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Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase
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Well, in fairness, if you ask Chatgpt a question it says "...thinking..."
You can see how confusion might occur.
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Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase
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Well, in fairness, if you ask Chatgpt a question it says "...thinking..."
You can see how confusion might occur.
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60% of TikTok videos are AI slop; 21% of YouTube ones
I'm using various front ends for YouTube on different devices. Are there any that filter out AI like they do ads?
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How do you avoid AI music?
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+1 for Qobuz. Seems like an ethical company. They pay artists 4x Spotify rates too.
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Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. A judge wants to know why it’s covered up
I've read a few biographies of JFK and man he did plenty of underhanded stuff, but he is a saint compared with the current bozo.
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SpaceX Shares Fall Below $150 Debut Price For First Time
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I repeatedly scorned Tesla shares because they are an awful company doing very badly and living on hype from their insane leader. But do I wish I bought 10 years ago...? It's gone 30x since then.
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That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
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A little understood rule of retail is:
Customer buys something, has neutral opinion.
Product has a problem, customer has negative opinion.
Company resolves problem well, customer now has positive opinion.
That's a very important lesson for organisations to learn. A customer complaint is a golden advertising opportunity.
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Am I wrong for blocking the Cloudflare domain because I assume they are gathering as much as google?
I suggest you also block anyone using AWS.
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Rough deal: Trump roasted over clip appearing to show ‘cheating’ at golf in Scotland
You've probably heard of it, but do yourself a favour and read Rick Reilly's Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump – (Hachette Books, 2019)
I know little and care less about golf but this book was gripping! Reilly is a great writer and, despite my having read several other books on Trump (Mary Trump, Michael Wolff, etc), I really think Reilly's explains Trumps method of operation better than every other attempt.
It's absolutely shocking what he does in his day to day life. The anecdotes are piled high, the double dealing and fabrications are outrageous. Every single page contains some revelation even more odious than the previous.
A morbid fascination and dogged curiosity regarding the depths of Trump's moral abyss will keep you tutting and eye-rolling to the end.
(Sounds like a sales pitch, I know. But I casually picked it up in a thrift shop for €1. No regrets!)
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is this some kind of a puzzle?
Disentanglement or Tavern Puzzle
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Peter, a man who escaped from slavery, shows his scourging scars, US 1863
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I see where you're going with this and I accept the possibility Trump is just clumsy and avoidant on the issue.
But you must be aware that there is a strong belief amongst MAGA types and deep conservatives in general that slavery was benign if not beneficial to those subjugated. D'Souza wrote a whole book about it.
They believe liberals exaggerate the bad parts of slavery due to irrational white guilt and black people agree because they are whiners and want reparations.
I strongly suspect this plays into Trump's rants regarding museums and history curricula.
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Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?
https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
Works well.
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rule
20 GOTO $LUNCH
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I like that the lions don't quite fit on the gateposts.
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Americans kinda don't like pickpocketing rule
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I agree, this is posted as news when it's likely anecdotal or even fabricated. It plays on the American self-image as John Wayne types, when everyone in Europe knows they're usually not very streetwise and walk around with maps and cameras talking loudly.
The other comments here are quick to jump in with opinions about how Americans don't take any shit, implying European simps just roll over for these pesky pilferers.
It's a real Don't Mess with Texas vibe based on another dodgy blog article.
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Truly Lossless Music
I realise this is a tongue-in-cheek title but for anyone unaware, sheet music is a very clinical and skeletal approximation of music. Like the difference between reading I Have a Dream and actually hearing MLK deliver the speech. It's why you can have 1,000 different recordings of a Mozart piano concerto -- and why they're all superior to a PC playing a MIDI file (most accurate representation of sheet music).
Having said that, and despite sheet music being about as far from 'lossless' as a stickman drawing, musicians are particularly good at 'visualising' music. So much so, that a brain scan can't distinguish between a musician actually listening to music and a musician merely replaying music in their head.
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Can I become a writer when this is the quality of my writing? Please be honest.
This is terrible writing, but you can still become a writer with practice. It appears as if you haven't read any books, though. Do you have a favourite writer? Or genre? Or period? Just reading internet comments isn't really enough. I'm also astonished at the many basic errors in these few short paragraphs. Back to school with you and study! Good luck.
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I thought we were giving opinions on search engines? And what virtue am I signalling??
Also, your comment seems overly aggressive for a casual conversation. Just my opinion.
We're all supposed to be friends here.
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"Scan to Verify You're Human": Google's reCAPTCHA is trialing a new "experimental challenge type" which requires desktop users to use an Android or iOS device to be able to pass it
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Discord?! Computers are a lot older than Discord! Cats have been jumping on keyboards since forever.
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The Luigi Mangione Musical Is So Popular It Might Get a National Tour
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Sweeney Todd
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What is that one software that you are using for 10 years and still loving it?
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*whips