zout

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[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 21 hours ago

Some people melt their ice cream in the microwave before eating it, though.

My dad used to put ice cream in a mug, and then place it on the metal plate of the biggest burner in the stove to melt it a little. This worked about a hundred times before the mug exploded in a lot of tiny pieces.

[–] zout@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Chris Simpson artist?

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Makes sense I guess. I don't experience this downvoting behavior though, probably because I'll block any magazine where this happens.

[–] zout@fedia.io 85 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Not to be that guy, but Epstein wasn't always known to be the bad guy to the general public, and this professor might not have known about the not public stuff he was doing. I haven't read the article though, so maybe not.

Edit: read the article, Harvard only put the guy on leave because everything became public with the release of the Epstein files. It seems to be that this professor was in on it, and Harvard had taken action against him before but lifted the sanctions because of reasons.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So, out of curiousity, why are you on Lemmy if that's how you feel?

[–] zout@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

These guys have the best health care available to them, and they will take it regardless of what they're saying.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

If AI would be the downfall of McKinsey and their peers, more people would be for it.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ew, that's the slimy laugh.

[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

You should read your comments back, because they definitely read more 'murican than other people are.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being the smartest person in the room means you have nothing new to learn from those in the room.

If that's how you feel when you think you're the smartest, you're not that smart.

[–] zout@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was studied in the Netherlands a few years ago, and it turns out that for people from the same social economic background in the same city, the neighbourhood you grew up in made all the difference. Oeople who grew up in the "right" neighbourhood made on average 50% more pay.

 

So, in the last ten days I've been reading the "dumb luck and dead heroes" series by Skyler Ramirez. I stumbled onto this series on Goodreads, probably in the "also enjoyed" section for another book.

Initially, I tought the books were ok, but reading them, I found the storyline going in some strange directions. I also find it strange that there is hardly any character development in the books. I dug into it a little deeper, and found that all of these books have been published in the last two and a half years, together with some other books 14 in total.

So, digging a bit further into his profile on Goodreads; He's currently reading his own books, books by an author named A.B. Franklin who just published his first book, and an author named Jack Bodett who has published six books this year. A.B. Franklin is returning the favor and reading Skyler Ramirez' books.

All in all, this makes me guess that these writers make extensive use of LLM's while writing these books. I googled Ramirez' name, and found his website. Visiting the website only confirms the feeling that it's all LLM and AI imaging.

Any toughts on the subject?

 

The toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs has two part hinges, where you mount two pins on the toilet and snap the seat and lid on. Something broke in the snapping part this week. Fixed it by removing some plastic from the clamping mechanism, put some epoxy putty in there and around the pins, then placed the seat back. It's still on there today, so it worked I guess.

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