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@Mitch I'll take a look!
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Q: Why is knowledge inside one's head considered privileged information but knowledge written on a piece of paper is not?

JonathanReezAt least in the US, one can refuse to reveal information contained inside one's head by pleading the Fifth Amendment. However, the same protections don't apply to papers (or computer files) with information you might not want to share with the government. But why does this distinction exist at al...

01:36
> Utilizing data from Twitter and applying natural language processing artificial intelligence algorithms, researchers created a new, accurate prediction model for depression and anxiety. neurosciencenews.com/ai-depression-anxiety-22984
@CowperKettle I'm guessing it involves all this news about AI and LLMs.
@CowperKettle Accurate? How did they know which twitter people truly had depression and anxiety?
@CowperKettle No one is complaining (as far as I know) about AlphaFold, which is exactly that, predicting protein folding using an LLM, potentially speeding up drug discovery.
The everyday people using LLMs are not curing cancer, they're using it to write articles for Buzzfeed.
@CowperKettle 👍
02:13
@Mitch It turns out that my biologist son uses AI in his cancer research. I wasn't clear exactly how, but he says he's been doing that for a while now.
02:44
@Mitch And how many of them were bots?
 
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03:58
The younger generation . . .
> I talked to a girl about a month ago who’s got a college education. We were talking about Pearl Harbor. And she actually stood there and asked us who was Pearl.
04:18
Yes, a shame! Pearl is a programming language.
@CowperKettle The programmng language is Perl.
 
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07:21
Mind Chat aims to be highly accessible, allowing those with no background in science and/or philosophy to get a grip on the cutting edge of the field.

(*To be more precise, Keith thinks *phenomenal* consciousness doesn't exist; listen to find out what this is.)
 
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08:54
@Mitch not in the verse I presented, but I suppose you could force bacon and garden to rhyme if you stressed the "on" and "en" both as "un". but English speakers don't usually stress the second syllables of nouns
*two syllable nouns
/bɘcʌn/ /gɘ:dʌn/
 
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10:55
> Printed diet sheet for the London Hospital from 1762. Full diet was given to men, middle diet to women and children, and all (except special diets) were given bread and beer, but no vegetables. Jewish patients were given money to buy Kosher food.
I wonder what is milk porridge
Panada or panado is a variety of bread soup found in some Western European and Southern European cuisines and consisting of stale bread boiled to a pulp in water or other liquids. In British cuisine, it may be flavoured with sugar, Zante currants, nutmeg, and so on. A version of panada was a favorite dish of the author Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a vegetarian. It was considered a light dish suitable for invalids or women who had just given birth.In French cuisine, it is often enriched with butter, milk, cream, or egg yolk.In northeastern Italy, it serves as an inexpensive meal in the poor areas...
> A version of panada was a favorite dish of the author Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a vegetarian.[2] It was considered a light dish suitable for invalids or women who had just given birth.[3]
 
