Strokin with the Boys

@customink Doesn't seem like I can

@WFBCmicro Hello, please send a DM with your contact information and order number so we can look into this right away. Thanks!

@customink is there a way to talk to somebody that actually works at custom ink? Your call center is clearly not in the US and the reps clearly have no idea what is happening in the US. I have 10 day rush order sitting in art work review on day 9

@IamSmokeWhite @TheWorthyHouse Normal people do not want to talk to an AI chat bot.

@TheWorthyHouse Doubt, but anyways, I presume you have hired people who sent e-mails for you? It'll be just like that process, only you'll be hiring a digital agent, not a person. Don't take my word for it, of course. Just wait and see what happens in the next 12-18 months.

I don't understand this idea that "AI" can "answer your emails." I sent more than 200,000 emails during the fifteen years I ran a business (and probably 150K more sent when I was a lawyer). Each one required my personal input, tacit knowledge that simply cannot be reduced to an algorithm, involving the balancing of hundreds or thousands of pieces of information internal to me. If I allowed "AI" access to every written piece of data about my business and my prior correspondence, it would not cover 10% of the necessary information to respond correctly to emails, much less the relative weightings and interactions of each of those pieces of data. Whose emails is "AI" supposed to answer? The new "AI" customer response bots are worse than the old ones. Seriously, what emails are we talking about?

@tjjszn @sSolo_Dolo @AlexparkerI @thareal_don @phildabuckets I mean they probably do multiple takes for each shot but why would they edit it together that way?

@sSolo_Dolo @AlexparkerI @thareal_don @phildabuckets I actually just have eyes and can see that the video stutters as he hits the putt. It’s not a conspiracy to think video editing is real retard.

Does anyone actually believe this shit? Zero chance of that being a legit 2 over

@willjarman @KenLaversin @golfafter60 @USGA Right? Are we mad that he didn't sand bag harder?

@KenLaversin @golfafter60 @USGA So his handicap should have been higher?

Why dislike the @USGA GHIN 9-hole calcution: Played a quick nine, shot a tidy 38. If I had played the back and shot another 38, it would have been a 5.4 differential. But I didn't - I turned in the 38, and GHIN gave it a 9.4 differential. Which equates to a score of 80.5 at my course. Which means GHIN gave me a 42.5 on the back - a 4.5 stroke increase over the front nine. Doesn't sound like "demonstrated ability" to me. 🤷‍♂️

500k followers giveaway pt 1! My golf bag plus some @Titleist goodies Comment, like, repost to enter. Must be a follower Clubs not included unfortunately* Still need those for my day job

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist Hey I'll take it

@atrayonhere @jasonfurman Okay but unless *you* designed this security question it's not going to work like that.

@WFBCmicro @jasonfurman Because a secure question/answer should be built with security in mind. Birth year is a terrible security question. My "mothers maiden name" is 64 random characters.

I got this security question on an Adobe docusign. I was born in 1970 so I selected 1981. It marked my answer as wrong. Was I supposed to answer "None of the above"?

@atrayonhere @jasonfurman Why would that be the logic of a security question

@jasonfurman 1970 and 1982 both had world cups. The others are incomparable.

@atrayonhere @miasma49 @jasonfurman There is a list of options in ascending order so no none of them are equidistant from 1970, are you daft?

@miasma49 @jasonfurman Why? Can't two or more options be equidistant?

@BigMeanInternet Wow you are dumb

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I think people are thinking about this wrong. It's not like "What if refrigerators only worked 90% of the time?" It's not that kind of tool.

@TheDipState @KFCBarstool @elonmusk Wow and it looks like shit too!

@KFCBarstool @elonmusk Grok getting impressive . Knocked this out in 16 seconds!!!!

Artistically, this pencil drawing is one of the most impressive things ever. But I think it would drive me insane to work on something for 700 hours and the end result just looks exactly like a black & white photograph of the scene. I know that’s the point but it’s just like, here’s the picture again

@KevHarlanEffect Wow this makes your outrage so much more justified

Found out this was AI after a closer look but my point still stands. The photo may not have actually happened, but they definitely WANTED it to happen.

This photo may have just single-handedly ruined the Masters’ 92-year-old reputation

@educatedandfree @JM4LISD Well your composition (really ChatGPTs) is terrible. Would feel sorry for those kids if they were real.

I teach grammar/comp and Literature to 8th graders. I teach 7th grade lit too. Econ is a tenth grade class, but no one is too old for “The Little Red Hen”. (I’m teaching an extra section because a teacher resigned mid year. My job is really hard, but it’s also great because it pushes me so far.)

