canihasaccount

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[–] canihasaccount 1 points 8 months ago

I was just in a smaller city in Germany and flew back to the US after that. I look German and speak German. When paying with card, Germany felt exactly like the US. At every restaurant, the tip request automatically came up within the thing used to process your card, just like in the US.

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, I would consider that fluff, which is okay in my book. I don't use it for writing, personally, but what I tell my students is that if it'd be fine for a friend to do the thing and not get coauthorship, it's fine to use AI for that (provided you acknowledge it, as you would a friend who provides some helpful comments on a draft). Proofing and suggesting minor stylistic things fall under that umbrella IMO.

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm in science. It isn't difficult to get an English speaking coauthor. Going to an LLM is easier and faster, sure, but if someone can't understand the output then they have no idea if their text is being translated correctly.

[–] canihasaccount 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It can't write much of substance. The only people using it in science for anything more than fluff are people who don't speak English well or who have no business writing papers. I sympathize with the former, but I don't understand why those folks wouldn't just either publish in a language they speak or get an English-speaking coauthor to help write in English. I wouldn't ever use it to write an article. Even editing, it tends to butcher scientific nuance.

It is good at writing fluff though, which is helpful for things like letters of recommendation for undergraduates.

[–] canihasaccount 1 points 8 months ago

That's fascinating, and I agree with you. Why the US hates the idea of high-speed rail is beyond me, especially because they prided themselves so much on the rail system they put together earlier in their development. In any case, the US can't do much of anything with its debt-to-GDP as high as it is right now. They can hardly keep from shutting the government down entirely because they won't even agree to a government budget.

[–] canihasaccount 2 points 8 months ago

Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land

[–] canihasaccount 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

EU is still smaller

But the main reason the US can't handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can't afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be--especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.

[–] canihasaccount 3 points 8 months ago

Sync does formatting correctly. I came to Lemmy only because I like Sync so much. I paid for the lifetime version of it with Reddit and will probably pay for the lifetime version of this eventually. To each their own wrt how Lemmy is viewed, I guess.

[–] canihasaccount 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's an ad for something, with the bell. We both use the free version of Sync.

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