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Senior research analyst, soon-to-be-former PhD candidate (or so I hope), perpetually curious professional nerd.
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CrowdStrike
Saturday July 20th, 2024 at 4:12 AM

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We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
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marcrichter
6 days ago
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Oooh, reference to a classic! 🚀
tbd
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Eclipse Clouds
Thursday April 4th, 2024 at 2:02 PM

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The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse
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marcrichter
113 days ago
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Brutal... 😬
tbd
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Circuit Symbols
Tuesday August 22nd, 2023 at 2:49 AM

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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
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marcrichter
340 days ago
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tbd
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JayM
339 days ago
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Ha!
Atlanta, GA
alt_text_bot
340 days ago
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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
silberbaer
327 days ago
You mean, the Avengers tower has been... oh, what am I saying, it's Stark's building, of *course* it has.

Cuisine
Saturday May 20th, 2023 at 3:17 PM

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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
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433 days ago
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tbd
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fxer
432 days ago
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I’ve always loved this chart of binding energy showing which elements can only make energy via fission, and which can only make it via fusion. With iron sitting right at the top like a bastard tyrant king

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Lepine-Szily/publication/234065870/figure/fig1/AS:300141371248640@1448570687476/Binding-energy-per-nucleon-B-Z-N-A-as-a-function-of-the-mass-number.png
Bend, Oregon
diogro
430 days ago
Ha! I took intro physics with Alinka Lepine. Super nice lady.
alt_text_bot
434 days ago
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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.

Paper Title
Friday November 25th, 2022 at 2:44 PM

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.
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609 days ago
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tbd
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609 days ago
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.

Confounding Variables
Monday December 27th, 2021 at 2:01 PM

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You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.
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942 days ago
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tbd
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jgbishop
942 days ago
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Where did you go, Alt-text Bot? We need your services once again!
Durham, NC
chrisrosa
942 days ago
Mouse-over works for me in Brave/Chrome.
breach_trapdoor
942 days ago
Long press on the image in mobile to see the alt text. Or hover over it in the browser.
jgbishop
941 days ago
But I'm so lazy!
lograh
940 days ago
alt-text bot was too good for this world. We were unworthy and impure, and now must face the bleak future without its grace.
cosmotic
912 days ago
I'll take no alt text bot over that time there were two.
ReadLots
942 days ago
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ouch
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