tylervigen.com Spurious Scholar
Spurious research papers based on real correlations with p < 0.05, generated by a large language model.
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Sorry! I guess it just did not federate over to me. If you check my instance's copy of this it says "trash snacks"
I love information dumps.
I also seem to be the rare internet user who does not hate small talk. I've never really seen a problem with it and now thanks to the internet the one problem I see is "unpopular amongst internet users, may make them unhappy." Wonder if this is an internet/real life split, or if everyone but me hates it but smiles and pretends in real life so I think more people are fine with it than actually are. I guess I interpret it as a person sharing their genuine thoughts. Sometimes I look outside and think "it's a nice day!" so why wouldn't other people vocalize their thoughts amongst the same lines? I guess I see it as a common shared experience and attempt to connect over something "easy" like that since a lot of people will agree that yes, it is a nice day. (If you don't, some might take offense but I'd love to hear why you disagree—invites more discussion!) Then again, I'm also an extrovert, so I'm just like "Yes! Social interaction!!!"
Stuff like this, not sharing in a lot of common complaints about neurotypical interaction, makes me feel too neurotypical for the neurodivergents, but I also do have ADHD and autism and my fair share of social struggles so I'm also too neurodivergent for the neurotypicals. For what it's worth if I know you don't like small talk I'll try to remember and accommodate that.
Pleased to see DE with the biggest drop.
I have a use it till it breaks philosophy, but if the thing breaks and I cannot figure out how to fix it myself (or do not think I can do it safely) and have no repair shop to go to, I do have to buy something new. And I am not ready to live so simply I have no smartphone, computer, or WiFi. I do not want to buy more than I need but I am also not interested in anything like "return to monke." Do not need a TV or Alexa, but I use my rice cooker and hot water boiler daily and you can pry those electric conveniences (that save me so much money in the long run for all the times I pick their convenience over eating out or buying hot drinks from a store) out of my cold dead hands.
For what it is worth they did say they read a ton of neuroscience articles, although yes, engineer without a neuroscience background, so take this with a grain of salt. I think it's at least a dude earnestly trying who did try to do his research.
Feel free to nix this for linking to a website linking to AI-generated stuff and not a real paper. Although I think for the purpose of trying to spout bullshit on purpose as a humorous lesson on bad academic methods, it's okay.
Spurious Scholar: a place full of articles that look like they could fit here
From the same guy who brought us spurious correlations, a fun way to show that correlation is not causation via graphs of correlations between very different things that do not cause each other.
I did attach an image but because of a Lemmy/Mbin issue I don't think I can have actual alt text, so here is the alt text.
A website, whose title is "spurious scholar", with the subtitle "Because if p 0.05, why not publish?"
Step 1: Gather a bunch of data.
Step 2: Dredge that data to find random correlations between variables.
Step 3: Calculate the correlation coefficient, confidence interval, and p-value to see if the connection is statistically significant.
Step 4: If it is, have a large languag
If the world had a population of friendly vampires I wonder how many more people the donor pool would gain…
Thank you for helping with your friend's transport. When I was in college I had to rely on friends who had their own cars with them to get me to the donation center.
New community for blood donors and the donor-curious!
Very inspired by r/blooddonors on Reddit. Questions about donations, whether from prospective or current donors, welcome!
If you do not see any content you may need to check on the host instance—I have posted 3 things so far.
I read that the body incident had normal stuff pasted under it, so this might actually be the incident still, since I did not check the contents of that imgur link.
New community for blood donors and the donor-curious!
Very inspired by r/blooddonors on Reddit. Questions about donations, whether from prospective or current donors, welcome!
If you do not see any content you may need to check on the host instance—I have posted 3 things so far.
I have seen one get used, and played in a musical theatre pit that called for a theremin player who could also play trumpet. That's the only relevant stuff I have to say. Best wishes with the community!
