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I mean, *I* wouldn't but I wouldn't bone anyone 🤣🖤🩶🤍💜

I would, however, give you, like, three fake numbers saying they're my friends numbers, just to piss the better off

I’m going to save up for a new motorcycle by running a scam where I bet straight dudes at bars twenty bucks that I can get a girl’s number in under five minutes and then politely walk up her and say, “I just bet that asshole twenty bucks that I could get your number. I’ll split it with you if you pretend to laugh like I just said a good pick up line and then write a fake number on my hand.”

Like, I never understood those kind of bets in those shitty teen movies. Everybody loves being part of a scheme, man. Use your head.

Running A Con, Conference Or Festival In The Age Of A Burgeoning Pandemic!

Hey, so, I’ve got some travel upcoming here in the next handful of months — Tucson Festival of Books in March, Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference (Colorado Springs) in April, a…

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Chat GPT in language learning (part 2)

My previous post relied heavily on my opinion drawing on my long experiences as a teacher, but what of outside sources, what other issues do people see with using ChatGPT for your English language communication needs?

This article highlights the risks of sharing your company's sensitive data since the service relies on machine learning. That means that the extremely powerful AI system is learning from everything we tell it. Many are questioning whether the information people have asked ChatGPT to write their reports about is suddenly available to anyone who enters the right question in the site. The site claims that one research into this probability showed that there is indeed a likelihood of it happening.

Long running tech news site ZD Net highlighted 6 potential ways that the AI service can be used. Aside from the obvious composition of phishing e-mails or clickbait articles, they also suggested that people could use the service to more efficiently gather data to help support them in committing a crime, such as finding what IT systems a bank uses. While this seems unrelated to your language needs, imagine if you are feeding company information into the interface to help explain your new technology to internal stakeholders. That is now inside Chat GPT's data resources.

One LinkedIn user asked ChatGPT the pros and cons of using it for blogging, which I also feel can be applied to using if for your language needs. ChatGPT questioned its ability to write creatively, which to me suggests that readers may be able to detect when they are answering correspondence sent by the AI engine. A lack of depth, a lack of context, and a sub-standard quality of writing may also damage the reputation of a company.

While IBM may have a bias against ChatGPT, since they would prefer to promote their own WatsonX, they do have a couple of other compelling points about the usage of the trendy AI. Intellectual property issues may come up due to ambiguity or ownership of the content rights as well as what the answers they generate are based on. Similarly the ownership of different open source libraries could be contentious and lead to legal issues.

All these are different angles from the reliability I talked about in my previous post and should also factor into a company's weighing of the decision whether to use it for your language needs. To me, there are a lot of potential issues that go on top of the questionable reliability of Chat GPT in this method of usage, but I would be at fault if I did not explore some of the pros associated with this topic. Therefore that will be next in this series of posts.

it’s so frustrating that every little action or thing I say could irrevocably alter my relationship with someone.

As someone that doesn’t really react or converse in a ‘conventional’ way, I’m probably often fucking up relationships in ways I’m not even aware of.

I can’t believe I thought at the start of this degree that engineering was going to be knowing a bunch of formulas and putting numbers into them for the answers. not anymore buckaroo

u make the formulas from physics derivations, and put that into a computer that does all the mathematical modelling for you

never seeing a number again

comedy is the linchpin of my sanity rn

the one purpose of a book is to make information easily available, a task which this university-appointed engineering data book fails miserably at accomplishing

when you meet someone that’s more of a disaster than you

what the hell we gon do now

the someone being my engineering module fluid mech level 3

Achievement unlocked: become someone’s arch nemesis

Mark the date as October 2024

Fluid Mechanics level 3 is going as well as expected 😭

fuck you *turns your coordinates polar*

My brain when I enter any public space:

When your friends think you’re clever but you're just bad at articulation

Oh yes i am very observant it comes with the anxiety ☺️

I thought I was the quippy cerebral scientist type but I think I might just be the small sassy ethnic girl of my canon

omgggg

this is so bad

OHMIGOD TURNS OUT IM NOT FUNNY IM JUST SASSY NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE

OHMIGOD TURNS OUT IM NOT FUNNY IM JUST SASSY NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE

That’s it im going to start popping painkillers like I don’t have a fucking intestine

When you’re going though something heartwrenching and you’re constantly between

Drowning in all-consuming emotion

and

Damn this is going to make such good art

Malevolenttt

soo the tumblr hype finally got to me and I’ve started listening to the Malevolent podcast. what im seeing so far is

Arthur: there’s a strange foreign voice in my head… im definitely not hallucinating

The voice: parallel universes are real and we are the only ones who can stop satan and save the world

Arthur, who just killed his best friend lost his vision and is hearing a dissociated voice: Kk lemme call a cab

….

