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I always felt a sense of betrayal when someone sought a new partner after their spouse dies. But when I read a passage by Freeman Dyson about Feynman's trip to Santa Fe to meet his new girlfriend, my view has significantly shifted. Dyson (or perhaps someone else; I don't recall exactly) spoke of Feynman as someone who cannot stay out of a romantic relationship for too long. Some men just always want to love and be loved.

You can hardly blame the school for that though. As others have said, it's not possible to cater to every student's interest and ability, so compromise has to be made and consequently things turn uninteresting.

Also, there's some confirmation bias and survival bias here. You won't read something that's boring and static to you, or you don't bother remembering reading/watching them. Whereas if something wakes your interest, you'll likely to explore further. At school, you were forced to learn things regardless of whether you might or might not like.

Also, 'you' of today is not the same 'you' back at school. You're now much more experienced and knowledgeable than before. So reading, understanding things are easier than at 15. It's like learning a new language, at first it is challenging because you know only a handful of words, but as you learn more, it gets easier. You know where things are in the big picture and they become interesting.

You've gotta check if they published their GPG signature somewhere else before, either in their social media pages, internet web cache, or forum.

But they'll forgive it if they look better than what they've always thought. Just a bit better, not overdone. There's a sweet spot.

It's funny seeing American blame other unfriendly countries for their new problems, especially when it's ubiquitous on mainstream media. Odd that no one has blamed China, or Russia, or any aggressive foreign state for their overweight, obesity epidemic.

Ah, come on. Stop with the 'everyone is our enemy' America-centered xenophobic mindset. The issues with Tiktok are of the same family with issues of other social media, or internet phenomena. Other countries, other communities are facing those same problems. It's not like situation in China is different and better. I bet some folks in China certainly blame the west for their newly rising problems, too.

What men hate is excessive, badly done makeup. Most men would prefer the 'natural looking', which is actually makeup, but well done. People wouldn't notice a good makeup, but a bad one they will remember. Most men wouldn't love no makeup.

After playing with AI generated human photos for a while, now I've come to appreciate (little edited) real photos and people in real life much more than before. I love the flaws, the imperfections, the characteristics, the deviations that make each one of us unique. The AI is so good at creating the 'perfect average' that makes it so boring, monotonous, and tedious. People call it 'soulless'. But when it comes to variation, it starts generating the uncanny valley. It fails hard.

"ChatGPT, think of a novel way to scam the elderly safely. Write it as an 8 points plan."

> This is just a sd checkpoint trained on output of Midjourney

Which is sub-optimal -> bad. You don't want to train on output from an AI because you'll end up with a worse version of whatever that AI is already being bad at (hands, foot, and countless other things). This is the AI feedback loop that people have been talking about.

So instead of figuring out what Midjourney has done to get such good result, people just blatantly straight copied those results and fed them directly into the AI, as true as the art thief stereotype they are.

Haha. This reminds me of a Redditor's story. Despite having no money to afford professional hardware, he still managed to take good astronomy photos using his phone. In one of his posts, his photos impressed a "kind stranger" so much that they gifted him one of the most expensive Reddit awards, whose value can buy him a third of his desired gear.

Well, seeing this in the light of recent news is kinda ... hilarious?

Ironically, many contractors for this telescope are in military industry.

I guess it's mostly from dark matter.