Scott
Empty out the locker room, let me find my space
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- Reposted by ScottRealizing it's been 8 years since I posted this and crumbling into dust
- Reposted by Scott1.) This fucks a huge range of students with disabilities 2.) In an environment where universities are increasingly demand we make courses available fully online, it's absolutely unworkable 3.) It does not actually address the pedagogical gap created by writing an exam or essay with an LLM
- OK, this has been bugging me. That resonator cone cover surely wouldn't have been made of silver!
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- Reposted by ScottWas on a call with an academic about this recently—AI breaches the trust with the audience. The audience is here because of a process that lets us fully explain how we got from A to Z with every word in a story. Break that chain of knowledge, break that trust, break the truth, break your business.
- even if we accept "a lot of the left holds a true belief because of groupthink rather than careful examination of the evidence" for the sake of argument, "the left should be more open to demonstrably false belief" is not a correct counterbalance!
- We could have already had this, mandated by regulation in every school, hospital, office, business, and public building and funded by massive federal grants, two to three years ago at the latest, if as a society we'd had the will
- A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected. 👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by ScottTwo common exceptions— Peruvian lilies/alstoemeria (very common filler flowers in bouquets) and peace lilies (very common houseplant) are not true lilies and are fine for cats to be around. They might get a stomachache if they munch on them but that’s it.
- Reposted by ScottReminder on the day of giving mothers flowers: lilies are very toxic to cats and shouldn’t even be in the house with them! If you have cats and there are lilies in your bouquet, toss them
- man if we still had laws and a constitution and an emoluments clause and stuff that'd probably be a pretty big deal
