Three plus or minus five

@woe2you@beige.party @afewbugs@social.coop I can’t speak to biology, but in physics it’s absolutely impossible to jump to the most “true” theory… and even if you do it’s not very useful. Although really everything is made of quantized fields, that doesn’t explain billiards. Although we live in curved spacetime, that doesn’t help understand how a pendulum swings. The detail is impossible to understand without basics couched in relatable terms.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I get why so many people want to weigh in. I do, and I don’t even use rust, let alone contribute. But right now we have a war for the Overton window. Tech bro allies want the window to exclude ethical and environmental and safety concerns and center on inequality being the default position, which is shown in many of those posts. Others want the default to be AI-free and introducing it only after it has proven to be good. I’m in that camp and want to vote.

@woe2you@beige.party @afewbugs@social.coop (but it’s not it’s actually slightly oblate)

@cap_ybarra In my last job I was pulled into an all-faculty meeting. President of the college then told us that the few-percent retirement contribution "temporarily paused" a couple of years ago was permanent and no one had ever said it was temporary. I walked out. I was surprised to find myself the only one.

@Flittermouse@girlcock.club @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange All these assholes standing up and trying to steal your drink.

@woe2you@beige.party @afewbugs@social.coop Ditto math. Should we not teach plane geometry when we know about non-Euclidean surfaces? After all, the world is a sphere.

@SnyperWolf@kind.social @alice@lgbtqia.space "Love is a snowmobile, racing across the arctic tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening

@richlv @fj @reloadedhead First and foremost: large vehicles are safer for the people in them, but much less safe for those around them. They crush smaller cars. Small children cannot be seen if close to the front. The headlights blind me when one of these is behind me in the road. They block sight lines. I think that wanting a big truck is basically anti-social. This goes double for cybertrucks.

@Heartofcoyote @cap_ybarra Actually I'm a big believer in education, and I feel proud of the work I did; I don't think most higher ed is "BS". That said, university should be free and easy to get into. The crippling loan system is terrible.

@richlv @fj @reloadedhead One thing we see in the US is a continual arms race to bigger and bigger vehicles, partly due to this “safer than thou” mentality, partly machismo. But when it’s normalized, narrow streets start to be seen as the problem instead of the vehicles. The streets become one-way, parking is terrible, the roads are torn up by the extra weight. And you never, ever see any cargo being carried.

@cap_ybarra Well, a year and I bit later I find myself kicked out of academia, so I think I'm more of a cautionary tale.

@cpkimber@scicomm.xyz Yeah, but don’t start with theory, they’re clearly an experimentalist.

@tayfonay Keep your enemies close. Keep your stupid enemies closer.

@xavierdatatech@mastodon.social So much bullshit. Bullshit that some companies leasing offices means a revolution is coming. Bullshit that "AI" requires a few brillant people who are few and far between. God damn this bubble cannot burst fast enough.

@OohOkayKay Missing option for "doesn't post pictures because rabidly anonymous"

@mcc@mastodon.social I emailed. I know that's not as good as calling, but don't want to do it from work and/or overcome phone anxiety.

@MichaelPorter @reloadedhead @richlv @fj I still feel that the 80s decision to classify SUVs as light vehicles was a big step down that slippery slope.

@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social Is there any evidence that there are are companies who fired people that were successfully replaced by LLMs? I suspect that, if any, they are still avoiding delayed impacts in reduction in quality of the work.

@gildilinie@beige.party I don't disagree, but also maybe people should stop putting chatbots online and trying to make money from them.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I think in a very real way the thugs lack a theory of mind. They cannot recognize ideas different than their own, and cannot project ideas like “what would I do on their shoes”. They lack the ability because they lie to themselves about everything.

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Sure, but I have so much memory devoted it's ridiculous. Like, pages and pages verbatim. I turned myself into a backup hard drive.

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Its probably more useful than my brain full of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and Monty Python sketches.

