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by nemo 3y ago
>why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Just because a machine can generate an essay of questionable quality with a fair chance of containing hallucinations making it unusable for many fields of human en
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by nemo 3y ago
The thing is that it's not difficult to convey meaning and a sincere sense of gratitude to people even if you're looking a bit past their shoulder or whatever.
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by nemo 3y ago
>one day you’ll find yourself saying thank you. It doesn’t mean anything without eye contact, so look up from your phone when you say it. Autistic person here, nope. It still means something even if you have trouble regulating eye contac
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by nemo 3y ago
For a while back 20ish years ago I worked at Apple with a team that had been NeXT developer support team for WebObjects and related things. They did OpenSTEP/black hardware support when I got there, and I still have some nice NeXT ephe
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by nemo 3y ago
I travel to Latin America as often as I can manage, so I have been studying Spanish. The approach learned from Duolingo does not train your ear to listen to spoken language well. If you want to actually speak a language with other language
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by nemo 3y ago
>also surprising to me is that there are things like Duolingo podcast, but that this is not accessible in-app It's worse. It used to be that the iOS app, at least, had podcasts in it, and you could listen to them to get points. It w
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by nemo 4y ago
>And it's almost certain the details got changed with each retelling! As a former Classicist who studied this in grad school, I can say this is unequivocally false. Rhapsodes of the ancient world had a fairly established canon, by t
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by nemo 4y ago
Again, human brains are not token-prediction transformers. You can see one part of cognition and see that it has a somewhat analogous relation, but that's only one part of human cognition. Labeling a brain a scaled up GPT is mistaking
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by nemo 4y ago
I'm still team "Stochastic parroting," ChatGPT promotes this view of itself: > As a machine learning language model, my means of linguistic production is based on the patterns and relationships that I have learned from the
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by nemo 4y ago
Dinosaurs (non-avian) lived 66 million years ago+. The conditions that can preserve DNA longer is cold which is why Mammoth DNA in permafrost was able to be recovered. There's no permafrost from 66 million years ago. There's no me
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by nemo 4y ago
I'm a good-enough software developer. I've worked with folks who are better, but I deliver working code that follows best practices and have been very useful in dealing with a lot of very difficult technical problems including dea
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by nemo 4y ago
>The internet desensitized me to text and video. Anything that happens in front of a screen doesn't help with perspective anymore. But I discovered that getting away from the screen and handling physical items does. A little late on
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by nemo 4y ago
The Great Seal of the US has fasces on it, the House Rostrum, and many other older decorations relating to Congress do too. That's a symbol the fascists used, and they aligned very closely to the Nazis. It hasn't been abandoned si
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by nemo 4y ago
If you read it then you'll be familiar with his response to that criticism, and given the responses, I'd say he's right.
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by nemo 4y ago
>For now, let’s be clear that I hate using them, but for the sake of brevity and ease of understanding I shall continue to use these misguided – and frankly, insidious – labels.
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by nemo 4y ago
Communication skills are hard, and just speaking your own ideas in a way you think is clear isn't enough for effective communication. Learning to manage conversations, bring things back to a focus when they wander, and work on underst
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by nemo 4y ago
On the one hand, the reason for the decline of the various milkweed butterflies appears largely to be a result of areas that once supported some milkweed populations were hit with glyphosate which killed the host plants off at a massive sca
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by nemo 4y ago
In this case that is not what has happened. Rather, brands saw Musk's plans as non-brand-safe and refused to pre-book ads for all of 2023. That's not walking away for a month, that's walking away for a year at a minimum.
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by nemo 4y ago
lol
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by nemo 4y ago
Care to revisit this one in a month?
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by nemo 4y ago
This one looks meaningfully different. I won't be logging on in a month since I've already deleted my account (had it since 2010).
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by nemo 4y ago
Pretty much everything he wrote on drinking aged poorly when seen in the light of his eventual demise by drinking himself to death.
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by nemo 4y ago
Yeah, the Anglo-Saxon period was a time of a much less sophisticated building techniques, the UK was an early loss from the Western Rome and the sophistication of the material culture under the Anglo-Saxons there was grim. The Romanesque st
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by nemo 4y ago
The Normans didn't tear down every Anglo-Saxon church, there's still a number of them standing. A surprisingly high number given their age, really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Standing_Anglo-Saxon_.
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by nemo 4y ago
If you think about this in consequentialist terms poachers are far worse in every respect. I'm a pacifist, a vegetarian, and an ecologist. I am glad the hogs are getting culled, that's a valuable outcome. I don't care if the
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by nemo 4y ago
I'm 52 was a professional programmer for 20 years and an SWE 10 of them, up until this year and was glad to get out. Over time I wound up carrying more and more responsibilities, I was a team lead and owned bigger and bigger projects s
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by nemo 4y ago
>I doubt AppKit, UIKit or any of the predecessors were in a bad state for three whole years after their launch I was there for Cocoa development in Mac OS X 10.3. AppKit was not mature. I wasn't there but have heard it was less matu
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by nemo 4y ago
>The Christian Church actually said bathing naked was forbidden There's no "The Cristian Church," I think you're referring to a modern misconception on a Catholic ban on mixed bath houses. They still had bath houses,
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by nemo 4y ago
For logos you want specifically a design that will work well in black and white, and you want assets that are vector art. At the point that AIs can produce that it's worth revisiting for logos, but I'd bet that's probably mor
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by nemo 4y ago
True - birds process vision very differently than mammals. They're tetrachromats, some species have multiple focal points, polarized vision, things like the woodcock's 360 vision, etc. which are major changes in processing info, b

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