SamBam

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by SamBam 4d ago
I tried following an authentic Southern pickled watermelon rind recipe, and they were so sickly sweet I couldn't stomach them. I should try again sometime with a regular cucumber pickle recipe, just replacing cucumbers with watermelon
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by SamBam 4d ago
Were your geometric figures Form Constants? I learned about those from the novel Blindsight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
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by SamBam 5d ago
I should have scrolled down to your comment first! I spent 10 minutes debugging. Nice work GP if that was air-coded, though.
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by SamBam 5d ago
I'm a software engineer turned public middle school science teacher. At the moment, I would never encourage any of my students to go into software engineering. It seems to me that's rapidly becoming a field where a small competiti
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by SamBam 10d ago
Preferring books that have stood the test of time is totally different from just avoiding everything published in the last few years because you're worried it might be AI slop.
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by SamBam 10d ago
There's more to Fantasy than a single boolean "does it contain something that is not real?" Fantasy gets applied to the work as a whole, to its dominant tone and structure, not to one element. A work of fantasy usually has ot
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by SamBam 10d ago
You're not the only one to be taken aback by that. Yes, the Hugos do fantasy, but I'm not sure I would have even thought to categorize Sinners as fantasy. I mean, yes, it has vampires. Was From Dusk till Dawn fantasy? But as a
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by SamBam 10d ago
Never heard that this is stopping anyone from reading recent books. Maybe someone whose only method of selecting books is to scroll through Kindle and look at the titles, maybe they need to pay attention to publication dates. But the rest o
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by SamBam 11d ago
It's not about whether it makes rational economic sense, it's whether people are happy about it. It could make economic sense to be the world leaders in the next drug that turns everyone into mindless worker drones ("if we&#x
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by SamBam 11d ago
Because (a) that vision of utopia is not party of any "self-proclaimed communist" philosophy that I've ever heard of, and (b) no one believes that's what's going to happen. Instead the evidence of our own eyes tells
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by SamBam 11d ago
Besides the data center itself, many people in the US are against what the data center is bringing: more AI. Most regular people have not been sold on the idea that more AI will be good for them or their families or communities personally.
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by SamBam 13d ago
And yet the bubonic plague did indeed exist and kill people between large outbreaks.
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by SamBam 13d ago
Even in Massachusetts most people I know tend to know the seasons of many fruits and vegetables, and I definitely mostly eat apples in the fall when they're much better. When I lived in Europe people were even more aware of the seasons
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by SamBam 15d ago
There isn't great evidence to suggest that electric toothbrushes are much better at removing plaque than manual. E.g. this metaanalysis [1] found basically no difference. There are also studies that show that electric is better, like t
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by SamBam 17d ago
I'm curious whether individual-word highlighting is best for people with reading disabilities, or a broad, whole-sentence highlighting might actually be preferable. When I'm reading my eye is jumping back and forth across the sent
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by SamBam 17d ago
If you're in New York and you look due East across the Atlantic, what country are you looking at? Most people would assume Portugal. Nope, you're looking (over the curve of the earth, of course), at Morocco. Look just a tiny bit t
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by SamBam 21d ago
Desktop only (to save you frustration).
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by SamBam 23d ago
I feel like that's the benefit to the creator having made this a dog (even if a demon-possessed dog). As intelligent as a dog can be, can we ever truly understand why they do the things they do? The Uncanny Valley effect would be too b
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by SamBam 25d ago
It's a heartfelt apology to the UN, but, as the article says, too late.
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by SamBam 26d ago
Ha! I love how all the community highlights are highlighting this.
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by SamBam 26d ago
Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?
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by SamBam 26d ago
I have this same idea about why it's hard to remember dreams, but even more so, why it's hard to remember my kid's or spouse's sleep-talking. Sometimes I'll check in on my sleeping kid and she'll sit up in bed
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by SamBam 26d ago
That last image is bizarre. The quiche, cream and even the salad look like they've been given the trypophobia treatment. Which might even make sense, because there were always (still are?) those horrible ads in the chumbox area of news
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by SamBam 27d ago
> That criticism and feedback haven’t dissuaded The Ocean Cleanup [One paragraph later] > the team pivoted in 2019 toward a new model that was first suggested by critics and skeptics as an alternative in 2015. So.... It did dissuade
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by SamBam 27d ago
I genuinely think that the vast majority of English teachers have had experiences like this. It's what made them become English teachers. Then, with all the best intent in the world, they try to explain to their students "Look, yo
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by SamBam 28d ago
That pedantic ship has sailed. In everyday communication people use "AI" as a shorthand for saying "LLM," even if they know perfectly well that other forms of AI exist. You can tell this by context, no need to tell peopl
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by SamBam 28d ago
I think the author isn't a native English speaker? Either that or the writing is just a bit confusing at times, a lot of sentence fragments. > We poke their website to see - sure enough they are - an angry email to them. In general
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by SamBam 28d ago
Find a country. I tried it again and the very first country was St Lucia again. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/fuhO0lh
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by SamBam 29d ago
Do they even have any idea that their ads are showing up for the specific competing doctor? Isn't Google the one deciding where the ads are most valuable?
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by SamBam 29d ago
Similarly, the story Lena by qntm.[1] It describes in part how some volunteer brain scans are actually quite agreeable to work with until they work for too many hours, and then they get fussy, but it's cool, you can always reboot the

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