supervised datasets (ImageNet) and 2) larger / faster GPUs with more on-card memory.
It was fact back in ~2010 that SVMs were superior to NNs in nearly every aspect.
Source: started a PhD on computer vision in 2012
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
Edison being a giant dick of a patent troll is one of the main reasons Hollywood exists. I'm not sure Musk has anything that impactful on his resume.
I'd say PayPal was a pretty big deal but I'm not sure what his level of involvement was
Don't get me started. He did not invent the lightbulb. Did he "perfect" it? Maybe? But only after trial and error of 100's of filaments including human hair.
Can it even be said that it was perfected when later we switched from carbon filament to tungsten, and from there to halogen-surrounded tungsten.
And on the other side, Edison's lamp wasn't even the first one to be mass produced and commercially sold.
There's a certain style of education that really wants to draw a hard line between "before the thing" and "after the thing", and credit its invention to a single guy. But really the line is quite wide and fuzzy.
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government...
It’s a collaborative site.
Was gonna say, I've seen this reposted for so many years I figured some one would have made it by now, o/w I was gonna. Thank you not-yet-dead Internet
I don't care if it's wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