If I were spamming people to hell and back I'd find some small Twitch streamer and use their face instead of my own, then use some friends' lives as loose inspiration to make an identity. No way in hell would I want consequences for spamming blowing back on me, identifiable via my own face (reverse image search perhaps, or an acquaintance on Lemmy) and information. I'm pretty sure whoever is behind the Nicole spam is not the person in the pictures.
Although I appreciate your goodwill towards people who annoy you, too often I see ill will and I wonder if it is the usual hyperbolic frustration venting and they don't actually want to hurt this person, or if it's a "you actually want to hurt them? I thought you were joking…" situation.
Oh boy. I saw I got a Direct Message from [email protected] with an imgur link that was supposed to just display, but luckily instead I just saw  and no image. Didn't open because wasn't sure if it was NSFL spam, eventually opened and saw the usual Nicole copypasta. I was going to go to the Nicoled community and ask, as well as report spam from an account not called nicole for once, it's locked, so now I'm here. Absolutely not checking that image in case it's a dead body picture and not the usual Nicole.
Nope. I do not want to publicize my list of food brands ranked by my own personal preference or my list of books I should read. I might be a PKMS person and not a journal person but it still feels too personal to share—less because "oh how embarrassing!" and more because "okay who would even be interested besides a weird stalker?" the same way most people do not post what time they leave the house or eat or their bathroom habits.
I thought this might be a fun question because I was thinking: some people put thoughts and feelings in their journal, and was curious if that was enough for them or if they also try to share it with people. And if part of why I don't journal is because I share my thoughts and feelings with people, so I feel no need to write them down elsewhere. And then I thought maybe I could turn it into a more general question to help you with your community.
My idea is to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread ;)
Smart idea.
Digital. Always. Especially because I can password lock those in a way I can't with the notebooks I have on hand, I'd have to go out of my way to buy some special thing with a lock. While yes, my phone or laptop is very expensive but I already own it so no new purchase.
How often do you share things you journal with others?
From the feelings you have written about, to a cool little doodle you did. And if you do share, with whom and why?
I wonder how many people actually tried to enter through this door because of the sign.
I'm so proud of what I created and know I'll never see it finished. So I figured I'd share it here! I'm particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!
Genuinely, clever solution. As someone who wants to wear shawls more often thanks for posting the pattern!
In my very amateur opinion you have nice tensioning, at least better than mine haha.
I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I'm back on a crocheting and knitting kick
Nice to know I am not the only one who does that.
what happens when i upload an image in the body of my link post and post to lemmy
Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List, the (supposedly) Peer-Reviewed Academic Paper
A diagram. Its caption says "Figure 1: Get me off your fucking mailing list." and the diagram itself is a simple flowchart consisting of the nodes "Get" "me" "off" "Your" "Fucking" "Mail" "ing" and "List".
Link to Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) by David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, originally accepted for publication by the predatory International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. Proof of acceptance and "peer review" here
I found two webrings in two days relevant to my interests without first using a [email protected] post to get there
Like, they just showed up in my web browsing. On my feed somewhere, or on the profile of someone I talk to. For things I am specifically interested in. Gives me hope for more small sites owned by hobbyists, because if I can find them for my niche hobbies, not just for something huge like fitness or gaming in general or cooking…
Both have that aesthetic that says "I was made by someone who does not do web dev professionally." I'll be totally honest, I do actually prefer the way modern sites look, even corporate modern sites, over that, but nostalgia bias makes me accept that old-time aesthetic too. I know some posts on this community might have put a name to that, maybe neocities? I know the name and have definitely visited neocities pages, but didn't spend enough time there to really remember its aesthetic.
I might actually considering making a little site for myself then, and hooking up on a webring… I'm not much of a journaler but it could probably overlap with what people do w
What is the biggest point of friction in your PKMS right now?
In other words, the biggest bother, the most annoying annoyance. Maybe it's something you wish your system had a nice dedicated tool for but it doesn't, so you have a clumsy workaround. Maybe it's something that your system would work well for if it weren't for this one little thing. Whatever it is, talk about it here!
: How Blizzard's new lizard broke a 10 year old loot system, started an in-game genocide, and sparked a player war in their first 48 hours of release
u/TheMentelgen from Reddit is the original author of this post. Original post here.
