Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@lindsey before I clicked into threads to figure out what was going on this made an exciting juxtaposition with https://recurse.social/@lindsey/110031906844367794

@shriramk one of my friends actually built a levitating mattress a few years ago with rare earth magnets, and I think it was substantially less than that

@shriramk better have a damn antigravity field at that price

@ricci “turn over” “Apple or cherry?”

@vsaraph Spack too! iirc @tgamblin has been trying to improve the readability of their diagnostics when things go bad during constraint satisfaction.

@shriramk Gave VT almost enough time to beat y’all to lucky no. 13 despite our feud with NY and NH

@shriramk are you aware of the whole “PP mainland farmers send raiding parties into CT and MA hoping to provoke annexation so they could be part of a state, because the RIers are quite content to keep pirateing along with no government” business?

@shriramk Time to rant about my pet peeve. Williams set up the *Providence Plantations* to be a bastion of free thought, specifically including protection of native rights. Rhode Island was the nearby pirate den that got lumped in with it by the crown and turned into the hub of the Atlantic slave trade.

@johntimaeus @shriramk Windows ME!

@shriramk now if you were going to get berry-pied, black would probably have been the best choice

@mattblaze Pi is the inferior circle constant to Tau anyway

@lzg but I still remember the first time I was helping someone debug in office hours, and trying to get them to explain the thought process behind their incorrect code so I could give them a new perspective and the response was "I don't know, I just typed it"

@lzg GPT's stochastic parroting breaks down in the same way as CS 101 students who've spent their whole academic career successfully memorizing and then the combinatorial explosion of control flow hits a week after add/drop period ends and it's too late to recover because they're now 3 weeks behind understanding course material.

The difference of course being that humans are physically capable of learning to reason and our educational system is just bad at instilling it.

@lzg Everyone's afraid of accidentally turning AI into a paperclip maximizer, but we've already purposefully turned the US public education system into a paperclip maximizer optimizing for the production of really effective standardized test answer regurgitators who've never been asked to do reasoning in their lives. *Of course* GPT is good at these tasks.

@cahollenbeck https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxvTaZJTAW/ LGS is always on point

@JacquesC2 @ionchy ?