Always has been meme. “Wait, domain knowledge is the most valuable thing a data scientist can have?”
The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.
I’d been driving a very short period of time when I rear ended someone. Both going slow, minor damage but obviously my fault. At this age I was always mistaken for older than I was, but the guy I hit immediately knew how young I was and was incredibly kind as we exchanged insurance info.
They also told my grandfather he could never be a football referee, at a time when he had been a football referee for decades.
Weirdly they did describe my current job very well, given that it didn’t exist in the 80s. They said I’d love it and be good at it, and they were right about that.
Left eye, right handed. Was told in the 80s when I took an aptitude test that this would prevent me from shooting a gun with a sight and also that it meant I might have a million problems that I remember summarizing as serious learning disability. All of that was untrue.
I did not appreciate the chicken pox vaccine until
Shingles got me. Truly great to know that so many people younger than me don’t have to worry about shingles because they got the chicken pox vaccine!
If this is the year your kid realizes Santa isn’t a single guy, celebrate with them - now they know and they’re Santa! Now they can participate in the joy of surprising someone else.
We also did a very touristy canal tour our first day and it was a great introduction
So many wonderful things to do! We enjoyed the modern art museum, but most important is pastry, if you like pastry at all. Riviera was the best, but lots of great stuff all over town.
🥪 Houston’s ultimate fusion bite.
Levant BBQ’s brisket shawarma combines Central Texas barbecue with Syrian flavors, and some Houstonians say it’s the best reply to America’s critics of multiculturalism: bit.ly/4pTcF7U
@erictopol.bsky.social I heard your frustration on a recent podcast about shingrix uptake and I share it. I have a great success rate in getting people vaccinated after I tell them about my shingles experience. If you ever want it recorded for use by medical professionals , let me know!
And those users themselves frequently don’t know if they got what they were asking for.
The translation of what someone who doesn’t think about data full time to the right question to ask also seems to me like something that AI will really struggle with. The training data would need to differentiate between users who got what they were asking for vs the users who didn’t,
Damn I just had a really annoying hallucination from a tech support AI!
Sometimes you can just give the readers what they want. Not always, but sometimes, yes, there’s no harm except to your hornery personality.
This story encapsulates so much about journalists. And yes, I know it is a recipe for plum torte. (Gift link) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783...
Teaching students who want to learn alongside students who want to complete the transaction must be two entirely different jobs.
And the chapter had had several guns fired. Honestly it just makes me glad to see so many teachers and professors trying to figure this out. It is really hard.
I love the idea of providing feedback for students who do the optional work. This whole topic is so difficult. I remember a teacher my kid had whose effort to force kids to read the book instead of the spark notes was to have regular quizzes with questions like “who fired a gun on page 78”
FWIW, this was high school and I’m pretty sure they all graduated from college in the years after.
A million years ago I was in a class full of people who spent hours programming their graphing calculators with the definitions we were going to be tested on. It would have taken an average student 20 minutes to just memorize these definitions. The stupidity of the cheating really offended me.
The hallucinations are a real problem!! It drives me nuts that ophthalmologists have so little interest in the actual experience of vision loss. I genuinely can’t tell if vision scientists do or not.
Oh no! I had thought your post cataract surgery situation was good. Does your brain hate having totally unbalanced vision as much as mine did?
If the genetic disease gets me, meta glasses are my best hope
Yeah right now I have better vision than I had in high school! Figuring out the cataracts revealed the genetic disease that may or may not cause symptoms. It solved the mystery of some other diagnoses in my mom’s family. My mom has no symptoms and good vision, so fingers crossed!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... I mean would be happy for a different style but if I lose my vision (again) I want these!
I know they’re gross but I’ve got a rare genetic eye disease and when symptoms show up I will be buying them FAST
I generally share y’all’s horror at AI glasses, but since I’m also doing my best to outrun my rare genetic eye disease, I will own a pair the first day symptoms show up. (Which may be never!) The verge had a great podcast on this topic recently.
Truly the biggest surprise for me about parenting was the injuries. The toddler smacking my nose with the back of their head while sitting on my lap was my least favorite.
I have some experience with this and I truly think there is a small group of people who thoroughly enjoy subscribing, donating, and then becoming very aggrieved. GDPR has made it tough for me to figure out if these people repeat with the same org, which is kind of hilarious in itself.
