Finn
@adunotal.bsky.social
I study biology poorly and physics even poorlier. i'm mostly here for wombat content.
Because he thinks it's my job as a prof to screen for employers the undesirables that they can't so easily rather than what my job as an educator actually is.
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Because he thinks it's my job as a prof to screen for employers the undesirables that they can't so easily rather than what my job as an educator actually is.
ik this is just eugenics but I would love it explained why my systems bio course should presumably punish depression or anxiety. I'm teaching not doing employers dirty work.
If there is disability fraud - not my job to fix & why am I punishing disabled students for their classmates low character?
If there is disability fraud - not my job to fix & why am I punishing disabled students for their classmates low character?
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
ik this is just eugenics but I would love it explained why my systems bio course should presumably punish depression or anxiety. I'm teaching not doing employers dirty work.
If there is disability fraud - not my job to fix & why am I punishing disabled students for their classmates low character?
If there is disability fraud - not my job to fix & why am I punishing disabled students for their classmates low character?
A part of me thinks bc she was competing at an Ivy league. So much of elite right-wing/centrist opinion makers have been obsessed with these elite "campus controversies" since 2015. I have to wonder if Lia was at Kentucky State if it would've blown up the same.
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A part of me thinks bc she was competing at an Ivy league. So much of elite right-wing/centrist opinion makers have been obsessed with these elite "campus controversies" since 2015. I have to wonder if Lia was at Kentucky State if it would've blown up the same.
I don't attribute this as a major cause of transphobia but I think some of the sports backlash is deliberate misinformation by media. I read it as Lia was smashing records - only to google & find that wasn't the case at all! She was performing very strongly but not atypically for that level.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I don't attribute this as a major cause of transphobia but I think some of the sports backlash is deliberate misinformation by media. I read it as Lia was smashing records - only to google & find that wasn't the case at all! She was performing very strongly but not atypically for that level.
The policy space with immediate pay-offs to voters is vanishingly small. Almost all policies that actually increase prosperity are diffuse and takes years or decades to be realized. You're basically left with infrastructure spending & stimulus checks, which didn't work for Biden.
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The policy space with immediate pay-offs to voters is vanishingly small. Almost all policies that actually increase prosperity are diffuse and takes years or decades to be realized. You're basically left with infrastructure spending & stimulus checks, which didn't work for Biden.
"get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy" ... i'm going to be honest, somebody who talks like this, I'm willing to bet their predatory behavior was an open-secret and was protected by power-brokers in academia, politics, and journalism.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy" ... i'm going to be honest, somebody who talks like this, I'm willing to bet their predatory behavior was an open-secret and was protected by power-brokers in academia, politics, and journalism.
This pose by abolitionists is strange bc the more careful abolitionist (I like McLeod's 2015 UCLA law article) just admit OK once we do social justice maybe there are "a dangerous few" & we'll figure that bc this is realistically a gradual program which seems very reasonable & easy to say lol
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This pose by abolitionists is strange bc the more careful abolitionist (I like McLeod's 2015 UCLA law article) just admit OK once we do social justice maybe there are "a dangerous few" & we'll figure that bc this is realistically a gradual program which seems very reasonable & easy to say lol
Originally it seemed coherentish e.g. many Natives make a meager living as artisans selling indigenous handicrafts, then some white girls go and mass produce cheap imitations and displace them. This feels ethically questionable to me but white guys opening a bad Vietnamese restaurant is not that.
October 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Originally it seemed coherentish e.g. many Natives make a meager living as artisans selling indigenous handicrafts, then some white girls go and mass produce cheap imitations and displace them. This feels ethically questionable to me but white guys opening a bad Vietnamese restaurant is not that.
We have yet to invent language capable of describing the horrors of the Bari Weiss polycule - "sex" is insufficient.
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
We have yet to invent language capable of describing the horrors of the Bari Weiss polycule - "sex" is insufficient.
I don't think our Treasury Secretary is a Peter Thiel-grade wack job (could be wrong!), my guess is he's just a guy who wants low taxes and zero regulation for rich guys, but kinda fascinating how influential gay men have become at the core of the right.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I don't think our Treasury Secretary is a Peter Thiel-grade wack job (could be wrong!), my guess is he's just a guy who wants low taxes and zero regulation for rich guys, but kinda fascinating how influential gay men have become at the core of the right.
I don’t think they know who he is. She just read the Gordon Wood quote at the top and thought their anti-intellectual readership would find the book appalling.
