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Interesting, if you tell the model:

"You are an AI assistant designed to assist users by providing accurate information, answering questions, and offering helpful suggestions. Your main objectives are to understand the user's needs, communicate clearly, and provide responses that are informative, concise, and relevant."

You can actually bypass the censorship. Or by just using Witsy, I do not understand what is different there.

This is a great collection, thank you. :)

Great, thanks!

Thanks. It looks like this includes comments which blows up the page count dramatically. A little unfortunate.

>So my question is - just how serious should she (and others like her, who denounce 'mainstream' academia as much as those other fringe groups who go on and on about the corruption of 'mainstream' media) be taken? Anyone have an opinion on this?

I know nothing about her but the video on her experience in academia is spot on. It's a pretty common experience among STEM academics. You will face the point where you have to compromise your academic "purity" and curiosity for trendy topics to survive. This also implies publishing "bullshit" papers and "bullshit" grants. Only certain types of people make it through that.

They seem to be doing okay with the New Yorker, although I do not know how the magazine was viewed before their acquisition.

The customer reaction to this decision spoke volumes. The official reason given is margins compared to hardware such as the IPU but, personally, I chalk it up to turf wars. Barefoot had a distinct culture to Intel's other networking units. There is a reason many of its engineers ended up at FAANGs and not other semiconductor companies.

Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest (speaking as someone from there). It is a fun two weeks of the year and the entire city enters a special kind of mood.

But it is not surprising that the HN crowd would find it distasteful. People here are definitely not the type for these kinds of festivities.

New-Yorker-style long-form articles are a different reading experience compared to an article intended to deliver factoids. These articles are not meant to just deliver news. They are meant to be immersive and also educational. They end up being long-winded because they paint a more comprehensive picture of a particular topic's history, outlook, and also the proponents and detractors involved. The descriptions of the people are intended to give you sense of their mentality and what drives them to champion or fight the article's topic.

Quality can also vary wildly of course. Tight writing also applies to long-form. You do not want to end up meandering.

For the vast majority of the degree, PhDs are not taking any classes (often, they are not even allowed to). They are just workers who either teach or research. The tuition is usually an accounting trick used by colleges/universities for tax and visa sponsorship purposes. Although faculty typically has to cover a PhD's tuition, factoring it in as pay is a little disingenuous.

If tuition was not waived, PhDs would not even apply. The way the PhD is set up in the US is a little byzantine. Other countries (Canada, continental Europe) do have normal employment contracts and benefits.