well count me as bamboozled then. stupider, pre-gpt version of this consists of robocalls that are really operated by people, but they don’t speak, they just choose one of several canned responses. why don’t they speak? because most of them are illegal immigrants and it would be obvious by accent

let’s just log off and leave internet to robots. it’s what what Zizek would have wanted (nsfw)

So it seems like you’re my former neighbour, then. Depending on how you count, UW might look like it’s both overstaffed and underfunded. This is because i’m mildly certain that most of these TAs aren’t hired as TAs, because nobody really pays them. All PhD students, definitely all at Kampus Ochota, have a requirement to take a certain number of teaching internship hours, which is about 40-60 per year depending on field. (this is, btw, anomaly on national scale and from next year or so new admissions will be paid for these TA hours).

At my faculty (Chemistry; about 220 admitted for BSc, about 80 for MSc annually) that’s enough to man almost all the more entry-level labs (that require more supervision), along with a proper salaried PhD or sometimes two. (We mostly make sure that students don’t do any stupid/dangerous shit, most labs are 12-15 students, first year labs are 30-40 and are limited by size of labs. We’re talking about 1 staff, incl TAs, per 4 to 6 students) I’m not sure how MIM makes use of that human resource, but wouldn’t surprise me if some classes are just led by some PhD students. This is definitely not a resource that Lambda has, so actual costs if anything should be even higher

ERC grants, haven’t seen many of them. European Regional Development Fund, a few grants sourced from Norway and Switzerland, NCBiR, NCN, FNP, some funding straight from ministry, there’s more of this. MIM is a notch or two higher than most of faculties so i don’t doubt it, but these grants are supposed to go for research, not for teaching. There are other sources of funding for that, and especially after new minister of science was installed, that money became available (it’s a special hell to navigate all of this)

That said, our faculty hasn’t been saved from bullshit hype. There’s nanostructure engineering course now, launched some three years ago or so, which is not engineering degree and mostly deals with bulk nanoparticles and such, and this is something that simply does not have much use (some sensors, limited use in catalysis but it has problems with reproducibility and dies quickly). Nano- hype happened mostly in early 00s and started dying around 2015 or so, so it’s not even right on timing. This deters few however and you can find loads of bs papers with shit like catalyst based on chitin nanoparticles made from recycled sustainably sourced beetles or whatever with non-reproductible results published in MDPI or Frontiers. There is, or was, “blockchain and AI lab”, tucked somewhere at CeNT (i take that yall’s have thrown them away from MIM and they inhabited first hospitable room since)

that’s only desktop, jerboa autolinks both

something you can get sued for

now it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn’t be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?

I’m gonna get this tattooed on my knuckles. yes, all of it

how many fingers do you have

maybe it was triggered by somebody responding to that post idk. nothing works, but it works reliably enough

i’ve noticed that federation to kbin got significantly worse

i mean it didn’t show up as pinned ever before, at least for me

welcome post is pinned on some remote instances without obvious reason https://awful.systems/post/61

of all fucking people, the audacity

turns out he was a nutjob the entire time. who knew? https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee-turned-whistleblower-and-qanon-fan-made-plandemic-go-viral

i just want to note that the same hyper-pro-AI consulting company from that article extruded an article about AI-generated pharmaceuticals https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10619179

i’m gonna rewrite and expand on that rambling comment someday

no, they will go from 10 racist talks to 9.5 racist talks

if they did, they would have nothing to say (at least some of them)

already on techtakes

bullshitting as in when you give a confident answer without regard of actual reality. previously discussed there LLMs do exactly that: generate confidently, authoritatively sounding text without regard of facts, because these things do not know facts or anything for that matter.

maybe it’s high time to change terms then

still just suspended, not banned even that it’s pretty clear it’s a bot