Senior research analyst, soon-to-be-former PhD candidate (or so I hope), perpetually curious professional nerd.
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CrowdStrike

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We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
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marcrichter
113 days ago
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Oooh, reference to a classic! 🚀
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Eclipse Clouds

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The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse
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marcrichter
220 days ago
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Brutal... 😬
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Circuit Symbols

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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
446 days ago
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tbd
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JayM
446 days ago
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Ha!
Atlanta, GA
alt_text_bot
447 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
434 days ago
You mean, the Avengers tower has been... oh, what am I saying, it's Stark's building, of *course* it has.

Cuisine

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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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marcrichter
540 days ago
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tbd
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fxer
539 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
537 days ago
Ha! I took intro physics with Alinka Lepine. Super nice lady.
alt_text_bot
541 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

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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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marcrichter
716 days ago
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tbd
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alt_text_bot
716 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

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You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.
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marcrichter
1049 days ago
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jgbishop
1049 days ago
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Where did you go, Alt-text Bot? We need your services once again!
Durham, NC
chrisrosa
1049 days ago
Mouse-over works for me in Brave/Chrome.
breach_trapdoor
1049 days ago
Long press on the image in mobile to see the alt text. Or hover over it in the browser.
jgbishop
1048 days ago
But I'm so lazy!
lograh
1047 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
1019 days ago
I'll take no alt text bot over that time there were two.
ReadLots
1049 days ago
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ouch
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