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Like many other people in this thread, I feel like passing what would essentially be a hobby project off to Claude robs the creator of most the fulfillment and gives the viewer less reason to appreciate it. But with the models being as good as they are today, I genuinely feel conflicted. If your end goal is to share something with others, why spend a weekend on a project like this when you could just hand it off to Claude?

Agree the essay has a suspiciously Claude/ChatGPT-like organization. This comment perfectly articulates my distaste for AI-generated text with words I've been struggling to find.

I've always been intrigued by Warhammer 40k but never really knew how to get into it. What's the best way?

Despite writing most of my procedural code in Python, I've always preferred doing my data analysis in R. For all of R's warts, the ergonomics of the dplyr + ggplot + the rest of the tidyverse are very tough to beat. My few attempts to use Pandas and matplotlib/seaborne have always proved frustrating. Based on this cheatsheet though, it seems like Polars addresses some of the friction of Pandas. Looking forward to trying it!

Rendezvous with Rama was one of my favorites as a teenager, hopefully the film adaptation does it justice.

People are often boring in conversation. Therefore, an AI agent doesn't need to be interesting to seem human enough in a Turing test.

It's disappointing to see the myth of the "Christian Dark Ages" still repeated so often.

It's true that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire led to a regression in social order. To blame this complex collapse entirely on Christianity is overly simplistic. There's obviously some casualties during this period of upheaval (like the Palimpsest you mentioned), but if anything the early Christian monasteries deserve some credit for preserving knowledge during this period of tremendous upheaval.

Many have also pointed out how Eurocentric this view is. Mathematics and science continued to flourish in Arabic and Chinese places of learning as well. Algebra, modern astronomy, and the printing press did not pop out of the aether the moment Europeans decided to start printing Greek gods again.

At the risk of sounding like a hater, I feel like the AI art doesn't add much to this listicle

This is neat! I was wondering if someone would make something cool like this.

As someone who knows nothing about sentiment analysis / NLP, what do the units on the x-axis mean? Number of positive mentions?

There could be epigenetic or environmental factors to blame for a disease.

But even so, assuming this is a genetic issue, proposing gene therapy in this case is putting the cart before the horse. It's like if you had a memory leak or segfault in a 3.4 billion line codebase, but the issue was only reported a few times (out of 7+ billion active users) and you can't replicate it. Obviously, a patch for this issue would be nice, but first you need to find out what's causing the issue.

I feel like a lot of people in this thread are missing the point of the potatoes with no salt or oil.

The entire idea is that this diet is incredibly boring and will make a well-balanced vegan diet seem for more appealing by comparison. This way, the author's new diet will seem more exciting and interesting than if they jumped straight from steak and ice cream to rice and beans.

A diet of pure potatoes is obviously unsustainable and unhealthy, but this is only temporary. (IMO the keto diet that I've seen other commenters pushing is also unsustainable, but whatever works for people.)