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caeli

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I'm a first-year PhD student. The things I love most are reading, coding, analyzing data, writing, and everything else that goes into doing science :).

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caeli  ·  2967 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Monthy Morale Menagerie 2016 - January Check-In

Thanks for the pep talk, I slept on it and feel much better this morning :). Failure is inevitable, and even good sometimes! I've learned a lot from my failed experiments over the last couple of months and am ready to tackle the problems with them.

caeli  ·  2968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Monthy Morale Menagerie 2016 - January Check-In

My main goal was to get back down to my early high school weight which entails losing 9 pounds. I've been surprised at just how easy it is!!!! I've already lost ~3.5.

I have some more nebulous goals that I haven't put on the sheet and I'm really struggling with those. In particular, I'd like my research/experiments to affect my self-worth less. My experiments haven't been going well, and it's easy to feel like it's because I'm stupid or incompetent or whatever, even though I know that's not the case. I'm just not sure how to tackle this problem...

caeli  ·  2968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

Haha I know right?? I always notice your username :)

caeli  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Monthy Morale Menagerie 2016 - Spreadsheet Role Call

This is awesome! I want in :)

caeli  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's the end of the year, back up your data.

I have Dropbox, Box, and multiple 1TB external hard drives. I'm totally not paranoid!

caeli  ·  3024 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December 7th: What are you reading this week?

I'm listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami on audiobook. I never listen to audiobooks, but the narrator for this one is really great and I love me some Murakami! The one annoying thing is that it's taking forever for me to get through since I read so much faster than speaking rate.

I'm also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I love the story and the execution for the most part, but his writing is just slightly too pretentious for me.

caeli  ·  3025 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

I'll still always pronounce your username as "klein-blow" in my head...

caeli  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

It's the genitive of "caelum", meaning sky in Latin. So it translates to something like "of the sky" :)

caeli  ·  3028 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December 1st: What are you reading this week?

Listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. Loving it so far!

Also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

caeli  ·  3028 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why people think total nonsense is really deep.

Not to mention the utter shittiness of the analysis. You can't interpret the numerical score on a Likert scale literally -- a score of 3 doesn't mean "profound" unless you have more context. This is why researchers using scale judgments convert them to z-scores so you can say whether they were rated more or less profound than the overall average rating. This all required you to have both unambiguously un-profound and profound statements as well as those in the middle. And as you said, there's no objective way to quantify the profundity!

This is why social psychology studies never replicate, they're all ridiculous crap like this.....

caeli  ·  3029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 2, 2015

    There's no snow in New York, which irks me.

Me too! It's my first winter not living in southern California and I want snow, dammit!!

Congrats on all the hiking and running stuff, very impressive :D

caeli  ·  3029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 2, 2015

I actually just did this a couple months ago! I usually would have one cup of coffee a day, in the morning. When I quit I just powered through the withdrawal headaches -- they were only bad for the first week or so. I actually haven't noticed much of a significant drop in energy since then! I drink herbal tea in the morning now, maybe I'm just getting a placebo effect from any hot drink...

caeli  ·  3031 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December Photo Challenge: Day 1 - TREES

Funny because today I just so happened to take a picture of the now dead trees on the river!

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caeli  ·  3038 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: November 23rd: What are you reading this week?

Borges' short stories! I love magic realism.

caeli  ·  3043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 18, 2015

Going to Montreal for the weekend with some friends tomorrow! I'm so excited, I need a little break :D