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If you enjoyed something as a much younger person, and enjoy it as a much older person, it is very unlikely that it is the thing itself that you are enjoying. To test it, you can try giving that thing to someone your age and see if they enjoy it (they will most likely think it's a nuisance). To experience it yourself, you can try what kids are into these days or even better try something that people used to like long before you were born, in which case you will very likely see these things as pointless quite quickly. If you observe these things, it is easy to see that nostalgia is enjoyable because it is about associating your youth and naiveté with the object of nostalgia. If you grew up, you would see that it is just some distraction that merchants brought to you to profit from your stupidity. If you realize this, you'll enjoy not having to deal with that shit a lot more.

If you gain weight during summer (so that excess vitamin D is stored in fat cells) and use body's stored fat in the winter (eat at a deficit, so that your stored fat, rich in vitamin D, is used), you need no supplementation. This is what all animals living in the region do.

Here's my theory: When some people saw that physics could be used to get great power, they decided to keep physics research a secret, in the hands of the few. So, they have been using governments and spies to keep it away from the masses (and hence adversaries). I believe string theory is a result of this.

Fluid Glass 10 months ago

Most disgusting design trend. I hope the Vista look that has been re-popularized by Apple dies soon.

Simple ideas work to get simpletons onboard, and one needs their vote and support to do anything. You are criticizing the greatest political communicator that has existed in history and will be studied and tried to be replicated for a long time to come.

Incompetent people waiting for “science to happen” while the merchant class lies to the peasants about what science should be for them to make money. Explains what is going on.

It's like your opinion, man.

Aesthetic taste varies from culture-to-culture, even individual to individual. Sometimes, minimal and simple is beautiful.

I really thought that the pictures you were posting later were examples of ugly design (when I was glossing over it) and I found out that you were saying that that one looks good to you.

The one on top, the example of your ugly design, has natural beauty: a weathered concrete finish. I prefer that WAYYY more than any of the later examples.

What needs to be done can and is almost always described in natural language.

Whether that is feasible is a different question (https://xkcd.com/1425/), but also can be described in natural language.

Here is something I tried with o3-mini:

Create a program that takes an input image and can tell if there is a bird in it.

ChatGPT said:

Reasoned for 38 seconds

Below is an example in Python that uses TensorFlow’s Keras API and a pre-trained ResNet50 model to classify an input image. The code loads an image, preprocesses it to the required size, obtains the top predictions, and then checks if any of the top labels appear to be a bird. You can expand the list of bird keywords as needed for your application.

python code that works

If you take the critical view, you can always find a way to find an exception that will fail. I can see many happy cases which will just work most of the time, even with the currently available technology. Most of the programming work done today is putting libraries and api services together.