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Here's a writing tip: delete that first sentence.

The proportion of slackings off for which you are caught by your advisor is unrealistically high, but exactly as high as it feels. I definitely got my fair share of those emails...

This is very dependent on location. There are places where, eg, the buildings from the 60s are rather well built, but the later buildings are terrible. It's not the age that matters. My previous apartment was brand new building, but cheaply built to cash in on certain developments nearby (new transport links, new faculty building at the university). I doubt it will still be there in twenty years. My current building is much older but much nicer to live in (thicker walls, better ventilation, no creaks and whistles when the wind blows the wrong way). I think it must be 40 years old or more.

Who's claiming that?

And why do you want to be found easily, really? In case you get your 15 minutes? I think the goal is to build community. Large numbers and reach are actually not so important.

I don't get these posts. I've yet to hear someone developing federated social media whose goal is mass uptake. Mastodon is designed to avoid viral posts for instance. I use latex and vim to produce pdf documents. I wouldn't write a long post saying "I don't see this replacing ms office any time soon".

The title is very misleading. The latest season wrapped before chatgpt was released. Charlie Brooker typed "generate a black mirror episode" into chatgpt out of curiosity and said the output was s**. See: https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/16664940234254827...

I wouldn't mind having a huge monitor that I can use anywhere, set up just how I like it. Other than that, you are spot on. Also the camera presents a privacy issue. It has to be always on I suppose.

They published Oliver Byrne's modernist visual take on the first six books of Euclid's elements. It's not all shallow.

Haha if it was then it's also self aggrandizing.

>Smart people are exceptionally good at over-justifying, over-explaining, over-rationalizing.

What's that based on? Couldn't it be the other way round? Or simply untrue? Overthink by definition is suboptimal which doesn't sound very smart. If intelligence is defined in any way to include problem solving, a smart person should be able to solve the problem of finding the right amount of thinking to do on a particular topic, no?

A great use case for llms. I'm not expecting you to do this, but I would love to choose my own news sites. I'm a Brit living in Czech Republic. So I'd maybe have the guardian, BBC, and some Czech sources in there. Not so interested in American news, any American news that affects me will reach my local sources. But great work!

Funny story, we wanted to watch it recently and found it streaming online somewhere. Unbeknownst to us, it was in reverse, presumably to avoid copyright infringement/getting caught. But there was no mention of it in the description so we had no idea and watched it beginning to end, or rather, end to beginning. After a while I was wondering why nothing I'd read about it mentioned the very interesting artistic choice to play all the footage backwards. The famous music was also istaqsinaayok but I thought maybe after a little while it would switch. It didn't but by then it seemed perverse not to continue. It's really quite poignant in reverse, i recommend it!

I wasn't asking for complex mathematics, just for the basic understanding that an even number greater than 2 can't be prime.

I just asked chatgpt whether 3442177452 is prime. It insisted that 58657 is a factor (it's not) on the basis that it's the largest prime less than or equal to the square root (which I think is correct but irrelevant), and even though it gave a non zero remainder when dividing the two numbers (I did not check if the remainder is correct). Then it gave a (wrong) factorisation, not even using 58657.

It's cool and it will probably be able to get this right one day but it's a big goal to miss.

When teaching kids to juggle, it is useful to say: a touch is as good as a catch

I don't think anyone assumes that! Or very few. Once you've tried it, you can become convinced it's true but that's not an assumption that's an update. The assumption, drilled in from school at least in my case, is that all drugs represent a dangerous yet somehow also cowardly, lazy break from reality