At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.

Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in “the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist.”

Weinstein released his Geometric Unity paper on April 1, debuting it on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Okay, like, you could’ve just started with this, this Weinstein person is clearly an idiot and cannot be taken seriously

His Geometric Unity proposal, therefore, has all the hallmarks of an outsider attempting to revolutionize physics, casting him as an Einstein-like figure toiling alone at the patent office.

I hate this framing so fucking much, Einstein wasn’t an “outsider”! He was known and respected! He talked to other prominent physicist all the time! Where does this myth even come from.

Hey I’m not an artist or really familiar with film and I also could’ve told you this

It’s not even that hard to grasp, ChatGPT is trained on all of human textual output it can be and it can’t write a coherent story, Copilot is trained on all of open-source code in existence and it can’t write a correct line of C++, obviously a film model is not gonna be any better

I have no idea about Ruby or the politics behind the scenes, but I do know who DHH is and so it seems like literally none of this would’ve happened if not for point 2. on the list?? Just like, don’t platform the rancid toxic cesspit of a man and you’re fine??

God, we had so much fun doing this at my uni when creating an example DB table for an exam (only it was fake song/band combinations). Are you sure your coworker isn’t a robot themselves?

That’s interesting, because in Poland 95% of all history you are taught is “and then they grabbed guns because they were just so fed up with their* shit” and from modern history it’s mostly anti-commumist worker movements that were all about general strikes and loud, disruptive protests.

*Russians’, Germans’, Austrians’, king’s, …

Quantum computers are in fact (believed to be) more powerful than classical digital TMs in terms of efficiency,

Importantly though, not crazily so. We know they can do factorisation quick, and we believe classical cannot. But we also believe they can’t quickly solve NP-hard problems.

(In each instance, believe means it’s not proven, but the implications of it being false would be so weird and surprising we think it’s probably true and are trying to prove it so)

Not sure if analog turing machines provide any new capabilities that digital TMs do, but I leave that question for the smarter people in the subject of theorethical computer science) did.

Capabilities in the sense that they can compute problems that digital TMs cannot? No, they cannot Capabilities in the sense they’d be more efficient at computing some problems than digital TMs? Hard af to prove or disprove.

Sorry but who the fuck is that? Not one of our common guests here, I need a primer on her

I think it’s important to remember that Bayes was a real guy and bayesian statistics is a real useful thing even though Those Guys made it their religion. And they don’t really understand bayesian statistics anyway.

I was in London last week and I can confirm it still has the Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and streets. The Tube is as shite and loud and warm and tight as ever. I even got called a cunt once. Had a blast. On a scale of Bordeaux to Beans on Toast I rank it 9/10 Britishness

code like a porn star thin

The what thing now??

What do you mean by this?

Accidentally posted in an old thread:

This bullshit again

This bullshit again

I haven’t seen the YouTube recommendation page in so long I wouldn’t know. Invidious my beloved <3

Median age is usually 19-25

Good news, now they’re 40-50 and severely divorced!

TIL Hank Green, the milquetoast BlueSky poster, also has some YouTube channel. How quaint.

I think every time I learn That Guy From BlueSky also has some other gig different from posting silly memes I lose some respect for them.

E.g. I thought Mark Cuban was just a dumb libertarian shitposter, but then it turned out he has a cuntillion dollars and also participated in a show unironically called “Shark Tank” that I still don’t 100% believe was a real thing because by god

What’s up with all the websites that tell me “you’ve reached the limit of free articles for the month” even though I’ve literally never entered that site before in my life. Stop gaslighting me you cunts.

Anyway, here’s the archive