blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Mad research skills:

Are people in rich countries happier on average than people in poor countries? (According to GPT-4, the academic consensus is that it does, but I'm not sure it's representing it correctly.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His complaint seriously backfired here, because it makes working on a chalkboard sound epic. The act of rubbing one rock against another becomes ascendance into the highest realms of thought? That's fuckin' alchemy, bro.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

Too lazy even to make a "keikaku means nonconsensual" joke. Tsk, tsk.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

spoiler: it's just a shell script that repeats "Anta baka?!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

The Bell Curve in Perspective is free online.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

One thing that would be a good addition to the recommended NSFW reading list would be an explanation of basic CS theory that's good enough to forestall the worst of the woo, or at least give a reader who isn't already a lost cause the tools to recognize the woo.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those nitpicks are something you can ask it to clarify! Wikipedia doesn’t do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk

Those nitpicks are something you can ask it to clarify! Wikipedia doesn’t do that. If you are looking for something specific and it’s not in the Wikipedia article - tough luck, have fun digging through different articles or book excerpts to piece the missing pieces together.

Or, as we called it in my day, studying.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago

"The image of the penis is translated into a depth measurement...."

That's numberwang!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

(thinks)

Cum Jabbar

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

AI: the amazing technology that makes computers bad at math and turns me into Miss Wormwood.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Wikipedia's coverage of math and science topics is... uneven, but that article looks to be on the decent side. It's good enough that if you say you got absolutely nothing from it, I'd be inclined to blame your study skills before I blamed the article. And guess what? Pressing the lever to get nuggets of extruded math-substitute product will not help you develop those study skills.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Huh. Too bad he and I will probably never meet; this sounds like an instance where my ability to be incredibly abrasive could be used for good. (Or at least for comedy.)

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