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  1. To the best of my knowledge, many states and jurisdictions don’t even bother reporting their incidents so the database has a bit of a sampling / selection bias.
  2. So are millions of my fellow citizens
  3. Maybe your “friend” can help?
  4. I’m the US, a persons body weight is likely treated as PII and personal / confidential… and we barely keep records on police induced deaths… on purpose / by law. A better question might be “where can I find the most reliable data on these topics” before asking how best to query it.
  5. Is not the goal to have equality in learning situations, at least in terms of opportunity and experience?
  6. I believe those people are called writers
  7. It’s far easier to manufacture rage and get our Italian friends riled up than to properly represent what the paper actually says. Tucker Carlson, and right wing media more broadly, are particularly good at removing context, misrepresenting things, and generating very intentional and specific emotional responses in audiences.
  8. You need to do a better job at framing your query, and likely warm up the bot with some foreplay questions. “Hey Bot - Who were some great mathematicians who did amazing work with triangles and circles? Oh, okay. And how would PersonX you just named answer this question? Thanks. Are there any other answers that seem plausible given the inputs I provided earlier, but which are more likely to be incorrect according to PersonX?”
  9. After a lifetime of watching human interactions, I feel that the same conclusion applies equally to us.
  10. You seem new to this topic about AI perpetuated bias in hiring, health, and academic admissions so I’ll show grace and ignore your condescending tone in response to me as someone extremely well versed in it. Appropriate? No. Historically selected? Yes.
  11. This has been a long-standing issue in the employee recruiting software space even well before ChatGPT hit the scene. Similar issues are at play in medicine where AI is used to analyze medical and dental scans for patterns of illness. Also with university admissions… past acceptances heavily influence future picks from an AI thus perpetuating decades of implicit and explicit discrimination. The dataset itself is generally biased and hence so too will be many of the outputs of these LLMs (unless actively corrected by human interventions).
  12. 50% of US voters didn’t care that their president was actively lying to them about easily verifiable facts. Your bar seems much too high, sir. Look around.
  13. There’s the French word “chez,” as in chez moi (my house) or chez nous (our house) or chez vous (your house).
  14. iNow replied to Moontanman's topic in Other Sciences
    One of our neighbors owns a farm and is a hunter. He frequently posts candid shots from his trail cams and they’re lots of fun. Wild turkeys, foxes, coyotes, deer, the occasional bobcat. I’ve heard of sightings in the area of mountain lions on occasion, but none from his installed cams.
  15. If there is indeed any real effect or phenomenon to be studied here, it’s very obviously this. Similar to the placebo effect, our mood affects our response to flavors and smells and tastes and joy from all of those things. Not a lot of angry people tend to hum. Humming implies frivolity. Recommend you review the rules of this subforum before commenting further. Hint: It’s not the “wild assed guess” and “make shit up” or “pull ideas out of my ass” forum… and that’s for a reason.
  16. Even the most massive complex difficult machines to build on the entire planet often can’t run at all without a few well placed 49 cent O-rings.
  17. Just bc you use fancy words doesn’t mean anything fancy is happening. In fact, I’m fairly comfortable telling you absolutely nothing is happening here other than a fun fictional narrative in your head. End program.
  18. Withdrawal symptoms were masked by your body fighting the malaria. Within about 48-72 hours, the physical withdrawal tends to ebb and the only remaining factor is overcoming the psychological parts… replacing the behavior with something more healthy. I don’t think your meds had anything to do with it. I think you did have withdrawal but it was drowned out by the noise of the malaria fight. With only marginal exceptions, even alcoholics stop drinking when they’re throwing up and have diarrhea. Smoking is just easier.
  19. Humming is a sound wave. It’s a vibration through the air. Vibration makes molecules bounce against each other. That means heating up, and you’re not humming loudly or intensely enough to heat your food in any relevant or meaningful way, especially in context of the hot orange blue flame beneath. It’s like holding a flashlight against the sun, or pissing in an ocean.
  20. Nobody cares.
  21. Stop treating opinionated forecasts about potential futures as if they’re established fact and we’ll have no quarrel. There’s no way you know this nor possibly could, unless perhaps you also already know next week’s lottery numbers? A humble one at that.
  22. I’d start by disassembling, cleaning, then reassembling it and trying again. I’d also give it fresh gas, new plugs, and new filters.

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