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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Using the Political Compass is a bit of a strange way to conduct research. I do think it is important to identify biases of course, but at some point you have to look at the bigger picture and realise why the bias exists.

    In order to swing ChatGPT more to the right (if you want to balance it at neutral in the end), you’d have to inject it with more racism, anti-science conspiracy and American Christian views - none of which are particularly pleasant.

    Do we want a LLM that limits facts about COVID-19 so that those who view it as a conspiracy feel validated?

    Do we want it to respond that homosexual people don’t exist? Or even to say “I can’t give a response to this that remains politically neutral”?

    Or if someone asks how old the earth is, do we want it to reply with “about 3000 years old”?

    Or to contest climate change?

    Do we want to sacrifice accuracy in favour of neutrality just because one party has a denial stance on these topics?


  • Detractors like Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, who is chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, have called the relief an abuse of taxpayer money.

    “The Biden administration’s blatantly political attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court is shameful. The Biden administration is trampling the rule of law, hurting borrowers, and abusing taxpayers to chase headlines," she said in a statement when the policy was announced last month.

    Her daughter owns Grandfather Mountain Nursery, which Virginia Foxx used to own with her husband from 1976-2004.

    Grandfather Mountain Nursery was forgiven $25,161 worth of PPP loans in December 2020.

    Obviously it’s not an “abuse of taxpayer money” when your own family and generational business can benefit from it.









  • This doesn’t really make much sense in this context though.

    All iPhones have the feature built-in by using the camera’s flash LED. Androids have the same camera flash LEDs, but the software side simply doesn’t use them for this purpose. There’s no “cheaper production” here since the components are already there. Dedicated notification lights are gone, but the flash LED is efficient enough to serve the same purpose these days

    Pretty sure you can still enable the flash LED on Galaxy phones under accessibility but I don’t have one to check - not sure about other android phones but I’m sure there’s a third party app that does it anyway.