bikemath.bsky.social
Applied Mathematician, Veteran, Nevadan — Probably watching Star Trek. (he/him/his) up
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Bury the powerlines
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By the time these experiments make it to human trials, the risks tend to be extremely well understood, even in our non-utopian society.
I think yes. The benefit to society would be easier to apply to the risk / “reward” balance.
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Utopian society just means that the usual, cynical motivations for participation in any activity are basically eliminated.
Subjects would be willing, and fully understand the system and risks. They wouldn’t need compensation, because their needs are otherwise met.
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Grocery shopping on a budget is a daily exercise in home economics fiction
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I love a good typo
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Man, I just knocked a solid millimeter of dust off a buster album the other day. Sitting there, I actually asked myself out loud “I wonder how many human beings actually remember this band?” fully convinced that the answer was quite small.
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To get past the AI problem we either need to build some ludicrously expensive countermeasure (and charge students for the privilege) or simply do what we used to do.
You can assign online homework credit, but the bulk of their grade should probably come from something verifiable.
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The solution (for math) is to not score online homework and only score in person quizzes and exams.
The solution for some writing-based classes is to adjust the credit / grading pie to include an in-class editing portion where they identify false statements, etc.
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Dad: “where do all the drippings go? I have tons of them when I cook it the normal way”
Me: “why do you think it’s so dry?”
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What bad boy image?
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Who’s next? Toad the wet sprocket?
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This feels like a concept that has a 75-character long German word associated with it
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Outsourcing is the American way, Peter
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Tbh, id just read Adam Johnson’s feed for the last year 🤣
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That was my point- I’m actually not sure I’ve even had a waffle iron that does beep.
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The same as a griddle that doesn’t beep, I suppose
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Used incessantly in “have you even read Marx, bro?” circles
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It was a lost fight 30 years ago. Attrition ever since.
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A poker game is also definitely not in the bag for Trump
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I did exactly this too- oof
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I have more than one old paper I should send off- but no one’s paying me to do so… 🤣
Since I’m a computational math guy, I’ve begun handing them off to students / interns edit, make new figures, etc.
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I had a hard time eating with Covid. I just never ever felt hungry (the Sudafed was among the biggest likely culprits, with 20/20 hindsight.)
I would have recovered so much faster if I didn’t eat like a bird- so yeah, get two hot dogs.
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If someone does want to chant “USA USA USA” for those future results (from the perspective of a gun fetishist cartoon character), I’d like to point them to how the USA typically performs in the winter biathlon— the purest measure of athleticism / precision.