Just finally made the jump this week. Keeping the dual boot to finish my masters in a known stable environment with all the only-necessary-for-school-programs and then gleefully deleting it as part of my graduation celebration.

Like, in an old house its a massive pain in the ass to run that, but still firmly in DIY territory.

My fingers have that plus the correct directional keys memorized to put my computer to sleep.

Valid

Not knowing Ctrl+shift+esc opens the task manager is one thing, but copy and paste should be taught in school.

Jasmine rice. Makes a huge difference if you like white rice. Tastes like from a restaurant and pleasantly sticky.

Absolutely. It’s why asking it for facts is inherently bad. It can’t retain information, it is trained to give output shaped like an answer. It’s pretty good at things that don’t have a specific answer (I’ll never write another cover letter thank blob).

Now, if someone were to have the good sense to have some kind of lookup to inject correct information between the prompt and the output, we’d be cooking with gas. But that’s really human labor intensive and all the tech bros are trying to avoid that.

Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

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I’m in a doctor’s office and trying so hard not to disturb everyone around me and it’s not going well.

Not redefined as ‘metric’. It means the base measurement is connected to SI along a fixed constant. Meters and kilograms are the base units for length and mass in SI, which is actually metric. The respective USCU units for length are inch, foot, yard, and mile and mass a really annoying number of things.

The systems of measurement are connected, but USCU is not metric.

Citation needed. Those are United States customary units per Wikipedia. Often incorrectly named Imperial units, but this is the first time I’ve seen it argued they are metric.

Also, The Metric Conversion Act happened in 1975, so not since the late 1800s. It also carves out that use of metric is voluntary.

In what useful sense?

I imagine the mental gymnastics are way easier if you’re uninformed about how things work.

Does it qualify as bad faith if I ask my previous questions knowing that he had nothing and/or complete unhinged nonsense?

Fair, I intended that more as an idiom really. I mean whether or not the punishment goes through. He’s so damned slippery I’m not taking anything as truth until the buildings have been seized/ he’s in jail.

But yeah, they did make up their minds there.

Is this not the point of a trial? To ascertain fact and adjudicate appropriately? Hell, this is explicitly the point of a grand jury, to determine if a trial is merited in the first place. And they’ve found, several times, that taking the charges to trial is justified. Not even that he’s guilty, but that it’s worth looking into.

Additionally, what facts am I missing? He wasn’t exactly subtle with seeking to commit crimes (“Only stupid people pay taxes” comes to mind as a softball, but the fact that he was never held to the emoluments clause also stands out. Plus all the fraud and rape). Where is the misunderstanding in all this? He was found to be a rapist by a judge. He was found to have committed fraud by a different judge.

Yes, holding a person accountable for their crimes (maybe, jury is still out) is attacking them…

Unless you’re talking media coverage. Cause we all know that the media is an arm of the government…

Huh. I thought that was Sun Tzu, but google says Napoleon. Thank you.

I have a litany of different parasomniae. Sleep walking and talking. The occasional paralysis, regular night terrors, the very odd waking hallucination. And rarely remember my dreams. Here’s my experience:

Sleep talking: Never remember anything about the dream. I do respond incoherently apparently.

Sleep walking: Can remember the edges of the dream if woken up. Dream logic still holds for a good 10 seconds or so from waking up. I tend to hand my husband wads of clothes. He’s figured out if he just orders me back to sleep I’ll do it.

Night terrors: Never remember anything, and to my understanding occurs during nrem, so you shouldn’t be dreaming anyway. I startle my spouse often. My grandmother also had them all her life.

Hypnopompic (read: after waking up. Contrast hypnogogic) hallucination: Been a long time on this one. Kinda like a movie. You see and hear something then all the sudden it vanishes. Only ever happened a couple times ever.

Sleep paralysis: Terrifying. Keenly aware that I’m fully conscious and cannot compel anything to move. Not even my eyelids. Lasts for what feels like forever but is probably a few minutes. Worst one for me by far. Thankfully rare. Edit: It is my understanding that people hallucinate sometimes at the same time. Hence the origin of the sleep paralysis demon.

I was also suspicious, but it looks ok.