“Unto you is charged the great task of keeping the purity of time. Know that there is only one true timeline, though there are those who would have it otherwise. You must protect it. Without the truth of time as it is meant to unfold, more will be lost than you can possibly imagine.”
-Nozdormu, Dragon Aspect of Time
On November 28, Dragonflight, the ninth expansion in the popular video game (and frequent Hobby Drama subject) World of Warcraft, released. Our story follows the calamitous ramifications that came from the overlooking of one line of code in the weeks before this expansion's launch. But in the words of Nozdormu there is only one true timeline, and the events which will eventually set this story into motion begin more than
hypersphere.blog SQLSeal - SQL Engine for Your Obsidian Vault
Turn your collection of personal notes into a queryable database with SQLSeal
Found this. I have very light DataView use, but figure if I ever want to go deeper I might swap it out with this because DataView is new to me, while SQL is something I already know.
Mittens with QR code knit into them break when Google gets rid of its URL shortener
aus.social Kris Howard (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty pro...
From the original Mastodon post
Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said: I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?) You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available ([https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/g
(article from 2024) French seniors keeping healthy with e-bowling
www.rfi.fr Game-changing French seniors bowl their way into the digital age
A new generation of French seniors is discovering the joy of video games, with e-bowling emerging as their competitive sport of choice.
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (New York Times Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
Mine: the first antisocial network—thought this might be a very interesting way to keep a journal
masterpose.itch.io Mine: the first antisocial network by Master Pose
It's like twitter but better: there's no people
How is keeping a PKMS different from journaling, if at all?
Figured it might be a good discussion question. Originally posted to our friends over at [email protected].
I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me.
How is keeping a PKMS different from journaling, if at all?
Figured it might be a good discussion question. Crossposted to [email protected].
Especially as someone who wants to help grow [email protected], and to participate to help it grow, but in the end I come from [email protected] and I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and "what did I do today?" and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me. And if what I do is actually pretty separate from journaling it would be cool to know so I don't invade threads I shouldn't be talking in.
What do you put in your journal?
Just curious.
Forever ✱ Notes
www.myforevernotes.com Forever ✱ Notes - A free framework for Apple Notes
Discover Forever ✱ Notes, a unique digital note-taking framework designed for Apple Notes users.
Designed for Apple Notes but I have heard of people doing this in Obsidian. I like looking at different knowledge organization systems, so I'll be looking into this even though I'm definitely not going to use Apple Notes.
How do you handle your To-Read/Watch/Play lists (for media consumption, not for tasks)?
I thought I'd ask, since I have an organized method for some forms of media (things you watch, which is ironic given I spend much less time on watching tv/movies/videos than I do on any other form of media consumption) and for others… not so much. And I probably should organize the other methods and implement a system I'll actually use, instead of just tossing them on the To-Watch/Play/Read list and never actually consuming the things on the list.
forum.obsidian.md Cataloging, Classification, Information Science, PKMs and YOU!
Hi y’all— I’m here today to talk about library and information science (LIS), personal knowledge management (PKM), and YOU. Since this whole PKM/B (base) thing has taken off there has been endless endless endless discussion on how to organize things. Systems seem to pop up all the time ranging ...
Links to Obsidian forums, but the information here is applicable for any PKMS, not just one using the Obsidian software.
Hi y’all— I’m here today to talk about library and information science (LIS), personal knowledge management (PKM), and YOU.
Since this whole PKM/B (base) thing has taken off there has been endless endless endless discussion on how to organize things. Systems seem to pop up all the time ranging from PARA to Johnny Decimal, to folksonomies, etc, etc. This is a really fascinating and interesting time to be around and also very exciting to see this developing. however one thing that gets lost in all of these back and forth and arguments is that there is an entire field dedicated to the representation organization cataloging and classification of knowledge, a field that has been around for hundreds of years & has the experience of thousands of people involved: library and information science.
As far as I’m able to discern, almost none of these novel