FundMECFS

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’m going to say like 95% of humanity. And I’m really talking worldwide, not just US. We have been made apathetic. The world would be better if the average person cared more.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 3 points 2 hours ago

Water your car. My friends.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 2 hours ago

For what uts woryh I’m getting something similar since a week or so but can’t reproduce it it seems completely random.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps the point is to fix it up a little before getting more folks to join?

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 4 hours ago

Okay, but are we gonna talk about how Lagos, Nigeria will become a ski resort town?

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So what’s the trick to get a cheap price?

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

At this point you’re splitting hairs… wait…

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 23 hours ago

Imagine all of the incidents that happened like this where no one happened to film it.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 23 points 1 day ago

The Simpsons' longtime director David Silverman claimed that Smithers was always intended to be "Mr. Burns' white sycophant" and **the producers ultimately decided that it "**would be a bad idea to have a black subservient character to a rich white man," so Smithers was literally color-corrected for his next episode. The first appearance of the proper yellow Smithers with grey hair was in "There's No Disgrace Like Home", the fourth episode of The Simpsons season 1.

https://screenrant.com/simpsons-season-1-waylon-smithers-black-reason/

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Edit 2: This reply isn’t even relevent anymore because the poster is editing their before posts to try and make my replies seem bad, really weird behaviour.

I never said there was a single definition. Just that most people think it’s characterised by things like symbolic language and art.

And the first paragraph of the wikipedia article you sent agrees with me

Most scholars agree that modern human behavior can be characterized by abstract thinkingplanning depth, symbolic behavior (e.g., artornamentation), music and dance, exploitation of large game, and blade technology, among others.

Edit: I posted my paragraoh before you replied with that article. My edit was fixing spelling adding the homo habilis example and fixing language to last common ancestor around my chimp example because I had said “evolved from Chimps” which is inaccurate.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Depends what you mean by behaviourally modern.

Skulls around 2.5 million year old range (seen in homo habilis for example) are very different (and much smaller) from the ones we currently have. I mean humans only split off from our common ancestor with chimps about 5 - 7 million years ago.

So timewise 2.5 Mya is just a little more than halfway between our last common ancestors and modern Homo Sapiens (Sapiens).

The earliest evidence we have for things like symbolic language and abstract art is more like 50-100’000 years ago. That’s what most people mean by behaviourally modern.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

It also checks out for homo sapiens interacting with chimpanzees north of the Congo river 20k ya

 
 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/119938

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick artificial intelligence (AI) tools into giving them a positive peer-review report.

The Tokyo-based news magazine Nikkei Asiareported last week on the practice, which had previously been discussed on social media. Nature has independently found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, which are usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer.

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