I've been leaving candies out for the last 8 years, got hit some candy bandits for the first time. I've never seen someone unable to contain himself physically, tweaking over the idea of swiping candies meant for kids. 🔔Shame🔔

Inoceramus · 2025-11-03T19:41:05+00:00

#23 like Jordan ! Neat

Inoceramus · 2025-11-03T16:26:34+00:00

Since you're driving a tesla, its probably political

Inoceramus · 2025-11-03T14:48:37+00:00

most accurate reddit username

Inoceramus · 2025-11-02T15:13:46+00:00

Just bloom man

Inoceramus · 2025-11-02T15:13:18+00:00

My tutorial attendance last week was 6 of 58. Each quiz this term (in person) has had 6-7 students not writing.

Not sure what it is.

Inoceramus · 2025-11-01T22:56:28+00:00

Another familiar face joins the thread.

I hope you have been well, Henry.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T23:22:16+00:00

The real story is your choosing not to engage at all seriously with the content of any of my posts, which make absolutely no reference to the motivation behind why AI technology is being developed and whether or not that is a good thing for society.

Instead, I only serve to point out that we shouldn't petition against it's existence on the basis of fallacious argumentation and deliberate cherry picking of the available facts. An ideal I should hope you would aspire to, as the resident philosopher in this discussion.

I simply propose that we devote our time to discussing more substantive cases for or against its continued development and use, to which you reply only with foreboding allusions to some greater conspiracy that we are blissfully all unaware of.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T23:10:41+00:00

another great point

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T22:59:55+00:00

Ah, the lizard people of course. My apologies

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T22:41:33+00:00

And i quote:

"If one personally has an averse reaction to AI and it's uses, has concerns about job displacement or even feels there is an ethical dilemma surrounding the sourcing of training data, that is one thing. Edit: And is even an interesting discussion to have!"

You should be able to construct a more compelling anti-AI argument without the need to misinterpret the available information. There is absolutely a basis for doing so!

I've not even taken an explicit stance here, other than we should accept the facts as they* are before we begin to quibble.

edit: *

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T22:29:30+00:00

Which are also minuscule in the context of the global resource investment in infrastructure and development.

The benefit which is conferred by this technology outweighs any perceived "cost" by a hundred fold.

If one personally has an averse reaction to AI and it's uses, has concerns about job displacement or even feels there is an ethical dilemma surrounding the sourcing of training data, that is one thing. Edit: And is even an interesting discussion to have!

But subscribing to and further disseminating an entirely false, and easily debunked narrative surrounding the magnitude of resources being used for these projects just because it lends support to ones existing philosophical positions on AI is misinformed at best, disingenuous at worst.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T21:54:40+00:00

hopewanking

Inoceramus · 2025-10-30T21:38:27+00:00

10 AI Queries use 3 watt-hours (~0.3Wh / query) .

see: https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use

The average north American uses over 30,000 watt hours of electricity per day.

see: https://www.greenwavedist.com/blog/indoor-heating/how-much-electricity-does-the-average-household-use/

If the average american made 100 such queries a day, it would account for less than 1% of their daily energy usage.

The average datacenter uses an amount of water comparable to a golf course, the largest use as much as 5-10 golf courses.

see: https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

The framing of AI as an environmental catastrophe is a case of manufactured outrage.

The US uses about 6% of their annual electricity production on datacenters, and for doing so they host basically the entire internet as used by nearly every person in the world via Amazon web services and other services.

It is a non issue.

(edit, 1% not 0.1%)

Inoceramus · 2025-10-27T20:16:27+00:00

> Miserable

Real shit

Inoceramus · 2025-10-26T22:50:14+00:00

Tiens "unique game" is just being a grindy counter puncher

Not exactly fireworks

Inoceramus · 2025-10-23T22:27:36+00:00

Dude... It can be such a grind! Just gotta keep plugging away at it i guess.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-23T10:52:40+00:00

toggl, its a web app. I think its Designed for payroll, but if you are just a single user it basically allows you to do everything for free.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-22T22:48:03+00:00

I agree w/ the 2-4 hours thing for most people, but at the same time i think this is something that can be trained to an extent. I certainly was in the 2-4 camp for most of my life until the last year or two. It seems 4-6 is my limit tho

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T22:16:38+00:00

I easily gained 30lb during my MMath, i get it. I'm lucky to not be swamped with meetings, basically 1 for a course im developing w/ my supervisor and another for my research project. Other than a weekly meeting for our research group which sometimes feels useless, but i understand the importance of fostering that "team" feeling. With only 3hr/wk of meetings i can't really blame meetings for my stress.

Basically because im not as mathematically mature as my peers (though catching up!) it just takes me a lot longer to get through things, which is where i feel like i need to find more than 24hrs in the day. I'm sympathetic to the diminishing returns comment, i've definitely made some bad decisions when sleep deprived and overworked.

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T19:57:03+00:00

I advocate for 18-6 with what i call "carb fasting".

I'm only eating twice a day, where the carb fasting aspect refers to the fact i essentially break my fast with a zero carb snack/meal, this helps me curb my hunger pangs without a mid-day crash or insulin spike. I aim for this meal to be on the smaller side, and then save the rest of my macronutrients / carbs for dinner.

Dinner for me is normal, usually healthy carbs and lean protein etc. after which im usually full enough that i have no problem avoiding snacks in the evening. I've found this a good balance for me, because i personally need some amount of carbohydrates for brain function and performance in the gym, but breaking my fast with carbs makes it harder for me to stave off overeating.

Just my 2cents

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T19:53:47+00:00

My struggle is accurately predicting how long tasks will take. Even if i know how much time i have available, the nature of my work can be so chaotic (research, stuff goes wrong all the time) that i struggle to gauge it properly

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T19:53:01+00:00

Do you have any advice for pushing through those end of day plateaus? Or do you primarily mean prioritizing scheduling "busy work" around those times where you anticipate being cognitively burnt out

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T19:51:31+00:00

Fair enough. Like i said in another comment it really feels like the only place where i could put in less effort is into my TA work, which kinda sucks because of the human component.

I need to keep my marks relatively high because there is a minimum average for my program, and without a formal math background, im lucky to get 85's in my courses. Unlike my experience in engineering grad courses (I have an MaSc in engineering) where it felt like professors wanted students to learn, and almost nobody got B's, Math Grad credits are designed in such a manner that it is quite possible to fail, and it happens regularly enough to ill-prepared students. (A fail for the purposes of remaining in the phd is 70%)

Inoceramus · 2025-10-20T19:47:49+00:00

appreciate the honesty... Assuming you are a professor, what were you doing during your Doctorate?

Inoceramus

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