Cyan comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 03 December 2009 12:52:25AM 4 points [-]

Henceforth, I am Dr. Cyan.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 December 2009 03:46:42PM 2 points [-]

Congratulations! I guess people will believe everything you say now.

Comment author: Cyan 03 December 2009 04:10:20PM 1 point [-]

I certainly hope so!

Comment author: CannibalSmith 04 December 2009 02:26:04PM 0 points [-]

Wear a lab coat for extra credibility.

Comment author: Cyan 04 December 2009 03:16:35PM 3 points [-]

I was thinking I'd wear a stethoscope and announce, "Trust me! I'm a doctor! (sotto voce)... of philosophy."

Comment author: Aurini 05 December 2009 11:54:47PM 0 points [-]

Congrats! My friend recently got his Master's in History, and has been informing every telemarketer who calls that "Listen cupcake, it's not Dave - I'm not going to hang at your crib and drink forties; listen here, pal, I have my own office! Can you say that? To you I'm Masters Smith."

I certainly hope you wear your new title with a similar air of pretention, Doctor Cyan. :)

Comment author: Cyan 06 December 2009 12:12:39AM *  1 point [-]

I'll do my best!

Sincerely,
Cyan, Ph.D.

Comment author: gwern 11 December 2009 07:09:28PM 0 points [-]

Is 'Masters' actually a proper prefix (akin to the postfix Ph.D) for people with a Master's degree? I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 07 December 2009 04:57:33AM 0 points [-]

Congratulations!

Why not post an introduction to your thesis research on LW?

Comment author: Cyan 07 December 2009 02:44:31PM 1 point [-]

Because I'd need to preface it with a small deluge of information about protein chemistry, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. I think I'd irritate folks if I did that.

Comment author: SilasBarta 03 December 2009 08:32:42PM 0 points [-]

With a doctorate in ...?

Comment author: Cyan 03 December 2009 08:38:20PM 2 points [-]

Biomedical engineering. My thesis concerned the analysis of proteomics data by Bayesian methods.

Comment author: SilasBarta 03 December 2009 11:03:16PM 0 points [-]

Isn't that what they normally use to analyze proteomics data? <\naive>

Comment author: Cyan 04 December 2009 12:16:41AM 1 point [-]

Not always, or even usually. It seems to me that by and large, scientists invent ad hoc methods for their particular problems, and that applies in proteomics as well as other fields.

Comment author: gwern 03 December 2009 01:00:47AM 0 points [-]

Ah ha - So you were the last Cyan!

Comment author: Jack 03 December 2009 12:14:53PM 0 points [-]

I briefly thought this was a Battlestar Galactica pun.

Comment author: gwern 03 December 2009 01:58:15PM 0 points [-]

It was!

/me wonders what you then interpreted it as

Comment author: Jack 03 December 2009 03:26:46PM 0 points [-]

I was going back and forth between Zion and Cylon, lol.

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