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Comment · 1 year ago
Aren’t these venues small businesses that very much appreciate whatever publicity someone sharing their venue on social media gives them?

I guess they can weigh that against their customers desire for privacy.

Comment · 1 year ago
How many $1 million prizes were given out?
Comment · 2 years ago
At on point I asked it for academic papers that said a particular thing, as best I can tell, only about 60% of the papers it cited actually existed
Comment · 2 years ago
One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?’, it won’t do that.

It is very much a black box in terms of letting you track its logic.

Seems like future versions should be much more transparent in terms of letting you track the logic of why it’s telling you what it’s telling you.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm too old to have done this when I went through school, but I suspect a good practice is to go through your syllabus, and but the major unit covered into the youtube search bar.

I suspect you get all sorts of parallel presentations of the material in a way that is quite helpful for retention.

Comment · 4 years ago
Short answer, yes.

Longer answer - from my prospective - I enjoyed the first book Path to Power the most, which revolves around LBJs early life up to becoming a US Representative. I thought it was very on par with the Power Broker. That an the Power Broker would probably be my first recommendation to an ambitious college kid who wants to know the real Politik of how the world works.

The next book Means of Assent was my least favorite of Caro’s books, but still highly enjoyable.

Master of the Senate and Passage of Power are both great. But sort of specific to LBJs spot in life. Great, but I’m not sure they sparked my thinking quite the way the Power Broker and Path to Power did.

Comment · 4 years ago
The Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson detail his effort to force meme “LBJ” as a reference to him.

(Mostly in terms of insisting various communications employees use it in press releases and what not).

It seems he liked the iconography of it, especially in putting himself in similar company to FDR.

Both his daughters have the LBJ initials, his wife is mostly known as Lady Bird Johnson (a nickname that predates their relationship, but is not her given name)

Comment · 5 years ago
At one point I was getting a lot of facebook ads for MTalyor

https://www.mtailor.com/how-it-works.html

which I guess is a digital app that will measure you for clothes.

I wonder if their percentages for returns are significantly different than industry averages,

if so, I wonder if the concept might not work as a add in across other clothing lines

Comment · 5 years ago
Are you sure online shopping is killing the planet faster?

Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores.

I didn't see anything in the way of the discussion of these tradeoffs,

but physical locations for big box stores certainly aren't environmentally free.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
The link doesn’t support the implication you’re making.

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