Yep.
I thought it was a great tool.
But I still know how to use paper maps and a compass. Because electronics fail waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more often than paper does.
The spoon method for pomegranates was a game changer for me. Beforehand I loved the taste of them but rarely ate them because they were such a pain in the ass. Now I eat them whenever they're available.
I eat most things with chopsticks, so it's a no-brainer to extend that to snack foods.
That works as well, but it's harder to direct in my experience. The fork+spoon method of twirling just works best for me.
Well, when I'm in Canada. Here I eat noodles with chopsticks.
Or learn to twist the spaghetti with your fork against the spoon. It took me all of about ten minutes to learn that.
I use the spoon method for pomegranates.
For watermelon, I like to slice it in a grid with a knife before using a spoon to eat it. Then I don't need a special spoon with serrations.
Wait, genius!? I thought we were talking about Sam Altman?
I honestly have no idea how they pulled it off.
It has some applications, but far, far, far, far fewer than its advocates hype.
Worst: Using ChatGPT (In French: "chat j'ai pรฉtรฉ") for anything important. I spend more time checking its output and stomping on its hallucinations than it would have taken me to just write things on my own.
Best: Learning to say "no" when people ask you to do things you don't have time to do.
Different rices are needed for different uses. Basmati is one of the best for Indian food, for example, but it would suck for making zongzi. You want some kind of glutinous rice (I like Thai glutinous best for this) for that dish. And both would suck for sushi.
- 22 Sep (Sun) - Greg
- 23 Sep (Mon) - Ian
- 24 Sep (Tue) - Greg
- 25 Sep (Wed) - Ian
- 26 Sep (Thur) - Greg
- 27 Sep (Fri) - Ian
- 28 Sep (Sat) - Greg
...the Gregorian calendar!
Thankfully I live a five minute walk away from my favourite restaurant in the world ... which makes Chongqing style hot pot. ๐คฃ
But don't worry, degenerative AI isn't going to result in lost jobs. Any job lost to AI will be replaced by other opportunities. You know, just like how nobody was thrown under the bus with computing; everybody who lost a job just learned to code and did better!
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You're missing the point of the exercise. You're meant to spend that billion on you and you alone, one million dollars a day, to show just how ludicrously large a billion dollars is โฆ and then realize that to billionaires it isn't enough.
Surprise, Sparky! I've also been in your nation. (I've likely been in more nations than you have towns.)
My starkly negative opinions of the USA and its toxic attitudes and society comes from direct personal experience.
Chongqing style hot pot is a nightmare to make. Fen zheng rou is easy and there's a dozen or more recipes online, most of which are pretty decent.
https://www.learningleaders.com/insights/the-excluded-middle-fallacy-definition-examples
A.k.a. the Borderline Personality Disorder fallacy.
For me it was "Hollyhock God" from Nobilis.
Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech
The "ethnocentric" in the title is coded languageยน. It was triggered by a paperยฒ I just stumbled over but is the product of by now over two decades of observation (and, to be fair, festering resentment).
I bring attention to a key phrase in the conclusion of this otherwise meandering and unclear paper:
> Thus, we suggest that policymakers in China consider emphasizing more on the reciprocity benefits and build a collaborative effort across the scientific community.
What. A. Coincidence.
A study published in the (western) journalยณ Humanities and Social Sciences Communications comes to the conclusion that the Chinese government needs to emphasize the benefits of open data sharing.
Yet the very same culture that preaches loudly "open data sharing" and other such nigh-utopian ideals, in a stunning example of "do what I say, not what I do" also practices the precise opposite. For example the Chinese are specifically barred from cooperation in space venturesโด with anything that NASA is affiliated with (which is, essentially, all space ventures and most such conferences).
This is not, however, just the USA and just China. Canada (my nation of citizenship), for example, routinely issues thundering condemnation of any nation that treats indigenous peoples badly (unless that nation is aligned with Canada, in which case Japan's treatment of the Ainu and Taiwan's treatment of their assorted indigenous groups gets passed over with an embarrassed cough) while it treats its own indigenous peoples in ways that are positively shocking even to this day, despite the facade of rapprochement. (Keep in mind that the last of Canada's horrific residential schools was closed in 1997โI was 31 years old at the time!โand that in Canada being a native means you are not a "visible minority", a term fraught with its own weird baggage.)
And you'll find similar ethnocentric, hypocritical bullshit all over the west, even down to all the (well-deserved!) official condemnation of Hamas over the October 2023 attacks while standing by in embarrassed silence as Israel commits open genocide both in and out of Gaza starting well before October 2023 and continuing to this day.
So... My current view is that western powers are a large collection of hypocritical twats whose views can and should be safely ignored by other peoples of the world as far as is possible when so many (chiefly) American guns and bombs are pointed at them threateningly.
Change my view.
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ยน Decoding it: "white supremacist".
ยฒ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03570-9
ยณ Yes the primary authors are Chinese in Chinese universities. There are reasons for this.
โด The fact that this has backfired, both directly and indirectly, on the USA multiple times is a never-ending source of amusement to me.
Just in case that URL doesn't replicate the session properly I've added a screenshot of the session to the end.
A few things are obvious here. First the choice to trumpet the "strengths" of degenerative AI while qualifying the weaknesses is clearly a choice made in the programming of the system. In later interactions it claims that this was not specifically programmed into it but, as it says, it's a black box and there's no way to confirm nor deny anything it claims.
Which is, you know, pretty much the reason why degenerative AI can't be trusted.
Up until now I thought he was only a theoretical physicist!
That's a huge red flag, that is!
Sure, it sounds easy, but the process is painstaking!
Kirk: I'm having trouble hearing lately. Bones: Can you describe the symptoms? Kirk: Homer is a fat guy, and his wife Marge has blue hair.
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