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- Comment on Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert 15 hours ago:
In Italy, I would arguably state that most users of gelatin are in savory dishes, mostly similar to the aspic main picture. Only exception I know is panna cotta that needs gelatin to set. Sweet Jell-O for me is a US symbol.
- Comment on redwoods 21 hours ago:
Nature is amazing, thanks for the photo
- Comment on Doxxed 21 hours ago:
What changed a lot is occupancy. It used to be that homes were multi-generational and families were larger. I don’t know in this context, but in Europe until recently, it was common for grandparents-parents-kids to live all together, with sibling of the parents often included and potentially their families too. An apartment occupancy rate around 5-7 was common, while single family homes where unheard of until last century. This strengthened social ties, smoothly provided care for who needed it, and made the family more economically resilient.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 1 day ago:
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 1 day ago:
I teach, nothing is evident to anyone 😭
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 day ago:
Sometimes, you achieve good traffic flow by making a city so absurdly difficult to drive in that people give up, park in the outskirts, and take public transport.
Example: Amsterdam. In the city, there is almost no traffic, achieved through insanely twisty road signals, stupid expensive parking spots and no gas stations. And still, almost no traffic doesn’t mean no traffic… I can’t understand people still clinging to a car in such conditions.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 1 day ago:
If you want, any work that does not encompass the whole world is applying a filter and therefore a bias of some sort. We don’t expect a photo to X-ray the roots of a tree, because we understand the physical constraints of photography. Sure, something could be just out of frame, something else could have been photoshopped out, you can create a different story by selecting different photos and so on. But we understand the “what” a photo represents. I doubt we have the dang understanding of “what” an LLM represents, what are the constraints of the possible answers, and we definitely don’t understand why a specific answer is chosen over the infinite other possibilities.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 1 day ago:
Depends. For an expert, that is self evident (even if it might not be clear which biases have been incorporated). But that is not how it has been marketed. Chatgpt and similar are perceived as answering “the truth” at all times, and that skews the user’s understanding of the answers. Researching how deeply the answers are affected by the coders’ bias is the focus of their research and a worthwhile undertaking to avoid overlooking something important
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 1 day ago:
AI is getting a much more widespread use than people with a technical background. So its application, namely in education but in all other non-CS disciplines will be through people with limited understanding of the biases. It is importing them to make them explicit, to underline that an LLM will produce the same biases it deduced from testing data and its loss function. But lots functions and test data are not public knowledge, studies need to be performed to understand how the coders’ own biases influenced the LLM scheme itself.
A photo has less bias because we know what it is representing: a photo only shows what can be seen. But the same understanding is not clear AI. Why showing a photo-realistic tree versus a biological diagram? Choices have been made, of which a broader audience needs to be aware of.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 1 day ago:
Did you read the rest of the article? The tree drawing was just the triggering element to an evaluation of the AI capabilities, in particular underlining how “tree” (bit also “human”, “success”, “importance”) are being strongly restricted in their meaning by the AI itself, without the user noticing it. Thus, a user receives an answer that has already undergone a filtering of sorts. Not being aware of this risks limiting our understanding of AI and increasing its damage.
Theoretical research in AI is both necessary and hard at the moment, with funding being giving more to new results over the understanding of the properties of old ones.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 day ago:
Quite some businesses in my area do that. I was quite surprised the first time I saw it, but it makes sense. They usually have distance bands and some extra cost if you are further than a 15-20 minute drive.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 days ago:
At some point, I got quite some worried/pitiful look because i didn’t own a car but only a (non-motorized) bike. People are weird!
In the other hand, I got along with people wanting to make our own “bike gang”, aka commuting to work together.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 days ago:
I’m so are you went through that. I remember how surprised my then-boyfriend was when he had a bad day and I helped him out, listened to him, and did not hold it against him. He was utterly shocked, while at the same time he had been helping me deal with much heavier shit that was impacting my daily life…
This ideal that men are 100% tough sucks so much.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 days ago:
I had very little ethics being taught in my academic career. Most of what i know is high school level philosophy (from a country that still used to care about that stuff but aiming to change it soon). I would have loved more humanity courses. On the other hand, if you had given me the choice between a course in my speciality and a humanity course, I would have chose the specialty one every time
- Comment on Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem 5 days ago:
It angers me too. I have male friends that refuse to interact with kids because of how society could view them… heart breaking for them, a critical loss to society
- Comment on gotta blast! 6 days ago:
You can extend the dot product to imaginary fields, there are a couple of standard extractions. If I remember correctly (but my quantum physics background is really poor, so I’m ready to be proven wrong) the one compatible with the bra-ket notation is
a dot b := sum_i conj(a)_i b_i
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 6 days ago:
I don’t. It’s the sort of thing that is “evident” so no one talks about it much. Plus, professors don’t want to point out how much the whole system sucks
- Comment on number box o number box 1 week ago:
Where does this definition come from?
All the geometric definitions of tensors I have met always assumed a base, such that a change of coordinate or of parametrization would change the values of the tensor. Unless you define the tensor by its action instead of its values?
- Comment on number box o number box 1 week ago:
Also, but that is because math likes to reuse names like Donald Duck reuses his jacket…
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
I throw ?? (that is also the default error code for LaTeX, so the last sweep of the pdf is always a search for ??)
- Comment on better paying job dealing with egos vs peace of mind job that pays poorly. I'd be taking a 20% financial hit. Worth it? 1 week ago:
To build up on it: think long term as well.
Nowadays, it’s a 20% pay reduction. How does it look for long term? Will you have growth options in the new position? Will it sabotage your resume? Will you be able to keep adding to your 401k? How likely it is that a rotten apple coming would spoil the mood in the new job?
And: are you really really absolutely sure that the new job would be more chill for you? Think about yourself and think about how you would feel in that job after 6 months to a year. Would you still appreciate it? Would you get resentful because you have little to do while you could do so much more? What would be your frame of mind after a while?
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
Not like that anymore >.<
- Comment on healthy nutrition 1 week ago:
I wish you the best… do vitamins appear? That seems so little for a full day…
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
Considering how widespread of a situation it is, I am surprised I haven’t found yet a good LaTeX package that handles temporary sections
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
Me too! That wasn’t even the inly time I got comments on my code. Since then, I make a point of doing at least a cursory check on codes when I review as well
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
Yes. Yes, everything works a-okay. Somehow I fixed the code but never removed the obnoxious, full cap comment…
- Comment on Real Talk 1 week ago:
Once, I got a reviewer stating “in the code, I doubt line 43 was supposed to be submitted”
Line 43: FUUUCK, DOES NOT WORK
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Succeeded, thanks! That’s uncanny!
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 1 week ago:
Somehow, the fact that it’s set in 1507 instead of 1500 really tickles me! Like, you wouldn’t believe how much changed in those 7 years!
- Comment on Wife has COVID and I've had a lung infection for almost 2-weeks. Should I worry? (background in post, mods read the first bit!) 1 week ago:
As a general statement: worrying doesn’t help, only raises your stress levels and negatively impact your immune system.
There are here causes for concern, and your fear is justified. Other than isolation from your wife, there is not much to do.
As a side note: being in constant contact with other humans raises your immune responses, because you are constantly trained to fight off mild infections. Coming back from full isolation was really rough on my partner, they kept getting “the flu” (something or other) every time they went to a crowded place, even just the supermarket at rush hour. It took them a year to develop a normal immune response again.