“What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow
11 meters per second on average based on sampling of all species and subspecies.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
BS biology and chemistry with a minor in math
MS biomedical science
PhD neuroscience
God damn that’s impressive. (The degrees not reading lots of random shit on the internet lol)
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you? I’m just starting into grad courses and a PhD does sound enticing (even though as an engineer I’d likely get paid less as with a PhD than an MS lol)
Dual major/minor BS - 4 years, but I did 4 extra semesters during summer/winter breaks.
MS - 3 years
PhD - 4 years
If I could do it over, I would have skipped the PhD. I finished my PhD in 2008, when the economy went to shit. I was making $10 an hour 2008-2011 during my postdoctoral fellowship. After my fellowship was over, I couldn’t find an industry job, so I ended up using my publications to get into contract writing for insurance companies, and now I do all of the benefits for our states Assembly.
The best part is having companies like Regeneron, or Fisher Scientific cold call me to offer me jobs that only need a BS, and that pay less than what I make now after having my resume for over a decade. (I make $30 an hour now, get 5 weeks of vacation a year, on top of sick time, and insurance with 0 deductible costs me less than $100 a month.) I told Curia that $50 an hour was my absolute floor, and HR person was like, “That’s a bit out of our reach.” My reply was, “That’s why you’re still hiring.”
What’s your favorite food?
If you could live in any country, which would you choose and why?
What’s your favorite movie?
Given that addition is commutative and multiplication is commutative but exponentiation and tetration and the other hyper operators are not, and assuming that there exist partial operations between each such that the repetition rule holds, are the partial-operations between addition and multiplication also commutative?
If not, provide a proof of a partial operation between addition and multiplication for which commutativity does not hold.
What’s your favourite dinosaur 🦖 🦕?
Edit: since the other person I didn’t notice ask this got some downvotes…
Why mark the post as nsfw? This isn’t a nsfw instance, or community. It isn’t a Scottish comm either 🤔 why?
Edit²: I guess I should read betterer, “ask me anything dirty or clean”
You said anything, dirty or clean:
How did you earn your nickname, and how does it impact your day to day?
What word was your biggest shock learning Scottish accents?
are you real or generated by an llm?
I’m real
What’s your favourite dinosaur?
Stegosaurus
Who took the picture?
My mother x
What does she think about this post?
She doesn’t know
Biggest difference you noticed after moving?
If it was solely up to you, would you bring back the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Why cocacola
I just think it tastes better than pepsi
It does, Pepsi is trash.
why even argue when mountain dew is so much better than cola?
Gross. Do you kiss your mother with the mouth that drank the dew?
shes dead and thanks for the reminder! (this is slash s. I kinda was just going to leave it but kinda felt bad because its a dark sarcasm). seriously though I come from a culture that is more drink and talk than touch.
HUG. I love you even though you drink MTN DEW. Sorry about your mom; you can have mine, but she’s a cunt.
Mine was not great but to be fair she was not all bad and she has been dead for some time. Oh devil though I do not want to go the way either my mom or dad did. ugh. she had a stroke that blasted half her brain and he had alzhiemers and survived a long time (with alzhiemers survinging long is bad. trust me.)
Whats your favorite dinosaur
Is your left hand that huge, too?
Think it’s just camera effect
