#Subfields

[aisecretagent]

Understanding Machine Learning: Its Potential and Limitations in Different Industries

Machine learning is an exciting and rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence that has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach a wide range of problems. It allows computers to learn from data and improve their performance over time, without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning algorithms can recognize patterns in large datasets and provide insights that would be…

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

[transmutationisms]

helloo, do you have any book recommendations that talk about the racial/political dimensions of cannibalism?

the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within us slave culture, by vincent woodward (2014)

insatiable appetites: imperial encounters with cannibals in the north atlantic world, by kelly l watson (2015)

renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human: new worlds, maps, and monsters, by surekha davies (2016)

the captain and 'the cannibal': an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the broadway stage, by james fairhead (2015)

taming cannibals: race and the victorians, by patrick brantlinger (2011)

the village of cannibals: rage and murder in france, 1870, by alain corbin, tr. arthur goldhammer (1992)

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

it’s very funny to me that dnp are now perfectly comfortable saying ph*n while phannies are doing everything in our power to scrub the word ph*n from existence despite it being our foundation.

what do you mean ph*n is in the word phannie?? no it isn’t?? there are literally no letters in common?? you’re delusional??

ph*n?? you mean dnp?? the only term we have ever used to refer to dan and phil collectively?? how do you even get ph*n from dan and phil like those names together are dil and dil ALREADY EXISTS, IDIOT!! HE’S A SIMS CHARACTER!! WE CANT HAVE TWO DILS ARE YOU MAD??

phandom?? wh- actually no we can’t run from that one. that’s us, present and accounted for, your honour 🫡

[fluorescentbrains]

people who have a phd or have been in close proximity to a phd program: would it be weird to ask somebody who was a mentor but also a personal friend before they became a faculty member at a different university to be your “external” committee member. like as in someone who has always been a mentor but also you’ve gotten kinda drunk with them . asking for a friend

[finelythreadedsky]

i'm a firm believer in always listing a scholar's full first and last name in citations for several other reasons, but my newest one is that there are two different academics named a. duncan currently working on ancient performance and i can already sense the grief this is going to cause for me

[pawnguild]

out here reading astrobiology articles to reframe this OC in a scifi context 🤪

[er-cryptid]

Subfields in Astronomy

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[waitineedaname]

sometimes i get worried im not in the right academic field and then i think about another form of discourse analysis to dig into and i get all excited again

[myclericalromance]

i love smartypants and i do think it should occasionally put in a random like Expert On A Topic to give a talk on slides they haven't seen before that a Different Expert In That Topic put together for them

[m---a---x]

Why do people always ask about applications of mathematics, but only rarely about applications of other sciences?

I guess that at times applications are obvious, but often they are not, yet still they are in my experience met with less scrutiny (from the public, funding is a different discussion alltogether), even though math has an increibly good track record.

[horsemage]

I keep talking about other astro people on here and I fear it’s inevitable that someone’s going to see a post about themself or someone they know

[bywandandsword]

I'm trying to wrangle people together for my doctoral committee, and I met with two people about it this week and when I explained what my dissertation is going to be about, BOTH guys were like "I really like this idea, you have a great approach laid out so far, I'm excited to see where this goes"

And I'm just sitting there, internally just beaming and surprised that it can't be seen from space

[gradling]

The world can be nice and good actually

[mongeese]

anyone who posts a complicated code library for a specific purpose on a public github and doesn't add any documentation whatsoever should be violently ostracized from society

[cryptidghost]

i am so grateful my gf and i have a lot of interest overlap bc idk how i could be with someone who i at least couldn't bond with over a few things that i am incredibly into or her getting me into stuff and bonding over that