But… The teacher is just flat-out wrong. It says right there in the problem that Marty ate more, and then uses that fact as a foundation for the question of “x is true, HOW can x be true”. It’d be different if the question was “someone claims x is true; is it?”
We’re in the cursed timeline where Carlin didn’t lead the second American revolution.
Real talk though, it’s because we don’t have an education system, we’ve got a babysitting system. POSIWID.
I… Um… I’ve been looking at this for a minute and I can’t tell why the answer is unconventional, nor what the fuck the teacher is on about.
Yeah, I’m in California’s central valley, which is a lot like the Serengeti in that it’s a grassy desert-ish thing that’s seasonally wetted by snowpack melt. It’s actually pretty swampy in its natural state. Used to be that you couldn’t drive forty minutes here without your car being a hopeless mess, especially in the late winter/spring. Now, I almost never hit a bug at all. It’s been that way for years. I pointed it out to my nature-loving MAGA mom and it freaked her the fuck out.
Sure, but ChatGPT costs MONEY. Money to run, and MONEY to train, and then they still have to make money back for their investors after everything’s said and done. More than likely, the final tally is going to look like whole cents per token once those investor subsidies run out, and a lot of businesses are going to be looking to hire humans back quick and in a hurry.
I don’t see “an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline” on here.
I’m going bog witch, but I’m a dude, so I guess druid?
Seems like a good time for shameless self promotion. I moderate a comm you might be interested in.
Well, the thing is that we’re hitting diminishing returns with current approaches. There’s a growing suspicion that LLMs simply won’t be able to bring us to AGI, but that they could be a part of or stepping stone to it. The quality of the outputs are pretty good for AI, and sometimes even just pretty good without the qualifier, but the only reason it’s being used so aggressively right now is that it’s being subsidized with investor money in the hopes that it will be too heavily adopted and too hard to walk away from by the time it’s time to start charging full price. I’m not seeing that. I work in comp sci, I use AI coding assistants and so do my co-workers. The general consensus is that it’s good for boilerplate and tests, but even that needs to be double checked and the AI gets it wrong a decent enough amount. If it actually involves real reasoning to satisfy requirements, the AI’s going to shit its pants. If we were paying the real cost of these coding assistants, there is NO WAY leadership would agree to pay for those licenses.
I don’t think I understand what the point of colonization would be. At some point, the cost of keeping slaves exceeds the benefit of the “free” labor you get from them; likewise with colonial administration. I think if a species had access to the kind of energy capabilities necessary to make an Alcubierre drive run, then that’s functionally a post-scarcity society for a number of reasons, and the only possible reason they’d want to colonize or enslave is if they’re just kind of hard wired to go out of their way to be major league assholes, even by human standards. Even if you somehow figure out a configuration of an Alcubierre drive that makes it so you could power it with a conventional energy source, that still bumps us way up towards post-scarcity because of all the cheaty/hackey bullshit we can now do in space. Deploying even a small array of solar panels around the sun to beam as much electricity as we could want to wherever we want would become a trivial task. Oh, an asteroid with sixteen quadrillion dollars of gold? Ez. Just pop on over and scoop up as much gold as you can fit on the ship. Want to colonize and mine the moon for a laugh? No problem, just pop on up there and set up your tent, no giant fucking rockets needed, that’ll be two seconds, please. Transporting goods, people, and cargo across the earth becomes comically fast and easy, no more need for big ass jets and airports. The Alcubierre drive would probably have a bigger impact on our QOL than the discovery of electricity.
Yeah. Imo, T3/Resistance and all the other slop are alternate timelines. The main timeline ends with T2, as far as I’m concerned.
No fate but what we make is more about trying to prevent judgment day, and the need for the resistance to happen at all, from happening.
I spoke with a firefighter I know about those trusses. He said they were the worst thing in modern fire safety and that he refuses to buy a house with them, because once they start getting hot, you’ve maybe got two minutes before that stupid staple plate pops off. Two or three trusses get their stupid little plates popped off and the whole house is coming down. Makes house fires way more dangerous and time sensitive than they already were, apparently.
God, I remember when this happened. McCain slid a land swap into a defense funding bill as a giveaway for this mining company. The tribe wasn’t consulted, ofc, McCain decided unilaterally that the tribe should just have this land over here instead of that land because my rich friends really want that land. In a just world, it would have been the scandal of scandals, and it would have immediately been struck down. But here we are, everything’s a fucking scam, you’ve got rights as long as they don’t get in the way of someone’s profit.
Good luck calling them already. A lot of services make it flat out impossible to talk to a human.
About the only thing keeping me off Sony is that they’ve got a really bad star eater problem in their DSLRs, and even still somewhat in their mirrorless.
Well, shit. I was planning on getting a Canon for my first camera because it’s hard to beat them for astrophotography, but I’m less sure now.
This one hurt
Me, an American: yeah, and?
Now I know she was an even bigger piece of shit than I thought.