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Cerberus

00:06

@Mitch Yes: I use it in the context of discovery, not in the context of proof.

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@MetaEd I did it your way, but it was impossible to guess which quartets were to be blue, green, and yellow. Only purple was clear as such.

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Færd

02:27

@jlliagre he says he intends it (or the parts of it i've read so far) for the non-mathematician, which is a boon for me too, since i can't grasp his contribution to math either.

@Mitch linguists say writing is not language

it's a representation

*not language itself

Dannyu NDos

02:44

The world is now in a maelstrom. Help.

I shouldn't pinpoint whose karma is this, but I can anyway.

CowperKettle

Dannyu NDos

I mean... At this point, it looks certainly like anyone is gonna nuke South Korea.

CowperKettle

03:03

@DannyuNDos Why?

Dannyu NDos

@CowperKettle Because... Is South Korea still an ally to the US?

Mitch

@Færd agreed. What I said was not about the representation but about the message.

@CowperKettle Rd expect the next picture will be a racecar driver driver yelling "Jesus, take the wheel!"

Dannyu NDos

The next South Korean president election will decide the fate of the country.

Either South Korea is an ally to the US, or an ally to China. Heck, can we choose both?

I know nothing.

Cerberus

03:31

@DannyuNDos Is there really any party who wants to ally with China?

CowperKettle

04:15

“I don't quite understand the science behind human cloning.”
"That makes two of us.”

Dannyu NDos

@Cerberus Allegedly yes.

GratefulDisciple

04:43

@CowperKettle Found 3 more by the same painter: Jesus playing basketball, playing soccer, playing American football. No racecar. But I cannot find anything on the Internet about Harvey Gilmen.

Cerberus

@DannyuNDos Which one? Do you happen to have an English source?

Dannyu NDos

05:08

@Cerberus Well, the allegation is from a rather radical view. And no, I don't have an English source.

Cerberus

@DannyuNDos I thought so.

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CowperKettle

07:14

I started taking amoxycilline

I know that it's wrong to do that, but I want to get well sooner..

I've been having severe fatigue the last 2 days, and my temperature turned out to be 38.3, and I've been coughing since midnight.

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GratefulDisciple

12:12

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CowperKettle

12:37

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Hindi/हिंदी में)

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I wish I could understand Hindi

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CowperKettle

14:42

Crackling bread

Bread flavored with cracklings is found in several cuisines: Crackling bread, in the cuisine of the Southern United States is a cornbread incorporating cracklings. Pompe aux grattons or brioche aux griaudes, in the cuisine of central France, is a bread, tart, or brioche incorporating cracklings. It is a specialty of the Bourbonnais. Pan de chicharrones, in the cuisine of Argentina and the cuisine of Uruguay, is a wheat flour bread incorporating beef cracklings and tallow. == In American literature == Crackling bread is mentioned in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is the narrator Scou...

Bread of the day

GratefulDisciple

15:25

Wall of the day: Archaeologists just found China's "Oldest Great Wall" section built 300 years earlier than thought (770 BC), making it closer to the age of the Jerusalem wall which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.

CowperKettle

16:17

> The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: not all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Khayyam of the day.

HippoSawrUs

17:02

I feel I've become addicted to basically

I blame all the people who need fundamental elements pointed out

And it's made me an asshole, basically

GratefulDisciple

@CowperKettle Whenever I take amoxycilline (it has been a long time ago), it is very important to take the full length of treatment (5 days?), don't stop when you feel better.

@CowperKettle I'm very sorry to hear that. Hope you get better soon.

Mitch

17:25

> nobody really needs anything generative AI does. Large Language Models hallucinate too much to be truly reliable, a problem that will require entire new branches of mathematics to solve, and their most common consumer-facing functions like summarizing an article, “practicing for a job interview,” or “write me a business plan” are not really things people need or massively benefit from

This is an extreme position, but backed up by a lot of data (prior to this quote in the post is all the data).

GratefulDisciple

@Mitch If the numbers are true, it's quite damning. Thanks for sharing.

Mitch

I can't really argue with the dollar figures, but the 'AI slop' argument is compelling. I have a hard time coming up with applications beyond doing homework.

(ie cheating)

@GratefulDisciple yeah... if this is reliable investment advice, it'd seem prudent to divest from -anything- suggesting AI.