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by viccis 10mo ago
I hadn't even looked at the floral pattern. It's awful. I wonder how pissed Apple was when they realized they had paid him a few thousand (going by his posted rates) for "art" that used gen AI to a significant enough deg
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I think people have found out the hard way that the paradox of tolerance is real.
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>0.42 USD per student (15 USD total) Reminder: This professor's school costs $90k a year, with over $200k total cost to get an MBA. If that tuition isn't going down because the professor cut corners to do an oral exam of ~35 st
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Unless class sizes are astronomical, it's absurd to pay US tuition all to have a lazy professor who automates even the most human components of the education you're getting for that price. If the class cost me $50? Then sure, us
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And then they complain when they gain no knowledge, can't pass the simplest of coding interviews despite their near 4.0 GPA, and blame it all on AI or whatever. In reality, they cheat when a culture of cheating makes it no longer humil
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>As far as "programming skill" goes, writing "good and idiomatic" Python is pretty bottom of the barrel. Complete bullshit. Beginning programmers writing good and idiomatic Python isn't "bottom of the barrel
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I think people have little patience lately for tolerating private discussion they find objectionable with Epstein.
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Maybe that's true, but I will say that one of the reasons I recommend his Python ML videos to people is not just the ML content but also his Python is good and idiomatic. So I would not agree; I think his programming is a well practice
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Books are a medium that encourages literacy and helps understand others. Social media, in its current iteration, discourages curiosity and heightens conflict with others.
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Yeah I'm sure that will happen, just like prices will go back down when the stupid tariffs are gone.
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>I'll always upvote a recommendation for Amusing Ourselves to Death. I haven't yet gone back to Understanding Media directly yet. I love both books, but when you read Understanding Media you will see how blatantly Postman just
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Or you could just prevent the goods from being sold, rather than making the American tax payer foot the bill for that company's crime.
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Not true. That's philosophical skepticism and was roundly refuted long ago.
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No
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Not really.
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You're ignoring the mass atrocities committed by both sides in the Donbas throughout much of the 2010s that provided easy propaganda to achieve the same outcomes as the Iraq War propaganda. I have another example of a "war" c
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His idea of media wasn't about "the way we consume information", it's about each medium's ability to extend parts of ourselves. For example, a light bulb is a medium he gives as an example, as it extends our vision.
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Phoenix is a well known web app framework regardless of your ignorance of it.
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>You could say that LLMs are the first technology where the medium actively invites confession. I don't think LLMs really constitute a medium by McLuhan's definition. A medium is an extension of man, and LLMs don't extend
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Which war? The Iraq War started with around 62% support. When the US started its involvement in the Korean War (one of the biggest mass atrocities we'd carried out since, well, about 5 years earlier when we atom bombed Japan...), aroun
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Occam's Razor is that they just have a different worldview than you.
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by viccis 10mo ago
Some of these don't feel like they fall into those. For example in [1], on page 41, I can't imagine how that redaction fits either. 1: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1HFqpFLOJgYLiAgj
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by viccis 10mo ago
>Honestly, I am starting to suspect you are a Kremlin agent Posting that kind of paranoid delusion should be a wake up call that you are propagandized.
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Yes. This has been incredibly consistent throughout the existence of the US and UK in particular.
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When you open your eyes, are you amazed to see the person in front of you come back into existence?
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None of the terminology or acronyms that user used were made up or unique to this. I think you are blaming other people for your unfamiliarity with this kind of tech. It is simply a managed service that lets you hook devices up to an overla
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China has a population growth problem. They had a one child policy problem.
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>China has a gigantic one child policy issue which just can't be changed ...the one that was changed a decade ago?
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I don't find it any harder or easier. Reading is not difficult and hasn't been since kindergarten for me. If anything, the British bastardizations of the Oxford spelling of words like "capitalization" with a z, because
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The brain worm thing, as much as people think it's a funny stupid little story, was a lie he told to avoid paying any alimony when he divorced her.

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