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I had a friend go through AA. He doesn't do heroin anymore, which is great, but he is pretty big into Jesus now, which is a bit disheartening to see. Better then overdosing for sure.

Damn, I always thought the end goal of throwing a party was to get buzzed and have a good time with friends.

My ideal system involves teaching professors who work at a university, and state run research labs ran by PhDs that collaborate closely with universities, but remain distinct. Argentina has a similar system with CONICET and their public university system.

The support you are talking about with American students I think is a symptom of the cost of higher education in the US. If you are paying $50,000 a year, you're going to expect that the university will do most of the work for you, and honestly, I think that's fair.

Many American students have the attitude of "I paid for the degree, so give it to me", which I cannot fault them for, due to the ridiculous price tag and societal demand to get a bachelors.

In Argentina, on the other hand, where education is free, the attitude among the professors is "if you don't learn this material, you won't pass". I find that very refreshing and more of how an institution of education should actually operate.

For grad students, yes, the money largely comes from grants (more than 50% of my funding in grad school was from grants from my advisor). The university doesn't actually take a chunk of the grant, they get an additional "overhead". This used to be 60%, now with the Trump administration its been cut to between 15% and 30% depending on the federal agency. For example, if the overhead was 30% and I get a $1000 grant from the NSF, the university will get an additional $300, but I still get the full $1000 (actually the university has full control of the $1000, but I can ask them nicely to use it).

I am more concerned with the research institution's effect on undergrads rather then grad students. Grad students have their own unique ways of being exploited.

I am so unimpressed with research universities in the US. Most just accept and neglect undergrad students. They use them as a steady income and have very little intention of providing them with a quality education.

I happen to be very close with the dean of arts and science of a major state university. He told me that all of his professional goals given to him by the president and provost had to do with research impact, while 100% of the money he was allocated came from student tuition. The incentives are completely out of line and the students are the ones who pay the price.

Are you saying that that is no longer fun with LLMs?

No, I find it strange that people like to input text into an editor so much that LLMs make them sad.

That's fair. I was actually a professional carpenter for a bit too, and you're right, I love touching the wood, sanding it, admiring it, etc. etc. More so then I've ever liked inputting code into an editor.

I do, however, use electric planers, table saws and miter saws, because I want to produce the product fast and efficiently, because the end product still is the goal.

Your point is well taken however.

I've always found it a bit strange that people enjoy the act of coding so much that LLMs make then sad. For me it's always been about what I can make, not the actual typing of code into the editor. With LLMs I can make better stuff, faster, and it's really exciting. It used to be that if I needed to use a new library for one little task, it would be hours or days of reading the manual and playing around. Now it's minutes and I can understand how the API works, and write good, robust code that solves my problem.

Maybe it's more of a problem with your job and the tasks you're assigned?

I'm having trouble understanding your point. You think parties should just be people behind tables with name cards with numbers that you can call later? What does that have to do with the stock market?

Just go to the party and engage with people. Actually be interested in who that person is, what they think, and how they spend their time. People are fascinating, even the grouchy boring ones.

Advice like this article, and the thousands of books before it, are usually totally garbage. I'm very introverted. I've spent weeks by myself in nature, completely alone. I find parties too stimulating. But just do it. It's not like you're getting your arm cut off. You're just talking to people. Don't be mad at yourself for saying some out of pocket stuff. Don't dwell on what you could have done. Just see what's going on in the lives of other people and stop overthinking it.

MC Escher had a big impact on me growing up. I remember being a kid and looking at some of those famous lithographs and thinking, "oh jeez wow, ok, that's pretty cool".

I can't stand missionaries.

That was sick. I watched one will less than 1000 views and it was amazing. How'd you find them?

I find this very interesting. None of those artists were bad by any means. But the sound quality is really bad, and none of then are even close to something like Goat Rodeo [1] which has over a million views precisely because of the exceptional performances and the high quality video and audio. Why not just listen to that? I'm genuinely curious. I'm sure there could be a good reason. Maybe you know then personally or saw them at a memorable moment.I'd love to know what it is that draws you to those artists.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EcT5YzKhQ&pp=ygUeUXVhcnRlciB...

Can you recommend a YouTuber with a hand full of views that you think is a good musician?

I don't really think about azure because I choose not to support Microsoft. Also, as of now I have had very little personal use for running servers, besides things that can easily be hosted almost anywhere.

I'm sure it's convenient for some people with certain projects.

I think Linux is a superior operating system to Windows in almost every way. This is supported by the fact that over 60% of azure servers run Linux [1].

Windows operating system is a walled off garden of intellectual property that wastes billions of dollars every year. Schools, government agencies, hospitals, etc all are spending an incredible amount on proprietary software and this is mainly benefitting a very small amount of people. Yet, thier shitty spyware OS is actually worse then the open source alternative. I think this is a moral failure for humans.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/...

I'm convinced people only use Microsoft because of licensing contracts and familiarity. It's an awful company with subpar products.

Having lived for a long time on each coast, this is not my experience at all. Each region has a rich accent.

If you read the actual paper, and it's very easy to skim through, the authors offer a lot of reasons to doubt the results, from strong bias in the data to repeated samples across studies. That being said, it is nice to start getting some better data about marijuana use.

An amazing open source obsidian competitor is org-roam for emacs.

I'm sure writing drivers for a few pieces of odd equipment is much cheaper then shelling out money to Microsoft for a license. Switching to linux seems like such an obvious move to me.

Life as a slime shouldn't be so rough

It's telephone now

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I'm also very interested in this. I wasn't aware of the extent of the effort of labelers. If someone could point me to an article or something where I could learn more that would be greatly appreciated.

To add to the other reply, nearly 100% of people classified as men at birth do have mammary glands and can lactate if they take certain medication. Some men can lactate without medication.

What? Sex is a spectrum, this is a fact. There are people born with testicles and rudimentary ovaries. There are people born with breasts and long penis-like clitorides. I encourage you to try and not categorize everything into neat little boxes.

The point is sex is a spectrum, we don't have to put everyone in little boxes then get upset when things aren't so clearly defined.