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Yeah, what’s stopping people from using AI generated synthetic data?

Yeah this article is pretty amazing. Fun what happens when you fuck over all your students :) :) :)

For the first half of the article I was wondering where the grift would be and...lo and behold.

    The paper was published on 14 October 2020 to fanfare. Dias and a co-author, Ashkan Salamat, a physicist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), also announced their new venture: Unearthly Materials, a Rochester-based company established to develop superconductors that operate at ambient temperatures and pressures.
ButterflyEffect  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 14, 2024

ya know

one of the more concerning parts of reddit or maybe the internet at large(?)? seems to me that most internet-ees are utterly incapable of understanding that other people have different lived experiences than they do.

ButterflyEffect  ·  42 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Brutal Reality of Plunging Office Values Is Here

Where do you think this lands? Think we let commercial real estate eat shit and sink a bunch of regional banks in the process, or another massive bailout incoming?

I'm thinking ultimately RTO ends up at 65% capacity filled in these buildings which is still...

ButterflyEffect  ·  43 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 14, 2024

Thanks, boss! Way to take initiative on that. Hope it gets your somewhere.

ButterflyEffect  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 31, 2024

Thanks!! Especially the Barbara Tuchman rec, I think I’ll start with that one. Been reading a bunch of wiki pages about Vietnam, Laos, both civil wars, the Hmong, etc. and want to keep learning!

Have you been to the Wing Luke?

ButterflyEffect  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 31, 2024

anyone have recs for books (histories, memoirs, general nonfiction) about vietnam and possibly laos?

ButterflyEffect  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

Oh cool! Whatcha doing in python?

ButterflyEffect  ·  64 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

    My only hope is that the SCOTUS nerfs Trump due to insurrection.

In your scenario, what makes you think that Trump gives any credence to any sort of SCOTUS nerfing?

ButterflyEffect  ·  64 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species

i wonder if there’s any connection between this and the weird dog respiratory illness that’s been going around for a couple-few months.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dogs-respiratory-illness-map-acirdc/

lol, ive been hearing about this since at least 2015ish as way to “beat” Taleo and other application/recruiting platforms. of course, with it being 2024, “AI” must be added in some way.

ButterflyEffect  ·  77 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski Jan 10, 2024

pretty tired of being sick and seeing people around me get sick, but that seems to be the cycle since...september? getting a little worried that the rest of life is going to be a period of 3-4 months of health for me and those around me with 1-2 week illnesses breaking those periods up.

pretty sure i'm going to get a coach for a few months for outdoors/athletics performance. happy to spend some money to, at the least, better create my own training plans in the future.

ButterflyEffect  ·  133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 15, 2023

I think you’re making the right choice by going with 40-45L for week ending! Osprey and Gregory make great packs. Don’t know if you’re in a place where you can try them on - would go with whatever fits best, and those companies do make different fitting packs compared to each other.

ButterflyEffect  ·  212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Student Loans Are Emerging From Deep Freeze, and Borrowers Are Confused

What happened with that ~$1 trillion that was in forbearance during the pandemic? Doesn't seem like it tanked the economy...

ButterflyEffect  ·  212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Actually Like

    As to Smucker's, I guarantee their factory floor is a lot browner. Now here's the question: does this cause a bifurcation between the Morlocks and Eloi where the ruling class beams down from the mothership every four weeks to command the galley slaves? Or do the galley slaves start moving up and displacing the whip-holders because they're simply there more often? I think that's a thoroughly unresolved question with massive implications for the future of work in the United States.

If this is anything like most large corporations I've worked for, or otherwise am aware of via former friends, colleagues, etc. it's still very much the former in this, and in some cases where I've seen the latter, for those people, they end up back on the factory floor/in the factory/etc. due to the politics and unwelcoming nature of breaking into the mothership.

ButterflyEffect  ·  232 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 9, 2023

    - dealing with a rogue DJ who decided to spew 6000 words of lies all over facebook and every blogspot he owns that call me out personally

how is this something you're still dealing with. jeez, man, wish that would just end for you.

ButterflyEffect  ·  252 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 19, 2023

    I’m still surprised it worked out as well as it did. I even got the video exactly the way I hoped. Not that that matters too much, but it’s the cherry on the cake that I got both the composition right as well as the technical settings that I wanted (6.2K, 30fps, shutter at 1/60 with my variable ND filter and the Eterna Fuji film setting). It helps that my new Fuji camera has been a joy to (learn to) shoot with.

I love that you spent as many lines of text on this as the proposal itself. Congrats!!!

ButterflyEffect  ·  252 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 19, 2023

Girl

Things continue to go suspiciously well with this girl, including navigating our first mini-crisis which occurred uhhhh 6 hours prior to her heading to Alaska for a week and us getting about 2.5 hours of sleep that night prior to her early morning flight.

Running

Other than that. Having my first experience being at a 100-mile race this upcoming weekend helping to crew a friend. Here's an article about said friend. I am "the guitarist" in the article. It's going to get weird. I'm excited to be a very small part of it.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/seattleite-named-favorite-weirdo-for-running-ultramarathons-in-crocs/

I think I'm going to do a very rugged 100km run in September and see what happens. Why not?

