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For lent-related purposes, I presume? Same as beavers.

Trump has literally been convicted for sexually abusing E Jean Carol.

Or both!

Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry… or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?

The big problem with training LLMs is that you need good data, but there’s so much data you can’t really manually separate all “good” from all “bad” data. You have to use the set of all data, and a much much smaller set of tagged and marked “good” data.

what is this, a battery for ants?

we came to the conclusion that while Die Hard had done so much in fresh and interesting ways at the time, it had been so thoroughly copied from by so many other films that it offered little to an uninitiated modern audience, looking back.

This becomes SO obvious when you look at “the great classics”. Citizen Kane is, by all modern standards, a pretty boring and uninspiring movie about a really lame topic.

But at the time, it was absolutely groundbreaking. It basically pioneered half a dozen techniques such as “letting foreground and background be in focus at the same time” and “nonlinear storytelling” (which of course was hugely telegraphed, because it was new) and “using a montage” with “Sound to make transitions”. He also used such amazing techniques such as “long takes” up to several minutes. He moved the camera around, not just taking a stage-view, but low and high angle shots, and then he added lighting to make things stand out.

Stuff like that is now SO basic that they might not even teach it in filmschool, simply because people are inundated with it from modern media. Orson Welles basically invented all of that though, and it was revolutionary. Now it’s just boring a movie about an asshole’s sled.

Chemist here: yep.

Chemistry is just simplified biology.

Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.

Exactly. Same in organic chemistry: very few things in the experiment will actually hurt you, but a lot of things on you will ruin the experiment.

Chicken is even considered a good food for chickens. Won’t hurt them, plenty of protein, and they’ll gladly pick the bones clean of scraps

That’s what they used to say about cows too…

Sure, but those are still “big glass jars full of electricity”

Yes, except you need to buy each bit in a big glass jar.

Edit: only half joking, they used big Leiden Jars, which were basically giant glass batteries. There was no such thing as people with power at home, unless you were crazy rich

I can play a woodwind just as well as these guys were marching.

I mean, it would be some 25 years until the radio was invented. And Hertz’ machine required a 30kV spark on a 2.5m meter long antenna with 2 solid 30cm zinc spheres, and his transmission range was something like “barely down the hall”.

Not the most practical method.

But they’re covered in nuts

The same thing always happens in zombie stories: its never about the zombies. Good authors understand this, bad ones don’t.

If you make a zombie story about the zombies, you’ll quickly find out that zombies are crappy antagonists. TLOU got it right originally, it’s about people. But then they completely forgot what they were doing.

Absolutely. Great individual action in a pretty shit situation.

He disagrees with the consequences

Eh, it’s a bit of an overreaction, but I hate people being cutesy over something that’s really pretty terrible for the animals