Ramblings In A Blog

An astronaut conducts scientific experiements, engineering and maintenance and are funded by government grants to do so on behalf of the governments funding them in order to publicly publish the data and findings to benefit humanity.

Private space people who got there by the means of jeff bezos had money!

And since I'm officially no longer the lead on that VR product anymore, I added a new title, "UX researcher". I will be performing UX research to investigate ways to continue improving our VR product as well as some more general UX evangelism because this company is very much a "let's hurry up and launch the backend, we'll fix the UI later" kind of place (which never happens and is starting to become a risk to the company). I have a real opportunity to make lasting change here, or at least grind out a few months of good portfolio-relevant experience.

Suddenly, I'm actually getting the kind of recruiters I want to see for jobs I'd consider taking. Got a Meta Reality Labs one the other day.

I am not talking shelters, i am talking a dedicated space offering individual rooms with washrooms. Dedicated cantine for food and socialization. Education center and activity/hobby rooms. And let's not forget a safe judgement free injection site and rehab offers, sponsorships and group meetings.

Additionally there’s a lot of unseen homeless people. The people you see on the streets are generally severely mentally ill or have a substance abuse problem. Sane people who can’t afford housing will crash with friends, in a car, or at least keep off of the streets.

There is not a ton of empty housing in cities. The higher rents are the lower the vacancy rates. Additionally having vacancies are good because it means people can find an empty apartment instead of fighting over few available apartments. If vacancies were 0% you’d have to find someone willing to swap apartments at the same exact time.

Vacancies are at an all time low.

Usually, most papers have bias in their reporting and p values mean nothing. Hear me out.

The most important thing about trusting a research paper is its age and how many times the study was replicated and the same conclusion was reached. This is not the case for the majority of research papers. Most of them cannot be replicated.

If were talking about summary studies where many research papers on one topic have been collected and compared to each other thats another thing. Thats actual reputable research at that point.

I’ve been religiously reading research papers and most of them are really bullshit and some even make me angry. Theres no standard methodology and all the important values and stats are hidden behind a paywall. And its actual topics i work with suring my day job.

Like this one research paper claiming that women operated on by male surgeons have worse outcomes than when operated on by male surgeons. Which is interesting. I then tried to see if they have accounted for the gender disparity in surgeons cause over all surgcal specialties women make up only 1/3rd of surgeons. (roughly). And i did not find a mention of that in the research paper. Nor did i find a mention of the evaluations of post surgical complications. Which is something i have worked with and its super hard to evaluate a patient on post surgical quakity metrics like that. And even most submissions to the qualifyong compliance and regulatory organizations arent even counted as complications, even when submitted as an actual post surgical complications. It did not mention anything about that either. Lots of other information was paywalled.

And i see this research paper being cited as sexism happening in the surgical field. I am mot saying that it isnt the case. The paper itself doesnt suggest that that male surgeons are the problem here. It suggest that people operated on by the opposite sex suffer more post surgical complications but it does show that the number is higher for male surgeons rather than female surgeons. But doesnt take into account that there are more male surgeons than female surgeons so the outcomes moght be skewed.

I’ve read many research papers where it wouldn’t make sense to have a statistician, since the most complicated stat was the standard deviation.

And that’s not even counting all the non-science research that happens!

She literally just looks like that

And she has matching friends

And yeah all the tumbles who promote their Etsy can never get a userbase out of this shithole cause ofc no one here has a dollar to spare. And I know you're right because I don't know a single drawing artists that commissions their furry art on here for money. I don't think they exist. Artists making money while showing their art on their Tumblr blogs is a pipe dream.

I.e. they pay out everything that you give them, in either expenses or claims. The money they make comes from investing the premiums while they hold onto them.