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They have also removed a bottle of booze off my deliveroo order, so you all can have an extra for me. >:(

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[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 89 points 3 days ago (11 children)

How people have been fucking up nature for 10k years lmao.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Save the Wooly Mammoth before it's too late!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the columbian mammoth is the last of the mammoths to die out about 13kyears ago, very recent, by insular dwarfism in channel islands of CALIFORNIA. fun fact mammoths are more related asian elephants than african bush elephants/forest. ELEPHAS vs loxodon.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 3 days ago
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I look forward to the meme translation of your thesis

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

Amazing! "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" has reach another level.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?

Amazing topic!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Too bad there won't be anyone left alive to remember your hard work. But thanks, still.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

I've unironically still got hope. I think we live in a really cool time.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 3 days ago
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Good luck I hope its well received and contains no em dashes.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lmao there's definitely some llm placeholder captions they'll have to forgive me on.

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[–] negativenull@piefed.world 21 points 3 days ago
[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 16 points 3 days ago

This is a precursor to defending your thesis, right? I don't mean to discourage, I've just been away from academia for a few too many years and my memory is getting rusty on the order of operations.

Regardless, it's a massive milestone and I commend your commitment to humanity's knowledge in the strongest possible terms.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

Working on it.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We should all support him!

Source: am drunk

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Now get something (job, NGO, animal shelter, sports club...) to do to ease your transition from post-thesis hole to normality

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! What's your research about?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That would have been easier lol.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean I'm taking a class on machine learning and ... well ... on the one hand it's supposed to be a "rigorous" theoretical class, and the project at least is going to actually be that because I get to choose the topic and I'm obviously gonna make it mathematically rigorous ... but on the other hand, my professor keeps saying "ask the LLMs for more details about the derivations I'm teaching you" 😭😭😭😭😭. I guess he decided teaching students real analysis is hard and ChatGPT is easy. And the lecture notes have literally zero references so I'm completely on my own 😭😭😭😭😭

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My environmental proxies have been a conundrum for machine learning (I'm pretty sure why, writing a grant on that), so I can sympathise. I have some tools for you, if you'd like for me to share. Dm me and I'll send you a bunch of stuff when I'm less inebriated.

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[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 6 points 3 days ago

I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!

Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Pls release me

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Congrats! Best of luck on whatever the next step is.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that's not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bruh, my MSc was no new data for this site which is a challenge (had to focus on methods), this nearly killed me lol.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

should only take three years after this

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[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good shit, king. We're proud of you

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[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago
[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Congratulations! I'm so impressed by your work and meme ethic!

[–] howler@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

We are proud of you!!! Congrats!!

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excellent! You can be proud of your accomplishment. Make sure to connect with loved ones and to find a time-consuming hobby in order to avoid the post-thesis depression.

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