Arthur: * is understandably overwhelmed by the traumatic things happening to him *

The Voice: ARTHUR we don’t have time for freaking out stop being a wuss *

Arthur: who are you to tell me what to do

Voice: I don’t know stop asking questions

Arthur: understandable moving on

…

supernatural : * exists*

Arthur: fu im an investigator * stumbles into into evil supernatural creature again*

Arthur: fuck fuck fuck

definition of fucks around and finds out

….

Also:

the voice has serous anger issues bro needs therapy

does the voice have a name yet?

Arthur has zero self preservation instincts his life is hanging on plot armour

This podcast is exactly my taste of horror/thriller im loving it

sometimes having flatmates is great

I just heard someone burst into the kitchen announcing, “ chat, is this real?” my other fav out of pocket phrase is “its academic weapon time”

For a while we had an unofficially adopted flat plant, which lasted weeks until someone poured protein powder on it “for nitrogen”

We always exchange hellos when seeing each other in the corridor or kitchen, even though we essentially live together

need some socialisation? Hang out in the kitchen and wait for a victim

The fact that a medical studyguide appeared one day in the common room and none of us do anything remotely medicine related.

The group all-nighters for assignments - where we’re all a bit loopy bc it’s late, we’re making jokes to cope with the work, and bantering as we desperately figure out content we should have learnt months ago.

Flat sharing doesn’t come without its problems, but i am SO going to miss this part of college.

How the internship is going

The new place im staying at doesn't have a toaster

I forgot what toast was and have been eating fridge bread

recently re-discovered that i can toast bread on a pan

Pseudo inverse matrix 😭 sometimes I wonder if IM the one in clown college

guys how reliable is the wolf cut tutorial on wikihow

Stayed Gone

so basically Vox sang a song welcoming Alastor back? Like nobody cared/knew that he had returned Except for Vox who broadcasted the announcement which is like the equivalent of throwing a welcome parade.

just know that if we're discussing something and I say "wait, im confused", 80% of the time YOU'RE the one who's confused and im just being nice about getting you to realise it

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in one of my old WIPs:

‘This is about me being aromantic NOT dramatic, in case you forgot your own sexuality’

my younger self was such a sassy bloke lmao

(younger me is me from a few months ago)

SAINSBURYS IM COMING FOR U x

in tragic news, my local grocery store has replaced the book section with an extra greeting card section for valentines day

You naive idiot please ask someone for help

That innate need to solve all your problems by yourself hits a bit too close to home…

i am LOVING the Magnus archives rn

Only recently started listening to it (im mid S2)

at first idk if I’d stick with it bc not that big of a horror fan :/

but I’ve really warmed up to the overarching narrative formed by individual stories style and the mystery solving

My fav part is the reveal of apathetic cold-hearted Jon being an absolutely crazy conspiracy theorist

I pretended I didn’t believe the statements bc someone is watching

What an unhinged individual

then him becoming a paranoid stalker trying to solve Gertrude’s murder all the while not realising he was the prime suspect BROOOO

creating a toxic work environment & turning into that boss that everyone would hate irl

Then turning his gaslighting onto Tim as well with the “you can’t quit and I can’t fire you there’s something wrong with the archive” (which is valid but the way the convo started with Tim informing him he’s not doing his job as head archivist to Jon kinda convincing Tim of his conspiracies is hilarious)

i am LOVING the Magnus archives rn

Only recently started listening to it (im mid S2)

at first idk if I’d stick with it bc not that big of a horror fan :/

but I’ve really warmed up to the overarching narrative formed by individual stories style and the mystery solving

My fav part is the reveal of apathetic cold-hearted Jon being an absolutely crazy conspiracy theorist

I pretended I didn’t believe the statements bc someone is watching

What an unhinged individual

then him becoming a paranoid stalker trying to solve Gertrude’s murder all the while not realising he was the prime suspect BROOOO

creating a toxic work environment & turning into that boss that everyone would hate irl

Then turning his gaslighting onto Tim as well with the “you can’t quit and I can’t fire you there’s something wrong with the archive” (which is valid but the way the convo started with Tim informing him he’s not doing his job as head archivist to Jon kinda convincing Tim of his conspiracies is hilarious)