I was just in a smaller city in Germany and flew back to the US after that. I look German and speak German. When paying with card, Germany felt exactly like the US. At every restaurant, the tip request automatically came up within the thing used to process your card, just like in the US.
It can’t write much of substance. The only people using it in science for anything more than fluff are people who don’t speak English well or who have no business writing papers. I sympathize with the former, but I don’t understand why those folks wouldn’t just either publish in a language they speak or get an English-speaking coauthor to help write in English. I wouldn’t ever use it to write an article. Even editing, it tends to butcher scientific nuance.
It is good at writing fluff though, which is helpful for things like letters of recommendation for undergraduates.
I’m in science. It isn’t difficult to get an English speaking coauthor. Going to an LLM is easier and faster, sure, but if someone can’t understand the output then they have no idea if their text is being translated correctly.
Ah, I would consider that fluff, which is okay in my book. I don’t use it for writing, personally, but what I tell my students is that if it’d be fine for a friend to do the thing and not get coauthorship, it’s fine to use AI for that (provided you acknowledge it, as you would a friend who provides some helpful comments on a draft). Proofing and suggesting minor stylistic things fall under that umbrella IMO.
I’m pretty sure that Lemmy marks something as edited even if you do it right away. I often don’t notice a dumb autocorrect until I post, so I’ve just embraced the fact that all of my posts/comments are edited, and I proudly wear that badge.
But the main reason the US can’t handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can’t afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be–especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.
That’s fascinating, and I agree with you. Why the US hates the idea of high-speed rail is beyond me, especially because they prided themselves so much on the rail system they put together earlier in their development. In any case, the US can’t do much of anything with its debt-to-GDP as high as it is right now. They can hardly keep from shutting the government down entirely because they won’t even agree to a government budget.
Sync does formatting correctly. I came to Lemmy only because I like Sync so much. I paid for the lifetime version of it with Reddit and will probably pay for the lifetime version of this eventually. To each their own wrt how Lemmy is viewed, I guess.
To a degree. The large subreddits, like AskReddit, get far fewer upvotes on the top posts of the week than they used to get. I think there’s a good chunk of folks who left for a replacement, then left their replacement without going back to Reddit.
No matter what I do, it’s like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It’ll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like “aprifnid” but can’t type “Lemmy”. I suspect shenanigans.
Pharmacists don’t get PhDs, they get degrees for practice, like MDs. A PharmD doesn’t require being able to understand or conduct original research like a PhD does. Basically, a PharmD requires a really good memory, not necessarily critical thinking.
Those are extremely few and far between, and they aren’t evolutionary biologists. Behe, the most famous of them, doesn’t have a PhD in biology, but a PhD in biochemistry. Those are vastly different fields, and understanding the evidence for evolution wouldn’t have been relevant to Behe’s PhD. MDs more commonly don’t believe in evolution because MDs are essentially average folks who can memorize stuff really well. MDs don’t receive training in research or how to conduct it, so they’re pretty poor at understanding primary research most of the time.
Someone with a PhD from a reputable university (essentially, one that funds their PhD programs rather than making students pay, and one that doesn’t incentivize publications directly with bonuses) will be an expert in their subject area. Behe would be able to tell you about the biochemistry of sickle cell anemia. Someone with a PhD speaking on an area outside of their expertise is perhaps more likely than the average person to be correct because they could have read and understood most primary sources even outside of their area, but I wouldn’t say it’s all that much more likely. Basically, PhDs speaking on the topic of their expertise are experts, but they’re not experts in everything.
Personally, my PhD made me like the trope of someone who could tell you everything you want to know about some esoteric subject but wouldn’t know how to make a meal.
Getting a PhD produces highly specialized knowledge, not general knowledge.
Unless you’re in university administration, academia is not well paid. University administrators who are well paid are usually EdDs (essentially, university-focused MBAs) who didn’t take the normal academic route of research first.
