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Yorick, in Does a volcanic eruption emit more carbon dioxide than human activity?

2 Sentence Summary: No, we emit about 40 to a 100 times the CO2 of a volcanic eruption (peer-reviewed study) in a year. Though they still have quite an impact with the particulates they throw off in the atmosphere, such as sulphur dioxide.

bradboimler, in Does a volcanic eruption emit more carbon dioxide than human activity?
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No

doctorn, in ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
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*The world 3 months ago:*AI is growing exponentially and might take over the world soon. It can do everything you can, but better, and some even seem almost centient.

*The world today:*Turns out the large language model made to fool us tried to fool us by ‘unexpectedly’ exhibiting behavior it was made for.

😅

SkyNTP, in ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

LLM’s are basically just really good bullshit generators (telling you what you want to hear).

Turns out that’s part of the job description of tech support agents, and some low brow art.

For all the other jobs people claimed AI could replace, bullshitting is antithetical to the job description

DessertStorms, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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This headline belongs on not the Onion lol
Sorry 😂

rhythmisaprancer, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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Said Carlsen to Niemann.

Kata1yst, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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We either need to rename Uranus to the traditional spelling of Ouranos to stop all this childish teasing, or we need to lean in harder and have the Onion get final edit on every single scientific publication on that planet.

snooggums,
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They fixed it in Futurama.l to avoid those childish jokes.

They renamed it Urectum.

admiralteal,

you - Rahn - oos

You don't even need to change the spelling, just pronounce it a way that better resembles the underlying Greek. Problem is, no English-speaker needs to think about pronunciation for the other planets because the latin is just pronounced phonetically.

It's weird that it's the one Greek-named planet. If we're changing things up, it should just be Caelus to match the others.

DrYes,
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oo rah noos

"U" is not pronounced like "you" at all. "Noos" is also pretty off.

rocker, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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Leave me alone. I've been trying to pass it for like a week.

EmptyRadar, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus

Wow, I wonder if this will impact Uranus in any way?

swope, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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Klingons?

DrYes, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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Probably just some cloaked Klingons

TH1NKTHRICE, in Sorbonne University unsubscribes from the Web of Science

My first question was, what is the alternative? Here’s the answer:

…now working to consolidate a sustainable, international alternative, in particular by using OpenAlex.

Tomassci,
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Thanks for retrieving this.

rhythmisaprancer, in Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people
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including genes linked to ... hair

Hmm well that explains why I am a hairy morning person!

Pons_Aelius, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Not surprising. The 10K steps idea was first set by a Japanese maker of pedometers as a marketing exercise with zero research to back it up.

GigglyBobble,

The pedometers are all so imprecise though that it showing 10k may well be 6k real steps.

bedrooms,

6k would be too easy to motivate buying pedometers, I guess.

LilB0kChoy, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Saved you a click: Per the article it’s closer To 6,000

lemonflavoured,
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Which is what the app on my phone is based on already. I manage it most days easily by walking from the bus station to work and back, which is ~1 mile. And that doesn't include the time I'm actually at work, because I can't wear my smart watch actually in the office.

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