Tacherus
2mo ago
I think about that a lot, for what it’s worth. Asking Pence not to certify the election seems like a bright line though.
If not for the 2020 election shenanigans I’d probably agree that he’s just like the prior republican candidates and we’ll see him as tame in ten years compared to the New Threat.
Tacherus
2mo ago
Read a little further:
In one study it was found that he used patient data without written permission, used fictitious data and that two reports were submitted to conferences which included knowingly unreliable data.
Regret
The professor agrees with the committee’s conclusions and expressed his regret for his actions. Poldermans feels that as experienced researcher he should have been more accurate but states that his actions were unintentional.
Tacherus
2mo ago
I basically never get past 1/3 of non-fiction books, but I often feel slightly guilty about it. It seems arrogant to say the last 2/3 is filler or stuff I can work out myself but…
Tacherus
2mo ago
Based on this and other high profile cases it seems we could have a high standard for proving fraud.
On the other hand in these cases of fraud maybe we wouldn’t have confessions if there were more serious consequences.
The thing I think certainly I have been catching up on the last eight years is how important culture is for plugging in the gaps of laws. It’s like this type of fraud should be a career-ending scandal, not necessarily illegal. The law is too blunt an instrument I think.
Tacherus
2mo ago
Thanks for the article. It exhibits a pattern I’ve noticed of wanting to signal sophistication and subtlety by injecting confusion and the resolving it.
Here we have an article about a guy who has acknowledged using fake data.
Why does the article waste time discussing accidentally incorrectly performed research?
It’s so the author can navigate the murky waters created by introducing a fairly unrelated topic, then sieving out the original point which anyone could have made in two paragraphs.
Between this, the Alzheimer’s stuff, and many others it seems pretty dire for the trust the scientists crowd.
Tacherus
2mo ago
I’m not sure how to resolve the disagreement. Publicly disavowing something seems categorically different from drawing a line in the sand and saying “join me or I block you” or whatever. Drawing the line is what creates sides out of people with different opinions.
I don’t like when the left “swings too hard in the opposite direction” and over corrects and I don’t like that approach here. I think it’s short sighted and self-defeating.
Tacherus
2mo ago
In the interests of discussion I’ll say I think A7 is not cancel culture. I’m not even sure A8 is.
Is it cancel culture to post that I simply think an inoffensive podcast, say, has declined in quality and I don’t think it’s worth people’s time?
I think the line is crossed at A9 where I start imposing sanctions on people who disagree. Forcing people to pick a side is how you get people who don’t actually care that much to join a mob.
Tacherus
3mo ago
Ah! Japanese has an official proficiency exam called the Japanese Language Proficiency Test or JLPT. There are five levels, N5-N1. N1 is the hardest.
Tacherus
3mo ago
I’m officially registered for JLPT N4. I was nervous about getting because I decided last minute to try the N5 last year but it was sold out. It’s December 1 so I’m trying to buckle down on learning the rest of the grammar and clocking time listening to native speakers.
Having a blast with the piano, started some ear training for hearing intervals. My practice regimen right now is working on finishing a song, I’m transcribing a song I like so I can play along, and doing some technique and scales practice.
The running training is hard but I wanted to get faster so it’s to be expected. Was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to match the pace requirements for each workout but so far so good!
Tacherus
3mo ago
Is the value really necessarily diluted by handing out more? I would think the value isn’t exclusively about exclusivity, it’s about who’s in the group.
Tacherus
3mo ago
It depends on the heating system I think. Heat pumps rival gas furnaces in overall efficiency because they move the heat rather than create it.
Tacherus
3mo ago
Nice. I need to explore controllers more, all my stuff is keyboard/mouse. What are you using to make it?
Tacherus
3mo ago
90+% of “news” articles I see are of this form. Someone somewhere said something and now I’m gonna ramble about it a bit and cross-link a bunch of other ramblings.
No wonder ChatGPT seems like it will displace these jobs.
Tacherus
3mo ago
I noticed the triangle button in the screen shot -- are you developing it for some variant of playstation?
Tacherus
3mo ago
Oh nice, I’ll take a look at those.
We’re making our way through Genki but each session is usually 30-40 minutes of conversation with occasional grammar discussion, then 20 minutes working on a textbook section.
Tacherus
3mo ago
I thought the money technically did already run out. Didn’t the federal government borrow all of it decades ago?
Tacherus
3mo ago
It’s been 84 8 years.
In fairness, Obama is the only president we’ve ever had born after the 40s. Gerontocracy is probably too general but there is a dynamic of Clinton, W, Biden, and even Trump all belonging to the same era.
It wasn’t gerontocracy 30 years ago but now it can feel that way. It’s probably more accurate to say the same generation has kept a hold on power. Scanning through a table of presidential birth years it’s not obvious to me how uncommon it is. It’s definitely frustrating though.
Tacherus
3mo ago
I know what you mean. The last time I was there it was mind blowing to see various kanji I’d learned in a vacuum in use. Helped so much with meaning.
I haven’t taken any practice exams yet, I am just doing what my tutor tells me. I am practicing reading more with examples from Genki which is nice. We still have some grammar to get through I think from Genki 2.
Tacherus
3mo ago
I’m not sure it would be feasible if I hadn’t put in time when I was a kid. Being able to jump in and play something simple but enjoyable immediately skips a lot of potential pain.
The available training apps are pretty cool though and I’m finding them helpful. Very different than when I was a kid.
Tacherus
3mo ago
For sure. My point is that whichever way you the implementation might be easier if you make it very general first. You could totally make a thing where the user drags and drops Lego blocks to build a specific subset of spells, but under the hood it’s this general purpose scripting engine.
It’s very easy to develop it using only certain actions, then want to add a new action and it takes a significant amount of refactoring.
Imho it’s easier to make the user experience less flexible than more flexible. Just my two cents though! It sounds like a cool project.
Tacherus
3mo ago
N4! I’ve been going kanji for several years and started taking conversational lessons last year working through Genki. Are you studying on your own or in a class?
Tacherus
3mo ago
I wonder if it would be more straightforward to implement completely scriptable spells. If that’s sorted out then you can always scope down what’s possible and slap UI to generate certain types of scripts.
A couple things stand out to me, in no particular order.
Friends of mine saying that Kamala’s lack of policy proposals is good, actually, because whatever she said would just get attacked. I guess the idea is nothing she could possibly say or do is worse than Trump so gotta get her in by any means necessary, including vibes.
I watched Kamala’s speech at the DNC and it honestly reminded me of 2012 republicans. Lots of talk about how great the country is and framing things in terms of freedoms.
I remember distinctly in 2016 some mixed wires with BLM and so on as to whether things looks bad for black Americans. I remember getting that vibe from the Dems but then Trump also said that and suddenly Hillary starts going on about how tone deaf that is and using the word “vibrant” a lot.
I’m not sure if it’s just about who is incumbent now, but I suspect it’s part of a larger shift towards Democrats wielding a cultural majority, or at least acting like it.
Out of favor, Democrats were the party of misfits, the marginalized, and dare I say it, the weird.
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