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by paultopia 4y ago
This is what large language models should be used for. Stupid busywork documents that serve no real function beyond demonstrating knowledge of some unspoken norms (i.e., class) or being fed directly into someone else’s AI.
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by paultopia 4y ago
I could easily see any big university perpetrating this.
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by paultopia 4y ago
I wasn't trying to be condescending, but to point out that your view seems to imply that visual design isn't a professional field---that is, one that takes massive specialized investments to learn!
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by paultopia 4y ago
I mean, sure, I guess, if you think that visual design isn’t a professional field that people can spend their whole careers on. I come at this from a weird angle, maybe. As an academic, I’m basically a professional writer. I recognize that
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by paultopia 4y ago
But that’s precisely the point. There are lots and lots of people who need to make presentations regularly, who do not have professional visual design training or the budget to hire pros. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the number o
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by paultopia 4y ago
oooooh.... I'd love a beta invite for this if anyone has one.
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by paultopia 4y ago
TBH the appeal for me is that using powerpoint and the like is miserable . The moment you have more than one element on a slide, it's click click click click click click drag drag drag drag click click drag drag click drag killself t
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by paultopia 4y ago
Someone tried to make Geocities meets Wordpress meets early Facebook
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by paultopia 4y ago
There are so so so so many reasons for this. Research data: hard to centralize because subject to impossible conflicting demands from funders and human subjects IRBs, and in the hands of ferociously independent faculty. Students: privacy
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by paultopia 4y ago
I feel like you could probably roll your own decently well here with a scraper plus a topic modeling library.
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by paultopia 4y ago
question for those who know: for those of us in apple ecosystem, is just relying on their keychain an acceptable alternative to a third-party password manager company?
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by paultopia 4y ago
Except when it doesn't...
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by paultopia 4y ago
Ooh, good idea. Thank you.
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by paultopia 4y ago
So, like, what do we think... I have a flight on Jan 3. Book a different airline now or pray they've gotten their heads out of their asses by then?
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by paultopia 4y ago
This this this this this this this this. ZERO coincidence that this tragedy happens on a reservation.
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by paultopia 4y ago
Ask me about how my couple-generations-ago ipad pro (just before the M1) sometimes randomly freezes when I try to scroll a pdf...
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by paultopia 4y ago
If you're using a tool like excel to work with data with more than 64,000 rows or analyze data, or if you're collaboratively editing a dataset in a non-version-controlled format... best of luck to you, I'll send flowers to yo
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by paultopia 4y ago
Although TBF office and windows have gotten worse with every version at least since the 1990s.
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by paultopia 4y ago
I don't think this is correct. Two points against it: 1) Upgrades aren't all that valuable in lots of cases. Why should software require constant upgrades to work right? Lots of rarely upgraded software works just fine. The ea
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by paultopia 4y ago
Damn, startup people were like the last crowd that might have had any sympathy for elon. way to alienate your last non-fashy constituency.
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by paultopia 4y ago
Oh same here, but Jobs's reputation was for... not suffering fools gladly. Based on that reputation, I expected him to come down on the guy like a hammer.
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by paultopia 4y ago
That is... so much nicer than I expected.
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by paultopia 4y ago
Aaaah, I remember "abort, retry, fail," but also remember never having any clue what the difference was supposed to be between "abort" and "fail." I'm now so pissed off that it was changed from the much c
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by paultopia 4y ago
Oooh, oooh, an opportunity to talk about my favorite tech related money cluelessness story. The setting: somewhere in the late 00's. I'm still in grad school at the time. A friend of mine, a musician from New Orleans, is in town
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by paultopia 4y ago
I hate hate hate hate hate my remarkable 1. Discussed why here a while back [1] but the TLDR is that it’s incredibly slow and the software is garbage. Would love to try a remarkable 2 but only for free after wasting money on the last one.
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by paultopia 4y ago
I don’t, but I’m an outlier. Why lots of people do: for prose projects, seeing a printed out version of the thing is superior for proofreading, editing, etc. The context switch helps break you out of your “this is text I wrote so I can’t s
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by paultopia 4y ago
I'm a social scientist/legal scholar, so this might not be the domain that it's trained for (not sure where the dataset comes from). But its results on a topic that I'm extremely expert in are... deeply unimpressive.[1]
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by paultopia 4y ago
That's right. I'm a defective human who isn't as good as you evidently are at somehow participating in a phone conversation on a cellphone speaker over freeway noise, or walking around with my head pressed against a tiny lit
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by paultopia 4y ago
I guess, but the whole rest of the way technology and galloping capitalism have transformed work makes that harder. For example, lots and lots of us have to take calls on the move (walking somewhere, driving somewhere, etc.) just because o
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by paultopia 4y ago
The most interesting part of the linked article is this: Online, ad-riddled, search-engine-optimized webpages offer folk solutions: disconnect Bluetooth; reconnect Bluetooth; factory-reset the earbuds; reboot the phone; and so on. Like a f

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