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orcwizard.bsky.social
Gaming, science, higher ed, all things nerdy.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 2 days ago • 1698 comments

Sadly, the use of GPS has eroded my instincts for navigation without a map.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The palantirs in Tolkien were marvelous magical artifacts for communicating across great distances. At least until the Dark Lord Sauron got his hands on one and used it to twist the minds of once great people.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Terrible policy that will massively increase the national debt and harm most Americans so a few rich people can have tax cuts.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Pouring one out for one of the greats. Rest in peace, sir. 🍺

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Well, Saturday nights aren't what they used to be but I'm seeing the appeal of life in the order... #ActuallyAutistic

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

I’m not lax on mowing the lawn. I’m preparing it to become the nation’s strategic dandelion reserve.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The president will never be pope. But now - hypothetically st lest - the pope could be elected president .

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT. Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT. If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

Re LLMs writing term papers: the other day I saw someone say that using LLMs to write is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It's not that the weights need to go up; it's that you need to do the lifting. The doing of the work is the result, not the paper being done or the weights having moved.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

I just told a student they couldn’t take the Final that was open for a week and they missed the deadline to take it. I know, I’m the bad guy.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments