dtpolet @dtpolet@qoto.org
Postdoc at Structure and Motion Lab, Royal Veterinary College. Biomechanics, animals, robots. Husband and Father of four. Opinions my own. (He/Him) http://dtpolet.com
Joined Nov 2022
You know you're at a #veterinarian college when...
@mv see you at SICB!
@paulj1989 also it's not like people here (in general) are losing their minds. People are rescheduling things, switching to WFH, bundling their kids as best they can and driving to school (without snow tyres) if they're able. They're dealing as best they can with an unusual weather event, as anyone would anywhere in the world
@francescoluciano thank you, I wanted to feel smarter than an AI today
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RT @ArthurCDent
Interesting. The AI totally fails the cognitive reflection test. It gives the intuitive but incorrect answer every time.
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The fallen tree here is, I am almost certain, a red oak I watched fall on a windy afternoon between 1994 and '98 in Wingra Woods, UW Madison Arboretum. I returned to it last week to get a sense of what 25 years of decomposition looks like for a red oak in an upland oak forest, north-facing slope, south-central Wisconsin.
Lake Wingra in the background, with white and red oaks and planted sugar maples.
@PashavanBijlert haha not lazy at all... Honestly the browser has features that clients lack (quote boosts, markdown syntax, depending on instance), but I just find the clients easier to use on phone. Maybe I'm the lazy one 
@PashavanBijlert I wonder if it depends on the client you use. Both Tusky and Tooot (Android clients) put follows on top in autofill.
@jjodx which large language model is this, and why is it so fervent about optimal motor control?
@PashavanBijlert @johnrhutchinson is on here too!
@johnrhutchinson and his team used this exact mount from Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart for the 3D reconstruction of Batrachotomus. Our study also compared our simulations to fossil trackways of Chirotheriids, and was the first (that we know of) to identify gait transitions in an ancient pseudosuchian. It was a lot of fun, and I wish we still had "Rauisuchians" like Batrachotomus around today!
#FossilFriday: Batrachotomus, a pseudosuchian from ~240 million years ago. Although these animals were in the same clade as crocodilians, Batrachot...
@ceciliahillway @Mastodon you should be able to. It's called "delete and repost" and it clears favourites and replies, but if you do it right away it's the same as editing.
On the stock Android app it's possible to do, not sure about the other ones
Edit: can do it on Tooot as well, and I think Tusky
@PashavanBijlert hey that's me! Thanks for the shout-out 
This 3D printed bearing has no right to be this good. This is how it is straight off the printer (with just a little work to free the rollers), no lubricant https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2746804 #3Dprinting
#throwbackthursday to this #coolbugs I found in Bamfield BC 10 years ago. Harpaphe haydeniana, the "almond-scented millipede" (Almond scented because of the cyanide). I think they're pretty common but for an Alberta boy it was startling to see. Also #Mosstodon
@StephenBHeard "No conscientious naturalist should possess, or recognize in others the possession of, a sense of humour"
This is absolute gold 
When you spend hours trying to adjust the tolerances to fit a 6 mm Allen key only to realize that it's a 1/4" 
#3Dprinting #MetricPlease
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Faculty at more prestigious universities publish more bc they have funded Ph. D. students and postdocs to do the work.
In fields where advisors aren't put on Ph. D./postdoc research pubs, there is no relationship between university prestige and faculty productivity.
Mid-career faculty, matched, who move to institutions with more funded Ph. D./postdocs publish more.
Counting pubs is a poor method of judging a researchers quality.
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Hi! I am a CS PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am broadly interested in learning based #robotics to solve problems in #agriculture.
Currently I am working on vision-based navigation of under-canopy agricultural robots (https://ansivakumar.github.io/learned-visual-navigation/). These small robots could enable various precision agriculture applications like autonomous cover crop planting, mechanical weeding etc in an affordable way.
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RT @SolomonRDavid
And if you’ve never seen Paddlefish eat, here you go:
^Paddlefish use that long snout (laced with electroreceptors) to detect plankton, then filter them out of water with their gaping mouths & sieve-like gill rakers! https://twitter.com/stuart_orr/status/1597342422572630016
Postdoc at Structure and Motion Lab, Royal Veterinary College. Biomechanics, animals, robots. Husband and Father of four. Opinions my own. (He/Him) http://dtpolet.com
Joined Nov 2022
