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Kryptik

@kryptik

Hive blogging extraordinaire. Wannabe dev. Gastronaut. Bengals fan. So basically, I'm slightly overweight, depressed, and have no friends.

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Kryptik
@kryptik May 8, 2024, 11:55 PM UTC

Flies: What does Gregor Mendel and Injecting Foreign Substances into the Private Parts of Flies Have in Common?

You know Gregor Mendel right? He's the priest who is ubiquitous in basic biology courses and commonly touted as the father of genetics (De Castro, 2016). Mendel was experimenting with the idea of his…

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Kryptik
@kryptik May 8, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

Who was the least likable/most cringe Steem supreme leader?

Just trying this poll thing out and reminiscing about the good old days. The former regime from which we were derived is such a strange group and I'm saying that as a weird dude. As a follow-up quest…

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Kryptik
@kryptik May 8, 2024, 2:59 AM UTC

Flies: An Introduction

I was coming up on a deadline that I never anticipated. It was one that required me to either quit my job (leaving me with no income to provide for my children and wife), or quit pursuing my degree (…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Apr 5, 2024, 2:49 PM UTC

The Internet is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

Dead internet theory can essentially be boiled down to the idea that the entirety of the internet is fake. Bot activity and false stories dominate the whole thing in a big attempt to manipulate you t…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Aug 25, 2023, 5:44 AM UTC

Is Crypto Really Going To Change The World?

ICOs are like a bad fever dream at this point. (Remember when we used to pay millions of dollars for any one that built a website and provided a half-assed white paper?) DeFi is still floating around…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Aug 17, 2023, 3:21 AM UTC

Information is Currency

I've read a few posts lately where the warm fuzzy feeling of Hive has worn off. That part of me has been dead for a while but I still love the place. At the end of the day this place is a million tim…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Aug 4, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

A Glimpse Into Every Scientific Conference Ever.

The cacophony was raucous throughout the room. Like any other scientific conference there was a huddled mass around the coffee table. Academia loves nothing more than free food. Being that this was a…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Aug 1, 2023, 3:56 AM UTC

Is It Possible To Eliminate Bias? (Probably Not)

This post is meant to be a short "stream of thought" sort of post, but we'll see where it ends up. It is the culmination of reflection on a recent post by @blocktrades discussing confirmation bias, a…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Jul 26, 2023, 6:11 PM UTC

Fuckery: Forgotten Progress Towards OpenSource Rug Pull

It has been brought to my attention by @por500bolos that I have been neglecting this community. I wanted to write you some updates on our community and what I have been up to. Your small 2% contribut…

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Kryptik
@kryptik Jul 25, 2023, 4:27 PM UTC

Seven Years on Hive: Why am I Here?

Why am I here? I have a ton of work that I could should be doing. My summer fellowship developing some blockchain technology has very little time left, and I'm way behind. I'm an idiot and deleted ap…

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