is it mediocre? sure, but most published stuff is mediocre. no one will be able to tell the difference between this children's book and a children's book written by a human. we are going to be buried under a pile of synthetic language and i don't how human culture survives this.
one of the biggest cons upper-class Americans ever pulled on the middle class is convincing us that you have to work yourself into mental illness as a child in order to be worthy to attend an elite university. those motherfuckers never did anything of the sort, they got Cs and drank in high school, then they got into Yale because they were legacies, and they got Cs and drank at Yale. you think George W. Bush worked hard? he did not.
oh, never mind, i guess the class also sorts the student roster alphabetically, but that part of the code was already there, they didn't have the students write it. just kind of tedious and boring.
i wish they would teach the concepts/tools in a way that demonstrates a circumstance where you **need** them.
anyway, codecademy: intro to Python was great. intermediate Python, pretty rough. bad course, incomplete content, boring projects
i wish they would teach the concepts/tools in a way that demonstrates a circumstance where you **need** them.
anyway, codecademy: intro to Python was great. intermediate Python, pretty rough. bad course, incomplete content, boring projects
@5c2d9606 i have a constant low-level fear that some captcha will fail at some point and I’ll get permanently locked out of my accounts. happened to my wife’s gmail. the algorithms hate us. best of luck 😑
@d93862f7 i don’t have time to get into everything, but it seems to be **very** good at copy editing and adjusting English written by non-native speakers to sound more natural.
@15f3f6b4 lmao very possible! I’m only flying this one indoors so far because flying a drone anywhere in BCN is **very** illegal, but we’ll see how it goes, maybe I’ll get a bigger one and head outside town to do it.
i got a little Tello and I’m flying it with an Xbox controller, **super** fun. my plan was to program flight paths and whatnot using Python, but so far it’s just a blast zipping (cautiously) around the room with it.
in the end, i suspect this is the result of Silicon Valley companies very effectively curating the legacy media tech journalists that inform the general public. they reward the superficial gee-whiz tech journalism about Apple adding a new button or whatever by providing further access. but these tech journalists are **not** the ones equipped to help us grapple with how this new technology is upending basically every part of the economy and the workplace.
i think both of these approaches obscure the massive changes underway in our digital lives. by failing to emphasize the work-a-day ways in which AI is developing to become very competent, journalists are leaving the public unprepared. and by failing to get feedback from experts in the fields where these companies are claiming non-existent competence, journalists are encouraging people to trust AI to do tasks that it is fundamentally not ready for.
in the end, i suspect this is the result of Silicon Valley companies very effectively curating the legacy media tech journalists that inform the general public. they reward the superficial gee-whiz tech journalism about Apple adding a new button or whatever by providing further access. but these tech journalists are **not** the ones equipped to help us grapple with how this new technology is upending basically every part of the economy and the workplace.
2) they look at the output in a field or area where they have zero experience and say "wow! that's impressive!" when they have no way of knowing whether it's impressive because they don't work in that field. i can put Python prompts into ChatGPT and get what look to me like incredible results, but it's silly to people who do code for a living. or i just heard a snippet of a podcast that Spotify auto-translated into Spanish. the journalists were like "sounds great!" folks, it was nonsense.
i think both of these approaches obscure the massive changes underway in our digital lives. by failing to emphasize the work-a-day ways in which AI is developing to become very competent, journalists are leaving the public unprepared. and by failing to get feedback from experts in the fields where these companies are claiming non-existent competence, journalists are encouraging people to trust AI to do tasks that it is fundamentally not ready for.
there are two opposite-but-equal problematic approaches journalists keep using to cover AI and automation technology:
1) they give the technology some insanely difficult and subjective task like "translate this poem" or "psychoanalyze me" and then when it fails they say "lol, well the technology isn't there yet." in actual reality, these products are mostly going to be doing repetitive grunt work, and given the right parameters, they can be **very** good at that.
