The use of chatgpt for writing is so widespread in higher ed, it will cause serious problems to those students when entering the workforce.

Lots of fancy stuff is written about how we just have to change the way we teach!, and how we can use chatgpt in lessons! blablabla, but it’s all ignorant of the fact that some things need to be learnt by doing them, and students can’t understand how they hurt their own learning, because they don’t know what they don’t know.

Ah sorry, I misunderstood the title

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Thanks for sharing, I think you raise great points about the FOSS community.

I also have an iPhone due to my disability, Android isn’t even an option. It was interesting to read that blind users are in a similar predicament. The idea to move away from bigtec is just inconceivable for something where I rely on accessibility.

Isn’t there already artstation.com? Just had a look at Cara and it looks very similar

I appreciate that it worked for you. I don’t want to invalidate your experience. I just want to say that there is a good reason such a large gap exists between the evidence that job hopping is beneficial, and people actually doing it.

I want to point out that a) you have a skillset and job area that is conducive to freelancing and b) that building a network requires networking, which again is something that costs energy and social and communication skills.

These are not a given and should not be treated as a no-cost activity. Especially your last sentence implies a required focus on impact- again, your reward is more money, but there is a cost to doing this at work.

Do Ubisoft and Blizzard games run? I keep reading praises about Steam but I am more concerned with the other launchers

But it’s also in one’s self interest to have a stable relationship with colleagues, being used to an environment, not changing things drastically so frequently.

There is a big, non-monetary cost to job hopping. If life outside of work is not stable, than changing the one constant is suddenly not appealing, even if more money is the reward.

Without podcasts I am not sure I’d still use Spotify

This has been my experience as well. If you already know what you are doing, LLMs can be a great tool. If you are inexperienced, you cannot assess the quality nor the accuracy of the answers, and are using the LLM to replace your own learning.

I like to draw the parallel to people that have learnt to paint only using digital tools. They often show a particular colouring that shows a lack of understanding of colour theory. Because pipette tools mean that you never have to mix colours, you never have to learn to do so. Painting with physical paint isn’t superior, but it presents a hurdle (mixing paint) that is crucial to learn to overcome. Many digital-only artists will still have learnt on traditional media. Once you have the knowledge, the pipette and colour pickers are just a tool, no longer inhibiting anything.

Can you provide a source for the claim that all these discoveries are “far superior” than what humans have discovered? I struggle to see how a discovery can be ‘superior’- isn’t how the discovery is classified and dealt with, the crucial aspect?

I think the one argument for the assumption that we’re near peak already is the entire issue of AI learning from AI input. I think numberphile discussed a maths paper that said that to achieve the accuracy that we want, there is simply not enough data to train it on.

That’s of course not to say that we can’t find alternative approaches

Yep. I do triage on potentially bad questions and this is probably the most common response I give.

I loved this:

At first glance, the Recall feature seems like it may set the stage for potential gross violations of user privacy. Despite reassurances from Microsoft, that impression persists for second and third glances as well.

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You need it for the Mario 64 A button challenge

Ah at least you benefit from the veneer of being in the natural sciences. Don’t mention you’re a social scientist, then people straight up believe there is no science and social scientists just exchange anecdotes about social behaviour. The STEM fetishisation is ubiquitous.

In case you’re curious: Parkinson’s isn’t always the shaking kind (tremors). Many patients experience rigidity and difficulties moving. For example, writing becomes impossible after a while because the hand can’t hold the pen any more. The hand sort of cramps up.

Thanks for putting it into words for me, that is a great summary. It is irritating to read, but not illegible. I agree that it’s great as an accessibility tool