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breezybottom··on No AI Fridays
Sounds like it's just telling you what you want to hear. ADHD is when you can't focus, or when you focus too much. Really meaningful label then.
breezybottom··on No AI Fridays
ADHD is an inability to focus. ChatGPT diagnosed you incorrectly.
breezybottom··on No AI Fridays
Because the shoes fits. Racing thoughts, high energy, highly distractible, detachment from reality and delusions of grandeur. Next comes the crash.
breezybottom··on No AI Fridays
It sounds like you're experiencing a manic episode.
breezybottom··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Central limit theorem
breezybottom··on MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
A bunch of highly paid administrators were hired to use AI to generate it.
breezybottom··on MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
I'm shocked, shocked, that they recommend hiring more administrators and forming more committees to study the problem.
breezybottom··on MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Maybe JK Rowling?
breezybottom··on Small Models Have Arrived
If you're hacking a US-based entity, using a high-performance Chinese model through a VPN is probably safe enough. I doubt a local model is going to be sufficiently smart to hack any major company.
breezybottom··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
I don't think it's a question of design. Some ideas in stats are just fundamentally unintuitive. Pedagogy can help mitigate this, but it would take a revolution to fit it into a neat and intuitive framework, like calculus.
breezybottom··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Those are terrible metrics. But even by those standards the US is worse.
breezybottom··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
I'm trying to think of a single metric by which the EU hasn't been a massive success.
breezybottom··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Who gets the veto over the democratic process? You?
breezybottom··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Since when do AI companies care about the law? Most of their training data is pirated.
breezybottom··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Since when do AI companies care about copyright law? They're destroying them so their competitors can't use them.
breezybottom··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
They absolutely do. Meta torrented 81 terabytes of ebooks. They just have no incentive to pay when the law looks the other way.
breezybottom··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
They don't "force" anything. Trillion dollar AI companies and their owners have as much agency as book publishers.
breezybottom··on Don't Paste the AI, please
Your writing tendencies must be quite bad if Claude's tendencies are an improvement. Isn't writing a skill issue?
breezybottom··on OpenLogi
Most productive isn't necessarily the same as "best".
breezybottom··on OpenLogi
Lol that's a good one. AI slop is the least likely way to make me open my wallet.
breezybottom··on OpenLogi
Sure, but LLM use is a warning sign of developer laziness.
breezybottom··on OpenLogi
Karenified? This isn't reddit.
breezybottom··on OpenLogi
That's a distinction without a difference. Either way it produces the same slop.
breezybottom··on Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics
Articles are for academic promotion, obviously.
breezybottom··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
It doesn't have to look pretty, but there should be a human brain involved in creating it. How can we trust models based on AI slop?
breezybottom··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Solution to what?
breezybottom··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Well all digital music is data, so yes.
breezybottom··on Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
"Claude does candy bar has sugar?"

"Claude does Fruity Loop has sugar?"

"Claude does mint chocolate chip has sugar?"

breezybottom··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
Terrifying to think that even physicists can't code their own simulations anymore. We're plunging headfirst into the dark ages.
breezybottom··on Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI
The only way it could be worse if it they bought Comcast's data.
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