2) they look at the output in a field or area where they have zero experience and say "wow! that's impressive!" when they have no way of knowing whether it's impressive because they don't work in that field. i can put Python prompts into ChatGPT and get what look to me like incredible results, but it's silly to people who do code for a living. or i just heard a snippet of a podcast that Spotify auto-translated into Spanish. the journalists were like "sounds great!" folks, it was nonsense.
a thing about the particular place where we live is that 1) everyone walks + 2) there are two schools and a daycare nearby = there is always some toddler having a meltdown outside 😂
you got a suburban sprawl shopping mall, fast food, unstable gig work, a strike-it-rich internet content attempt, a **fucking gun**, and then (off camera) some insane medical bills, followed by putting some poor bastard into the prison system for the rest of his life (you never stop being a felon).
you got a suburban sprawl shopping mall, fast food, unstable gig work, a strike-it-rich internet content attempt, a **fucking gun**, and then (off camera) some insane medical bills, followed by putting some poor bastard into the prison system for the rest of his life (you never stop being a felon).
hey, if you can avoid it, don’t walk in flood water. all kinds of nasty shit in there. weird bacteria, waste, chemicals, swirling around your skin. people get flesh-eating bacterial infections from flood water. if possible, stay out of it.
glad to see #bikedc moving from Xitter to BlueSky. I imagine it will end up having the same problems eventually, but for now seems like a good place to build a network. 👍
small recommendation, there’s a Spanish movie called “The Platform” (“El Hoyo”) on Netflix. if you like speculative fiction like “Cube”, you will like this one. don’t read anything about it, don’t watch any trailers, just watch it. WARNING: gore, violence.
@99019452 if I were you I would think about finding representation. hire a talent agency. they’ll take a cut, but handle this business stuff and you might actually come out ahead. anyway, good problem to be having, congrats!
@08c4df50 (also, if you don’t want people to yell at you, barça is the team, Barna or BCN is the city [i personally don’t care, just throwing it out there])
i don’t even understand how it would occur to someone to produce a dish like this. cook like this in BCN and your restaurant will be fucking EMPTY. full stop. and we had several “wtf” experiences like that.
it really, really, really made us appreciate Barcelona and Catalonia. there’s some things we’ve come to take for granted that we really shouldn’t.
i don’t know if it’s proximity to France or what, but I think the Catalan palate is just better. they demand nicer things, they make nicer things. there’s a touch that’s special. food is very important to me, so Ifeel really privileged to be able to live in Catalonia.
Ona and I were talking about this again this morning, it’s really remarkable. like, the **bread** is worse, the coffee is worse. we ordered a dish at a restaurant with great reviews—we were at the bar, the place was packed. wild mushrooms with a fried egg, to share. great, let’s go, love it. it was **just** mushrooms with an egg, I don’t even think it was salted. no sauce, no aeromatics, nothing. price: €22. we were **laughing**
i don’t even understand how it would occur to someone to produce a dish like this. cook like this in BCN and your restaurant will be fucking EMPTY. full stop. and we had several “wtf” experiences like that.
it really, really, really made us appreciate Barcelona and Catalonia. there’s some things we’ve come to take for granted that we really shouldn’t.
on the radio, they play ads for movies WITH THE DIALOG DUBBED. ON THE RADIO.
[voiceover] “… con George Clooney …”
movie clip: [some random Spanish guy saying George Clooney’s lines]
completely mental.
tried to watch a movie on the train with the onboard entertainment options AND IT IS FUCKING DUBBED IN SPANISH. ALL THE MOVIES ARE DUBBED IN SPANISH. honestly one of **the** dumbest things about Spain is this obsession with dubbing, it is **awful** like, please join us in the 21st century ffs.
on the radio, they play ads for movies WITH THE DIALOG DUBBED. ON THE RADIO.
[voiceover] “… con George Clooney …”
movie clip: [some random Spanish guy saying George Clooney’s lines]
completely mental.
gonna fire some shots here: Madrid is not a good place to eat. it’s expensive and mediocre, I’ve had like a dozen meals in Madrid now and not a single one has been memorable or remarkable in any way. in contrast, there are at least eight restaurants within three blocks of my apartment in Barcelona that I’ve been back to multiple times. Barcelona is just a **much** better food city, it’s not even close.
Ona and I were talking about this again this morning, it’s really remarkable. like, the **bread** is worse, the coffee is worse. we ordered a dish at a restaurant with great reviews—we were at the bar, the place was packed. wild mushrooms with a fried egg, to share. great, let’s go, love it. it was **just** mushrooms with an egg, I don’t even think it was salted. no sauce, no aeromatics, nothing. price: €22. we were **laughing**
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