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@boalatil @gabriel_horwitz "Scientists" who call other people "idiotic" because of valid but different perspectives on emerging technology are so social media.

@mailstormio @gabriel_horwitz I am a scientist that been developing deep learning algorithms for analyzing biological data way before LLMs became famous. People that defend LLMs use in education is idiotic.

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something. Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it. André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation. Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test. The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing. This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it. Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone. The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start. You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.

@fandompulse To the end she insists on not getting it; the alternative would require introspection her ego apparently won't allow.

Kathleen Kennedy, in her Deadline exit interview after stepping down as Lucasfilm president, on what she considered the lows of her tenure: "The lows are that you've got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations and basically they want to continue to see pretty much the same thing. And if you're not going to do that, then you know going in that you're going to disappoint them. I'm not sure there's anything you can do about that, because you can't please everybody." Is the person who ran Star Wars into the ground blaming the fans on her way out?

@boalatil @gabriel_horwitz That's pretty funny coming from someone who doesn't seem to understand my comment. I get it, you hate AI. Original.

@mailstormio @gabriel_horwitz i hope one day you learn to read again, little man.

@boalatil @gabriel_horwitz Yeah and that's what I'm saying is misleading. AI is a wonderful tool for learning. You have to use it correctly of course. But that's true of traditional studying methods as well.

@mailstormio @gabriel_horwitz not really, it doesnt say it is about memory, lol, it is about the process of learning. It shows you've been using too much GenAI to try to think.

@LAtweets22 @Chicago_Sully The mental gymnastics people use to soothe their jealousy about the Dodgers is insane.

@Chicago_Sully Hope y'all give the Cubs fan who talked about Vesia's daughter this same energy. Shocker, every fanbase has shitty people.

I’ve only had positive experiences with Padres fans. They all seem great Dodger fans on the other hand….

@HoodieAlonso We're not allowed to talk about our players like everyone else?

Has there been a single conversation in MLB history that Dodgers fans haven’t unnecessarily inserted themselves into

@tealou That certainly is an opinion about AI.

I’m sick of AI. I’m sick of talking about AI. I’m sick of hearing about AI. I’m sick of thinking about AI. Sick of everyone having opinions about AI. And most definitely sick of being forced to read or listen to or live with the stupid decisions made by AI. It’s so dull. Nothing has moved in years and it’s just tedious. Not great for a fellow at an AI foundation lol but yeah fuck off with AI.

@anamorphric I kind of feel stupid that I never noticed that before. Too funny.

@katiebrockie @DontPanicBut42 @NC_Renic That depends. I've learned a ton from AI conversations.

@DontPanicBut42 @NC_Renic But when you farm out your thinking and creative skills to AI you don't learn anything.

AI cheating has gotten so bad that I now feel genuine affection for horrifically bad essays clearly written by the student

Steven Spielberg says Hollywood needs to stop relying only on franchise IP and start telling more original stories, as he debuts new footage from Disclosure Day. “If all we make is known branded IP, we’re going to run out of gas.” “There is nothing more important than giving the audience visual stories… but we need to tell more original stories.”

@MuseZack @IMAO_ I guess. But there is honor too in just making a whole lot of people happy. It doesn't all have to be about fine art or high skill performance.

@IMAO_ I'd be annoyed too if I were in The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Bridge on the River Kwai and everyone just wanted to say "May the Force be with you" when they saw me.

Wow. This is the most positive I’ve ever heard Alec Guinness talk about Star Wars.

@FozzmanCometh @rswitty @OldRowSports Some of you keep acting like little monkeys and then you wonder why your government treats you like little monkeys.

@mailstormio @rswitty @OldRowSports Well then that just makes you more retarded

Another angle of the Yankees fan getting taught a lesson in manners in Texas.

@rswitty @OldRowSports As if I give a shit who started it or who's at fault. My comment stands.

@mailstormio @OldRowSports The guy who got punched initiated that. He yapped. Then he “physically” swatted something from the guys hand….Then got punched

@DanFriedman81 I love The Boys. I'm sure it's not for everyone, but nothing is.

James Gunn's DCU gets a lot of criticism and deserves most of it, but it is dramatically smarter, funnier and better written than "The Boys," which is the dumbest and worst superhero property. One perfect example is on Gunn's "Peacemaker," the Peacemaker has a running gag where he accuses Aquaman of having sex with fish, and also accusing members of the Justice League of various perversions. This joke has two levels: The first is the shock joke that a DC property is associating DC's family-friendly A-list characters with all these meme-joke sex acts. But the second level is that the Peacemaker is a C-list hero who imagines the Justice League doing these things because he is jealous of them. "The Boys" has one level: The Deep is a parody of Aquaman, and he actually has sex with a fish. And, because this kind of thing is so obvious and expected from this property, "The Boys" showing Chace Crawford with an octopus stuck to his genitals is a less effective joke than John Cena describing Aquaman having sex with fish on "Peacemaker." So, "The Boys" is a parody that is less funny than the thing it is trying to mock.

@BlueJays I'm not going to read them but I'm sure the replies to this thread are quite reasonable from your fan base. 🙄

OFFICIAL: We’ve traded INF Tyler Fitzgerald to the Dodgers in exchange for cash considerations.

@DodgersAndrew Of course this is horrible behavior by the administration, but also no sympathy for these corporations. They made their bed when they helped elect this admin. Now reap the consequences like the rest of us.

The free speech crowd is awful quiet these days. Lol

@CaptRootBeerGuy @LAtweets22 All I read all day long is people crying about the Dodgers and you think we're the ones crying? Nice little fantasy world you live in.

@LAtweets22 Ugh. Not this dumb bitch again. The one downside to baseball season is the dumbfuck dodger fans who don’t know shit about ball but cry about everything

He’s “fast as fuck” boiiii Lolol im sure Rush is calling a not-fat guy who snuck a stolen base on him a “fat fuck” y’all are so lame it’s painful 🤣🤣☠️

@featherbangs @LAtweets22 You mean a fan base that boos a guy who for some insane reason specifically targeted that fan base with his hate? There I fixed it for you.

@LAtweets22 Says a fan base that boos a guy because he said what he observed at games growing up. Eat a dick loser.