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My younger brother and I both have fairly severe dyslexia. He's been applying to school and has been using ChatGPT to help him correct spelling and grammar mistakes rather than going to a person for help. It has been fairly incredible for him.

I wonder if this tool would start flagging his work even though he is only using it as a fancy spell checker.

You could always teach them how to use git and have them commit frequently. Seems like it would be less intrusive than a webcam.

> a key component of your business, or one that affects many users, shouldn't be permitted to be so complex that its outcome can't be explained based on a finite number of documented variables and logical branches.

You don't think that any business should be able to use random forests, let alone anything neural network based?

It is a lot easier to issue rebukes than it is to actually ship products.

Can you name a single moderation system that operates on this scale that will not automatically ban someone for getting mass reported? This is a fairly well known phenomenon.

> I highly doubt this. The Minecraft FAQ has this to say about it:

This level of naïvety is somewhat endearing.

The cost of storing a digital asset be it USD, a futures contract, or crypto is significantly less than paying to store physical goods. I don't see how this is up for debate.

Not really sure this would work. The problem with physical commodities is that you actually have to store them somewhere.

Agreed, I was just trying give an example of why using proprietor would create confusion.

Because it leads to confusion.

Example: Is the proprietor of a bar the person running it or the landlord who owns the building?

I find “Latinx” to be so unbelievably stupid because the English “x” sound doesn’t exist in Spanish. Rather than using the gender neutral form “latine”, some moron decided we should start injecting Anglo idioms into the Spanish language

> If he's prematurely saying what direction he's going to go one way or another, that's another thing. You don't see Vanguard tweeting "we're going to invest in this company if X happens and divest if not" to the general public, especially if they're trying to influence X to happen.

Because Vanguard is a passive fund. Activist funds do this all the time.

I'm sorry, but in what world does having a plan constitute insider information?

I am by no means a fan of mmt, but I think looking at government spending as a share of GDP misses the point mmt proponents attempt and often fail to make; which is that financial constraints are should not be the limiting factor of the economy.

A better indicator would be the price of labor and commodities since they better reflect the constraints of the real economy. Unfortunately for the mmt people, the prices are going nuts because we are actually dealing with real resource constraints now.

Not even the MMT people understand MMT. The lack of formal models means everyone is working with wildly different and often contradictory definitions

The article itself states that forgiveness is coming because these institutions defrauded their students

It seems like it would just be a better idea to have meter maids do this manually rather seeding cameras and microphones with direct feeds to the state.

I'm not aware of governments just asking one to pay a fine. The thing that really bothers me is that it allows the state to perform legal action at scale. If a city, let's say Chicago, just started sending people ticket how many would just pay it? From what I've seen [0], my guess would be a lot.

[0] https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/07/29/chicago-speed-camera...

Full time staff of between 5 and 20. No idea how writer pay works but I know my writer friends are happy with it. They are both organized as 501c3s with fundraising explicitly tied into the model

This is interesting because I am personal friends with the editorial teams of two different literary magazines that were started in the last five years. Having seen the numbers, I can say they are doing quite well. I am curious as to what is going wrong in these particular magazines that is causing them to close?

> Given my situation, how would you try to convince me that I should learn math

Learning math has been the only time that I have ever been truly humbled by the aesthetic beauty of an idea. I didn't intend on studying math, I wanted to be an english major, but the woman I was dating at the time was somewhat of a math prodigy and I wanted to understand her world more // impress her. This may seem silly to some of the more mathematically mature people here, but the moment I fully understood Cantor's theorem it felt like my mind was dunked into this sublime understanding that left me in a daze for a week. Russell sums this up pretty well,

""" Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. """

> how would I teach myself the actually interesting parts without getting bogged down by doing lengthy calculations that a computer could do. The standard curriculum is so heavy on the latter and mostly absent of the former.

This wont be much of a problem if you're interested in pure math as numbers bigger than 10 are rare in that domain. I would recommend picking up an intro to proofs type book like [1]. The reviews are mixed but I would take that with a grain of salt as I suspect many of them were written by bitter students.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chapter-Zero-Fundamental-Abstract-Mat...

At something like 6 lbs (2.7kg) per gallon (3.78541 liters) I'm not sure normal microbes can survive.

Is a bad teacher better than no teacher? My parents had to pull my brother out of third grade because his teacher routinely picked on and harassed him, even going so far as to give him an in school suspension for talking back because they refused to believe "sphere" was a word even after being shown numerous dictionary entries.

Yes to juice application numbers. Acceptance rate is something heavily considered by the AP in college rankings.

No thank you. I honestly don't know where I would be without you and Fernando. Those initial presentations gave my bosses the confidence to let me hang out with the engineers and start messing around with the code base even though I didn't know how to code. A few years later and I had my first CS paper published.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Wait you made Flaticon? I would like to to say thank you. Before I truly got into software I was a humble associate consultant and I honestly don't know how I would have made all those decks without you.

True, but prestigious schools are playing games. For example, my alma mater is currently waiving the application fee for students they know will not get in simply so they can reject them. It is incredibly fucked up.

Some companies are doing this but it varies by industry. I have family on the comp boards of a few publicly traded companies and they are doing across the board raises of 5-9%.

My current company is not and so I have been interviewing.

I share your distrust of the media, but I think there is an even more cynical answer at play. A bunch of my personal friends work for these publications. Almost all of us got covid in December, ironically many from the holiday parties of these publications, and came face to face with the reality that we have sacrificed almost two years of our 20s to a virus that was pretty mild. The thing we were trying to avoid came for us, so the idea that we would continue to live in fear of an event that already happened is absurd.