We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
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We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
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Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#2I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#3I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.
Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#4I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.
Try enjoying reading for purposes other than spending as few brain tokens as possible to acquire maximum info. It takes time to understand another persons perspective. Sophie’s Choice wouldn’t be as good a movie if you watched the 30-second TL;DR.
I found it compelling throughout
Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
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Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#6I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.
> He wasn’t following a plan. He was just that kind of person.
Because the article is AI slop, plain and simple.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.
> He wasn’t following a plan. He was just that kind of person. Because the article is AI slop, plain and simple.
I would write that prose. It’s very powerful to use small sentences with small words to drive a point home. Like when you are in some drawn out argument about th future with your spouse and your child comes in the room. She says quietly, “please stop fighting I’m hungry”. How do you argue with that? You can’t, it’s just true.
Am I AI slop?
Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.
Try enjoying reading for purposes other than spending as few brain tokens as possible to acquire maximum info. It takes time to understand another persons perspective. Sophie’s Choice wouldn’t be as good a movie if you watched the 30-second TL;DR. I found it compelling throughout
Well I found the text to be obviously inflated with AI, becoming much more verbose than necessary, even if syntactically, grammatically and structurally it was correct.
Re: We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
#10Ages ago, I worked at a flexographic print manufacturer, once, when a new hire had made a large plot on Kraft paper (which was moderately expensive/difficult to source and a nuisance to switch to/from), it turned out a circle was on a non-printing layer (why Adobe Illustrator allows that is a separate discussion --- Freehand's printing everything which is visible and not printing anything invisible or on the background is correct) and came to me asking help in re-loading the Kraft paper and in explaining to the folks who were concerned about money and so forth.
Instead, I troubled the lead stripper for a compass and ruling pen and got a bottle of fountain pen ink (fortunately, the circle was black, and that was a colour I had in my ink rotation) and showed the trainee how to use a compass w/ a ruling pen to create a circle with a desired stroke thickness in ink --- their low-budget graphic design program had totally skipped over any sort of physical media, going straight to computer usage....