User talk:Armondikov

From RationalWiki
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(Dragged over from...)
(Dragged over from...)
Line 107: Line 107:
 
::::Excellent. Then go for it! {{:User:Armondikov/sig}} 16:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 
::::Excellent. Then go for it! {{:User:Armondikov/sig}} 16:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::He is! [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] ([[User talk:Ajkgordon|talk]]) 17:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::He is! [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] ([[User talk:Ajkgordon|talk]]) 17:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 +
:::::::D {{:User:Armondikov/sig}} 17:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
  
 
== Snow ==
 
== Snow ==

Revision as of 17:11, 2 December 2010

Talk:ArmondikoV

Contents

This user doesn't receive enough
messages to be automatically archived by
Pibot and does it old-school...
Find them here.

Real life intrusion alert

Bunny.gif

You have been smitten by a bunny in accordance with the community standards for... no real reason. Feel free to revert this odd edit.

Pat on the back

Nice work on LessWrong! Also, you may be interested in my comments on your essay, just fyi. Tetronian you're clueless 15:34, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I have been reading them. It's interesting stuff. I will think about commenting once I have taken it in and thought of something to say. Scarlet A.pngbomination 15:38, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Hanlon's Razor

Thank'ee kindly. EddyP (talk) 16:29, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Although as Hanlon's Razor is just a special case of Occam's Razor, you were still right. Scarlet A.pngbomination 16:31, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Oh my god

What the fuck? Did that just change before my eyes or have a I drunk too much? Did DG not change "its" to "it's"? Holy shit! I'm questioning my judgement now. CrundyTalk nerdy to me 22:04, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Skitt’s Law, definitely. Get some sleep! Scarlet A.pngbomination 22:05, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Holy shitfuckdamn!! I swear that this was the other way round!! What the hell is wrong with me?? CrundyTalk nerdy to me 22:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I think your eyes are just playing tricks and you're reading what you want to read. Scarlet A.pngbomination 22:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I think it's a liberal conspiracy against me. You changed the dartabarse in the background after my edit. I'm fucking onto you!! CrundyTalk nerdy to me 22:19, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, server access has to be useful for something. Scarlet A.pngbomination 22:25, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Wigo World Post (fighting back at the clinic)

Damn, you beat me to it... That's what I get for posting on Facebook before I post on RW I suppose.  :) SirChuckBGentoo Penguins is the best kind of Penguin 07:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Ha! Sorry for that. I was wondering if you were just ignoring it. Hopefully by the time we get to RW 5.6, we should have an extension that automatically ports links between WIGO and social networking things. Scarlet A.pngbomination 07:58, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Well we have EvoWiki now, sort of, its at evolutionwiki.org. The fate of the EvoWiki domain I am still not sure of as Nick Matzke owns it and he hasn't gotten back to me. Anyway, you had mentioned if we take it over as a project you wanted to redo the logo and bring it closer to the RW logo. You still interested in that? Tmtoulouse (talk) 16:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. Do you have original PSD (or whatever) files for the RW logo? I could also work on facelifting to have RW style navigation templates if you think that's worth it. On the one hand I don't want to tread on toes or spoil peoples existing work, but on the other hand if we "have" evowiki, we should damn well have it. You know what I mean? Scarlet A.pngbomination 16:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
I will see what I have of the brain, honestly I think nx has most of the "originals." There are some glaring issues at EvoWiki at the moment, such as that I never got a copy of what extensions they were running or their image directory. Which means just getting the place back to baseline is going to take some time. Until that is done I don't know if it is worth investing much more in templates other than to direct people here who want to work on articles.
But eventually, yeah, I think unifying the themes of our site with evowiki is ideal. Tmtoulouse (talk) 17:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
(ec) I sent you (Armondikov) the blender file for the RW logo, and I can give you the xcf too if you want, but it's just a rescaled version of File:New logo large.png plus the text. -- Nx / talk 17:06, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
I was meaning as more of a longer term project, we would need to get it operational first. I certainly don't have the time or inclination to do it all now. But I do have plans for the logo and could do it reasonably soon. Despite it being quite superficial, I think it's a very important step in the right direction. Scarlet A.pngbomination 18:34, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Evowiki logo.png
Here's my rough idea for the logo, nothing special, just File:Ammonoid02.jpg overlaid on top of the brackets and a slight modification of the text used on the RW logo. I've uploaded the xcf too. -- Nx / talk 10:27, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Stop f**king reading my mind!! Anyway, my idea was essentially identical, but redo the fossil in CG with a similar surface to the brain. I'd say to put that one up there for now as it seems perfectly fine to me. Scarlet A.pngbomination 11:20, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Projection mapping

