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  1. Are you sure? I’ve always heard begs the question is a logical fallacy of sorts which is necessarily self-referential, and the correct term MOST of the time people want is “raises the question” now do compel vs impel and how that’s used wrong.
  2. This thread the last 48 hours is peak— and I mean PEAK offseason morass. 3 days before the season starts. proving the rule “never peak too early”? either way, 3 more days
  3. helping brisket out because we know he's not very technical:
  4. I agree with Troph; ruts are a normal parts of the human condition and of life. It stands to reason that will happen in your spiritual life as well. I think the main thing to remember is the long game. I had it described to me once as "Faith and obedience is a long walk in the same direction." Sometimes you are making a brisk pace in a bee-line in that direction and other times you are stumbling to the left and right barely making any forward progress. All that matters is, like Paul said, that at the end of you life you've run the race and didn't quit.
  5. Massive (teenager emoting at me saying that) tariff imposed on India as of 12:01a. Feel like this will have some very interesting short term and long term effects. The game is now afoot.
  6. Batts Hall was the 6 pack that even in the late 90's felt like it's best days were 100 years behind it, right? I failed English in that venerable hall. Middle left of the six pack if memory serves.
  7. How hard could Plan II Physics at UT Austin be? I mean, you just use 82 character-long formulas that look like bit encryption to try and prove dark energy in a novel and unique way. Big whoop. Seen harder on campus.
  8. My son tells me this is not unique to UTD and is more the rule than the exception in STEM courses these days.
  9. I'm in the camp of "good for them" while also not caring at all except being happy for that large demographic and segment of our population for which celebrity couples and weddings and following their lives parasocially gives them joy and helps their mental health (a la Royal Wedding(s) as someone compared).
  10. Yea, I spent $500 on my dorm room at UT and that was many decades ago. Adjust for inflation and I believe it.
  11. To make up for the DINKS and those who have 0 or 1, for negative growth rate with an eye to future GDP growth for the unquenchable thirst of late stage capitalism?
  12. Sophisticated hoax reports have hit multiple university campuses in the last few days causing chaos and trauma, including UT-Chattanooga, Villanova, the University of South Carolina, Iowa State, and Kansas State.
  13. This is a belief. I wholeheartedly agress with you in the short and medium term. I even tend to agree in the longterm projecting out to many lifetimes. But I'm increasingly doubting this is the case for the eternal the more I learn and the more we learn about our universe.
  14. I thought this was going to be the cooking the food over cow dung.
  15. I appreciate and respect your opinion as a musician and technologist. I think our impressions and opinions are going to be colored by our beliefs to a degree. What is it we believe to be true about humans, art, music-- heck, the universe even. That said, you mentioned Kendrick Lamar and what made his music interesting, I thought it was an interesting application of AI when in the midst of that rap battle Drake used AI to diss Kendrick Lamar by having AI create a Tupac diss:
  16. That hand is gnarly. If it were Biden, we'd never hear the end of it.
  17. I think you are just explaining the rise of a new genre. I don't see why a very well thought out prompt would not be able to create the genre of music we know as "rap", given the contexts and inputs that you say were the reasons the genre emerged. I watch a ton of DJ shorts because while I would never go a club or rave (clutches pearls), I find the highlight transition clips they share to be a) short b) impressive and c) creative. But it just reminds me that all DJ/Electric music is, is inputs that have been manipulated and changed and massaged to create some new great sounds and music. The moving parts already exist. To get philosophical: everything that's ever going to be created is already created, just deconstructed. You cannot create anything new, just re-arrange the recipe. IMHO, at least.
  18. Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement
  19. Also, I'd like to crosspost here a gripe: On a serious note, the things that sucks the worst about the commodization of LLMs and GPT's is that those of us who actually are extremely well read and with an extensive and arrayed vocabulary (and who have horrible writing crutches like the em dash, which are organically and well earned from years of trying to write in at least a semi-serious manner)-- we are the babies who are thrown out with the bath water when it comes to automatically disqualifying our original writing as cheap ChatGPT output.
  20. I must be a rube because I actually read Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" where he talks about all this, and I found it to be mostly intelligible. To this point above, I think we have to strip back to the extreme-- the most pure and first question of art: Is it possible to create something new? or is everything already all created and depending on the combinations of parts you can create something that appears new, but utlimately all art is derivative (just different sophistications)? I believe the latter, and if you have a corpus of data in LLM's that is expansive enough, which I think we are going to have int he near term, why could you not prompt AI with a unique POV to create art?
  21. From CHIEF: When you are talking about a commuter school with zero campus life (sports, parties, greek-- do they even have dorms?) it feels like a very weird option. Your kid has to be super focused on a STEM education and career I woudl think and only care about getting that internship at TI or some other semiconductor fab (not a bad idea in this era we are in), but it's pretty pricey. That said, UTD is clearly a step above UTA, UTEP, UT-Tyler, SA, etc. while being a clear step below UT-Austin.
  22. Watched Adam Sandler's Water Boy again for the first time in at least 20 years. Not nearly as funny as when you are 20 years old.
  23. DHL is Chinese German right? UPS & FEDEX protectionists should like this.
  24. Agree, plus, Israel is not some developing nation anymore. There is no reason to trust-fund baby a 35 year old. In this environment and geopolitical reality, Israel can more than defend their own interests with their own funding. Now, if anything materially changes in that reality (e.g. The Arab Nations band together to wipe out Israel or something) then that sentiment of economic support can be revisited. Odds are very unlikely moving forward, however.
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