mildlyusedbrain

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[–] mildlyusedbrain 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] mildlyusedbrain 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about unpolished, wasn't my cup of tea in a lot of ways but felt very polished in almost every regard I can think of

[–] mildlyusedbrain 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

By that logic any article from a news distributor is garbage. Which while true, you can find the original story from a new wire. Sourcing points is key but having someone write a table of authorities when they can link a video with their thoughts and data is fine

[–] mildlyusedbrain 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

He discusses actual polls you can look up? This isn't a video just saying things it has data

[–] mildlyusedbrain 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tautological statements are true so assume you meant bad use of tautology

[–] mildlyusedbrain 10 points 8 months ago

Yeah but the former is loud, obnoxious and misogynistic about it. Whereas the latter is only heard from to call out the former.

[–] mildlyusedbrain 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not a scientist but the article seems to mean that they checked that the tools themselves had no defects giving incorrect measurements.

This comment seems to be questioning the methodology of how we measure the rate of expansion so tackles a different aspect of the conversation.

But that's about as much as I can contribute haha

[–] mildlyusedbrain 1 points 10 months ago

The monks who made the calendar where shooting for 2 BC (or AD?) As the birth year. Only issue is they didn't really have a lot to go on and guessed basically.

[–] mildlyusedbrain 1 points 10 months ago

While that's true that the earliest non-Christian source was Josephus, that doesn't mean Paul (very contemporary figure) or the Bible aren't good sources. We can read around the obvious fabrications and their bias doesn't per se remove all historical value.

The standard for historians (even critical ones) strongly support treating Jesus as a real person.

This isn't at all a win though for Christians. The Dead Sea scrolls are very indicative of Jesus as a non-unique figure. It was common for there to be Jewish apocalyptic teachers. Jesus was one of those.

The better way of thinking about him in my opinion is that he was a real Jewish teacher who never claimed to be the son of God, that was mythologized by early Christians.

Highly recommend a Marginal Jew by Meier or anything by Bart Erhman for Atheists.

[–] mildlyusedbrain 1 points 10 months ago

Many have already touched on this, but you hit the nail on the head with the third paragraph. Always smart to prepare but any attempt to use this to reduce workers will go horribly. Saving isn't crazy in this regard but wouldn't plan on it being long term until LLMs can become less expensive, have better reasoning and most importantly have at all better performance on longer context windows without impact on performance. These aren't easy solves, they brush up on fundamentals limits of the tech

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