ProfessorOwl_PhD

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 8 days ago

I doubt they’ll be issuing retractions but they claim it’s all updated with the latest science, so probably.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 10 days ago

Amazing article, just for this phrase:

the inventory of drugs [Hunter S.] Thompson consumed for what could broadly be defined as recreational purposes

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 10 days ago

One time I got back from annual leave only to find out that my job had been done away with by the board over a year beforehand and my manager had spent the last year submitting fake timesheets claiming I was working a different position, so I could do the parts of her job that the assistant manager wasn’t already doing. The company had assumed I knew about it as they couldn’t get in contact with me when they discovered it and came down on the manager (my job was only the beginning of her fraud), but I was in the middle of nowhere and had no signal, so the first I heard about it was when I walked into the office and one of my coworkers went “what are you doing here?”.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 10 days ago

To my knowledge she got away without any real consequences - last I heard she had the same position at one of the competitors.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 23 days ago

Diagram of when I learnt about capitalism

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

US banks won’t even issue chip and pin cards because their customers would find entering a 4 number code too arduous and complicated.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Just Google the paradox of tolerance. It’s really not as complicated as you’re making it out to be.

Also, punching Nazis is always morally correct. If you wouldn’t attack a nazi because they’re not currently threatening you specifically then you won’t develop any additional moral prerogative in time of civil war - you’ll join them, because they’re still not threatening you specifically, while fair and equal redistribution of resources will effect you. You don’t have any sort of morality or ideology underlying your objection, you just think extreme things are bad because you’re not given a choice.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Ok, but it’s what telegram has. So would you rather keep your “free” speech and put others in danger, or lose it to keep others safe?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

The alternative is sitting down, having a talk, drinking some tea and talking about our differences.

You literally talk in your other reply about how you’ll join them. You can’t just sit down and talk about how they want to kill the jews and you don’t - your willingness to hear them out inherently legitimises their ideas as being reasonable and able to be reasoned about.

I know you don’t fully understand how the way that you say something can be as informative as what you actually say, but I don’t need to assume - you did actually tell me in your comment that you don’t really mind nazis as long as they’re not being violent towards you.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 30 days ago

The alternative is sitting down, having a talk, drinking some tea and talking about our differences.

You really don’t understand that the things you say have meanings, do you?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Are you sure they’re not saying “you’re whale cum”, because that’s what I do.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

It’s tragic, but that’s what happens when your state primarily defends itself with human shields.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Palestine is a country, not a state.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Israel is a state, not a country.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Bukak-tree

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Gonna change your question to “dog”, as that’s what I have

1. I would choose basically any other life over my worst enemy’s. In a choice between them and no one, I’d save no one. I feel you don’t understand how emnity works.
2. Better question, dog,
3. because he’s a member of my family that I’m responsible for. As annoying as his theivery is and as bad as his farts are, he’s my friend. Would you choose a stranger over one of your friends?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

BBC Radio 6 Music has a lot of obscure stuff, especially the DJs like Iggy Pop and Craig Charles.

Edit: also, go to a local open mic night, find someone whose music you like, and make friends with them. They’ll have loads of obscure recommendations for you.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

I should point out on the energy front that while they’re building more fossil fuel plants, they’re decommissioning older, less efficient ones, and building nuclear reactors to take over long term. Coal plants only take a few years to build compared to nuclear plants 20+, so there isn’t actually much better they can do while meeting their (and as you point out, the west’s) energy needs.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

enables a lot of ordinary people to create art.

Exactly the type of fucking idiot that’s never created art in their life.
“Art is paintings of horses”-ass motherfucker.
The reason you can’t make art isn’t because you’re bad at drawing or painting and need AI to help you, it’s because you don’t have the creativity to overcome those limitations. No matter what words you put into stable diffusion, you will only create pictures, not art - there’s no meaning underlying the piece, you just typed “t-rex with massive tits” and called the output art because you can’t tell the difference.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

How will AI take over creative professions when it can’t even perform rote professions? AI chatbots keep going rogue and lying to customers about company policies (and even the actual law), image generators can’t get enough of illegal and violent imagery, facial recognition AI’s keep identifying black people as all looking the same - in art the value of a peice is constrained by the meaning it has to people, so why do you think that LLMs and all the other predictive generators we laughably call intelligent will be able to create meaningful peices by putting together the most likely set of pixels?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

I didn’t ask when, I asked how. How is a prediction engine, that is something that guesses a likely output based on past information, going to display creativity?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

I don’t fucking care if it’s on the moon, answer my question: by what mechanism will a machine learning model exhibit creativity? Like you understand my question, right - you know how “AI” works?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

How do you plan to tell stable diffusion things like “make the star a bit bigger” or “move the words slightly further to the left”? Have you ever actually used a graphic designer? You don’t just ask them to make you a logo and they’re done, there’s a lot of back and forth between artist and client to reach the final product.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

No, it uses appropriate coordinating conjunctions. A run on sentence isn’t just one that’s long.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

So you don’t know how AI works? And can I remind you that you literally haven’t offered a single image as evidence, just vaguely told people to go look at websites? Even if you weren’t avoiding my question, you do understand that you have to show specific examples to back your claims up?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

No you can’t.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

All those mountains of images and you can’t even link a single one and explain what about it shows creativity.

