🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@andrewt Oh, what happened?

@48kRAM We have an IT department which is basically data science and ML, though its more statistical based AI than say, neural nets. We also have a chemistry lab, and a clinical side. I am the EVP/CIO so basically in charge of all three departments and some management level stuff. Most importantly I am the one who gets final say on hiring and firing.

We build technicology capable of detecting diseases off breath (though this may include things beyond breath in the near future)... Until now our focus has been on building a product that could identify covid accurately off a breath sample in near-realtime (a minute or two max).

@dcc

Seems they do, yes. Thanks for helping them

@post

@post Best of luck to you finding that new instance.

@mraharrison yup im in the other camp, and commented as expecting

@mraharrison This makes no sense... computer isnt a branch of anything, its just computing.. it uses MANY other fields, but that doesnt make it a branch of that field.

Now if you want to be specific we have: 1) Computer Science 2) Computer Engineering and 3) discrete methematics... each of these are branches of one of the respective fields you mentioned, but oriented towards computing.

@post When your arguments are completely non-sensical, very clearly bioased, andyou are clearly trying to sell a non-science based agenda... no none of thaqt is simply an argument where you fail to convince me.

I have let you stay on this server for a LONG time skirting that line and have never once even threatened a suspend specifically because I do agree, in general, that debate on topics no matter how heated is welcome.

But when it crosses to the point of flat-earth sort of mentality, yea.

When I review your posts I see nothing to suggest you have expertise in the topics you post, or are trying to learn. almost all your posts on any topic are non-sensicval, contradicts elementary things that are well established without justifying it remotely. Even attempts to engage with you to reach a better level of understanding is riddles with fundementally anti-science rhetoric as we just went throguh "HEre is a cochrain review, i picked it because its one of the best most respected publications and agrees with me... oh except the whole conclusion which completely disagrees with me" nonsense... this isnt opinion or arguing, its just clear, blatenet and even intentional bias... even once the publication you citesd as the most respectable one possible explicitly made a comment telling you you were wrong then you blamed them of not being credible.... this sort of discourse is notof a STEM nature or academic at all... its just a flat-earth debate "everything that disagrees with me is a conspiracy!"

Yea this isnt the instance for that, please find another one.

@post

We make it clear right in our about page we are **exclusive** to stem professionals. There is a reason we claim Academic Freedom here and not simply freedom of speech.

@trinsec @khird @vixxo @ech @feld

@post

This right here, anti-vax sentiment that seems to be suggestive of all vaccines, is the line.. This is so blantantly "flat earth" level anti-science that I think it disqualifies you from a presence on a STEM instance. As you've seen we have a **huge** tolerance for discussing topics and criticism even in rather heated topics (like COVID) that would have gotten you suspended much sooner from any other instance. But full on anti9-vax thinking no vaccines work, dont end pandemics, herd immunity is some construct that doesnt exist... no virus has ever been isolated, etc etc.... sorry but this has now crossed the line for us.

I will discuss with the other moderators for a sanity check ( @trinsec @khird
) but I'd suggest you migrate to another server which I think you should have the right to do (and you cant once suspended)... that sort of extreme anti-scientific sentiment has no place on a STEM server.

@vixxo @ech @feld

@post

While it is rare that it will completely eradicate a disease, this is compelte nonsense. smallpox was eradicated through vaccines. We also have plenty of epidemics that have been ended and the disease only exists in small numbers now in vaccinated regions, polio is a good example of that.

You just go farther and farther into crazy town with your comments dude... how long before you start claiming no virus has ever been isolated and the earth is flat too?

@vixxo @ech @feld

Linkedin? Isnt that that social media platform exclusive to spammers? No thanks.

@post @vixxo @ech @feld

Except the vaccines do work, what you mean to say (if your being accurate, which you probably arent) is they dont work as well as the vaccines we are used to, they behave more like flu vaccines do, reducing risk significantly and having that protection fade with time, and without being able to establish a strong herd immunity as easily as with other vaccines (and perhaps not at all).

@stux lolol "CEOs who actually dont do much"... This is so out of touch with reality.

Dont get me wrong the argument that people who do dirty work are underpaid is fine, and i have a lot of respect for those workers. But if you think a CEO, the person who created the company and rests on their decision making shoulders to keep it alive, doesnt do much then you are very VERY disconnected with the reality here.

I dont think I ever met a CEO who didnt work more hours than anyone else in the company, take more risk (financial and other kinds), or have to deal with more stress, than a CEO of a succeeding company...

All that, even if you do everything perfect as a CEO, its still a gamble if your company succeeds, and since your usually also the owner that means its likel climbing mount everest just to put all your money into a slot machine.

@48kRAM We will be hiring a system admin in about a month or two.. if you hit me up then if you are still looking I can interview ya.

@johnabs

My god that looks like an awful language... dont get me wrong maybe its actually fine.. but seriously lisp syntax, the uggliest and hardest to read syntax of the common choices outt here, to replace latex... i thought hte intent was to be as easy to use as markdown but as powerful as latex...

No for me one look at the example code for this tool sent me running.. I love functional languages like haskell but lisp-like formats are just offensive to my delicate eyes :)

@lupyuen

@johnabs

Org mode is great but its not intended as a generic document creation tool with all the formatting power of latex.

@lupyuen