Work

Well I can't really talk about it right now but maybe in a couple of weeks.

ButterflyEffect  ·  259 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Milan Kundera, Literary Star Who Skewered Communist Rule, Dies at 94

As someone who has only read The Unbearable Lightness of Being and found it to be absolutely incredible, do you have a recommendation on what to read next from Kundera?

Same for b_b.

ButterflyEffect  ·  259 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 12, 2023

hahahahahahaha

this week, man

ButterflyEffect  ·  267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 5, 2023

i spent 2.5 days on what is, to date, the most stunning, remote feeling, pristine, and beautiful alpine climb of my life.

got weepy twice behind my glacier glasses from sheer feelings of awe and gratitude. never have i felt quite so small and insignificant, and yet so vast.

i am still very emotionally and mentally raw from that experience. this is a beautiful planet we have, treat it well.

ButterflyEffect  ·  274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 28, 2023

Man what do I start with. Girl or climbing.

Girl?

Girl!

Last Tuesday a friend of mine had a little party/social by renting out part of one of the local breweries to celebrate her finishing her residency. She's now on a road trip for a wedding, climbing trip (she's so excited to be able to climb regularly again) and other stuff with her boyfriend. So happy for her!

She invited a handful of people, maybe 10, from one of the running groups out here, which is the group I met her in! I spent some amount of time hanging out with a few friends and drinking free beer, and shuffling around talking to some of the people from the running club who I didn't know very well.

One girl was there who I ended up really, really hitting it off with. We ended up spending probably half the night together getting to know each other and I got her phone number. We went out on a first date Thursday night, that went great, and a mini-date Sunday night after I got back from a long run and she got back from Mount Hood. Stayed the night at my place both times, and Sunday night she even brought her dog over.

Very smart, she's getting her phd, we're the same age, she's big into running, not at all into climbing, has a very similar taste in music, and i've felt so, so conversationally and intellectually stimulated and engaged around her and talking with her. she's also very attractive...she has said she doesn't want to rush into anything, and neither do i! yet here we are, texting each other daily, and her sending me a photo of her new tattoo while she's back home on the east coast...she also gave me (to borrow), unsolicited, her copy of ocean vuongs latest book of poetry.

The catches are: she had been in an on again-off again relationship for 3 years with the person who started the prior mentioned run club...and i have no idea what she's looking for and don't really want to have that conversation anytime soon.

either way, i'm happy, and she invited me to her birthday run weekend that's in two weekends!

CLIMBING:

another friend of mine had to get helicoptered off a mountain because of a bad fall he took, probably a 50ft fall. fractured his facial bones, and a bunch of other stuff. is in a neck brace, and has some other moderate injuries. no surgeries needed it sounds like. but we're up to 2 friends who have had to be rescued and walked out on their own, and 2 friends who have been helicoptered off of a mountain, and it's only late June. Really has me wondering how much alpine climbing i want to be doing this year, it's got me a bit spooked...

ButterflyEffect  ·  274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 28, 2023

Broken Social Scene are finishing up their You Forget It In People tour so I guess you get both??

ButterflyEffect  ·  281 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 21, 2023

huh

have a date tonight, girl who climbs/runs/kayaks/bikes/etc. seems very smart and funny at least over text. we have a mutual friend so that's cool.

what's making me nervous though is last night. friend just finished her residency and had a little party at one of the local breweries, spent half the night talking with a girl i've met through a running club but never really talked to and felt a lot of chemistry, got her phone number, thinking if i want to hit her up today and ask her on a date. makes me a bit nervous just typing that out!

climbing is going well. big mountains this upcoming weekend.

ButterflyEffect  ·  287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2023

oh and i had to rescue someone on a rock climb this past weekend

ButterflyEffect  ·  287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2023

my main climbing partner who’s become an amazingly good friend is moving as expected now that her travel contract is up, so she’s back to the northeast where she spends half the year with her partner

gonna miss her

still have no desire to date

this weekend rock climbing in oregon

weekend after on glaciers in northern washington

weekend after that a big rock climbing weekend

i pretty much have climbing plans through november and a tentative ice climbing trip in january

i keep meeting climbers who i get along really well with and have such a wider community than i did a year ago

is this what’s it’s like to be actively living the life you’ve envisioned

ButterflyEffect  ·  288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2023

    They're making a documentary on it and are interviewing me for it.

I'm sorry, what?

Bandcamp remains a very good way to find new music, for anyone else reading kbs comments. Kind of cool to search by region using tags on that site.

ButterflyEffect  ·  288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Saudis buy professional golf

Idk, I find your take on this to be pretty boring. Raises some very interesting antitrust questions and above all, MBS buying up pro golf is a very splashy political move.

What's the outcome and response here? Should we expect to see more regional bank failures, systemic collapse/consolidation of the regional banking system? Further regulation into commercial loans? Bailouts? (which will kinda piss me off personally if we go this route while still screwing a generation and more with student loan debt).

Plus...I mean...what happens to all this unoccupied physical space that is zoned for offices, retail, etc etc.