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weakfortress

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About weakfortress

If you're going to ban me for something at least have the decency to really ban me. Shadow banning has been a frustrating experience that has resulted in me wasting literal hours of posting meaningfully to help my karma only to be either told I am posting too fast or I post but I am immediately marked dead. At least 20 posts will never be seen by anyone due to this system.

I find no use for this account anymore. It is no longer fun to participate in any discussion because I am never sure if I'll be a contributor or left marked dead.

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    It's interesting to see these unconventional solutions. Genetic algorithms evolving antenna design produce similar illogical but very efficient designs. Humans have a draw to aesth…

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    I've tried. In fact, I spent a good portion of my life trying to become more extroverted and "likeable". While I found I could very accurately mimic the people who had this trait o…

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    These comments are always so hilarious. It demonstrates a significant lack of understand of how statistics actually works. You see this on reddit all the time, you'd think it'd be …

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    Dongles don't prevent piracy. Famously, I remember paradox cracking several dongle-secured audio tools that were claimed to be "uncrackable". You may not even need to clone a dongl…

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    Used to run into these problems all the time when I was doing work in numerical analysis. The PATRIOT missile error (it wasn't a disaster ) was more due to the handling of timestam…

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    I think part of the problem comes to the sheer amount of jargon in even the simplest research paper. During my time in graduate school (CS) I would often do work that used papers i…

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    I'd like to add one more thing to this you probably experienced as well. My family has several people in medicine. All of them have done a stint in a hospital before quitting for g…

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