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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
atthepriceofoblivion
thedoubteriswise

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

ysabelmystic
blueelectricangels

if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is

“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”

blueelectricangels

sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.

plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)

and this one

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which made me laugh despairingly because i mean

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bro you don’t even know.

jumpingjacktrash

what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”

coolmanfromthepast

“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”

jumpingjacktrash

‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it

inky-petrel

What’s biologist for “the little fucker BIT me and I yote it into the undergrowth on reflex”?

tawghasa

“Specimen was removed from the study pool due to abnormal interaction responses”

vilkalizer

I am reblogging this 98% for the second to last comment holy shit I’m fucking choking

elfwreck

I’m enjoying the tags/replies discussing the proper conjugation of “to yeet.” I am in favor of the decision that the future perfect is “will have yitten.”

woefully-undercaffeinated

Expanding this, NASA has a few gems from their report language:

“Underwent unplanned rapid disassembly” – it exploded, and it wasn’t an explosion we wanted to happen

“Lithobraking maneuver” – it stopped because it hit the goddamned ground.

“Engine-rich exhaust” – the engine bell melted or evaporated, or the engine ejected itself out the back of the rocket without having a very good reason to do so.

“Fishing orbit” – the craft is in the ocean instead of space and we didn’t mean to put it there

“Thrust was observed along an undesired vector” – the engine leaked and the rocket spun off into oblivion.

“Wearing his manager hat” – a moron who shouldn’t be an engineer (a reference to the infamous quote “take off your engineer hat and put on your manager hat” in the meeting in which the Challenger was cleared for launch)

“Received an unrequested transfer” – he’s dead.

kittydesade

LITHOBRAKING MANEUVER

ysabelmystic
cursed-and-haunted

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

cursed-and-haunted

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

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Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

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Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

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Do you see the difference?

xena-wolfgang

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way