Heather Logan

Fun fact, the letter y in English is inherited from the Greek Upsilon. It's even called 'y-grec' in French. So any time you see a loan-word from Greek, like physics, psyche, or mysterious, that y used to be an upsilon.

There was a vowel shift at some point from ooo to eee.

Canadian Association of Physicists' 'Professional Physicist / Physicien - Physicienne' logo, clearly displaying the Greek letter Phi which is the first letter of the word 'Physics' in Greek.

Physics in Greek is φυσική (phusike; the first letter is phi).

CAP already had a Professional Physicist certification and there's a great big Phi on the logo.

Once I was at a Canadian Assoc. of Physicists meeting and some guy wanted us to try to get "Physicist" made a regulated profession (like PEng), b/c it would somehow raise salaries. He went on about how we could use the Greek letter pi in the iconography.

The first letter of 'physics' is not pi.

Oops (ilon).

Lowercase xi is my nemesis.

I'm going to hang out with friends tomorrow afternoon, but still need to get some big chunks of work done.

Noooo, I still have to make lecture notes for next week! 😱

Hospital nutritionist
Restaurant server
Physician
Truck driver

(doing all 4 grandparents because Gender Equality)

Either one is going to be fine. Warsaw and Madrid are both in the same time zone; people deal with it and the culture adapts.

Just remember that the Grovel Module is only there because it keeps users coming back for more.

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

\item \ldots

\item Profit

\end{enumerate}

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!

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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.