Huw Swanborough

If the claim is Claude is conscious, anthropic should define what consciousness isn't first.

They're young. They don't know the vast array of choices, smaller search space :P

AHH though it was a fiorentina. A personal fav.

No...no no... No no no no... No no no no no no no no no no noooooo.

If I ask "what counts as retro" am I going to receive morale damage?

The "egg doesn't belong on pizza" crowd must be angrier than the pineapple crowd...

"for you the day Julia M. Rohrer posted stats memes was the most important day of your life... For me, it was Tuesday"

Bring back buildings that looked like VCR players!

Nice, I'll see if I can borrow one from someone to give it a test... Uh... Read?

I've not tried those, no! I once had a look at some a few years back but was put off by price at the time. Is it reasonably straightforward to read blog posts/news sites on there, or is it a case of uploading PDFs to it?

Anyone got suggestions for making reading on a screen a less awful experience? There's so many blogs and articles and the like I'd love to read but I cannot stand sat at a desk reading on a screen.

Wishing I could just have magazine subscriptions back.

Media literacy never lived, so won't say it's dead, but I think there's a substantial amount of people who view "thing on TV is good because it's on TV".

I saw a take on Reddit once "if he's the bad guy, why would he be the star of the show?"

Once had someone order cappuccino, made it for them.

They came back complaining "this is just espresso with milk foam, I want at least half a cup of milk in this"

"Oh right, prefer a latte then? No worries happy to do so"

"No I want a cappuccino, I hate lattes"

Ok, long cappuccino coming up lol.

Aqua spuds

I've seen some places use this argument to support... *Incredibly big sigh*... Not being good at something and therefore AI use is an accessibility thing.

We have to work. We don't get a choice in the matter. Few people have the luck of circumstances and education access to work their passion.

I'm not gonna criticise someone for using AI based on protestant work ethic.

There's enough other reasons to criticise genAI.

Yeah sure this is a subskeet but I'm not in the business of personal call outs but the topic is prominent...

Of all the criticisms of AI "why aren't you passionate about your job and ask AI to do it?" Is not it. Most people don't get to choose their career. It's a privilege to be able to do so...

Same! C,D,E at A-levels. The moment I got to uni (Kingston Uni) I was able to flourish so much more. The differences between the two are vast, one should not serve as a hard filter for the other.

My non-traditional background (music then psychoacoustics, then Neuroscience) is the reason for all of my strengths as a scientist.

Field specific knowledge is only a tiny part of success in so many fields. There's so much benefit to folding people in from diverse backgrounds.

Inland Empire: No no, don't play the happy song, it's stupid. Play the sad song, it's profound.

I bought a rare vinyl with the intent to listen to it but it's arrived unopened..... I feel very conflicted now about even opening it.

Human Screams Occupy a Privileged Niche in the Communication Soundscape Screaming is arguably one of the most relevant communication signals for survival in humans. Despite their practical relevance and their theoretical significance as innate [1] and virtually universal [2, 3] vocalizations, what makes screams a unique ...

A relatively simple feature to extract would be auditory roughness as well, particularly relevant for music that induces anxiety or fear. The modulation power spectrum analysis from this paper but in a moving window over the music time course would work I bet. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Creative divergent thinking is... Somewhat burned up at the end of a day of highly convergent thinking lol.

But I really miss my passions cos they kinda got put on hold for PhD and first postdoc.

Should be something some old colleagues of mine can do! They had heaps of tools for extracting information from corpora like this on a speech and language context.

Otherwise I'm digging into my brain regards a presentation I saw that was similar.....

www.liri.uzh.ch/en/services/...

It is hard to work in science and then have the requisite mental energy and freedom for spending some time on your passions outside work. Spending 8-9 hours a day locked into very analytical thinking makes anything creative I'm the evenings near impossible. Don't know how to balance it.

Yeah but *other* than the plagiarism, the supporting of an illegal war effort, polluting the internet with slop, devaluing human endeavour, endangering education, and being pretty useless at most tasks...

Why don't you accept that genAI is actually ok at coding and the world is going to love it?

Quite the conundrum. Wonder if there was anything that could be done....

One of the three branches of weirdness.

"but data is plural in Latin!"

And we can start saying "these days" when we start saying "these agenda" and "an agendum". But til then I think it would be weird to use a Latin grammar rules when not speaking Latin.