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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I don’t believe in things that are considered “supernatural”. However, I don’t think that someone believing in something supernatural disqualifies them from doing good science, the same as someone who has a purely materialist belief system isn’t necessarily qualified to do good science. The clincher for me is that they can do their best to operate science without biasing it.

    For example, It’s perfectly possible for someone who believes in string theory to study it as long as they are using the true scientific method, the same as it’s possible for someone who does not believe in string theory to study it with proper scientific method. If you project that same example towards something more controversial, like telepathy, it’s still a valid understanding of how scientific study should work.



  • Nah it ain’t you, the model thinks that bison are buffalo because most people call Bison a Buffalo, it’s a longstanding misnomer.

    Even true in higher education. I’m in Colorado and there’s a university (CU) who has a Bison mascot, but they call themselves the “Buffs”, short for buffalo. The other schools make fun of them endlessly for it.









  • The females are so tricky and look just like sparrows, it really throws me off too. I can’t think of another instance where a common bird has such huge sexual dimorphism.

    It’s an interesting problem in bird names. Many species have eponymous names, where they’re named after somebody who put them into a book. With those you’re stuck with situations like “what does a Wilson’s Warbler look like?”, where it would be so much easier if they were called a “black-capped yellow warbler. But then you have the same problem as the Red-winged blackbird where the name really throws you off for the female, and it might be better if they were called something like “marsh blackbird”.