Mezzie

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by Mezzie 3y ago
More than 2. For an example, crows can effectively use tools and communicate abstract concepts to one another from a memory. Which means they can observe a situation, draw conclusions, and use those conclusions to act as well as make decisi
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> The kind of people who would look for someone to write their essays is also very likely to opt for the lowest friction method, and chatGPT is obviously that. This is and isn't true. I made a living doing high-skill essay writing f
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yeah, reading this advice as somebody in that percentile according to all The Tests and who started at around the same time Altman did (bit younger) but who was way, way further down the socio-economic ladder is interesting. I did put some
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's great for writers with writer's block or those of us who are better editors than writers . I can use Chat-GPT to produce something bad, but the way it's bad gives me a great place to start.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
This is a brilliant comparison.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
This is why I wish I could afford ICL surgery. I'm a -20 with some astigmatism and RGPs are my only option for 20/20 vision. Glasses (even high index lenses) are heavy and only get me to about 20/50 or 20/60. If I develo
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm not sure how to untangle the increasing polarization from the decaying of our social fabric and the inclusion of examples was primarily so people didn't take the points and warp them to only fit their ideology and turn them in
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by Mezzie 4y ago
For teachers to be able to correct, there needs to be some level of social trust - parents need to trust that when a teacher corrects their child, they're doing it out of a desire to act in the child's best long-term interest: In
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Not everybody who's coding is doing it in a tech company on a complex multiple-person team project. I'm a software mechanic: I do really small scale tweaks for small businesses (I mean SMALL - my current project is for a business
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Also nobody has thought about what the implementation will mean. I was 12 when COPPA went into effect and all the companies just deleted all my accounts: Email account, hosting, chat accounts, etc. It was easier than dealing with the logist
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Precision and accuracy are slightly different mathematical concepts, as demonstrated by this image [0]: [0]: https://wp.stolaf.edu/it/files/2017/06/precsionvsaccuracy_cr...
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by Mezzie 4y ago
100% it is. I'm a 34 year old woman and have to be pretty aggressive about not wanting the mommy and wifey shit. I want cats, watching things explode, and the Zoomers' digital Dadaism.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm saying the value judgement is baked into the question/phrasing. Even if you're using a technical definition of 'non-trivial', the establishment of that phrase in a particular discipline also involved a value jud
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I somehow ended up as an American eligible for health insurance in the Medicare for All model (I'm covered and just pay a % of my income, but I can have whatever income I want), and it's shocking what this has done for my abilit
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm 10 months into 'walked out of 'good' professional WFH job to go work retail and vibe' and I'm just at the point where I want to do things again. My periodic attempts to force it never worked.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's not well defined to YOU. I was considering: "Recommend a dress style, color, and fabric composition for a female that is five foot 10 with a long torso and a pear shape. She has red hair and grey eyes and pale undertones. The
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Two examples: - Creating cover letters if given decent parameters - Asking for customized fashion, makeup, or self-presentation advice It's not great at answering questions that are rooted in fact unless you are very specific and willi
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by Mezzie 4y ago
My household has stopped shopping at Amazon since January 2021 and I'm surprised by how painless it's been. (One of our NYR each year is we pick a corporation/company we're too reliant on and cut it out.)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
You'll pry my EnerGels out of my cold, dead left hand.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Also RIP the Conlang community on Twitter...
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Mid sized cities in the region are very habitable, diverse, and reasonably priced. Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Lansing, Green Bay, Springfield, etc. The big cities are harder but still better than the coasts, $$ wise. I think Milwau
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Are there any liberal areas where it's actually nice to live if you are poor or of moderate income? Lots of the Great Lakes Region. I live in a liberal area where the average house price is ~150-200k and I rent a 2 bedroom, ~1000
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Because ChatGPT is pulling from the collective human digital linguistic consciousness and humans don't truthfully mention having centuries of experience. Whereas humans do talk about having decades of experience. Similar to how you
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's crazy-making, isn't it? I realize in hindsight how much of my resistance to help was resistance to 'help': I've grown up surrounded by adults/authority figures offering 'help' with no considerati
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> I think my case was just so severe that nobody saw me struggle with it. Same with me but PTSD. Like the fact that I'm remarkably functional in crisis mode doesn't mean that it's not a problem I live there all the time. A
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Also a cheap option that doesn't involve sharing walls. I looked into living in them because I have PTSD and hypervigilance + the lack of insulation in the buildings/apartments affordable to the poor = a living hell. And without a
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by Mezzie 4y ago
One of my life-changing ideas was "work with yourself instead of against it when possible." I also require multiple 'writes', so anything important is written or displayed somewhere that I see it multiple times a day.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
To train your brain to handle being able to do things that aren't fulfilling. It's basically the neurological version of working out and keeps your willpower at a point where if you need to exercise it, you can. As an extreme, ima
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Women and left-handers tend to have less brain lateralization than do men and right-handers, respectively. Interesting. Can you recommend any reading/content about this? My left-handed female self is curious.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I don't know why you'd ever do an ambush interview for a developer position. Programming is very much a 'think and plan' type of activity. Actually, I wonder if the prevalence has anything to do with the fact that an a

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