Have you seen this one? Redchuck.gif ГенгисOur ignorance is God; what we know is science. 10:47, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Not before. Fucking A. Scarlet A.pngbomination 10:56, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
This is still the one I want to emulate when I do The Magic Flute next year. Scarlet A.pngbomination 11:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Let's wreck the place

please let other people have fun too. TyrannisAn iron, yet caring fist 18:57, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Hehehehe... I have been wanting to do that for years. Scarlet A.pngbomination 19:10, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Well you missed Nx, and MC. Who is a crat now. That was the flaw in your evil plan. TyrannisAn iron, yet caring fist 19:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Actually, I used my super root powerz to recrat myself. -- Nx / talk 19:13, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
MoFo.Scarlet A.pngbomination 19:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Gender

We are really, really confused, and reading your talkpage archive hasn't helped either. Sorry to bother you. TyrannisAn iron, yet caring fist 02:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, dear, I'll leave you confused. xxx Scarlet A.pngbomination 09:18, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Though for the record I do believe gender ambiguous pronouns to be quite, quite pretentious. Scarlet A.pngbomination 11:03, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
oh hush. TyrannisAn iron, yet caring fist 14:50, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Dragged over from...

...here. Thanks for your response. Your opinion is very different to the impression he has and indeed the advice he has been getting. I should add here that he is a product of a European education - French biology degree, 1 year marine biology masters at Marseilles, 2nd and current year in Faro, Portugal on the Erasmus scheme. Will complete next year probably in Spain.

The advice he got from day 1 was always that a degree would get him little more than a lab rat job with few prospects and that while a masters is better, the best career paths would only be available to him if he got his doctorate. Perhaps this is part of our continental cousins' deep attachment to qualifications. Although he was told roughly the same thing at an interview at Plymouth Uni and has American colleagues he works with with similar opinions.

I hope he's right. And I'm not going to tell him somebody on the internet thinks he isn't! :) Ajkgordon (talk) 23:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I do think it opens up more than a few opportunities, so they're right there; it's certainly the minimum for any academic job or university teaching position. The "lab rat" thing might be a bit of an exaggeration, but if you're working in an industry you can progress a fair amount with just a degree and some hard work (there's no easy way, unfortunately). A postgraduate qualification is a very big dick to swing around when facing of against a lot of people being churned through university.
However, it's extremely difficult work. Often working on your own for long periods of time with stuff that plainly doesn't work, with odd hours, lots of stress, a high drop out rate and a good chance of developing some sort of disorder. You have to be like Heston Blumenthal, who said about his restaurant that he's often came home late, shattered, annoyed, dissatisfied and angry at it but has never woken up thinking "I don't want to go into work today". If you don't connect with the research and really want to do it for its own sake, rather than for an end like "I can get a better job this way", you may well end up miserable for 3-4 years. I just value happiness over job prospects. Scarlet A.pngbomination 10:25, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I should add another point; it does depend on the discipline. Chemistry is very engineering and industry orientated. A degree and a year placement scheme is good enough to get you on the ladder and moving. I imagine that if I hadn't buggered up my interviews (meh, I suck) and gone away to a company for a year instead of doing a Masters project I wouldn't be doing a PhD now. I'd be off in some huge lab selling my soul to AstraZenica or something. It's different for different areas depending on what careers are available (I'm going to be a college professor!). Scarlet A.pngbomination 11:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Well, the primary reason he's doing it is because he loves it. Passionate about it actually. I hope his passion and his job prospects remain high! Ajkgordon (talk) 15:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Excellent. Then go for it! Scarlet A.pngbomination 16:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
He is! Ajkgordon (talk) 17:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
D Scarlet A.pngbomination 17:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Snow

If all snowflakes are different, why does snow look all the same? Pointed moment (talk) 10:47, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Because the ice crystals that form snow flakes are considerably smaller than "snow". So while the former has measurable order that can be seen as unique to our human pattern recognition skills, the latter are more disordered and homogenised. Scarlet A.pngbomination 17:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Views
Actions
Navigation
Community
Tools
support