John BS @johnabs@qoto.org
- Background
- Chem, NetSci, ML, Math
- Blog
- write.as/johnabs/
- Hobbies
- Fencing, Woodworking
- Religion & Philosophy
- Christian & Stoic
A previous analytical biochemist, (functional) programmer, industrial engineer, working on a PhD with a focus in complex systems.
Joined Dec 2020
@Paulos_the_fog Not for me, but certain teas (namely oolong) do it. You may have a mild allergy. Or it could be any other number of things that we can do experiments on!
Try it with a high-caffiene content tea and see what happens! Also, you should also try decaf coffee and tea.
Also, you should test if it's the temperature, it could be that. Or it could be the dissolved material, so you could try an apple juice as well.
Finally, it could just be that any liquid (or maybe solid) material entering the stomach is re-engaging the digestive tract, thus you should also do a negative control with no liquids and just food.
Thus, we achieve the following experimental configuration:
Cofffee/Tea/Apple Juice (or a non-pulp juice) all heated.
Then try them all unheated (still brew them hot for the brewed drinks to ensure consistent extraction across batches).
Then all uncaffinated.
Then nothing but bread.
Finally try nothing.
Time everything relatively based on ingestion period, then based on your circadian rhythm (compared to when you woke up) and finally on absolute time. Also, try not to run the experiments near daylight savings time transitions to prevent confounders of circadian rhythm shift effects.
I'm actually looking forward to the results, and may even run the experiment myself xD
@neotoy Buy 10 yachts, or half a megayacht. 😂
I just ordered a 4'x4' (1.2192m x 1.2192m) CNC router with a variable speed spindle for my woodworking/making hobby. I got a deal and didn't have to pay taxes on it (err...I paid taxes, but the discount covered that), and I'M SO EXCITED!
IT CAN MACHINE METALS, WOOD, PLASTIC, STONE and more! I'm so excited to design and make super neat stuff :D
...Now I just need a decent CAD program. I use FreeCAD which is, well, meh, but the rest cost an arm and a leg to use, which sucks. I like Shapr3d, but the vestigial parametric features aren't powerful enough (though it's great on my iPad for super quick mock-ups), blender may be better for art stuff maybe? Anyways, any recommendations anyone has will be greatly appreciated <3
I've lost around 51lbs since the end of January this year! I still have about 24 to go, but I'm back on it after my honeymoon to London and my various trips to visit my inlaws and such :) It was more, but I had another trip and my diet is quite hard to stick to while traveling due to cost so I gained a bit back q.q
@RustyCrab I have the Caldigit TS4; it has one display port, but it also has support for usbc to DP and HDMI so I use dongles for those that work great. It has 4 usb ports in the back, 2 usbc up front, ethernet, and other goodies that I really loved to that point I bought 2 (not at the same time lmao)!
Worst case? Someone who really doesn't like you writes a script that auto-pings you via a POST request to the site according to a Poisson distribution with a rate of 1 hour during business hours. If you get a Poisson burst, it could ring like 3-5 times in a few minutes, and you could never be sure if any individual ring is legit.
Best case? A unique and more annoying alternative to email? 😂
@kristinmbranson You should hook it up to a website called "Get Kristin's Attention" that's only a red button, so we can try it for you! 😂
Oh, weird, lemme send you this video, this is how I've usually heard the argument. You can also include William Lane Craig, Red Pen Logic, and a bunch of other theologians.
Back to the original post: the actual argument most intellectually consistent religious folks make is that atheists cannot *justify* their morality. **Not** that they cannot act in a moral way without God/the threat of hell/something else.
In fact, if we take the Christian ethos, the crux is that nobody can merit salvation (including Christians) hence "being a good person" by human standards is insufficient to merit divine intercession on our behalf. Hence why salvation is called grace, or unmerited favor, and is a free gift that need only be accepted. Additionally, most people don't argue that atheists are incapable of behaving in a moral way by human standards, as we believe that God's moral law is written on the hearts/minds of everyone (the conscience) and serves as the way by which we can know right from wrong, thus, can obey or violate the moral law by making decisions based on our innate knowledge of it.
