mold_aid

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by mold_aid 4mo ago
AFT is in fact pro-AI
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
>You could argue peer review has become a mechanism to encourage incrementalism. That it doesn’t reward big leaps. And the public isn’t getting ROI on science funding compared to 50 years ago. Are you arguing that or not Also: tenets &gt
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
How would you handle non-competitive grants
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
>Calling this a "tupper ware" seems a bit emotional Calling this "emotional" seems a little weird
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
Are you saying Derek Lowe is lying, or is working for the Chinese government?
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
CNBC copyeditors not believing their luck with this quote pull
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
Interesting to read the preprint as a measure of inductive bias and "belief rate." I assumed it would be about inability to use negation as a organizational pattern in argument. Really want to see more studies about informal reaso
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
I've seen people try to argue for resources using reasonable but abstract arguments, and it just never works. The fact of the matter is that I want $200/month, on top of my other asks, and that comes out of somebody's budget.
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
>You can't justify $200/month in spending to your boss? No. What? Of course not. >Many people charge more than that per single billable hour. hrmmmm not so sure about the work that "many" is doing there
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
What sort of bad faith would even apply here? idgaf if poster x or y has psychosis or not. "$200 a month is classic addict behavior" seems pretty spot-on to me though, I just don't want to have to pay it, too.
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by mold_aid 4mo ago
I don't know, "workaday professionals will find $200/month a particularly good deal, such that there will be widespread adoption" sounds either credulous enough to support the diagnosis or dishonest enough to dismiss. I
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
I mean I love this kind of stuff but honestly the answer here is "have a huge honking office." I have a digital/reading split and there's actually a technical term for it: a mess. What I like to do is think of the office
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Both happen at the same time, by the same people. The reason for usage differs by major, but usually it's an expedient to either get past tasks that represent busywork or just the cheating you've seen described. Students have expl
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Would you prefer the harsh unpopular truth of Erich Schmidt, or a sweet (unintentional)lie of Wozniak? Not really a lie (unless you think the students are not intelligent?); regardless, usually you don't get "harsh truths" at
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>If I need to change non-standard lightbulbs (e.g., G9, MR11, A19), I'm taking a picture and asking my AI what kind are they. Did you just tell a "how many X does it take to change a lightbulb" joke about yourself ?
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
How is it that you know they are blind?
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
In a sense, nothing - and any other website should be archived, too. In another sense, it's a journalistic source with information and commentary on past elections. Even aside from the political context that muddies the waters around o
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
An edtech product that illustrates mathematical relationships through colors and shapes.
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
I think this really gets at it: people are so terrified of not knowing what to do, of not knowing whether their solution is "good," that they'll pay a monthly fee for a machine to tell them it's ok, ironically bypassing
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Not at once, surely
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>When it does well it's because it can do well. Can't argue with that logic
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>Now I’m certain that there exist those mythical human instructors who can do better, You're certain that mythical instructors exist (?) who "can" do better? Are human instructors more competent as teachers than AI teacher
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>LLMs can be wonderful teachers Are they or aren't they
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Universities provide the AI to students. We have CoPilot in our 365 and the Ed majors get free AI crap all the time. Hard to make drugs illegal when you're the dealer
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>How much longer will anyone need Hollywood studios? As long as they need shots longer than a few seconds, I suppose >Now, very little is wrong. You think culture is a matter of whether you've genned bass drums in front of or beh
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
2 is key. omg the number of students who are like "I want to be a professor" and can barely name a program they're targeting much less the people in it
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Yes you would. Trust me, you would
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
How exactly is it that you think Enzensberger is arguing against nwhnwh's point. Will an excerpt from Discourse Networks 1800/1900 be far behind, be still my heart
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>Enumerate the tools that one may use in art that are driven by technology, and you’ll find many that are driven by advances in ML. So are you enumerating, or...? Why am I doing this for you? >Inarticulate and indiscriminate hate towa
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
[normal people] "holy shit is that Brian Unger?"

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