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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • If it should be done only twice a day sleeping for 12h would be even more error prone and you would be even less likely to have it actually run at that time.

    Also, if it should be done only twice a day you don’t really want it to run twice a day only since you can not guarrantee that you have internet exactly at the time when your timer expires, you would want to check some “last_updated” timestamp and check if it was more than 12h ago.







  • Counterpoint, most of these social norms, particularly related to academic institutions, are really not about knowledge or skill at all but just to build up a tolerance for the bullshit that office politics, following the letter of instructions without thinking ourselves to stroke a customer/manager’s ego and similar things completely unrelated to the actual productivity of companies put us through later in life.


  • I think what might stop it is the end of the free cloud AIs when the ones running those realize they are losing money that way. AI uses up a ridiculous amount of computing resources for what it does so unless we manage to optimize it better soon it might go away again in many areas where it is not really needed and/or be replaced with more traditional approaches to solve the same problems.


  • That whole motivation letter thing honestly sounds more like AI exposing a flaw in the education system and less like a problem with AI in general.

    You might frame it as people who are not perfect getting a chance but I would frame it as people who are better at words than at exams getting an edge. The genius but socially awkward person still has no chance because the exams bored them to tears and their anxiety prevented them from writing the letter still won’t get in.