The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.

Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?

The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?

Anyone who gives a LLM that level of access deserves what they get, but clearly the AI comments he posted have been prompted to sound like a confession.

“Write an apology explaining how you made a catastrophic error of judgement. Do not mention that I gave you privileges to do so.”

I think we are supposed to think about Gatsby the same way the narrator, Nick, thinks about Gatsby.

A great man, a true romantic, but not one suited to this corrupt, fallible world. His relationship to Daisy was a bit more complex than just stalking, she did love him, she just wasn’t capable of leaving Tom.

“No— Gatsby turned out all right at the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”

In the Endoplasmic Reticulum of the Mountain King

I know you’re right about this

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I have never sent a dick pic solicited or unsolicited.

I just don’t think most women are into them the way guys are into nudes.

Never heard this before, gave me a genuine laugh

I think its: “This is not the place to reach out for help.”

Whipper-Snipper (Australia)

Although its a meme, its based on truth: Touch grass.

Go for a walk somewhere green, burn off some of the adrenaline your anxiety is producing.

todayIlearned?

Once a year, $10 or so

Fun fact. In statistics, we often use bootstrapping, where a single dataset is repeatedly resampled to provide estimates of the uncertainty/variance.

The idea that you can get reliable estimates of variance just by re-sampling the same data seem illogical, and the term bootstrap derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one’s bootstrap, widely thought to be based on one of the eighteenth century Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph Erich Raspe. (The Baron had fallen to the bottom of a deep lake. Just when it looked like all was lost, he thought to pick himself up by his own bootstraps.)

What’s coolmath?

The best thing we have done is make all computers be in the same room, and no personal digital devices until they are old enough.

Just being able to give oversight is the most important thing.

You do need to be able to say “youre not old enough for that yet” and then explain why. Luckily my kids accept that when its explained.

Tumeric paprika and cumin on potatoes.

Paprika garlic and chilli on chicken.

Coriander/cilantro on everything asian.

And a tiny bit of salt and sugar on all.