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  1. Vanilla Mongoose
    01-21-2013 04:42 PM
    Vanilla Mongoose
    Yes. Isn't it wonderful?
  2. Minish
    01-04-2013 03:24 PM
    MinishMOD
    Hi we ended up going to spoons and a tattoo parlour?? Sorry I'm not sure I'll be around for a bit yet :c when will you sleep? Whatcha doing? ^o.o^
  3. Spoon
    12-29-2012 05:56 PM
    Spoon
    Looking at the unanimous results thus far for your capital punishment debate thread, might it be more productive to discuss what should be done with convicted murders or would that warrant its own thread?
  4. Minish
    12-24-2012 03:15 AM
    MinishMOD
    hi I'm at a sleepover :o I would feel weird going to my e-mail, but apparently not the forums. hi I got your text hi ^o.o^ have a good day out ^o.o^ bye ^o.o^
  5. Negrek
    12-13-2012 08:24 AM
    Negrek
    It's nowhere near as bad as R! I've done very little work in MATLAB overall; this particular class is the first time I've had to use it seriously. I find it to be a pretty indifferent language, but it does have a ton of functionality, even if that functionality is implemented more nicely in other, more specialized environments.

    My doctoral program is in computational biology... I'll be doing mostly genetics/molecular stuff, but other people in my program work on things like primate social behavior, fish schooling, biofilm modeling, and so on. My primary proposed thesis topic is a pretty straightforward computational motif-finding project, and my riskier-but-more-fun secondary topic is on using automata to quantify genome rearrangement patterns.
  6. Negrek
    12-13-2012 08:03 AM
    Negrek
    Sounds pretty awesome! And that's cool, basically nobody knows what they want to do with their life, myself included. I'm hoping to take some philosophy of science classes on the sly before they eject me from school for good.

    I'm in graduate school right now, mostly throwing things together for the end-of-semester crunch and looking forward to my qualifying exams at the end of January. Right this moment I'm programming my first MATLAB movie. :O
  7. Negrek
    12-13-2012 07:53 AM
    Negrek
    Oh yeah, totes Ken Ham.

    How are you doing, btw? Are you still at Cambridge? It seems like you'd be finishing up your degree pretty soon...
  8. Negrek
    12-08-2012 06:12 AM
    Negrek
    Fascinating, but really creepy, to me! It honestly does sound pretty plausible, until you realize that there's no actual data there and they're just taking the Bible's world as truth and seeing how they can contort the natural world so that it conforms. It's like they're writing some kind of weird Earth-AU fanfic, but with citations.

    I have a kind of morbid curiosity that makes me want to visit the Creation Museum, but I know that if I went I would probably just get the sads in a big way, and of course I never want to give them any of my money ever.
  9. Negrek
    12-04-2012 03:27 AM
    Negrek
    Of course! I was remiss to imply otherwise. Even more entertaining when you can see kerfuffles real-time, though... just today went to a seminar where the presenter was talking about evolution in a population he'd been studying, based on changes in the frequency of a particular allele. One of the professors in the audience was all, "Wait, how is that evolution?", to which another audience member said immediately, "How is that not evolution?" They started going back and forth about it while the presenter was kind of trying to interject and get back to his talk, while the graduate student next to me started whispering, "Fight... fight... fight..." It was hilarious.

    Non-scientists have no idea how much of a schoolyard dynamic there can be in academia in particular. Sometimes it's sad, but sometimes it's just hilarious.
  10. Scootaloo
    11-27-2012 11:14 AM
    Scootaloo
    Ah, no that's okay. :) Thank you for offering, though.

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    We want to be special in a universe that is uncaring and cold, and in which the nature of our existence is a transient flicker, so we invent these strange stories of grand beginnings, like every orphan dreaming that they are the children of kings who will one day ride up on a white horse and take them away to a beautiful palace and a rich and healthy family that will love them forever. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
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