Additionally, (again, from the Christian perspective), it is not that we attempt to "be good people to avoid hell", it is that we understand that we *deserve* hell (as all have fallen short of the glory of God), and that because of Christ's sacrifice for us that we love Him, and it is our love for Him that drives us to keep his commandments. This is actually a critical distinction, particularly in my own life and faith, and within the Bible as well.
Finally, the justification point: either morality is objective or it is not.
If it is objective, it does not change over time: that is "thou shalt not murder" is universal for all people of all times, regardless of culture or other complicating factors. Then the question becomes, "what is the source of this immaterial, unchanging source of moral truth"? This, in many people's view, points to God since many people have such a strong sense of the moral and immoral.
If morality is subjective, it is necessarily unjustifiable, as the changing whims of society, the ruling class, etc can then dictate what is and is not moral at any given time. Definitions of murder can vary, for example. Thus, the atheist is faced with the conundrum of being unable to condemn or affirm any given behavior as moral or immoral, only that they think it's moral or immoral (or really it boils down to: I like that vs I don't like that). This follows, because if we're being logically consistent in a morally subjective universe, the conclusion is that there is no morality from which we can reference, thus everyone can behave as they want.
Of course, there are arguments for group-constructed/consensus morality, but these are fundamentally subjective as well, as they will vary as the group does.
John BS
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Science: "Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism"
https://www.science.org/content/article/embattled-harvard-honesty-professor-accused-plagiarism
I note that correct citation is not that difficult.
John BS
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I'm working on the next post in my series, which will include a full write up on the project and multiple demos, but I figured I'd go ahead and share the overview as a preview.
This is JournalHub. It's an academic publishing platform I've been working on since deciding crowdsourcing was a dead end. It's still in early alpha and there's a lot of work left to do.
But it gives you an idea of what is possible.
This is excellent work; bravo!
I've been working on a similar project recently, and have some recommendations if you would like them, and would love to try to contribute some PRs if you're interested in having some collaborators. In particular, I have some comments on identity validation, among other things, primarily with regards to your current review mechanisms (and citations for why I think said adjustments should be implemented).
Just let me know if you'd like to chat about it at some point :D
So Google is completely getting rid of less secure app support, basically gutting my ability to use IMAP to access my email, thus my ability to use mu4e with isync.
Looks like I'm migrating completely to mailbox, and using gmail for random trash even more than I already was.
I'm so sick of them getting rid of functionality under the guise of "security". It's really annoying.
@lispi314 @teidesu @a1ba I never said it was mutually exclusive. I said it was more difficult and an underfunding issue, not a lack of funding issue. Relying on donations isn’t a great practice to make a living in most cases, particularly for software.
If you have some scheme in mind, I’d love to hear it, but just because someone wants to monetize their work doesn’t mean they are intentionally being malicious. That’s where my disagreement was and is.
@duetosymmetry Amazing work!
@lispi314 @a1ba @teidesu I’d normally agree, but at the same time I think there are plenty of reasons to want to be able to monetize your work, which becomes much more difficult with free software unless you rely on donations. I mean, look at the log4j fiasco , and you can easily see that FLOSS projects are underfunded. So if we can square that away, I’m 100% in agreement.
Hi everyone, I'm starting a blog on hashnode!
I'll post the first article soon (on some ideas for dealing with some of the issues in the modern scientific process), and I would love some feedback once it's live if you're up for a bit of a read :)
John BS
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It's #FossFriday again!
Today's project is #Zulip. Zulip is an open source chat client similar to Slack or Discord but IMHO better: it has a threading-first design philosophy that works great for following many conversations at once. They also offer free access to the paid cloud plan for small non-profits, researchers, and open source projects. I don't use Zulip a ton bc of network effects. People don't want to use yet another chat tool. But it's such a great tool!!
- Background
- Chem, NetSci, ML, Math
- Blog
- write.as/johnabs/
- Hobbies
- Fencing, Woodworking
- Religion & Philosophy
- Christian & Stoic
A previous analytical biochemist, (functional) programmer, industrial engineer, working on a PhD with a focus in complex systems.
Joined Dec 2020
