blakestacey @ blakestacey @awful.systems

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His complaint seriously backfired here, because it makes working on a chalkboard sound epic. The act of rubbing one rock against another becomes ascendance into the highest realms of thought? That's fuckin' alchemy, bro.

Too lazy even to make a "keikaku means nonconsensual" joke. Tsk, tsk.

spoiler: it's just a shell script that repeats "Anta baka?!"

The Bell Curve in Perspective is free online.

One thing that would be a good addition to the recommended NSFW reading list would be an explanation of basic CS theory that's good enough to forestall the worst of the woo, or at least give a reader who isn't already a lost cause the tools to recognize the woo.

Those nitpicks are something you can ask it to clarify! Wikipedia doesn’t do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk

Those nitpicks are something you can ask it to clarify! Wikipedia doesn’t do that. If you are looking for something specific and it’s not in the Wikipedia article - tough luck, have fun digging through different articles or book excerpts to piece the missing pieces together.

Or, as we called it in my day, studying.

"The image of the penis is translated into a depth measurement...."

That's numberwang!

(thinks)

Cum Jabbar

AI: the amazing technology that makes computers bad at math and turns me into Miss Wormwood.

Wikipedia's coverage of math and science topics is... uneven, but that article looks to be on the decent side. It's good enough that if you say you got absolutely nothing from it, I'd be inclined to blame your study skills before I blamed the article. And guess what? Pressing the lever to get nuggets of extruded math-substitute product will not help you develop those study skills.

Huh. Too bad he and I will probably never meet; this sounds like an instance where my ability to be incredibly abrasive could be used for good. (Or at least for comedy.)

So, you're fine with psychologically torturing Black people because software manuals are too dry.

Good to know.

The biggest, if rarely used, use case is education - they’re an infinitely patient tutor that can explain things in many ways and give you endless examples.

No. They're not.

No worries! :-)

Previously discussed here

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Calvin and Hobbes, 8 November 1989

"They say the pollutants we dump in the air are trapping the Sun's heat and it's going to melt the polar ice caps! Sure, you'll be gone when it happens, but I won't! Nice planet you're leaving me!"

Calvin and Hobbes, 23 July 1987

"And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings, and every one was a good dog before the Lord, Bront"

Reject modernity (wrong number of fingers), embrace tradition (SPIRAL EYE-HOLES ARE WATCHING YOU)

Ah, but have you considered the fact that because he titled his book Rationality, he is by definition rational, and anyone seeking to argue against him using logic and reason is automatically self-defeating?