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by wrp 5mo ago
When Costco came to Korea, it was a great source of American products at reasonable prices. They have gradually shifted to more Korean brands over the years. Even if you are only buying local products, my Korean friends tell me they prefer
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by wrp 7mo ago
This comment or something like it should be at the top, because it's the main point about polygraphing. It's the process, not the answers that matter. I knew a guy who did security clearance checking for the Three Letter Agencies
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by wrp 9mo ago
There was an MS-DOS tool by James Korenthal called Babble[0], which did something similar. It apparently worked according to a set of grammatical transformers rather than by generating n-grams, so it was more akin to the "cut-up"
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by wrp 10mo ago
Thank you
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by wrp 10mo ago
> Sam Neil writes hilariously about the filming. That piqued my interest, so I searched for it but Google AI told me to give up. :-/ Sam Neill has not written about the filming of The Hunt for Red October; he was not in the cast of
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by wrp 10mo ago
I recently watched the whole season of UFO, wanting so badly to like it because of its music and set design, but episodes were soooooo dull. The plot premises seemed promising, but the development was poor.
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by wrp 10mo ago
I recently attended someone in the hospital. The constant beeping and alarms round the clock prevented any deep sleep for days, and seemed to hinder recovery.
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by wrp 10mo ago
Support for part of this from another source. I've read through the collected letters of many famous intellectuals (just for hobby), and I've noticed a common dramatic shift in personality starting around age 28-30. People become
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by wrp 10mo ago
I was in Hokkaido many years ago for work and loved it. Compared to the rest of Japan, indoor/outdoor spaces are wider, food is better, and people are friendlier. I never could swing another work visit, so I dream about spending time t
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by wrp 11mo ago
What would be the plot of a movie equivalent to Blade Runner for this scenario?
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by wrp 11mo ago
As a teacher, I have closely watched the effect of LLM use on student writing and attempts by colleagues to use automated detection. I plead with you, DO NOT USE AUTOMATED DETECTION. I hate AI slop and I fight against it in my work, but as
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by wrp 11mo ago
Problem solving is a well-explored field in experimental psychology. TFA is a bit unfocused, making both some generally supported speculations and some traditional ideas that haven't been supported. A very good survey is the edited vol
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by wrp 11mo ago
There is an even longer history of denigration of the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes and mythologizing the Normans, but 11th century animosities were a different phenomenon that the modern British use of those groups as political symbols.
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by wrp 11mo ago
The traditional grand monuments in the West are arches and obelisks/columns. We already have an obelisk. How about a pyramid/ziggurat? After all, we have one on our money.
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by wrp 11mo ago
Speaking from knowing many people who once had jobs requiring security clearance, I think it's likely that a thorough search of their papers would uncover some stuff that officially shouldn't have left the office. People work on s
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by wrp 11mo ago
Japan used that strategy very successfully for at least a century. The high cost of imported goods encouraged consumers to buy domestic at prices that were also high, which subsidized exports at competitive prices. The Japanese public is le
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by wrp 11mo ago
I hang out with a mostly older crowd and often eat in downmarket neighborhoods, and I've seen that dish mixing after meals. Nice to learn that bit about long kimchi slices. I just assumed it was because people like it long, like with s
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by wrp 11mo ago
A substantial restaurant meal in Korea is usually served with several standard side dishes. Due to the expense and effort of providing these to each table, restaurants often require a minimum party size of two. Also, I'm not sure if it
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by wrp 11mo ago
In medicine and law, it is unethical and sometimes illegal to choose your course of action based on profitability against the needs of the client. Teaching has been traditionally been held to the same ethical standard.
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by wrp 11mo ago
They won't close. They will just rely more heavily on foreign students. The primary focus of academia is to remain employed, not to serve the needs of the domestic student population.
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by wrp 11mo ago
I am professionally interested in the narrative structure of texts, as a teacher and researcher, so I ask this out of genuine interest. I often see posts like this in discussions of LLM use and I wonder where they are coming from. They read
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by wrp 1y ago
I have a hobby interest in pre-1066 England to the extent of studying the language so I can read literature in the original, and I do find it a very irritating feature of scholarship written in Britain that the narrative is so often guided
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by wrp 1y ago
Need to add, the idea of cultural homogeneity is entirely relative. Japan is or isn't homogeneous depending on who and when you ask, and I'm not even counting the Ainu or other not-of-Japanese-race.
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by wrp 1y ago
Funnily, when I read up on the state of the art, I felt let down that we are apparently still far away from being able to dissolve cataracts with eye drops. I'm hoping for that when my time comes.
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by wrp 1y ago
Speaking just about the Renaissance fair phenomenon in the USA, I think the main inspiration was the 1960s hippy obsession with Tolkien. Renaissance fairs were just a big outdoor costume party, were you could prance, toke, skinny dip, and b
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by wrp 1y ago
Coming from the experience in the PNW, 1960s onward, Renaissance fairs were never about serious historical reenacting. The sex/drugs/music were always focus, sort of like a Grateful Dead concert without the band.
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by wrp 1y ago
> my male colleagues are, generally speaking, outpaced by my female colleagues. I've worked in academia, mostly the humanities, since the 1980s, and have observed a clear difference in how much effort women put into social networkin
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by wrp 1y ago
Reactionless drives[1] have been investigated in other ways. James Woodward[2] proposed something that at least hasn't yet been debunked. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive [2] https:/&#x2F
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by wrp 1y ago
TFA is based on the dissertation work of Kenneth M. Pollack. If you are into military history, his Arabs at War (2002) contains the historical part of the dissertation and is very informative. His second book, Armies of Sand (2019), con
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by wrp 1y ago
Could it be this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty's_Amelia_(1803_ship)

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