RiceMunk

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[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe if the academic world behaved like that, I wouldn't have burned out and fucked off to the IT sector a decade ago.

Kind of adjacent to this, years ago around said burnout I kept floating this idea around my head where I was thinking if there was some way out of this tradition of creating these giant monolithic papers every time -even if your effective research result could be distilled down to a paragraph with some numbers and preliminary handwaving- where you need to pad the whole thing out with a big-ass literature review to keep the citation circlejerk going.

So why not just have "papers" consist of effectively a few paragraphs? The citation tree of how you got there is still relevant, but you can put all of that stuff in what's effectively metadata and not clutter up the whole thing with it.

Have an idea for a lab experiment? Publish the methodology as-is, and link it to whatever other tidbits of knowledge make it relevant. Did the experiment and got results? Publish the data, and link to the experiment. Got some new theory out of the results? Publish the theory and link to the experiment results in the metadata. And so on.

Maybe this would have weird side effects of its own, but I can't help but imagine this would make the whole process so much less painful, and allow also for better organizing of the knowledge produced.

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The ring promised him great power, like that he would finally be able to find those droids he's looking for

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Instructions unclear, now the universe consists of nothing but an oven preheated to 375F

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True; some mold is actually medicine. Therefore you only have 1/4 chance of dying.

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My feelings on this:

You wish now that our places had been exchanged, that I had died and Skype had lived~~___~~

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure "blue", "red", "green", or "white" are strictly speaking stances.

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

To avoid this, you need to succeed in the roll of evasion against the toll roads notification of toll evasion

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'd be pretty embarassed too if I offered my shed skin to some complete stranger.

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 124 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately Earth is mostly below the horizon for this one. :(

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to see a video of this one's magazine blowing up.

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And if you ask a cosmologist what the universe is made of, they go "Well, there's a lot of dark matter, and even more dark energy. And then there's a tiny bit of some matter or something idk lol."

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 72 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Look at moneybags here, who can afford their own shotgun.

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