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kuhewa
4y ago
An illuminating experience for me was a housemate and a fairly sharp one at that who wondered if we would get visited by ghosts at night because cabinet doors were always open in the kitchen in the morning. It didn't occur to her that
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kuhewa
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Back when Bing did the challenge where you decided if you liked it's results or Google's, Bing won for me hands down but I still didn't start using it. I doubt less-stupid autosummaries will work either.
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The Battle of Cherbourg
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Similarly odd but perhaps in the other direction, I appreciate the Chlorophyta for pushing the bounds of a single cell. E.g., Valonia ventricosa 5 cm cells, or the Bryopsidales genera like Codium or Caulerpa with large, articulating m
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kuhewa
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The press release could use some work, that could have been in the first or second paragraph rather than the 12th.
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With the pigeons it seemed illusory, but with just worms you can tell that's exactly whats happening. Dunno if it is the single-row shape or just less action on the screen allowing you to focus on one cell
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Wow is that a thing? I've learned from a supervisor to always * by 3 (they had been doing it to my estimates for a while without telling me) but I reckon the extra is a good idea
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> Odds are that you have caught a couple strains of post-2018 COVID, even if you’ve never been sick. We didn't have a case until intentionally opening border restrictions once vaccines had been distributed, and once we did we were m
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I got 4th right before an intl trip and wanted to take advantage of the initial high protection from infection. I have yet to get the virus to my knowledge so I'll probably keep boosting.
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Mongol hordes aren't hunter gatherers.
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Hunter gatherers don't live off of domesticated horses
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It's ironic that his thesis is that climate change is an serious issue that requires work, but woke culture has kids complaining instead. Because he's carved out a nice career for himself complaining about kids and "both side
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4y ago
For good reasons, which is why it is a peculiar choice of highlight for the criminal justice lecturer's substack article. You haven't supported your prior claim by linking it.
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If an interpretation of self reported raw monitoring data seems obvious to you and your favourite criminal justice lecturer on substack, but not to epidemiologists working in the field, well yeah probably just cognitive dissonance on their
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> Repeated vaccination is likely not going to be a scientifically justified strategy. It is kinda of amazing to me sometimes just how selectively people can parse an evidencebase
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The study certainly doesn't support the claim of marginal benefits outweighing serious side effects.
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4y ago
They aren't seeking to be productive
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4y ago
You haven't reached the anger Kübler-Ross grief stage yet
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When you see how people behave in fields like this where the common social contract ethical standards and law hasn't quite caught up to whatever the new constructs are, it doesn't inspire confidence in an innate morality capacity
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The sheer schadenfreude generated from the wunderkind that still appears to be under the impression he'll be able to talk his away into a better position.
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Ten years ago beyond a week forecasts underperformed long term climatic averages, not sure if that has changed yet.
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Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise 's chapter about weather forecasting described forecasters during a visit doing that, a manual tweak essentially based on experienced intuition at the end that the models couldn't yet r
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4y ago
ChatGPT will certainly affect teaching methodology. But there's a reason why we teach students arithmetic and basic algebra without calculators, long after calculators were already ubiquitous. The same goes for composing an essay. It
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You are making 'letter of the law's arguments for a very much 'spirit of the law' issue. If we just grant you are absolutely correct for argument's sake, it would plainly indicate the letter of the law needs to chan
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Plagarism is passing off others' ideas or words off as your own without attribution. IMO there is an argument to be made whether conjuring up text from a model of others' words should qualify as "others' ideas or words&q
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Am I missing something? A 300 word piece by a think tanker?
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Why are you suggesting it should be in this case? I reckon you are begging the question here.
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I suppose it makes sense as there are probably quite a few examples in its training dataset of pages describing the URL snake game with an example.
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> Is it possible to prevent this behavior through prompts, or will ChatGPT always mix false information with true information? No, because it doesn't know what lying is. It doesn't know what the truth value of the text it produ
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Back story https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k83gq/afroman-raided-by-cop...
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