- JadeNBSafety not guaranteed.
- "I block all online ads" is a less useful title than "How I block all online ads", and pointing out when the title mangler has made the title worse serves as a request to moderators to fix it if they agree. Which they did here, I believe for a net win.
- > Meanwhile younger undergrad and grad students are getting more and more accustomed to LLMs forming the front end for any knowledge they consume.
Well, that's terrifying. I mean, I knew it about undergrads, but I sure hoped people going into grad school would be aware of the dangers of making your main contact with research, where subtle details are important, through a known-distorting filter.
(I mean, I'd still be kinda terrified if you said that grad students first encounter papers through LLMs. But if it is the front end for all knowledge they consume? Absolutely dystopian.)
- Maybe we could come up with another ludicrous suite of names for HBO/HBO Go/HBO Max once it's merged with Netflix.
- Educating people on how to schedule meetings requires that everyone else have the skill for you to benefit. Educating people on how to attend meetings only requires that you have the skill for you to benefit.
- You're right. Thanks.
- Gabriel's horn is the same phenomenon one dimension up: finite surface area but infinite volume.
- > Depression is caused by laziness and anxiety by hopelessness. My kids know that they aren't permitted to be lazy or say they are bored. They don't have anxiety because they have hope despite circumstances.
This sounds horrible. If I weren't depressed or anxious, being told that I wasn't ever permitted to be lazy or say that I was bored would make me so; and, if I were, then being told that I was lazy and hopeless would make it worse.
- For some reason, the title mangler chopped off the word "say": "Prozac ‘no better than placebo’ for treating children with depression, experts say."
- The title got mangled from the grammatically correct "40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page" (though some of us learned "Hobbes's" in elementary school) to "40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' burst onto the page" (the ' definitely doesn't belong).
- I suppose you could argue when it started being a major driver of progress, but it's actually been around for 3.5 decades!
- I haven't, because I'm not an SWE. I'm sure some SWE has, but I can't point to them as an example. But, even in the extremely unlikely case that that's never happened, the reason such a person isn't a mathematician or scientist is because they didn't do math or science, not directly because of their job.
- > Yes and you have to be invited to publish in a place. Meaning at least one other person has to believe your opinion is significant........
I don't think that this is true. The vast majority of technical math publications, for example, are reviewed, but not invited. And expository, and even technical, math is widely available in fora without any refereeing process (and consequent lack of guarantee of quality).
- > do we really have to retread this? unless you are employed by a university to perform research (or another research organization), you are not a computer scientist or a mathematician or anything else of that sort. no more so than an accountant is an economist or a carpenter is an architect.
Doing math or science is the criterion for being a mathematician or scientist, not who employs you how.
- > They’re opt-out and can be disabled in the settings or fully disabled in about:config.
Any setting where there's a difference between "disabled" and "fully disabled" is user hostile. And, for a company that advertises itself as all about respecting the user, Mozilla sure does love their user-hostile decisions.
- But US law isn't even the law of the world, let alone the definition of reality.
- Also preserves more semantic information!
- > And an accepted journal paper presumably cannot be submitted to arXiv anyway unless it’s an open journal.
Why not? I don't know about in CS, but, in math, it's increasingly common for authors to have the option to retain the copyright to their work.