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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's what the interns are for; that and snacks

[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've heard some horror stories, but cannibalism is new

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ahh... The ol' Lemmaroo. Ya clever bastard

[–] fsxylo 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is... Is this ground zero?

Because hold my snacks, I'm already here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Hello future people!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I just made [email protected] :) Maybe we can restart the tradition again here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then take all the credit for their findings for yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Of COURSE! They're paid in "experience" not anything tangible!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

Everything else gets you 🥵 and 😩

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I too, get horny and tired during fieldwork.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Biologists have all the fun.

Who wouldn't get a little riled up finding a new beetle species for the third time in a week?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Do they also masturbate on the clock?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It's called a safety 🛟 stand down 🍆 💦 bruh and it's in the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

How often that constitutes of using VLookup in Excel?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

:laughs in data.table:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who uses excel for data analysis??

Everyone I know use either R, or python if they're in comp sci.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, experiments in CS are not as cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why not? :3

Sure, I have a bias but.. I think we're doing plenty of cool stuff! Maybe not a 27-kilometre long particle accelerator level cool but...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can't just collect and analyse the data either, you have to write a kickass paper, design an appealing poster and present it like it's the best thing ever and the respective talk...oh yea and then you have to write tons of kickass proposals to get the funding to do more experiments to collect more data and analyse it and... :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Analysis is the fun part!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sick fuck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

day ruined

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ouch. Ouchies.
Like a thin, delicate needle, straight through the heart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I know, people are just a lot more willing to accept explosions if you say it's an experiment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

fuck