Anyway, you can’t be so stupid as to not know what my problem is, I’ve spelt it out specifically in every single comment: My problem is that you won’t give an answer to my question (as a reminder, that question is “how will an AI show creativity?”). Use your words to provide an explanation, backed up with specific linked images to demonstrate it. Stop saying “uhhh i saw it on ebaumsworld” when you’re asked for an actual explanation articulated through language.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

And still you avoid the question, because you have no idea about art or machine learning. You just think the patterns are pretty.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 1 month ago

Don’t you have a baby mobile to be gurgling at?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

What’s wrong with reading a book, writing poetry or a novel, exercising, playing with the smartphone…

Ask your manager. They’ll probably say something like “it looks untidy”.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

Sorry, you’re trying to turn slave into an unsayable slur? What the actual fuck, is this some kind of right wing psyop to nullifying discussions of historical and modern slavery, or just USian libshit racism that equates black skin and slavery?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

I hope you’re right, but I’ve seen a bunch of this “slavery is for African Americans” rhetoric recently and I’m not sure if it’s ignorance or maliciousness.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

I’m sure it’s worth the money if you have plenty to spare, but somehow I suspect that OP isn’t just trying to be thrifty, and your advice is about as helpful as telling them to just walk on water.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 2 months ago

Sony have a few decent wireless ones under £100 - I’ve got some MDR-ZX770BN that are about 7 or 8 years old now. I think WH-CH720N is about the current equivalent of them.

I’ve had good results with JBL earbuds too - the Reflect series have done a solid job while I’m cycling.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 3 months ago

brb putting 1.2 million crabs in a gigantic maze so i can run doom

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 3 months ago

You mean apart from them occuring at set intervals? The length of time between the average women’s periods is 28 days, but the moon’s 28 day cycle is 100% reliable, and always happens regardless of individual stressors. Having a regular solar event that confirms you’re accurately keeping track of days is pretty practical.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 3 months ago

wym missing

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 3 months ago

I understand how it can be frustrating for you idiots to be constantly corrected by us, but maybe if you tried learning before assuming you wouldn’t find yourselves geting dogpiled for your ignorant kneejerk support of an islamophobic white supremacist ultranationalist.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 3 months ago

the people willing to listen the hardest.

I don’t know if you can see usernames on your instance but theirs ends in “@lemmy”, not “@hexbear” or “@lemmygrad”.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 4 months ago

Don’t be ridiculous, they’ve shot a bunch of men - escaped hostages, their own troops, and, like, probably at least 1 Hamas through sheer probability.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

There is always a final exam […] How many finals exams can you have per year.

I mean not every course has the same structure but I had about 12 per year.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

The whole point of human shields is the expectation that the person you’re defending against has the basic human morality to not indiscriminately murder civilians to get to you. The IOF has no issues indiscriminately murdering civilians whether they’re being used as shields or not, so what possible benefit would Hamas get from using them?

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

This goes for ANY working breed that is actually expected to work at their job in real life. And they cost a LOT of money to buy, train, and maintain.

TBH it depends on the work - up until the surge in demand from the pandemic, Border Collies were super cheap in the UK because it was mostly farmers selling the extra pups they didn’t need. I’d imagine other areas have a local working breed that’s similar. That said, they are now more expensive than rescues, and require a particularly high energy lifestyle so aren’t suitable pets for most people. Most people just need something kinda friend shaped, which rescues have plenty of.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph.

I would agree but I once dated a girl who somehow snapped a whole-ass bike in half riding into a street sign.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

NGL, I’ve never had an issue with cheap/expensive coffee at all, as long as it’s real coffee rather than instant. I use a pour-over or aeropress rather than machine (or make cold brew), but I’ve never even had a cheap bag of preground coffee that was bad enough call it worse than an expensive one, rather than a different.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

Maldon is a sea salt, the extra cost comes from the extraction method rather than adding anything. I don’t think it tastes noticeably different, but the large crystals stop it from clumping together and gives you better distribution when sprinkling it over stuff.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

Personally, I can taste the difference in coffee when I have a bag that’s opened for over a few weeks, but not sure if it matters how recent the roasting was done.

Sorry, yeah, this is more what I meant - as long as the coffee is relatively fresh (my house goes through about a bag a week, so it never gets time to sit and go stale) the price doesn’t seem to get you a better/worse cup of coffee.
Of course, my aunt got me an expensive bag of coffee for christmas that apparently makes really good cold brew, so it’s sat in the freezer for now waiting for better weather, so I might change my mind in a couple of months. Gonna stick with Lidl own brand beans for now though.

ProfessorOwl_PhD , 5 months ago

That would be a government enforced media silence - media silence just means people not talking to the media or the media not reporting on a subject, it doesn’t require a direct order from the government to the media to not report on something. Media might create a voluntary silence, where they agree not to report on a subject, or might have a silence pushed on them, like football’s “silenzio stampa”, where teams will refuse to talk to or interact with the press when they’re unhappy with reporting.