As part of a composition lesson, I gave - copy of “The Velveteen Rabbit” to my 13-14 year-old 8th grade students, then read it to them. Some of them had never heard it. They were silent, enraptured: remembering. At the end, one asked, “Why are you reading this kids story about a toy to us?” And I said, “Because it’s not a kids story about a toy. It’s a story about how only love can imbue you with a soul and that love requires much of us, but gives much more in return.” Total silence. Even if their compositions —telling a story about a possession to which they attach strong emotion— aren’t great, the assignment will have been worth it because we got to read “The Velveteen Rabbit” together.

@educatedandfree @JM4LISD You teach econ and composition to 13 year olds?

Last year in comp we read “The Ugly Duckling” but I can’t remember which writing assignment it was attached to. In my Econ classes we read “The Little Red Hen” and I quote it often. Aesop is part of our elementary school curriculum. You’re right that the conventional public schools don’t read these anymore. There’s no reason you can’t read them to your children. It’s arguably better done by you. open.substack.com/pub/educatedan…

@grayfieldLLC @Nawlins48 @Hayden__Shearer I think we should #shrink the game to the point that it's just you and your elitist bros on an island gorking each other.

It’s also not a “high and mighty” thing. I literally walked my city course yesterday for $29 while I belong to a CC down the street. I just think golf at all levels should respect tradition and stop modernizing the game. I had my shirt tucked in, hat off in the clubhouse, and no music. Beyond that I’m not going to think low of you if we get paired up.

Not hating on the woman doing the haul because it’s just not right imo, but she said her husband got this for HIMSELF. Shame on Augusta for even selling this abomination. Shame on her husband for buying it. Shame all around.

@Bjringo_2 @ChipJohnson01 Sad that's impossible to tell if this tweet was crafted by AI

Have we ever had the discussion on why golf courses don’t have 6 par 3’s, 6 par 4’s and 6 par 5’s To me it makes a lot of sense, and I think par 3’s and par 5’s are some of the best holes on a lot of courses and having more of them makes courses more fun, and have more variety

@SanjayRafal @ChrisJBakke Why is it better that the backyard has a path that leads directly to a swamp surrounded by three cryptids

@ChrisJBakke The driveway is on the other side retard This is the back yard

You will live on the AI slop farm. You’ll have 10,000 acres and your front door will lead directly to a small 8x8 foot swamp. Three horses will drink from the water, with decapitated jockeys on their backs. One of your horses will be the longest horse in the world. Your fences will kind of veer off into the grass from time to time. There’s three shutters on some of your windows and a shutter to the left of your front door. You have no driveway and you own no Gucci bags. You are happy.

@salonium This website is so weird now. Just walls of text that say absolutely nothing.

In general, I think people tend to underestimate how much evidence there is for the big ideas in science – natural selection, germ theory, climate change, clonal selection, even cholesterol and statins. People debated these theories for decades, sometimes centuries, before consensus was formed. Most N-of-1 discoveries you've heard of probably didn't happen that way: Jenner's experiment on one boy and Barry Marshall's self-experiment with H. pylori for example were not convincing to scientists -- in my opinion, for good reason; far too many people made claims that didn't hold up with further research. But they, and others, collected far more evidence that did validate those ideas, often from multiple lines of evidence including case-control studies, prospective studies, experiments, and sometimes mechanistic evidence. (The bacterial/stomach cancer link had actually been explored for decades before but failed to find bacteria with the wrong staining method cmghjournal.org/article/S2352-… which killed the theory for a while; what convinced scientists was large prospective epidemiological studies in the early 1990s, after Marshall's other research. He didn't actually develop a stomach ulcer or cancer from the self-experiment, in any case, so I find it confusing when that's brought up.) Rigour isn't something new; it's always mattered whether interventions work, but we know better about how to test hypotheses and evaluate causal claims. Because of that, I think people also tend to underestimate how much evidence is needed to be confident about modern day claims. That doesn't mean the science is settled or predictable. What doesn't fit now might help us uncover new layers of understanding and refine those theories further. My favourite example is that leading researchers claimed that immunology was solved in the 1960s, and that only a few details remained -- before VDJ recombination, MHC restriction, regulatory T cells, etc. were discovered! That didn't upend our understanding of clonal selection, but it helped see it from a new perspective and with far more depth than before.

@ImaadulDeen @25YearsAgoLive What does this even mean

@25YearsAgoLive Us not US. Get a passport and leave the states man.

Harvard sophomores Brian Seeve and Michael Tucker have covered their dormroom walls and ceiling with the words “All your Base are Belong to US,” a phrase from a Japanese video game that was made into an internet music video that is sweeping the country as a “meme.” Youth not only at Harvard, but at high schools and colleges across the United States, are shouting and posting “All your Base are Belong to US.”