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Edit to add: I also found someone who recorded a voice chat of the same thing. This isn't that someone uploaded a song, or that AI didn't actually process the file. These models really are this sycophantic:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/JqvDLHshTtI

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The proposal includes entirely removing the directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, which includes the division Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which then houses Cognitive Neuroscience. The directorate of Biological Sciences proposes a more than 70% cut, with similar cuts to other STEM directorates. Per the request:

The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.

It's unfortunate that anti-scientific appointees are now running the agency controlling US basic science funding. If you live in the United States, please call your representatives to ask them not to dismantle basic science in the US. This is especially important if you live in a red state.

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She studied the influence of MAST cells on the brain.

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[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

I'm naive. What's the whistle there?

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 95 points 8 months ago

This arrangement actually optimizes color vision in the daytime and night vision at night. Evolution selected for the correct arrangement for those of us living on land:

https://theconversation.com/look-your-eyes-are-wired-backwards-heres-why-38319

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

What if we ๐Ÿ‘‰@๐Ÿ‘ˆ ..? ๐Ÿคญ

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[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Gen Z bit is accurate, at least for current college students. I'm amazed at how little they do, how few relationships they have, etc. I actually feel quite bad for them.

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This pauses disbursement of all federal loans and prohibits new scientific grant funding indefinitely. As written, this appears to apply to student loans, as those are disbursed via universities--not directly from the Dept of Education. It explicitly requires cancellation of awarded scientific grant funding that is in conflict with the current administration.

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[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

The mayor says that it's because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).

US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

This study this meme is based on is completely incorrect and should be retracted. Here's a lay summary of its issues:

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/04/new-paper-debunks-the-prevalence-of-women-hunting-in-early-societies/

And the published article detailing the problems with that study's issues:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513824000497

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don't trust those above you in a business setting.

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Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

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[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At least it comes at a discount right now

At least it comes at a discount right now

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

I'm so in the minority here, but I have a different perspective.

I worked at a grocery store for years, with about a third of my job being cart duty. I loved it when people left their carts outside of the corrals, for a few reasons.

First, if a lot of people did so, I would point it out to whoever was the manager on at the time before I went outside. My manager knew that I would take longer before coming back in, and that would give me more time to stroll/relax/enjoy the outdoors before coming back in to customer craziness. Having those extra minutes because my manager didn't know how long I should take was nice.

Second, sometimes I had to walk way the hell out to the edge of the parking lot, which was really nice for a long walk away from customer craziness. Such walks were very nice when the weather was nice.

Third, it was job security. Working during the recession made my managers want to let as many people go as they could, but customers who made it so even the most efficient cart duty workers took a while to clear the lot effectively kept more of us employeed than management would have employed otherwise.

For those reasons, whenever the weather is nice, I try to leave my cart in a weird spot that is anchored by something. I realize that many other cart duty folks probably dislike me for it, but I know I appreciated it when others did this. So I do it for the folks like me.

I know all of the arguments against it and I'm not trying to debate here. Just sharing a different perspective; sometimes, leaving your cart in a terrible spot can be nice for some of the workers.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

Where's the Julia programmer that hits every one of these with @benchmark and then works for six hours to shave three nanoseconds off of the fastest one?

(Example: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/faster-bernoulli-sampling/35209)

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I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

Popularize the apps that exist. I couldn't figure out how to browse it in a Reddit-like way until I tried an app. That was all I needed to make the switch.

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