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True in a very inadvertent way! (I think)

Correct me if I am wrong here, but DS9 got a lot better in season 4 when the writers from TNG got to move over finally after TNG ended. Also, VGR and DS( were concurrent for like 4 years, right?

Stewart was, to me, an archetypal man's man.in Picard. Embodying a real man to me in so many ways. The author is right in this eulogy of a great actor and a great role.

That out of the way, Brooks' Sisco is the much better captain, man, father, and role model and Brooks' acting in Ben, I feel, does a much better job.

I will sorely miss Stewart, as we all should. All the captains' actors and writers who made them should be too. What a great franchise and body of effort and work.

Largely, most of the paper pushed in these big pharma companies is in regulation and compliance. So much so that it isn't that much of a stretch to say they are mostly regulatory compliance companies with a research division attached. It's not entirely true, of course, but it does fit a bit. Also, there are a lot of regulatory agencies out there, not just the FDA.

That regulatory function is quite personal and hands on. It's relationships built up over months and decades. AI, almost by definition, cannot replace it or augment. Sure, faster, better. But even then that backlog will grow to meet any gains.

Source: I have done (and have family members that do) compliance and regulation for larger phramas, including drugs and instruments that you have had (with near certainty) your medical reports analyzed and produced by.

A few thoughts on this:

- Terry Tao said it best, I think: We're no longer in the heroic age of mathematics. Meaning, I think, that math is now a group project, not just a single person. Many disciplines have become this already, math was just lagging a bit there.

- Other commentors have pointed out that this professor likely hasn't graded anything in decades. I'd bet that he likely hasn't changed tests all that much either. And knowing how extensive the test banks in greek life are, I'd bet then too that many of the undergrad students haven't done any homework or test prep for decades either. Cheating is by no means a new problem. Granted, this is pure horse-crap speculation on me here.

- AI isn't going anywhere, and it seems that this Prof is kinda already throwing in the towel per students. It strikes me as mostly cowardly and asinine and just deaf to anyone beyond his nose. Like, my dude, talk to your students. They are ostensibly adults. They aren't cattle. Figure out a system, together, that actually works.

- My own opinion is that the age of cheap higher education is over. 500+ person freshman lectures at 8:00am? Yeah not with AI. I think it's gonna be more like 4-10 person study sections with a proctor; the Oxbridge system. Yes, that introduces a lot of challenges in the proctor-student relationship. But it's also very expensive. You're gonna need to up your budgets a lot. And unfortunately, that means that this era of mass higher education is also ending. I fear that only the rich, again, are going to go to college.

I feel like this is a great take here, and quite unconventional, as is typical for Kevin.

With greater data quality and quantity, I'd think this wouldn't even be that hard to accomplish. Just apply an exponentially or other stiff selector functions to the vectors in whatever space your AI is in and have the outputs push quite hard in the JaneDoe composite vector directions. Heck you could have it mirror your work weeks or whatever you'd like.

> e.g., Wyoming

Wyoming is an interesting case with Higher Ed. It's actually the legislature that runs UW. There isn't a regent board or some such thing. Hence, with many other priorities, the Cowboys don't get that much time in the minds of their bosses.

It's one of the many many wrinkles that come along with the many college football issues these days. Any formation of a players union or draft or much of any real professionalization of the sport has to go through so many different governance formations (regents, governors, the Catholic Church, etc). As such, the many issues with college ball are likely to continue for a long time and fester.

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I mean, we're talking about drunks here.

Asking an alcoholic to pour out any kind of liquor is mind-bending to many of them.

Look, you and I both know that it is literal poison, but, again, it's lushes we're talking about.

0.5% is already too technical a term here. What is that in glasses or drams? What do you mean you can't convert pints to percentages? What commie bullshit is a millyliter? Fuck you, I'm getting hammered for cheap!

If you can get a meme going to always piss on your first pint in the toilet, then maybe, just maybe you can get it to work.

And, yeah, a lot of drunks are no longer allowed to drive cars and really should not while drinking too. Doesn't mean they don't do it though.

I'll echo this! More stories please!

Im in bio, so caveats.

Mostly Funding. Then each other. Then the myriad trivial yet bureaucratic things of daily life. Then research. I'd put research at like 10% of a week, so maybe 5 hours total.

Terry remarks in a Nymberphile video that he thinks the Heroic age of mathematics is now over. the age of individual researchers is done, and hhatnlike many other disciplines, mathematics will be done in large teams, big facilities, and in complex ways that no sole individual will understand end to end.

I imagine he means in that video something like modern physics at CERN where no one single person actually understand how the whole thing works, but nonetheless is confident in the results.

I find Terry's hypothesis there somewhat comforting to my own limited cranium. most of the math he does already is far beyond me, nevertheless I trust that he is correct.

it's a different world for math, but one we all readily inhabit already everything we cross a bridge or buy refrigerated food.

Tell that to the racoons and mice doing the tango every night at 2am in my walls!