By today’s Trumpian standards he seems mild. Even Obama praised him. Along with Lincoln, Republicans trot Ronald Reagan out every time Democrats praise their greats: Obama, LBJ, Kennedy, FDR or Truman.
Republicans regularly rate him their greatest after Lincoln.
In reality, the “great communicator,“ as he was called, was an impenetrable facade of congeniality who was hostile to civil rights.
Erdogan pisses off Putin by returning Mariupol commanders to Ukraine.
My gut tells me that after the Wagner mutiny Erdogan sees Putin as weaker. I suspect he also sees a future where a dominant Turkey with a close NATO ally in Ukraine thoroughly controls the Black Sea region.
Hey #NLP—we all know better than to use NLP tools that we can't assess, right? These folks are advertising on the #acl2023nlp Rocket.chat, but give 0 info about how their system was built or evaluated.
The link for http://generalizable.xyz goes to a page that literally just consists of their logo.
In what sense is this GPT? What training data did they use? What test data? What evaluation metric?
But more to the pt: We're here to learn from each other, not to read synthetic versions of papers.
"It allows users to ask questions, explore sections, and request summaries, making academic research more accessible and digestible. Ideal for researchers, students, or anyone seeking to quickly understand complex papers."
Summaries, accessibility, these imply fairly transparent veracity. Things we know are not possible right now.
And what kind of understanding would be based on these?
Here it is: A comprehensive look at NSItemProvider: what it does, how it works, and how to use it properly. I want this to be a one-stop-shop reference for anyone using this class in their projects.
NSItemProvider is a key class in iOS and Mac Catalyst, used in everything from Drag and Drop, to Pasteboard, share sheet, and beyond. Understanding how this class works will help you make better apps and gain insight into what the system does for you.
Please read the post, and send me feedback. Share it with your iOS developer friends. Let me know what you think!
When I was a philosophy grad student longtermism hadn't been invented yet. Even now it is, long after I left the field, apparently a fringe area of research. But what I am now reading about it is frankly alarming.
This is an article from a recovered longtermist philosopher. I'll add some quotes and comments below.
Merit for purposes of college admission is at most an unverifiable ideal.
At worst, it is a rationalization for enforcing the biased status quo.
Doubt me?
Consider ANY means of objectively measuring merit and ask yourself if what you're measuring is intrinsic to the person rather than opportunity, investment, privilege, luck, etc.
Climate migration is only going to increase. And differentiating between direct and indirect climate effects (like political destabilization that in turn is exacerbated by climate change) is going to get harder as well.
And the primary diver (as best I tell) of increasing cultural populism around the world is xenophobia.
This is not an ideal combination.
It might help if there were an international strategy.
Notice how "This airline screwed me" posts just don't fly on Mastodon? Yes, accidental, silly pun but there is something about this place that bitching just don't work as well. I think this is good? Yet there are things to be done in this world so I still want information, insights, and paths to action. Just saying the "OMG factor" seems dialed down.
Since we're talking about shaming more than QTs, I can't quite agree with the "Don't do the crime if you can't handle the time" attitude.
Because what groups shame people for is not necessarily stuff they should be shamed for. For example, sex positivity is a reaction to slut shaming, body positivity is a reaction to body shaming, etc.
The topic of shaming is interesting in a morbid kind of way.
It is a social tool for coercing a social being to punish themselves emotionally.
Now, sometimes that punishment is apt. No question. But not always and I would argue, usually not. Because in most cases it takes a critical mass of a peer group for the coercion to work. And that usually means the dominant subgroups shame most effectively. I.e, punching down, not up.
I mostly agree? I think there's more too though. Some people with severe addictions are not interested in rehab at all. That's just an unfortunate fact and there's no ethical method for forcing them to change their minds. What's more, this isn't a new problem. It's as old as human addiction.
But should rehab services be fully funded? Absolutely. There's no ethical alternative.