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[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 94 points 6 months ago (11 children)

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

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Save the Wooly Mammoth before it's too late!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 28 points 6 months 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 6 months ago
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I look forward to the meme translation of your thesis

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

Amazing topic!

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 6 months ago

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

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 6 months ago
[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Congrats!!!! You did it! That's awesome!!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

I tried anyway.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 24 points 6 months ago

Whoa! Congrats!

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Remember these wise words:

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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It's an important part of the ritual and the process, it's important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they're definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! What's your research about?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 33 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That would have been easier lol.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 10 points 6 months 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 6 months 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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[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 6 months ago

Working on it.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We should all support him!

Source: am drunk

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Huge fucking congratulations! So does this mean we're going to get more memes now, or fewer?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm so lost lol. Depends where the wind blows.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

Pls release me

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

should only take three years after this

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[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Good shit, king. We're proud of you

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 6 months ago
[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago
[–] RacerX@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago
[–] howler@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

We are proud of you!!! Congrats!!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago
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