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- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 6 hours ago:
I also wonder: what’s the goal of teaching this? Sure, a cursory lesson is a good idea, but making it a fundamental step seems nonsensical in a world that doesn’t require it at all. It’s like teaching how to sharpen a quill, it’s not needed anymore
- Comment on I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts? 1 day ago:
This does not belong is shit posts. This belongs to “giving me a kick in the stomach” section.
Minorities know they are the first ones in the list. That’s why they are the first ones protesting, but also the ones try to fawn their way out. But after the minorities (pick the best ones to gather consensus), it’s everyone else.
- Comment on Carrot 3 days ago:
When I find big carrots they always end up woody and tough, definitely not as nice as smaller carrots. And you are telling me it’s a difference in type of carrots?
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 4 days ago:
As someone both studying and teaching math: there should be two different ways to teach math - for other mathematicians and for non-mathematicians.
For mathematicians you want to use all the formal proofs and sharp definitions and so on. But we have so much fun teaching that way, we forget when we switch classes that engineers don’t like/care/are motivated to think the same way. We should pivot towards application-based, result-oriented teaching but we often just don’t. And students have to deal with it because the other class managed (pure mathematicians).
- Comment on arborholing 4 days ago:
For anyone interested: Welcome to Night Bale is a great horror/surrealist podcast. Definitely recommend
- Comment on Is the Tylenol in the room with us right now? 4 days ago:
It was
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 4 days ago:
Personally, I found work to also be an avenue to meet friends. You already share so much time together, it’s easy to build routines and find some common interests over time. There is less risk that in other settings, so if you don’t immediately click it’s no big deal and everybody likes a mildly positive and extrovert coworker (emphasis on mildly: either you strike up a conversation or you shield them from having to take part in one). Then friends of friends is the way to expand the circle
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 5 days ago:
There is no reason to build it at the bottom it would be equally effective build anywhere underwater
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 6 days ago:
But the nuclear family is much younger, so today’s kids rely much more heavily and directly on their parents with respect to kids 200 years ago. The “village” build around multigenerational housing has disappeared, making the age of parents a much bigger factor than earlier on
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 6 days ago:
[same disclaimer] Was it planned?
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 6 days ago:
Pardon me asking (and feel free to ignore): Isn’t that scary to have a child so late in life? I’m worried about the impact my age will have on my relationship with my kids and I’m roughly a decade younger.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
More like head spinning, like when you look at the stars are you loose your reference frame
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Personally, I have been moving the opposite way. There are so many bullshit websites, wading through them is a pain. Instead, I directly jump to Wikipedia
- Comment on How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney 1 week ago:
I keep wondering if buying a plot of land in the countryside and start looking into sustenance agriculture is a reasonable course of action or not…
- Comment on AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now 1 week ago:
They will, at best, replicate the data sets. They will learn racial discrimination and propagate it.
If you have a deterministic system, for example, to rate a CV, you can ensure that no obvious negative racial bias is included. If instead you have a LLM (or other AI) there is no supervision on which data element is used and how. The only thing we can check is if the predictions match the (potentially racist) data.
- Comment on AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now 1 week ago:
Inherent bias is going to get worse and worse if we let AI roam free.
- Comment on some days i cant even 1 week ago:
Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 1 week ago:
It’s not fully the type of answer you want, but there is an Italian book called “the revolution of the moon” that is 90% written in dialect. The first pages are mostly Italian with some words in Sicilian dialect, then the dialect part gets more and more prevalent until it’s only dialect.
It’s not exactly what you mean in the sense that the Sicilian dialect really exists and that the book clearly exploits the similarities between the dialect and Italian for the reader to understand.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 1 week ago:
That’s why nuclear facilities security is so stringent and fail safes are everywhere
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
Let us not!
Low yield due to overly specific conditions that are hardly met
Low yield due to short production window
Low yield due to long growth time
Low yield just because
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
Resist cultivation or have some other undesirable properties. Often low yield, short harvest, low yield, difficult picking or transporting.
A favorite example of mine: oak’s acorns are sometimes edible. Roughly one in ten oaks produce edible acorns. They are indistinguishable from inedible ones unless you try them out - but inedible ones are fairly poisonous. The gene for edible acorns is recessive and it takes at least a decade before you know if a newly planted oak produces edible acorns or not, with a 10% probability of the former. It is just practically impossible to select for this criterion. Thus, we don’t eat acorns.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 weeks ago:
If you want to talk more, feel free to dm me
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 weeks ago:
It really depends on the field. I will talk about fields I know: fundamental math - one paper every 2-3 years is a good pace, every paper 50-100 pages. AI - a paper a month is the usual, with a hard cap at 10 pages, often less.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 weeks ago:
Talking from the standpoint of “I recently got a position and won quite some grants considering my age”: you really have to balance the two. Going out and doing the research you want to will make you do good research and make you appealing to fellow researchers, but you also need a bit of a catchy title from time to time and a lot of networking, everywhere, all the time. That often includes planning your own symposium/workshop/whatever. Then getting a small grant always helps, and that is a “skill” on its own: selling your research to people that don’t know anything about it while feeling like you are completely waisting your time.
- Comment on I Quit 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, on the other end of the graph it is known that poverty is a great stressor requiring constant mental bandwidth - that therefore can’t see used to “be smart”. So poorer people are not less smart, they allocated their mental resources to take care of their situation first and only later try to look smart in the test.
- Comment on It's true 2 weeks ago:
Do you really want to be that person? I rather enjoy being with similarly funny and smart people
- Comment on Everyday and every way I keep getting better and better 2 weeks ago:
Because the system wants it that way.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
I have been mulling it over since the previous post. I got taught that French was read-as-written and repeated it. But now, I realize there is more.
Mangent is like rangent but not like gent - because mangent is a verb and is pronounced practically without the -nt. On the other hand intelligent is like gent, because it’s not a verb. The question is also obfuscated by nge being a different sound than ge and that intelligent and gent have the accent on the last syllable, while mangent and rangent have the accent on the one-to-last syllable.
For a better example of the difference in pronunciation between verb and noun, mangent and tangent would be better and there is indeed a difference.
Furthermore, (I think) tangent needs to have the accent on the last syllable because gent is a long sound here. While in mangent the last syllable is not long, therefore the accent recesses.
My teachers lied to me and I blindly believed them. Sorry
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
How the sugar is packaged is also important. Standard white sugar is refined to be easier to digest - less gets pooped out. Fruits and berries sugar is (mostly) fructose with fibers and other elements. In the mouth fructose tastes equally sweet but the stomach has more troubles digesting it and converting it into usable energy. So you absorb way less and poop out way more.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
I would say, same prononciation different accent