@boneysoups the maxim I heard in my college education courses was always “learning requires friction”
When I repeat it to colleagues or undergrads now I get a depressing number of scoffs in response
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Corgi Commodore
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Corgi Commodore
@corgi_commodore
some call me Zinc
Boulder, CO Katılım Eylül 2016
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when people defend the use of AI to help them write it boils down to “I’m stuck” / “the hard part is hard” and I remember how a muscle literally only gets stronger thru the microscopic tears caused by effort
Mattathias Schwartz@Schwartzesque
feel very fortunate that there was no AI around to bail me out when I was stuck on various pieces in my 20s
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@rowanfornow Last year I posted about it feeling bad to be getting a PhD in renewable energy while grants started getting slashed and about 80% of responses I got were that solar panels are a scam by Big Solar to cover up the perfection of nuclear power
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guy whose takeaway from this is that it's the perfect time for Dems to pivot to nuclear
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them. Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. wapo.st/48ZtSpE
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@alyssaleann I’m giving a talk on basic data analysis to some summer undergrads in 2 weeks and bracing for question about ChatGPT when I don’t mention it as a resource
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In light of a recent statement by the United States government…
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Fuck. It’s genius. Why didn’t the left think about simply having a superpower governed by a far-right leader the entire country cares about and hates repeatedly threaten to invade America for no reason.
David Weigel@daveweigel
New: Progressives have MARK CARNEY FEVER. They huddled in Toronto (inc. Buttigieg and Slotkin) to hear him explain how to beat the populist right. Message from Biden vets: Learn from our mistakes, ditch green/left restrictions on growth. semafor.com/article/05/11/…
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@resurrecti0ns At a science outreach expo an older retired engineer came up demanding to know how solar panels *really* worked and I had to be like look man unless you want to learn quantum mechanics just trust us that they do
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it straight up never occurs to some people that there are some ideas that you can't really understand as a layman because they're too complicated. and it would be a bad thing to pretend otherwise and only pass down warped, extremely simplified versions of those ideas!
Coren ✒🎨@CorenLaVolpe
Truly intelligent people can describe complex ideas in a way that a layman can understand. Being verbose is intentional obfuscation to maintain their little "elite" circle.
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Never gets built. A project this size will take - entirely theoretical as nobody has ever come close - five to ten years, if it’s even possible. Mr. Dogshit hasn’t got the cash or the faith
Pubity@pubity
Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.
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@edzitron I’m a US semiconductor chemistry PhD candidate, I’ve been instructed to start pivoting my research talking points from renewable energy to quantum technology for funding purposes
Many many many people will be hyping quantum very soon
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???????????? aftercare is just laying together peacefully and like drinking water and saying nice things to each other do yall think aftercare is like first aid 😭😭
courtyard@_court_yard
you don't need ""aftercare""" if you're not having misogynistic abusive sex because the sex itself is duringcare
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@AdairaAlmighty there’s a pseudo 4X called Terra Invicta that has real day political simulation but there’s 7 Illuminati’s during an alien invasion
then you end up doing things like invading Taiwan as China while the US is involved in a series of regime change wars everywhere else
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Can't play a 4x game in a leftists household because they start beating you with hammers the second you start thinking things like "We must secure more living space for our people". They can smell the fascism on you like bloodhounds.
(lowkey they're right to do so)
AdairaAlmighty@AdairaAlmighty
Unfortunately playing a 4x game does momentarily turn you into a fascist. It doesn't matter how committed to your principals you are irl, 4x is going to have you saying things like "My vassal is rebelling? I'll destroy everything" and "Their religion must be wiped out".
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@nise_yoshimi the first grad student on the project in my lab was Mormon and had a 14 page acknowledgements section that thanked god, his church, his wife and kids alongside a list of scientists including Gallileo and also started every chapter with a bible verse
He did have a nature paper so
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@turbopisser Hey now U.S. Grant was a drunk too
So he’s just that much of a loser
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For decades, one of the greatest strength of the American military has been its logistical capacities. The ability to send chocolate cakes & Coca-Cola to warzones where the enemy struggled to send even basic supplies. Incredible how all it took to break that was one drunk loser.
2 Nut (Pick Up) 🇵🇸@hueoops
For future historians, sailors eating scraps of tung tung tung sahur while their leaders were posting AI pictures of them eating barbecue is going to be the defining moment of the end of amerikan power
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@hecubian_devil I mean I’m a little afraid in a fight Donald Trump might just like fall over on me but I doubt that’s their calculation
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Wow they’re even more cucked than I imagined
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
New poll — More Republicans think Donald Trump (79) could beat them in a fight, than the inverse. 39% think Trump would beat them 33% think they would beat him
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@alyssaleann I definitely play video game way too much, this is an interesting perspective
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@rittenhouse2a @nkulw I didn’t realize you’re like a B cup probably
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The communists couldn't take me out and i'll be damned if I let a brown recluse take me out.
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@deloisivete instructor at my university said April may birthdays are ideal for the weather pre/post partum snd the milestones for baby doctor appointments are convenient with work/school as they come up
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@appodlachia my fiancée does site engineering for solar/wind developers; from what I’m told all of the projects that to are bc it pays very well and all of the local resistance is either anti-climate change garbage or a vague notion that Big Utility is invading their town
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Solar developers typically pay well for land lease deals, and it’s guaranteed income that isn’t subject to bad grow seasons.
Dr. Robert Rohde@RARohde
Sure, put solar panels on carparks. It's a good idea. But the insinuation that farmers are being forced to put solar panels on "prime farmland" is such nonsense. Nearly all solar panels being erected on farmland occurs because the land owner chose to do that.
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@harken_raiser @nise_yoshimi It helps that they’re not primarily political manifestos that got out of hand
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@corgi_commodore @nise_yoshimi Armor and Forever War are goated and, imo, better mil-scifi than Starship Troopers.
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The idea that anyone who writes military science fiction can talk crap about yoshiyuki tomino is fantastic. "Military scifi" in the western sense is inevitably a dull pro-US military wank-off that doesn't much compare even to tominos relatively nuanced children's robot shows
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