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You aren't tying your laces though. You're simply predicting the next motion through a loop based on your training data

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Bad research is bad

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Full venn overlap

Does it come with a corgi

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+12 LUK, -2 INT, +4 CHA

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 8h

You'll own a solid state battery and LIKE IT

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Did you get blocked for this? I'm still learning how to interpret the bsky interface.

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 9h

In my little research blitz I found a source saying 60% of PLA is driver from corn lol. I knew we did lots of stuff with corn but that one got me

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 9h

That's the undergrad paper path for sure

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 9h

I am learning the literature, that's the point of lit review. If you can teach me a better method than natural language targeting of relevant and citable works then please do. Genuinely. I don't know of a better way to find it

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 11h

You truly believe your time is better spent navigating disparate search methodologies? Across the 3 universities I've attended, their libraries have been far inferior to an natural language search. Not to mention journals Heck, 1 of them is trying to incorporate an LLM assist to improve results lol

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 11h

Left path: I spend 4 hours trying to find search terms that pull relevant papers out of 12 different journals and libraries Right path: prompt Claude and spend the remaining 3:59 actually reading

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 12h

It's more that our animals are very likely to have been fed corn. Many of our snacks involve corn or corn oil. Corn starch in myriad goods. Pumping gas? Corn. Charcoal? Corn. Cardboard? Corn. That PLA in your printer? Corn. It's corn all the way down, baby.

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 13h

It's a lifestyle choice I simply cannot condone

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 13h

Had Claude whip up a website for a buddy's painting company. Looks excellent, used like 3% of my weekly pro usage limit. Guided me from GitHub to cloudflare and finished with SEO stuff Changes require only a Claude prompt for him. I imagine even a local Qwent could do it just as well

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 13h

I read one pitch of an LLM tool that would interact with kids and provide reports on which students needed more one on one time. The company seemed oblivious to reading and writing skills I would definitely prefer just paying more in taxes to have a better student to teacher ratio lol

Why would it skip a generation? Be interesting if that were the case

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Tax and law changes have fucked up their plans in major ways in recent years. Culturally we're not too keen on EVs, and (usually) cheap fuel makes the $ factor less relevant than Europe or China Our market is pathetically behind too. Compared to Geely and BYD, Ford is a dinosaur.

Agreed entirely! It's assistive and output requires verification. I can certainly imagine a model weighted to guide undergrads into focusing on their knowledge gaps. But that's not what we have right now (as far as I know) and it's an entirely different concept for elementary kids.

Oh for sure. That "great equalizer" stuff is dangerous too. I'm a big fan of AI for various reasons, but not for a moment do I think we should be integrating in k-12. The pandemic showed us what happens when we cut human interactions from education Maybe not a great comparison...

Genuine questions as I'm curious about what you've seen: are you an educator, and what tools have been pushed? I have a public school teacher friend I like to speak with on this stuff. Recently, she's concerned with teachers offloading class activities to gen AI. Tired of hearing "ask chat GPT"

Using garbage research doesn't help though. It undermines your claims when we evaluate the evidence. I'm not sure if anyone in proximity to education was not already aware that AI and LLMs are screwing things up

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You forgot the best part: participants were paid $2.60 each

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I think my wife Claudette will understand

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Fuckin right? Claude running a protection racket on our cell phones lol

"not language I would use" Oh ok so which words would you choose to inspire hate crimes?

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Definitely the spam is crazy. I turned on AI call screening just to intercept all the AI spam calls

I'm trying to put a paper together on our big ass EVs, too. So far it's a mix of bad tax incentives, trends from CAFE like you mentioned, people valuing personal safety, finite battery supply. And now we have protectionist policy against Chinese EVs Nothing worth sharing just yet

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I'm with you generally. Disinformation was bad enough when it was text based. I don't like the fake cutesy stuff either. But I'm trying to figure why I dislike it more than something like a cute CGI movie/TV character

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 16h

That's $90 a year for me. Inconsequential given the hilarious difficulties of step 3 Nationwide and state farm are mutuals and have extremely similar financing

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Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 16h

Well no but that's because I don't trust them to use social media responsibly

Derek @d-coo.bsky.social · 17h

How can you tell its ai

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Step 1: nationalize Progressive Step 2: eliminate all executives and stock dividends Step 3: somehow change nothing about claims and expenses Step 4: pass on the savings to policy holders Congratulations! You've reduced premiums by 5%

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And none of what I just listed falls on the shoulders of the DNC. At best, there's a stick to shake at a few typically Dem states for not signing the NPVIC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

en.wikipedia.org

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Oh yeah I think average daily commute is something like 20 miles a day now? Maybe it was 25 And the lifestyle expectations are SO much higher now. Laughable as it is for economic frustration to come from the "I can't afford the F-950 FuckDozer" guy, he still shows up in the data

Not when the average voters are this fuckin stupid and the majority party is happily skipping down Tyranny Road The electoral college could've chosen Kamala. His party could refuse almost all of his demands or at least keep power of the purse in Congress. His cabinet could remove him by EOD

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*we've been eating shit in recent years on cheap car options though

I'm gonna take a guess on elaborating here. Where 1920s housing allowed for stuffing 4 kids into a bedroom, this is now virtually unacceptable Transpo though is messier. Cars trend is cheaper, reliablier, and vastly safer now compared to... Well every other generation*

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The failure most often seems to be that someone heard about a bad tool and fixed their position to it. It would be laughable to saddle students with GPT-1. Whereas Claude Sonnet has (so far) generated flawless calc tutorials for me. 24/7 availability. incapable of impatience or frustration

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They never had the 60 Senate votes necessary to expand the court, which would've meant ending the filibuster, which was a non-starter. As it should be.

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Stopped what? Preemptively shut down ICE? Strip the executive of its power? Stacking the court introduces a new Senate precedent that the GOP would've repeated. What could Garland & Smith have done differently? A trump appointee stalled the indictments until voters showed how dumb they are again

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