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sarah

3,504 posts

sarah

@atheorist

solve physics - my views evolve - optimist

Joined July 2012

sarah
@atheorist
Jan 13, 2025
I have a friend who was courted super hard by a prestigious high frequency trading firm. He decided to hear them out and take the interview. When they started asking him to do brain teasers and probability questions he said and I quote “I am offended you’d waste my time with such
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sarah
@atheorist
Mar 29, 2025
Once you get far enough in physics they take you into a special room and let you know astrology is actually real
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sarah
@atheorist
Jul 2, 2024
Scientists noticed that a lizard a secretes a poison that causes its prey to starve to death and decided to repurpose it for weight loss in humans - resulting in Ozembic. I am extremely impressed by how creative that is.
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sarah
@atheorist
Jan 13, 2025
Replying to @atheorist
Needless to say he did not get an offer lol
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sarah
@atheorist
Dec 28, 2024
Anyone who posts that 1450 is actually a bad SAT score should be willing to post a screenshot of their own SAT score. Everyone on Twitter seems to have above a 1500+ 'without even trying,' and there's just no way that's actually true. It's really tiring to see so many people
zeta
@zeta_globin
Dec 28, 2024
if Republicans actually become the party of "1450 is actually a bad SAT score" (it is) I will become a card carrying one on a heartbeat but I'm fairly certain that won't happen
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sarah
@atheorist
Apr 27, 2025
Most people don't actually know the lengths parents will go to try to raise an academic superstar. In this post, I will detail the life of the average thoroughbred in STEM PhD programs at a top university. The thoroughbred lives a difficult life full of enormous amounts of
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sarah
@atheorist
Apr 28, 2024
what’s up with stem majors and rock climbing ?
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sarah
@atheorist
Nov 27, 2024
Something I hate about IQ discourse is that it's never rooted in benevolence for those with lower IQs. The conversation is always centered around finding IQ differences - with little concern for actually helping people. I realize the reason for this is because IQ realists feel
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sarah
@atheorist
Jul 2, 2024
Replying to @atheorist
> yo I found out this lizard kills its prey by making it starve to death > omg thats crazy > dude what if we could modify the poison and put it in humans to make us wanna eat less The birth of ozembic
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sarah
@atheorist
Jun 27, 2024
the accuracy of this chart is terrifying
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sarah
@atheorist
Jun 2, 2025
It's incredibly badass that Elizabeth Holmes (likely) convinced her husband to start a blood test diagnostics company that's basically Theranos 2.0. If it actually works this time, it will be an aspirational story about how one woman decided she'd do whatever it takes to give
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sarah
@atheorist
Jan 13, 2025
Replying to @McNolf
his cv is pretty stacked - and had he played along i'm pretty confident he would have done a great job on the technical portion... the behavioral portion of the interview... well, the reader can imagine how that may play out lol.
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sarah
@atheorist
Jul 3, 2024
Replying to @atheorist
The Gila monster, has a hormone in its venom is like a glucagon-1-peptide (GLP-1) that functions to regulate blood sugar levels and regulate appetite by triggering the release of insulin. This hormone is called Exendin-4 and became synthesized in the lab to become Ozempic
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sarah
@atheorist
Dec 24, 2024
candid photo of me at family Christmas
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