That makes sense. I’m not sure how they are related, but it’s not my field. I wonder what prediction used before gpt.

This was an interesting read.

When? I don’t see that any where.

I’m not fluent in neural network systems, but I thought it was NLP in the early 10s and not GPT.

I don’t know how I feel about “cromulent” being in the dictionary now. Its sort of great that The Simpsons create this type of effect, but now it ruins the joke.

I get irrationally annoyed when I see cars without license plates. I can’t help but think the dildo is inside the car.

Well, I’m hot-blooded, check it and see I’ve got a fever of a hundred and three Come on, baby, do you do more than dance?

Just finished watching the last episode of Weidmageddon about 30 minutes ago and instantly had the same thought… Obviously that Bill Cipher right there!

No. Some people get jittery when they have more than one or have a cup too late in the day. But 400 mg of caffeine is fine. That’s four cups of coffee. Six or more a day can result in a rise in risk for cardiovascular disease. This could be considered not great, but a lot of other factors to into cardiovascular disease. So “quite bad” is quite a stretch.

The solution to climate change is to blow up the sun. Obvious. … Edit: /s

TIL I am a deer. Thank you science!

This is mentioned briefly in both the articles, but wanted to highlight that the Scopes trials were initially initiated as a media stunt by the local coal company to bring money and attention to their town. They selected Scopes as the defendant, William Jennings Bryan as lead prosecutor, and, after H.G. Wells declined, Darrow as defense.

Civic groups testing the law to bring them to trial isn’t an unusual practice, but it being led by local business to profit the town is.

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There were plenty of morons in the 80s and 90s. Half the population suffered from severe lead poisoning. The other half were hopped up on neo liberal propaganda.

That checks out.

“When you don’t have any data you have to use reason.” - Richard Feynman, some guy who watch science shows a lot

Technically incorrect. There are no feathers.

But lava rock grinds are not part of the industrial waste stream repurposed for profit. This is innovation!

Microbeads are manufactured solid plastic particles of less than one millimeter in their largest dimension.[1] They are most frequently made of polyethylene but can be of other petrochemical plastics such as polypropylene and polystyrene. They are used in exfoliating personal care products, toothpastes, and in biomedical and health-science research.[2]

-Wikipedia

“Hey I’m people! Ahhhhhhh!.. I’ll kill you dead!” - Homer Simpson?

Somehow you made this about you and how you’re a better person than them. Good job.

The dad-of-four told MailOnline: “I’m ripped to pieces, one of my babies is gone. I had four children and now I have three.”

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Maybe it’s because it’s because I just finished reading this section in Range, but I think it’s more than the engineers knew.

When sociologist Diane Vaughan interviewed NASA and Thiokol engineers who had worked on the rocket boosters, she found that NASA’s own famous can-do culture manifested as a belief that everything would be fine because “we followed every procedure”; because “the [flight readiness review] process is aggressive and adversarial”; because “we went by the book.” NASA’s tools were its familiar procedures. The rules had always worked before. But with Challenger they were outside their usual bounds, where “can do” should have been swapped for what Weick calls a “make do” culture. They needed to improvise rather than throw out information that did not fit the established rubric.

Roger Boisjoly’s unquantifiable argument that the cold weather was “away from goodness” was considered an emotional argument in NASA culture. It was based on interpretation of a photograph. It did not conform to the usual quantitative standards, so it was deemed inadmissible evidence and disregarded. The can-do attitude among the rocket-booster group, Vaughan observed, “was grounded in conformity.” After the tragedy, it emerged that other engineers on the teleconference agreed with Boisjoly, but knew they could not muster quantitative arguments, so they remained silent. Their silence was taken as consent. As one engineer who was on the Challenger conference call later said, “If I feel like I don’t have data to back me up, the boss’s opinion is better than mine.”

I think most of us believe decisions should be data driven, but in some edge cases gut instinct is valuable.

It is easy to say in retrospect. A group of managers accustomed to dispositive technical information did not have any; engineers felt like they should not speak up without it. Decades later, an astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, both before and after Challenger, and then became NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance, recounted what the “In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data” plaque had meant to him: “Between the lines it suggested that, ‘We’re not interested in your opinion on things. If you have data, we’ll listen, but your opinion is not requested here.’”