"In the past three days, I've reviewed over 100 essays from the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. Here's how I could tell which ones were written by ChatGPT"
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210099 (2021, 50 comments)
Except the Vision Pro maps your home, visually and acoustically. I suppose it's acceptable if one already has a Roomba and an Alexa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKXOfQ6JmE
> I am an engineer, I live in Venice and I do work on this project. The gates might have a lot of drawbacks, but at least they are not visible. The lagoon of Venice is practically a natural reserve, especially in the vicinity of the sea inlets: the gate project in the Rotterdam style was rejected exactly for this reason (and the inlet in Lido is almost 2 km wide, compared to the 0,4 km of the dutch project). The gates themselves are huge, they can easily withstand a tide of +3 m and need very little modification to go above this threshold. The main concerns lie with the environmental impact of their activation: firstly because they consume a lot of energy, secondly because they impact on the vital interaction of the lagoon with the Adriatic: in the worst case scenario, it is expected that by the end of the century, flooding above the 110 cm threshold will occur for 180 days per year, thus this problem needs to be carefully handled. For the concerns about the navigation and trade, an offshore port (with an underwater train connection) is being studied, an idea which could also remove all the container and cruise ships which are still allowed to enter the very shallow water of the lagoon.
Same happened to me. And I even called an additional time and only dealt with them in Portuguese hoping I might get somewhere with that tactic. Nope. Called, emailed, tweeted, you name it. No luck.
Ryanair was pretty bad too. I spent a few weeks trying to book a short, direct flight between major cities and they kept cancelling the flights (3-4 in a row) and trying to give me credit. Their webchat helpline was quite poor, too.
His son recently released Essay, a tool to help write better, in the sense mentioned above.
Another thought: There could also be a differentiation between news article curation and research curation, though I understand they'd intersect at times. Often, looking at the research as it's published gives you good lead time on any news articles that will be published about said research, though it requires a lot of reading.
In the professional news curation I did, a "lead time" approach I used for the industry we dealt with was to locate and skim non-English news and publish summaries on what's happening worldwide, which put us ahead of the pack (ie, English-language news sites picking it up) by at least a few days, if not a week.
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I've been a nomad for over a dozen years and usually find ways to rent medium-term, ex. 6-12 months (and in some cases, long-term). I do as you do, and integrate into society, speak the local language, etc. But even so, I am participating in taking local housing from locals because in some cases I know I'm paying an increased rate (vs local rate), or I'm using what otherwise would be used as an Airbnb for living.
I spent 5 yrs in Lisbon, while renting at local rates, as the city went from ungentrified to gentrified, so I considered it my home and loved the city. But I sat there and watched as it was ruined by tourism and the hoards of short-term visitors. That quality of life I loved so much was destroyed in front of my eyes. I even went back a few years later to try living there again and it was even worse than when I left. All I mean to say is that there is no winning as a nomad, either I'm greatly affected by short-term housing, tourism and gentrification or I'm helping it along.
But yeah, I do the same. All set to auto ignore, even though it means one or two necessary calls are missed (ex. my cc company wanted to inform me they were cancelling their partnership and thus closing all cards).
I hope this essay is better. In the least, the comments here are interesting.
Coincidentally, around the same time he went to Spotify, I started getting really annoyed at his butting in and his opinions on matters that his guests know a lot more about. I've caught a clip or two on YT in recent months and I skip over any parts where the camera is on Joe, so I can just hear the guest.
Change the name on the box to something else, but same message.
After fall 2022, the EU plans to do a pilot of the EU digital ID. It would "let users store electronic forms of identification and other official documents, such as driver’s licenses, prescriptions and school diplomas." [1]
https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-coronavirus-pandemi...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/oovnrj/only_in_miami...
Due to having enjoyed his essays 5+ years ago, I still open the new ones and start reading them but I can't help but preface that desire by skimming them for school references now. Additionally, if they're congratulatory of people similar to himself - which they often are - then I also have to say 'no, thanks'.
I have free dictionary apps that remember every word that is looked up. I'd rather input those lists into a spaced repetition app and receive essentially the same benefit without paying.
https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1408346196490473476
And one from yesterday:
And if you want to virtually travel to Portugal, check out Antonio Zambujo. Here he is singing a song [3] written by both Márcio and Pierre, as luck would have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QRdaL3GEiQ&list=OLAK5uy_lCU...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2qTlFkytk&list=OLAK5uy_n3k...
Me, too. Church every Sunday and Bible studies every week (for many years), plus Catholic school (for a year).
I'm not saying they are one-dimentional. I'm saying their views on many subjects tend to be filtered through their religious belief. Different from a plumber, a banker or a teacher who wouldn't filter their perspectives on many subjects through their vocation.
As an anecdote/aside, I have a long time friend who - when we met - wasn't religious or spiritual in any outwardly noticeable way. She had a handful of interests, enjoyed discussing many life topics, and had a well-paying sales job with a good company. As the years went on, she had three kids from unhealthy romantic relationships, became more and more spiritual and gave up her job to start a part-time, new age micro business. Not only did her income go way, way down to the point that she constantly struggles to pay her bills, but everything she says is spiritually-motivated. In a real sense, she stopped being a person and became a mouth-piece of her spiritual beliefs. I recently realized she's no different than a monk or a nun (whose beliefs are weaved into everything they say), only she still lives in the real world.
As a result of all this, our deep and diverse weekly discussions became less and less frequent (to the point of being almost non-existent), not to mention extremely unidimensional. She might as well have gone to live in a convent because I lost my friend all the same. Am I happy she's happy doing what she loves? Sure, but I also mourn the almost complete loss of the person I knew.
"What about you guys floating $1 billion in “Volcano Bonds” (backed by future #BTC mining output) for El Salvador to pay off the IMF loan - so they can tell the IMF to beat it."
Yep, this as well as seeing random ads appear in my blog while scrolling through my posts. Recently, I tried going back to WP, but only if I could use the classic editor but they made it so confusing to find it and use it that I gave up. Too bad. I was a happy customer for many years prior to the block thing.