Sharlin

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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Problem is people seriously believe that whatever GPT tells them must be true, because… I don't even know. Just because it sounds self-confident and authoritative? Because computers are supposed to not make mistakes? Because talking co
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
You just have to go take a look at what people write in social media, using their real name and photo, to conclude that no, some people have no shame at all.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Pratchett did start the series with a loser protagonist, Rincewind, before pivoting to mostly competent main characters.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
…sort of, but the game does ultimately make clear that for all his faults, the protagonist is (and was, before the amnesia) exceedingly good at what he does.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
In general we're pretty good at drawing a line between purely editorial stuff like using a spellchecker, or even the services a professional editor (no need to acknowledge), and independent intellectual contribution (must be acknowledg
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
It's almost as if this whole LLM stuff wasn't a net benefit to the society after all.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
How would you do that? Even in cases where there's a standard format, a DOI on every reference, and some giant online library of publication metadata, including everything that only exists in dead tree format, that just lets you check
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
"Contribute" comes from the Latin con- "with, together" and tribuere "bestow". We need a new word for these slop submissions. "Detribute" might work well, for something that takes away from the co
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Small brain: create a solution looking for a problem Big brain: create a solution solving an existing problem Galaxy brain: create a solution that creates its own problems
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Way to be culturally blind.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Easy! You just need a review-reviewer AI to check the review AI's output.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Why would you assume the original had an exclamation mark? Indeed the whole symbol was not invented until the 1300s.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
You don't need a car to kill someone in traffic, but it's certainly much easier with one.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
They're getting downvoted because without even taking a look at the paper, they felt that "please create a summary of the stupid, bad faith, idiot, fake science paper" is a reasonable way to ask for a summary.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Not bothering to test edge cases: a tale as old as programming.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Is there anything good about this timeline?
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
I’d think it will just shift to "today’s games" that are bad, as opposed to "good old games".
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
It’s a great way to demonstrate the difference between bandwidth and latency.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yes, and that's a problem, but only a fairly small fraction of kids live in rural areas in urbanized countries. Not that we shouldn't care about their well-being, but it's not a general explanation for mental health issues am
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Video games have always been, and will always be, something that gets included in any discourse about "kids these days".
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
I haven't searched, but I'm 100% confident that there's plenty of such math resources on the interent…
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
That's a rather US-centric view. Teenagers aren't prisoners in some suburban hellscape in all parts of the world.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
For many if not most of the affected imports, it would never ever make economical sense to try to rebuild a local industry from scratch, at least not without major subsidies. And as for local alternatives that already exist, they carry a pr
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
The Guardian has a photo and a video: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratch...
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Agreed, though the "religious sights" part likely does a lot of work here.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Back in the 00s a friend and I played with the idea of using genetic programming and random line segments to approximate images (ie. maintain a population of candidates, take the best n percent, "breed" them to create the next g
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
I use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
They specifically used Copilot according to the article.
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
Yeah. The idea that he's a Russian asset, although tempting, has always seemed to me like a coping mechanism of sorts – externalizing the evil, like blaming the devil for one's bad deeds. And, of course, Hanlon's razor is ver
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by Sharlin 9mo ago
I'm not, not on the PC. But I was on my phone.

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