Phew. I’m glad humans did better than bots.

This is it. Persistence, curiosity, and rigor are so much more important than intelligence or knowledge.

Lots of people have great ideas. Being able to sit down and make them work is hard. That’s where persistence kicks in.

However, according to Opper. ai, only 11/53 cloud-based Al passed the test (~20%). Worrying, about the same error rate as humans

lololol

It set out the plans amid growing scrutiny of the sustainability credentials of its Canadian supply chain after claims it was using wood sourced from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests.

The Guardian revealed late last year that forestry experts believe Drax may have continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests as recently as last summer despite increasing concerns over its historical sustainability claims, which first emerged in 2022.

lol

It’s funny how “at home” I feel with vim. Everything is where it should be. It works the way I expect. It’s nice.

RIP Bram

We need something like 3.5 million homes to get back to pre-2019 prices. They’re gonna have to step up. I haven’t heard a plan from Carney and Co to make that happen.

I subscribed to !pacmemes@feddit.org from sh.itjust.works. Maybe you’ll get more traffic now.

It’s absolute bullshit. I’m not surprised, given Carney’s background. But I am disappointed.

Don’t worry! The new Build Canada Homes has 7,000 homes planned for this year, so it’s under control. /s

But what if I want to buy a painting?

I agree. Unexplained downvotes on posts that look like they’re in good faith weaken the platform - it’s slapping someone who spent time and effort writing their idea.

I’ve heard of other systems that require a reason (or comment) to go along with a downvote. That seems like a good approach.

The problem is that this strategy works, as evidenced by the fact that the supposedly environmentally conscious Trudeau government used $35.6 billion in public money to pay for TMX. Carney’s alleged environmental credentials were also easily pushed aside after Big Oil’s sustained anti-emissions-cap PR campaign. Ebel’s comments suggest we’re now facing yet another PR campaign for a West Coast pipeline being built with public money, even though experts have already determined it is highly unlikely Canada will ever recoup the public money spent on TMX.

Canada’s oil industry might not be great at building pipelines, but it has become expert at creating scapegoats for its failures and PR nightmares for even modest proposals to pay for its own pollution.

ChatGPT (in deep research mode) generated this text responding to the prompt: “Provide a list of claims that were originally dismissed as conspiracy theories but were later proved true”.

Well done, ChatGPT. Well done.

Sounds like a tough job.

That’s really sad. I hope the kid got away from that shit.

Does this relate to your AI grandmother post?

It’s gremlins. The cable twisting gremlins. They come at night. I stayed up to catch them. It took 72 hours, but then I saw them.

Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”

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Classroom technology usage has ballooned in recent years. A 2021 EdWeek Research Center poll of 846 teachers found 55% said they are spending one to four hours per day with educational tech. Another quarter reported using the digital tools five hours per day.

I understand not giving harassers a platform, but I’m really curious what kind of fucked up threats these poor people are getting. Is this some kind of Infowars crap?

It’d be nice if police (or journalists) gave just a bit more information.

He was well fed and offered different foods. His owners played with him and kept him clean. He didn’t want to eat. They had him tested for allergies, etc but the vet didn’t find anything wrong. They put him on something to increase his appetite. He ate a little. Then he stopped.