No, there is no coursework past a master’s thesis. For the last typically ~3-4 years of graduate training, everything that you’re doing is original research. If your research isn’t good enough or done correctly, you will never get a PhD. You also have to defend your dissertation. Getting a PhD from a reputable university does mean that what you say, specifically related to your research area, is correct.
I think as a child I got viruses from one of the ads, you know, the ones would put on the side of the site. We had to call in a guy, to clean parents’ computer. I felt really guilty and never touched those ads again....
I go out of my way not to do so. Whenever I search for some specific items and see “Sponsored,” I’ll scroll down until I get the same listing without the ad link.
My guess is Siakam gave some indication to Warriors that he wouldn’t re-sign unless they got their shit together, which seems unlikely to happen. Pacers already have their shit together, so I could see him as expressing a desire to re-sign if he were to get traded there, which probably facilitated the Pacers FO being willing to trade.
I’m so in the minority here, but I have a different perspective.
I worked at a grocery store for years, with about a third of my job being cart duty. I loved it when people left their carts outside of the corrals, for a few reasons.
First, if a lot of people did so, I would point it out to whoever was the manager on at the time before I went outside. My manager knew that I would take longer before coming back in, and that would give me more time to stroll/relax/enjoy the outdoors before coming back in to customer craziness. Having those extra minutes because my manager didn’t know how long I should take was nice.
Second, sometimes I had to walk way the hell out to the edge of the parking lot, which was really nice for a long walk away from customer craziness. Such walks were very nice when the weather was nice.
Third, it was job security. Working during the recession made my managers want to let as many people go as they could, but customers who made it so even the most efficient cart duty workers took a while to clear the lot effectively kept more of us employeed than management would have employed otherwise.
For those reasons, whenever the weather is nice, I try to leave my cart in a weird spot that is anchored by something. I realize that many other cart duty folks probably dislike me for it, but I know I appreciated it when others did this. So I do it for the folks like me.
I know all of the arguments against it and I’m not trying to debate here. Just sharing a different perspective; sometimes, leaving your cart in a terrible spot can be nice for some of the workers.
“China has developed into a successful scientific nation and is now a world leader in some areas,” says Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the DAAD....
The immersion style of teaching a language in the purest sense involves refusing to use other languages to aid in teaching the target language. So if you take a French class in France, you might not hear a word of English. Whereas if you take a French class in the US, some teachers will speak English at least in the first few...
It sounds like Michel Thomas’s method, too. I’d second the effectiveness of the method (Michel Thomas’s, at least; idk if they are the same entirely) for learning how to learn a language, but I also agree that immersion is needed for going beyond casual conversational level.
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago (fortune.com)
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
Peer review can be fun (lemmy.world)
Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies (english.elpais.com)
The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use (english.elpais.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.nl/post/14246110...
The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend (lemmy.world)
How it feels to be alive lately (lemmy.ml)
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Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"?
No matter what I do, it’s like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It’ll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like “aprifnid” but can’t type “Lemmy”. I suspect shenanigans.
Anon uses reddit (sh.itjust.works)
What was the last time you clicked on an ad?
I think as a child I got viruses from one of the ads, you know, the ones would put on the side of the site. We had to call in a guy, to clean parents’ computer. I felt really guilty and never touched those ads again....
[Woj] Siakam to Pacers for Bruce Brown, Jordan Nwora and three 1st-round picks (NOP also involved) (nitter.net)
From nitter.net/wojespn:...
shopping rule theory (lemmy.cafe)
"Realistically shaping scientific cooperation with China:" German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) says country's universities must 'sharpen their own scientific interests' when working with China (www.daad.de)
“China has developed into a successful scientific nation and is now a world leader in some areas,” says Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the DAAD....
Is immersion the only way? Do any language schools have a better way?
The immersion style of teaching a language in the purest sense involves refusing to use other languages to aid in teaching the target language. So if you take a French class in France, you might not hear a word of English. Whereas if you take a French class in the US, some teachers will speak English at least in the first few...