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What models did you use for the stages? I see Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct mentioned as an advanced option, so I assume maybe Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct by default (which is what I also use …

I feel like if you followed the NBA scandal involving Chauncey Billups the wire fraud charge for insider prediction market trading was inevitable. Damon Jones didn't work for the N…

It is a spectrum. My advisor was very hands off. He didn't, ultimately, even really understand my PhD. He knew the problem, but he had no path in mind to solve it, that was up to m…

Most of my podcasts are movie related. If I had to purge them all and start with just 5 though I would go with. Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatch…

I read close to 40 books this year which I assume is up from the previous year, and way more than I used to read prior to starting to do the Rochester Library reading challenge (wh…

This is it. I had the same thing happen to me a year ago and there was a month between the original access to our system and the attack. And similarly they waited until a perceived…

Almost this exact thing happened to me about a year ago. Very old account login, SES access with request to raise the email limit. We were only quickly tipped off because they had …

Does that count the time it takes to get a masters? I feel like I recall my coworkers in England doing a 1-2 year masters, and then the 3-4 year PhD after.

Maybe a nonsequitur but in grad school I was in a study group which naturally split into two. In one group (mine) we'd read a problem and immediately charge in, sometimes have to b…

Library. I order DVDs to my local library all the time. Maybe your library system is terrible, but if it isn't you certainly can do this. There are hundreds a big wide release film…

Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc. With …

You have to go pretty deep though for the record. At least, using one of your examples, for Altman if you look at his top 25 films on Letterboxd, 20 of them are available to rent o…

How's your local library system?

My local library and the nearby highschool both have solar panels over the parking lot. They certainly exist. I suppose the ROI they've had would be interesting (although this is i…

Middlemarch by George Eliot. Well worth a read, possibly the greatest English novel ever written.

And we are there. A boat sails, and a submarine sails. A model generates makes perfect sense to me. And saying chatgpt generated a poem feels correct personally. Indeed a model (e.…

Yes this is what I thought, that it was AI fake bands basically. This sounds a bit more like Sugar Sugar by The Archies, which is a made up cartoon band with a number one hit.

What does a submarine do? Submarine? I suppose you "drive" a submarine which is getting to the idea: submarines don't swim because ultimately they are "driven"? I guess the issue i…

I faced a similar thing at one point. The thing that fixed it for me was going back to fiction. Started with a fantasy series. Did a little sci-fi. Did some easy classics (e.g. Dra…

It says that there is like a 10x risk of SIDS in the first four months of life with tummy sleeping. I don't agree with her on everything, but Emily Oster's chapter on SIDS (in the …

This person seems to work in a field (exercise / athletics) with an abundance of data, low stakes outcomes, reasonably well established biomarkers, etc. in other words, a field per…

The claim is not that far off from someone claiming they watch a movie a week. A book probably doesn't take much more than 10 hours to read on average. 50 movies are about 100 hour…

I used to crush Scratchees as a kid. I never knew they were made by Decipher (which IMO were more famous for their How to Host a Murder games than anything else). I'll definitely c…

A bit of a non sequitur but I did ask a similar question to some models which provide links for the same small helicopter question. The interesting thing was that the entire answer…

Something about an obscure movie. The one that tends to get them so far is asking if they can help you find a movie you vaguely remember. It is a movie where some kids get a hold o…