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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Save the Wooly Mammoth before it's too late!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?

    Amazing topic!

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    I always thought it was suspect that everything big and tasty, and everything dangerous died out due to climate change right at the exact moment that well armed humans arrived, while all the less dangerous and less tasty animals survived the climate change

    Australia's swamp monster diprotodon (very like a hippo) died out coincidentally as modern humans arrived — thousands of years away from when climate change killed mammoths and smilodon when h. sap turned up

    I'm not surprised to see that paper

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seems like an easy subject. Just saying.

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    I don't mean to imply your job with writing your thesis on it is easy, the proof needed would be no easy task.

    But it's hard to flip through a history book and stop on any page, and not find something on the page that's harmful to nature.

    Proving that it's harmful would be the part that's hard. Finding the occurrences of harm is easy.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Congrats!!!! You did it! That's awesome!!

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Whoa! Congrats!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is a precursor to defending your thesis, right? I don't mean to discourage, I've just been away from academia for a few too many years and my memory is getting rusty on the order of operations.

    Regardless, it's a massive milestone and I commend your commitment to humanity's knowledge in the strongest possible terms.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It's an important part of the ritual and the process, it's important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they're definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Remember these wise words:

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's the thesis topic?

    The folding of Thorn Displays in Monroe? Doesn't make sense to me

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Hell yeah! What's your research about?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I mean I'm taking a class on machine learning and ... well ... on the one hand it's supposed to be a "rigorous" theoretical class, and the project at least is going to actually be that because I get to choose the topic and I'm obviously gonna make it mathematically rigorous ... but on the other hand, my professor keeps saying "ask the LLMs for more details about the derivations I'm teaching you" 😭😭😭😭😭. I guess he decided teaching students real analysis is hard and ChatGPT is easy. And the lecture notes have literally zero references so I'm completely on my own 😭😭😭😭😭

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!

    Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that's not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We should all support him!

    Source: am drunk

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Congrats! Best of luck on whatever the next step is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    should only take three years after this

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Good shit, king. We're proud of you

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    Congratulations! I'm so impressed by your work and meme ethic!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    We are proud of you!!! Congrats!!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Excellent! You can be proud of your accomplishment. Make sure to connect with loved ones and to find a time-consuming hobby in order to avoid the post-thesis depression.

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    You know what this means right?

    PhD-level memes from Dr. Smartypants!

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    Woah! Congratulations!!! 🥳 🎉

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well done, what a fantastic achievement! Don’t let the self doubt gremlins in you did awesome getting here, congrats!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The first step in a good thesis defence is a strong thesis attack.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Congratulations because this sounds big not because I understand what a PhD thesis is. Sounds smart asf tho

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    🎉🎉🎉

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Now enjoy a little bit of coasting before the next level drudgery begins!

    I miss the pre deposit days sometimes, but there was like 6 or 8 weeks after submitting where it just seemed like things were done and accounted for and that was kind of the best IMO.

    Edit:

    Oh shoot you said submitted and I was thinking deposited. Yeah you're in for the shitty part next 😂. Just remember that your committee doesn't know where the bodies are buried, only you do and it all still counts!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I come back to say congratulations once again, because what you did was amazing! Congratulations!! Tell us we we can start to call you Dr.Fossilesque :-)

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    Congrats! I dropped out halfway through. Kudos to you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh ! Congrats!!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Ayy congrats!🎉 :))

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Fuckin nerd!
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    Probably a kiss-less virgin too.
    Playing with rocks & old papers all day...

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