piconaut

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[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Naïve can also mean research subjects or animals before or without exposure to some operation or treatment.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

2020? 2020!

https://earth-sandwich.netlify.app/

I guess its good to know there are still some sports racers out there.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Sandhill Crane: UGKHGKGKGKHKHGKG

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that like 27mph average for 4 and a half hours? Don't tell me this is also a stage with mountains.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Happy to help. I hate plausible bullshit posts like the OP. I'm sure I get tricked into believing things like this all the time without even realizing it. For anyone wanting to backtest similar investing ideas https://valueinvesting.io/backtest-portfolio is a pretty good tool.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

According to my calculation (which is probably wrong) you would actually have approximately 3.8 million today not 25. The .com bubble would have caused a 93% drawdown.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

This page looks like it has some reports similar to what you're describing. Especially "NOAA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMY". If that's not it, let me know and I'll keep looking.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting but the bacteria appear to just sequester PFAS, not metabolize them. Also, the difference in fecal PFAS excretion between high absorbing and low absorbing strains didn't look that impressive.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not my fault. All the servers hosting papers name them like this. Go complain to them. No seriously, go complain to them. This has annoyed me for quite some time.

[–] piconaut@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The authors of salad theory actually discuss their objections to cube rule.

The cuberule theory is amusing, but tragically inconsistent. It also performs poorly against Occam’s razor (it has eight rules for categorizing food into different sections). The choice of a cube as opposed to other geometric shapes appears to be entirely arbitrary. Each category both omits common foods colloquially considered to be members of it, while including many foods that colloquially are not in it.

Cuberule food categories are extremely unstable. While amusing, we find it particularly objectionable that merely slicing or biting into a food changes its nature according to cuberule (a calzone is a calzone, but a calzone with a bite taken out of it is a bread bowl). The same applies to a burrito (calzone when fully folded, bread bowl when bitten into). Notably, a burrito with a significant quantity of carbs mixed in on the interior (e.g. burritos often contain rice) would actually be categorized as toast, which is peculiar.

By category:

  1. Salad: Correctly includes a fruit salad, but would omit a caesar salad because of the croutons. It also includes things like steak.
  2. Toast: correctly includes foods that are called toast. It also includes a bunch of things people don’t normally think of as to toast, like pizza and nigiri sushi.
  3. Sandwich: Correctly includes most sandwiches, but not all. It excludes sub sandwiches where the bread is connected on one side (e.g., like a sandwich you’d pick up from subway). It also would include some peculiar foods, like a single layer of lasagna.
  4. Taco: This correctly includes tacos, but questionably includes things like slices of pie.
  5. Sushi: This category includes maki sushi, but excludes nigiri and sashimi. It also includes an unclosed burrito and a taquito.
  6. Soup/Salad w/ Bread Bowl: This section includes breadbowls unless they have any rice etc in them in which case they’re toast.
  7. Calzone: This section includes calzones, jelly-filled donuts, and other such baked goods, as long as you don’t cut or bite into them.
  8. Cake: This section includes foods that have layers of starch, such as a hamburger.

Our position is that unintuitive inclusions are acceptable so long as there are no unintuitive exclusions. But when you have both, it’s solid evidence that your rule is wrong.

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