Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?
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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. >:(
How people have been fucking up nature for 10k years lmao.
Save the Wooly Mammoth before it's too late!
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.
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Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?
Amazing topic!
Too bad there won't be anyone left alive to remember your hard work. But thanks, still.
I've unironically still got hope. I think we live in a really cool time.
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Good luck I hope its well received and contains no em dashes.
Lmao there's definitely some llm placeholder captions they'll have to forgive me on.
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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.
Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk
Working on it.
We should all support him!
Source: am drunk
I'm drunk now. Yay
Now get something (job, NGO, animal shelter, sports club...) to do to ease your transition from post-thesis hole to normality
Hell yeah! What's your research about?
Machine learning?
That would have been easier lol.
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 😭😭😭😭😭
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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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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You'll soon be free!
Pls release me
My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that's not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.
Bruh, my MSc was no new data for this site which is a challenge (had to focus on methods), this nearly killed me lol.
Congrats! Best of luck on whatever the next step is.
Congratulations!
Ty boo
Congrats!
oh, bravo
Congratulations! I'm so impressed by your work and meme ethic!
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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We are proud of you!!! Congrats!!
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