Heather Logan

Photo of a fancy toaster labeled "SMEG" in large, friendly letters.

Surely it's six times nine? 😉

Whatever happened to "the only winning move is not to play"?!

Ack, the article is paywalled; sorry.

This is not even hypothetical.

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Antisnow!

Nobody signs an email to their own student with "First/Second Supervisor".

Cursed, or cursed at?

I hadn't even thought of this!

(Fortran user)

I pronounce it LAW-teck but I've also heard LAY-teck.

\begin{enumerate}

\item Use LaTeX

\item Number things automatically

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\item Profit

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It's marbles, only frozen and the marbles are really big.

If the college student had been *unprepared* for this work environment, they would have been removed from consideration. The fact that the student *withdrew* from consideration tells me that they had been amply prepared to practice journalism with integrity, and found the newsroom lacking.

Saitou Hajime featured prominently in the series (set ~10 years post-revolution).

As a person who went through a 5-year-long Rurouni Kenshin hyperfixation during the '00s, this pleases me.

Lunacy.

The slopbot was really good at projecting the "condescending asshole" persona too.

More than this: I've seen the slopbot in action in the email replies of HR 'professionals' too lazy to do their job. The slopbot can't tell the difference between 'too little' and 'too much', and doesn't know how to paste web links into an email. Slopbots can't even do the bare minimum.

YES! MOAR TREES!

🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳

The real trick with neural nets is to make sure your testing data is not included in your training data set. Otherwise you have no guard against overtraining.

I learned this in 1992.

The real headline: Researchers working with the AI system Claude have failed the Turing test.

Not gonna lie, for the first few paragraphs I thought that the author was revealing that there were literally two different guys named Noam Chomsky, one or both of whom worked at MIT.

They're sycophants! What are they hoping, that he'll buy them a linear collider as a treat?!

I heard that the term 'students' is old hat and now they're being called 'learners'.

I do wonder where they get this stuff. Once I got invited to a fake materials science conference because I wrote a paper with "composite Higgs" in the title.

I finished reading Ken MacLeod's 'Lightspeed trilogy' recently. A++ would recommend!

Great worldbuilding (and, um, -wrecking), plenty of plot twists, complex politics, and no simple answers.

I mean... 3 trillion would remove the national *deficit* if you taxed it at 60%. You'd need more than an order of magnitude more to remove the national *debt*.

Holy shit 😬

To clarify: I don't do small-talk.

One of the many benefits of not doing small-talk.

#ActuallyAutistic