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Semion Hitler ou Semion Konstantinovich Hitler (en yiddish : סעמיאָן קאָנסטאַנטינאָוויטש היטלר, en ukrainien : Семен Костянтинович Гітлер, en russe : Семён Константинович Гитлер), né le 3 mars 1922 à Orynyn et mort le 3 juillet 1942 à Sébastopol (Crimée), est un juif ukrainien engagé à partir de 1940-1941 comme mitrailleur dans l'Armée rouge soviétique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. == Biographie == Sans lien avec le dictateur allemand, Semion Hitler est décoré de la « médaille pour le courage », lors de la défense de Tiraspol (actuelle Moldavie) où il fut blessé. Il meurt au combat en juin...
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13:28
Word of the day: retting
Don't you mean ret? Why emblemize the progressive form?
Synonym: macerate.
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14:06
@Robusto It'd be interesting to know in what manner he is using AI. Doing gene analyses? Predictive analytics?
(but to be clear I wouldn't be considering your son who is doing cancer research to be an 'every day person' in that kind of situation.)
@Vikas hm... yeah that's a situation to deal with on twitter if you're just downloading data indiscriminantly. But, and inferences like these are common in data analysis, you'd sorta figure that the general behavior of bots would not include much relevant depression or anxiety speech.
That's also a good reason to always have (human) eyes on all data. ie don't just download from some arbitrary source without having someone look at them to make sure it isn't junk or misleading. (ie modeling Yelp reviews with sentiment analysis would probably have a lot more automated 'reviewers'.
14:44
@MattE.Эллен I just spent a half hour trying to get ChatGPT to give me a sentence where all the words have stress on the last syllable. I was unsuccessful.
15:20
@Mitch I've spent all day trying to figure out why Wind River successfully configure the ethernet adapter base memory to one value, while the UEFI driver successfully configures it to another. I so far have been unsuccessful. I think chatGPT need to buck up its ideas
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16:56
> Wife: I’m sick of you saying I talk like a pirate, and you never buy me flowers!
Husband: I never knew you sold flowers!
17:15
@CowperKettle I bet this is how @Mitch feel about it.
> a fish-dog with a massive cute woman head, goofy and uncanny, multiple eyeballs, National Geographic photographic film --q 2 --v 5
Jacob Rees-Mogg singing Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - generated by AI + AI voice generator
17:41
@Cerberus I feel a lot of things. I'm not sure how to feel about that.
The difficulty with talking about all this AI stuff is that people use words about it to mean things which extremely superficially might be vaguely relevant, but when even the least amount of precision is put on those words, it's just not supportable.
So any time anyone uses the terms 'intelligent' or 'thinking' or 'emergent' or 'aligned' it just sounds ridiculous to me.
And then if you say 'instead of intelligent, look it passes this benchmark by 100%', then I can say 'sure, but it only gets 10% right if the questions were written after 2022-08-01 (when the corpus collection ended)', then that's explainable.
There's a lot of magical thinking going on.
18:00
Someone edited a translated Russian meme
This meme is a by a talented woman, she's been producing cartoons about this character
Eva Morozova
18:33
@CowperKettle Yeah some people are bad. Once I was looking for a room for rent. So the dealer (who helps find rooms or PG) said pay us 500 INR (Around 4 USD) fee. If you like the room and agree to book it, this money will be counted in your first month's rent. And if you don't like room and don't buy it after inspecting it, we will refund that money to you. I trusted him blindly. I didn't like that room so I asked for refund. His employee said he is not in office right now.
Later I called him and they refused to refund. Saying that money is gone.
@CowperKettle It's okay!
I have an opinion. In India, unless you earn a lot, you have to spend a great deal of energy all money or product/service related stuff. People make false promises all the time. And later you feel hurt.
I was on my motorcycle and suddenly I noticed this squirrel crossing the road with unusually slowly. It was probably injured. If I hadn't noticed it at right time I could have hit it.
And then I stopped to take a photo. And just when I was taking photo another motorcycle was coming in front of me. I thought he would be aware of it seeing I'm taking photo of something and would slow down. No, he didn't change his speed at all and he literally missed it by 7 or 8 inches.
(road* unusually slow)
@Mitch I'll ask him. I suspect he might be using it to analyze myriad thin sections of tissue en masse.
19:11
@CowperKettle I've seen the same picture but used with different slots filled in.
 
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20:56
Those are indeed ablatives absolutes.
21:23
Absolutely.
 
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22:42
At least English absolutes don't have the fun "no nouns coreferential with any in the matrix clause" rule that Latin tries to follow
They do!
It is true that Latin is not 100% consistent in this, but I would say good writers almost are.
@Cerberus I don't think that English writers follow the rule to the extent that Latin writers do, but I don't have any actual data.
@alphabet Many may not, but the rule is there.
Many people are just not great writers.
The large majority, of course.
They don't even care or try.
@CowperKettle I always wonder with these surveys. To make the survey across different countries, they presumably need to translate "anger" into each country's language. This is an issue, since the translations may have subtle differences in meaning that alter people's answers.
@alphabet Yes, I thought about the same.
English "Are you happy?" can have mundane meanings in many contexts, while Russian would use the term dovolen (content) more often; "Are you content?" for the more mundane contexts, and schastliv (happy) more often for the more philosophical contexts.
So a Russian can be really irritated or depressed at the moment, and thus "unhappy", but reply that he is "happy", meaning that he is happy with his life.
23:45
So when a sixth-grader starts bleeding in class they should just keep their mouths shut?
OK, fifth-grader.
Can you guess what political party is pushing for this?
Haha, too easy:
> The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics to grades 6 through 12. McClain confirmed at a recent committee meeting that discussions about menstrual cycles would also be restricted to those grades.
@Mitch: He says it's a lot like what this company does.
So my guess was close to the mark, sort of.

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