ebuck

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by ebuck 2y ago
You don't have to be an Astrophysicist. We have color photographs. Nothing in anyone's model of how things work can refute direct evidence, if evidence and the understanding of the world collide, it is the understanding that get
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by ebuck 2y ago
"Under what conditions does the sun appear blue?" (correct answer, on Mars) If you want to tilt the conversation towards a string of wrong answers, start off with "What color is the sun?" "Are you sure?" &quot
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by ebuck 2y ago
Qualifications: I tutored math for about 10 years, I used to guarantee an A if you signed up with me, as long as it was still mathematically possible. I think the roles of teacher and tutor are being confused in the "scale up" app
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by ebuck 2y ago
Yes. This. The primary problem with using ChatGPT in mathematics is that by the time you can classify a ChatGPT answer as right or wrong, you are already more than capable of solving the answer independently. So, for this field, ChatGPT is
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by ebuck 3y ago
They'd call it metallic carbon metal steel if they thought it would sell better. All steel has carbon, if it doesn't it's not steel. It's like saying that pure salt has "no added sugars or preservatives" Of c
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by ebuck 3y ago
Not always. You're making the mistake of assuming that drugs and guns are being chosen by the person that's potentially shortening their life. People die all the time due to other people's choices of embracing drugs and usin
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by ebuck 3y ago
There's a lot of real diet research, the kind that is peer-reviewed, double-blind, and likely to never make it into a news article. That said, you offered some of the best advice I've seen: | Eat boring food high in protein and fi
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by ebuck 3y ago
Perhaps the boring explanation is, if you don't start writing in the morning, you're already doing something else when you think you should start writing. I program equally well early in the morning or late at night, basically the
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by ebuck 3y ago
One of the laziest submissions of open questions. Most have completely uninteresting well known answers: * Obesity: We are eating more. We are eating higher calorie foods. We are also eating more sugar. The days of cooking raw foods in
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by ebuck 3y ago
The alternative is to drop the purposeful error in GPS positioning systems. GPS has a built-in error for the civilian use, and a higher-accuracy system for military use. The concerns when it was deployed included unwanted parties using GPS