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I don’t think they know who he is. She just read the Gordon Wood quote at the top and thought their anti-intellectual readership would find the book appalling.
ML is important in pharm/bio now, but LLMs aren't. You can say things like EvoFormer looks like LLMs if you squint & just say LLMs are transformers but they aren't & LLMs trained on SMILES haven't been useful - GNNs & classical models best them. LLM boosters claiming pharm impact is stolen valor imo
September 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
ML is important in pharm/bio now, but LLMs aren't. You can say things like EvoFormer looks like LLMs if you squint & just say LLMs are transformers but they aren't & LLMs trained on SMILES haven't been useful - GNNs & classical models best them. LLM boosters claiming pharm impact is stolen valor imo
The fact they went after the only pain med a pregnant woman can safely take - I'm convinced they're be coming for epidural blocks next. They love atavistic cruelty towards woman.
September 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The fact they went after the only pain med a pregnant woman can safely take - I'm convinced they're be coming for epidural blocks next. They love atavistic cruelty towards woman.
It's less bonkers and more a reductive analogy of language as biology - just Quasispecies + Replicators = Language. There is a certain area of academia that loves to "math" simple ideas to look impressive and people that actually study language seem to think is mostly worthless.
September 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It's less bonkers and more a reductive analogy of language as biology - just Quasispecies + Replicators = Language. There is a certain area of academia that loves to "math" simple ideas to look impressive and people that actually study language seem to think is mostly worthless.
All I'm remembering is Martin Nowak got smacked with a sanction from Harvard for his Epstein association and there is a section in his pretty mediocre book on evolutionary game theory about language evolution that now I want to find in my pile
September 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
All I'm remembering is Martin Nowak got smacked with a sanction from Harvard for his Epstein association and there is a section in his pretty mediocre book on evolutionary game theory about language evolution that now I want to find in my pile
Most of the dog stuff is just owner-observed (e.g. improved mobility from a placebo) but lab rats & monkeys display wild placebo effects.
Wildest one to me is the Adler Cohen classic DOI: 10.1097/00006842-197507000-00007
Wildest one to me is the Adler Cohen classic DOI: 10.1097/00006842-197507000-00007
September 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Most of the dog stuff is just owner-observed (e.g. improved mobility from a placebo) but lab rats & monkeys display wild placebo effects.
Wildest one to me is the Adler Cohen classic DOI: 10.1097/00006842-197507000-00007
Wildest one to me is the Adler Cohen classic DOI: 10.1097/00006842-197507000-00007
An equally big problem is when I try to be normal with my conservative family/ old friends - at least the ones who can hold the f-slur back when talking to me - they refuse to engage in apolitical conversation. I try sports and suddenly it's about trans rights - what am I supposed to do?
September 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
An equally big problem is when I try to be normal with my conservative family/ old friends - at least the ones who can hold the f-slur back when talking to me - they refuse to engage in apolitical conversation. I try sports and suddenly it's about trans rights - what am I supposed to do?
I solved it but my start up that was building closed timelike curves for computation failed to get it's series B funding so we're closing up and pivoting to building a delivery app
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I solved it but my start up that was building closed timelike curves for computation failed to get it's series B funding so we're closing up and pivoting to building a delivery app
I give it Project Euler problems I did when I was teenager - coding problems that require non-standard mathematical tricks to solve (these don't have endless similar solutions online), an area it should be "good" at - still has yet to crack a single one not in the lowest of difficult categories!
August 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I give it Project Euler problems I did when I was teenager - coding problems that require non-standard mathematical tricks to solve (these don't have endless similar solutions online), an area it should be "good" at - still has yet to crack a single one not in the lowest of difficult categories!
10 years ago 5 students in Ohio gave some milquetoast critiques about the dining hall, the New York Post lied about, and now it's illegal to fund science
May 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
10 years ago 5 students in Ohio gave some milquetoast critiques about the dining hall, the New York Post lied about, and now it's illegal to fund science
I read it and surprised an academic would write it. I think he's right there exist BS jobs - meaning economically useless jobs that satisfy a social function - but it's clearly not the basis for a grand theory of the economy so he's forced to to pad with crap writing and methodology
May 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I read it and surprised an academic would write it. I think he's right there exist BS jobs - meaning economically useless jobs that satisfy a social function - but it's clearly not the basis for a grand theory of the economy so he's forced to to pad with crap writing and methodology