richardatlarge

Another way to phrase this point: if I had to choose between all of it, so far, or none of it — I’d choose the latter. And as I type here now, I say I would. Pull the plug

One thing the scientific community readily discusses today but never mentioned originally: variants. For a year there was essentially no mention that the large numbers of cases were playing out a dang…

As someone who lives in Auckland I wish this was a real and lasting trend. But can’t see it because of a massive bottleneck involving skills, workers, and scarce and crap building supplies. Auckland n…

Lest we not forget, there be a sucker born every minute

Theme of 2023 seems to be: deja vu

https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis/videos Above not complete

Sounds about right. There seems to be an underlying belief by many police that they have some right to mete out their own perceived justice— human nature not curbed by training or supervising or even …

What does it say when law enforcement can act this badly knowing they’re on video? Nuts

Plagiarism reflects two moral violations: (1) the uncredited use of someone else’s work, and (2) the passing off of work as your own when it is not, in part or whole. While the accepted definition of …

Next thing we’ll be told is eating less reduces weight gain. This kind of research only dazzles because it takes something obvious and reduces it to biobabble. Do we really need research to tell us th…

Found this post to be empty of any insights; drivel

Plagiarism reflects two moral violations: (1) the uncredited use of someone else’s writing, and (2) the passing off of work as your own when it is not, in part or whole. While the accepted definition …

I wonder if anyone ever tried to make a lawsuit out of the claim that a book was not actually written by the states author. It’s a dubious if common method that means many bestsellers and big advances…

Yes, but can it prove it? The old fashioned plagiarism problem was solved by finding the original it was copied from. With AI, the falsely attributed work IS original. There in lies…

Yes, my thought was if humans write like this, AI has nothing to fear

So true, motivation is at the heart of decision making, and if you don’t have any wants/needs, you are a blank slate. Unlike animals, ‘human’ drives are mostly styled or corrupted by culture. So …

I’m referring to some claims by researchers that this play has no utility for the bees, which I think is false; sorry, wasn’t clear

Amd no comparison was made to piracy

Not so simple; how many times have I been told by someone they won’t buy my book, they’ll check it out from the library. This is not theft or piracy, but it’s taking the total value of something witho…

Yes, ironic that the breakdown of the Netflix monopoly will create such a scattering of services that piracy is a solution

Not sure that the four stars have much of a good reputation these days; many seem to have taken some bad risks late in their careers and after…

I’ve heard it claimed that this behavior is just play, but all juvenile bees need to learn coordination given the way they tumble about their world. A genetic predisposition to “enjoy” play would enco…

Unfortunately, again, the vaccines were not applied to a single population as a variable, so there’s no evidence I don’t think to see a causal link: those who seek out such shots are a somewhat unique…

If you grade, you’ll never be able to tell the good students from the bad

That’s a very narrow definition of endorsement and that would not fly in any ad firm. To be paired with the commodity is all that’s needed, which is why they say all publicly is good publicity

Yeah, as if he didn’t know what was in the rest of the ad, which defined the meaning of what he said. To be so literal is senseless