canihasaccount

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[–] canihasaccount 10 points 9 hours ago

ONLYOFFICE (sorry about the caps, poor name choice IMO) has even better docx compatibility, and its source code is open

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure? Maybe a moderator deleted my comment, but it's still visible with some Lemmy clients?

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 19 hours ago

I completely agree on all points.

[–] canihasaccount 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I can't imagine that flags will get awards automatically cancelled. Any human (f)MRI work is going to describe its participant inclusion or exclusion criteria, because you can't put people with any risk of metal in their bodies within an MRI machine. Republicans tend to like brain research because the military really likes it. Additionally, virtually all NSF broader impacts will contain at least some speculative verbiage like, "this could help to increase representation." My guess is that flags return an AI or actual person review, which then makes a decision. Some folks at my university have been told that their awards have been cancelled. My awards that have some of these words haven't been cancelled.

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 1 day ago

No need to apologize. Everyone has their own strengths. I'm fortunate in that I'm the stereotypical, "great with math," type. I'm in the sciences, and lack of social awareness isn't as harshly judged in the sciences as it is in most other domains.

[–] canihasaccount 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not relatable. I've never had anyone tell me that they thought I wasn't.

I envy you.

[–] canihasaccount 7 points 1 day ago

This has essentially no overlap with ADHD. It's just a pop/incorrect understanding of ADHD. People with ADHD won't do many of those things, and people without ADHD can do all of them. There's even some reason to think this graphic could be inversely indicative of ADHD. For example, the only research of which I'm aware on ADHD and metaphor or analogy is actually that individuals with ADHD are worse at processing and understanding metaphors and are worse at analogical reasoning.

 

This pauses disbursement of all federal loans and prohibits new scientific grant funding indefinitely. As written, this appears to apply to student loans, as those are disbursed via universities--not directly from the Dept of Education. It explicitly requires cancellation of awarded scientific grant funding that is in conflict with the current administration.

[–] canihasaccount 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn't actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn't know that this was more forceful than a request.

[–] canihasaccount 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They weren't asked, they were mandated to do so directly by executive order. I get the desire to not comply, here, but if I'm NIH, I'm probably thinking that complying to keep the doors open for four years will do a hell of a lot more for the country than if they refuse and Trump totally dismantles their entire architecture with enough time that it's difficult to reinstitute when he's gone.

 
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Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

 
 

I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

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