⚜︎ arscyni.cc: a sentient stack of stardust pondering nothing and everything.

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  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoScience@beehaw.org•Meet Sabrina GonzalesEnglish
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    13 days ago

    To those who sometimes feel bad by comparing themselves to “more accomplished” peers, the one-page CV on her website is clickable, it’s actually six pages. Then realize your peers or you will never match Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, so be kind to yourself. You do matter too, firefly: https://ncase.me/fireflies/.

    She’s a one-in-a-century human such as Leonhard Euler: brilliant scientifically, ethically, and most importantly, still kind.

    Quote from her talk Exploring Many Worlds at 35:31:

    Q: “Graduate school is hard. I was once told by my dissertation advisor that it’s not how smart you are, it’s really how disciplined you are. And I was wondering if you could give us your reflections about persistence and tenacity in the context of advancing in your field.”

    Sabrina: “I think the craziest thing is that you actually get advice like that. You get told things that no one should be telling you, that you’re doomed or whatever. So if I wasn’t happy doing this more mathematical research, that I should leave, and not that there’s, maybe, ways to change it. So I think that persistence is a tricky thing because, again, it’s like this cost-benefit analysis of where do you want your future to be, who do you have to deal with in the meantime to get there and whatnot. I think that maybe the sociology needs to change in that it shouldn’t be like “this is the way things are”, kind of that tough advice [tough love] type of thing. I don’t like it because it sucks, it gets rid of diversity of thought.”

    PS Sabrina didn’t actually say “no” to Jeff “the unethical” Bezos, because she wanted to work for Blue Origin and held an internship there. Choosing theoretical physics instead doesn’t mean she flipped him off—however nice that would’ve been indeed.

  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•GraffitiEnglish
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    17 days ago

    “Advertisement: a public notice
    especially : a paid notice that is published or broadcast (as to attract customers or to provide information of public interest)” ―https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertisement

    Do you think Clay Butler pays to have his cartoons published?

    “What a way to kill the fun.”

    But, where does killing the fun start exactly? Isn’t it you who first expressed the contrarian opinion? Surely you must expect people to refute your claims, or at the very least some pushback.

  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Every dayEnglish
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    19 days ago

    “And do not, under any circumstances, take a job that involves night shifts. This shit should be illegal.”

    While true for most professions this obviously doesn’t apply to firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), emergency dispatchers, air traffic controllers, nurses, trauma surgeons, police, weather forecasters, et cetera. Basically all professions where human lives are at stake require night shifts. The crucial part is that people who want to do night shifts should only need to do night shifts as to have a healthy sleeping pattern. Anything preventing people from having a decent sleeping cycle against their will should be illegal.

  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•What the fuckEnglish
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    21 days ago

    It’s always there, but that doesn’t mean one constantly hears it. I’m listening to music a lot, so then I don’t hear it. When I skateboard or do any other sports I don’t hear it, et cetera. Only when it’s quiet I sometimes become aware of it, but because of habituation I usually unconsciously ignore it just as quickly. It does happen that sometimes in bed I keep focusing on it to the point it annoys me, but fortunately that’s rare. Not being able to experience absolute silence in a forest anymore disappoints me though; c’est la vie.

    That being said, I’m probably in the camp of people whose condition is mild. It must indeed be horrible for people whose tinnitus overpowers all other sounds.