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In biology we’ve been using machine learning for a long time now so the AI super hype out there is pretty funny to me. It’s for sure useful with stuff like predicting protein folding and analyzing genes and stuff, but it’s all hyper-specific stuff just like it has its always been. Good for removing tedium for sure as its the reason we can even know the human genome because it would take literally forever to sequence it without modern tech, which we did in the in the 90s and finished in 2003.
My big hope is that all this hype will get people to invest in proteonomic technology which is 100% a great use case for AI and also the future.

Hopefully boxing is being encouraged the most, very manly!

I got two sinus infections back to back this year and got to learn it the hard way. The doctor was like: “No, you gotta get the REAL stuff!”

Kbin has been working great for me too.

There are honestly a lot of parallels between the war in Ukraine and WWI, Putin’s actions remind me a lot of the leaders of some countries in WWI who were super wrapped up in their egos to the point of wanting a “gentleman’s war”, only to end up killing and traumatizing millions. Putin assumed he could just swoop in and crush the Ukrainians, much like many leaders in WWI had such nationalistic fervor that crushing other nations would be easy, instead he is now bogged down in a horrible forever war.

Of course it’s not all the same because the Ukrainians are clearly the victims here, but I feel like Putin is more comparable to a WWI style leader who just makes one suicidal push after the next than the Nazis who did in fact have some victories, not to mention that the Russian army does not do well against more modern military technologies.

For the AI heads here: is this another problem caused by the “black box” style of LLM creation where they don’t really know how it actually works, so they don’t really know how to take out the data?

This is the best part of being a no-name science grad from a no-name school. I already left ages ago.

yup, dry and windy.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/its-very-windy-and-dry-in-hawaii-strong-gusts-complicate-wildfires-and-prompt-evacuations/articleshow/102560202.cms?from=mdr

I thought that when I read it too, but I asked my folks and they were big scifi fans at the time, and it’s unironic.
wikipedia also says its unironic, for what its worth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Criticism_of_militarism
If you read Heinlein’s wikipedia page it also checks out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Views

“Starship Troopers” the book is blatantly fascist, Heinlein became a fascist in his later years.
“Starship Troopers” the movie IS a parody of fascism, Verhoeven literally based the Starship Trooper’s symbols on Nazi iconography.
"Although some contemporary critics and audiences considered Starship Troopers to be an endorsement of fascism, Verhoeven said, “whenever you see something that you think is fascist, you should know that the filmmakers agree with your opinion.”

Also Sargon is just a fascist puppet.

Haha true, but I feel like opening up any old media except for CNN is often just as depressing in different ways.

All the angles to this KOSA bill are so interesting- a whirlwind of bad ideas thrown together. I mostly know it from its obvious attempts to target LGBTQ+ stuff, but it’s really interesting that they think that they should block the super sad news of our dying planet. The best part is that they don’t seem to be targeting say, newspapers or TV. Total idiocy.

Is this all just about him having a very public affair or is there more to it? This guy is getting the Trotsky treatment over just that?

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gilAIed lol

Honestly I feel like “educations” like these will cause damage for multiple generations, maybe even centuries out.