James Church

BNA is delayed because of Trump.

The Polymarket odds on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is valued at $9.4 million, of which $6.4 million is betting on Trump (mostly against). Trump is ranked 8th in the chances to win. He's a long shot.

The Polymarket odds on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is valued at $9.4 million, of which $6.4 million is betting on Trump (mostly against).

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

The timeline of Rose's relationship with his wife Chelsea, who he first met when she was underage, have drawn persistent criticism in the media and allegations of grooming. The two are confirmed to have met as early as 2007 when John was 42 and Chelsea was 17, although Chelsea's involvement in the Future Farmers of America chapter that John sponsored began in 2003, indicating they could have first met when Chelsea was as young as 13.

I'm willing to support anyone, maybe even a Republican, going up against Senator Marsha Blackburn in the election for Governor of Tennessee.

I mean... how bad can the second ranked Republican be?

Meet John Rose, the second ranked Republican running for Tennessee Governor.

a cartoon character is sitting on a bed holding a pillow and saying muffled screaming . Alt: a cartoon character is sitting on a bed holding a pillow and saying muffled screaming

"Hey Dr. Church. I have a quick question." [Person asks me complex question that requires I interact with their laptop or give detailed explanation.]

I'm really good at puzzle solving and I collect trinkets, yet I don't know why. I think I'm a raven.

At one point I made my server redirect to Disney.com using just an external hack.

My students looked at me as if they were barely interested. I'm like, "This is how real computer hackers hack your applications."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I demonstrated just how easy it was to take over a database from a textbox on a website with poor security in my Principles of Information Security class. I was dropping cross-site scripting attacks and SQL injection attacks (all on my own server) to show the importance of input validation.

The water main at my house broke. Good grief. I already wasn't feeling great.

I wonder if they paint the die. There are several all-black die faces. I'm sure software makes this process easier.

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it.

I'm still doing my little French lessons while the world crumbles around me. With French, I can doomscroll in two languages. 🙃

Tell me more on how to compress my reading.

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How would you respond to Marsha Blackburn's pressure to fire a professor over a social media post that is just a news clipping?

Thanks for bringing attention to this.

two men are talking with the words you may go ahead & engage in this reckless activity ALT: two men are talking with the words you may go ahead & engage in this reckless activity

Give your medical information to an AI playing "doctor" ....

I shouldn't quit social media because my colleagues are losing their jobs. That's obeying in advance. I should have the courage to stand alongside my colleagues, even when times are tough.

I think I'll just quit social media all together.

What happened to the Washington Post??!?

The equation in the Google presents doesn't handle subscripts, so it looks like you are multiplying "v" times zero times "t" plus "h" times zero.

You have to take apart the URL, but here's the prompt used for the Doodle:

"My math homework says that a basketball player's shot follows a parabola. How does the quadratic equation fit in here? Can you walk me through it?"

I want Google to tell me how much clean water will be sacrificed to this.

Shown is the Google Doodle for the quadratic equation.

Today's Google Doodle on the quadratic equation is cool and all, but it links to an AI description of quadratic equation. Where did you steal that content from, Google?

I love your art and I'm glad I got something this year.

I'm sitting here in a Wendy's and using the wifi to upgrade my Debian Linux. Last week I was partying hard at DragonCon. These are the days.

For the record, I hate Illinois Nazis.

Boo.

Pets should live forever.

Bye Peaches. You were a good dog.

Thank you, @effinbirds.com, for solving the problem of correct change with AI.

Dropbox is discontinuing the Dropbox Passwords service. Boo. I liked that service just because it came with Dropbox Pro.

I hope to see you this weekend! I'm excited!