@Lana@beige.party brutal, but fair

@derekthiess @cap_ybarra Good on you. Alas, probably this only inconvenienced the department, which had to scramble to cover the class. But in my experience, the policy is set elsewhere, as are the adjunct pay rates. And this will be true as long as people are willing to be adjuncts for those pay rates.

@akamran@indieweb.social @futurebird@sauropods.win The problem is that you'll be arrested after you shrink down again and spend the rest of your life in prison. I chose 'smaller' because I'll do a lot less harm that way.

@donlamb_1@mastodon.online @cpkimber@scicomm.xyz More like parabolic

@donlamb_1@mastodon.online @cpkimber@scicomm.xyz I love Taylor’s books. When I set out to teach Classical I went back to the text I was taught from and figured out how to teach Lagrangians. Then I read three or four texts to see how they did it. Taylor’s layout matched mine almost perfectly. Concentrates on the “what” more than the theoretical justifications.

@edri Pity. I was really hoping this would be useful, but alternatives are listed uncritically, including some rather despicable options without even a suggestion. Changing from big tech to another brand that wants to become big tech is not great.

@soph It's interesting because of what they want: they want to claim more code is authored by copilot than really is. Their desperation is showing.

@JamieNemeth@toot.wales Replace it with "those who should pay more taxes but choose not to"

@990000@mstdn.social ffs

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social Forbidding the rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges, etc etc.

@danirabbit Ditto humanoid robots.

@celesteh @Mr0 @albertcardona Just to add: US universities are right now suffering from the lack of foreign students, and it's going to absolutely cripple this country in ways few can forsee. Besides devastating science other academic work, it's linked to many fewer skilled people immigrating. This was an easy way for the rabid right to mean we are going to soon no longer be science and technology leaders. They really believe prosperity is a divine gift.

@jgamblin Also, there's an interesting bias by choosing only those vulnerabilities that get an exploit. What if the number of exploitable vulnerabilities is going down? That would mean very little danger, even if exploits were fast.

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange Unless she asked AI what you wanted to hear.

@danirabbit @theothersimo Wait, I’m confused. What’s Soylent Green then?

@nixCraft He was over-generous then and stilll is now.

@darius Cheesecake truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9inOtq0Ayek

@futurebird@sauropods.win Grades are a useful lever but also a crutch. There are two problems the address in my mind: students who want the degree but don’t want to learn, and student who want to learn but don’t believe that the work will help them. Both are easily moved with a little incentive. But the era of the LLM suddenly changes the cheating cost to reward ratio. I’m glad I’m not teaching anymore…

@ZachWeinersmith I don’t think this is true.

@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Naw, wars for the Overton window are never permanently won or lost. People are seen then disappeared then seen again all the time This applies to both trans people and Nazis. No, no one asks for our votes because the only way to win is to convince people you’re inevitable.

@bstacey@icosahedron.website @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @Tom_ofB@23.social grrrrrrrrrouuuunch grrrrrrrrrooooounch

@datenwolf@chaos.social @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz Others in this thread have good points on some reasons to have done text. But I’ve seen such egregious and insulting slides (mostly in private industry). If the speaker ever says “This is probably too small for you to read” they are wasting everyone’s time

@derwellensittich Fuuuuu….

@dpk What is the thinking here? I’ve for several projects I use for tools, mostly aged our now, that I used for teaching or science or just ideas I was playing with. But nothing I’d want to show or advertise outside of select small groups. Why is that a red flag? I’m honestly confused what it could signify to you.

My boss once implied I shouldn’t call myself a data scientist because I didn’t have the right qualifications. He was right, but in the wrong direction.

@MichaelPorter @reloadedhead @richlv @fj (article paywalled)

@secretsloth@mastodon.art @futurebird@sauropods.win Probably not. Gluing little stilts onto ant legs a hundred times does not sound easy or fun. They’re not doing all that to avoid some calculus.