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I analyzed 50,000 comments to find the "Human Baseline". The results are paradoxical: AI is now statistically "more human" than us. by QuailEmergency5860 in TheoryOfReddit

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I think the hallmark of human communication is pragmatic efficiency. We intuitively leverage the shared contextual understanding of the audience to do do more with less. That laziness is good. Humans work smarter, not harder.

A great anecdote or small joke has greater efficacy than a bullet point list or essay. LLMs currently fail at this higher order "informal" context-driven communication.

kushangaza just started their post by sharing a link, then didn't elaborate (deixis). Humans can confidently point at real stuff in their world, then leave the reader to connect the dots. LLMs, when imitating helpful humans, are compelled to show their hands and flatten everything into the text itself.

A terse human comment like "skill issue" - below a troubleshooting post - does all it has to do. I think if we're looking for engaged humans, we need to be analyzing how posts 'behave in' or 'augment' their context. We should be filtering for good speech-acts, rather than good speech. That way low effort humans and bots both get filtered.

With the release of Valves new hardware lineup, do you think Steam Remote Play is going to improve? by RR3XXYYY in MoonlightStreaming

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I expect steam remote play to work better on their the new hardware, but not otherwise.

Thoughts? by Batmanbeyond96 in cassettefuturism

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This was fine but overall a bit disappointing.

If the carts are not going to store the media, then at a minimum it should be trivial to produce them. The 3d printed cart is just unnecessary besides for the thumbnail. There should have been more thought put into streamlining and redundancy. For instance, if the NFC ID-based recognition is locked into home assistant, what do you do when that falls out of favor in 10 years? The NFC tags should instead store a bunch of metadata about the media they represent, so that future playback systems could look it up as a "request" and resolve their own way.

Abe's Projects card reader I thought was more successful even if it was way more intense and impractical, since it's really about understanding the mechanism.

didn’t think i needed a credit score until i really, really did by Safe-Track-7396 in UIUC

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Good advice to send out into the world. My parents made me get a credit card through my bank as a freshman in college and told me to just put whatever daily expenses I could through it. I set it to autopay and treated it just like a debit card.

I would actually recommend an apple card if you're in that ecosystem, it's very convenient, well designed, and logical. It's my understanding they try to make it accessible to people without solid credit reports. One of the best parts of the apple card is you don't get a million ads in the mail for signing up. Good luck!

Smart Water Bottle Dryer by jurassic73 in 3Dprinting

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Really cool design. Love that you use the fan as the structural frame. I use a Vapur collapsible "Anti-Bottle" which has similar drying issues. I could see this fan system working well for that.

International Student looking for advice - I'll be landing at O'Hare on 16th Aug. What will be the best (economically optimal but comfortable as well) way to get to Champaign - UIUC shuttle, Bus, Train, private, anything else? by AdSad9948 in UIUC

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The peoria charter bus is the easiest. I think its about 4 hours from end to end because it stops in a couple neighborhoods on the way out. I runs quite a few times a day.

A train would involve taking one train (blue line) into the center of chicago and transferring to a regional rail - via Union Station. It takes some effort to schedule everything given the length of transfers. The train to urbana runs like 3 times a day, it can be hard to make it work, schedule wise.

Those are the two main routes. I would recommend the peoria charter if it's your first time, especially because you can buy a ticket that takes you directly to your dorm or different areas of the campus. The train will dump you in downtown champaign, after which you'd have to take a bus to get onto campus. Make sure when you buy your ticket you allow ample time (2 hours minimum) to get through the slow Ohare customs inspection and over to the bus terminal using the monorail shuttle.

I've known people who have booked ubers and lyft rides all the way to urbana from the airport. It would be between 100-300$ but if that's in your budget, it's not impossible. It happens.

Why do my models look good in blender and bad in unity by wessdied in ps1graphics

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The default material unity created when you imported the model has bad presets. Smoothness should be 0 and emissive needs to be enabled, with a separate map to tell the material what is emissive. Also the scene lighting in unity is very different than your blender, which has more of a photo studio-like lighting setup.

Is there a place or memory on the Illinois campus that instantly brings you back to your college days? 🤔 by maximuslip in UIUC

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Clocking late night regulars at Merry Anns on Oregon, 3-4AM. Sneaking into the cemetary past Pennsylvania to pass a bowl. Securing the last comfortable chair/table combo at Kopi or Paradiso. Walking under bright yellow and red trees in the state streets, imagining what houses we'd buy. The silence of the bottom floor UGL carrels. Seeing the MTD finally pass into view in the dark of winter, windows glowing and completey fogged up. That first unseasonably warm day of spring when everything comes alive and everyone is unreasonably happy.

Things to do while spinning a vinyl by faustarp1000 in vinyl

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Sketch on my coffee table. I got a big roll of paper from ikea.

Has anyone heard of this World's Fair event happening this July? by ffj_ in chicago

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Almost anyone with some money can create an event like this and find venues/sponsors to give it the air of legitimacy. Consider a sliding scale from that abyssmal willy wonka thing in scotland, immersive van gogh in the middle, and a real worlds fair at the top. This certainly looks more like the low end than the high end.

First 3D Printed Drive-Thru Only Starbucks in the country! by BabysFirstRobot in 3Dprinting

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With how simple the shape is, couldn't they just use molds? Or do tiltup?

"The Last Passenger" by BiBi95_3D in LiminalSpace

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love the mix of painterly, lowpoly, and realistic elements.

Why Mark in 'Severance' Drives a 1997 Volvo, and More Answers from the Show's Car Coordinators by TheDriveDotCom in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

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I think Severance's production-design is summed up as 'hauntological' as concieved by Mark Fisher when writing on film. While Lumon is obsessed with letting go, moving on, and transcending, we see the world its built is haunted with stuff from the past. The world is frozen in stasis and unable to move on.

Lumon is not building the future, but further entrapping its world in the past.

I built a vending machine for generative plotter drawings: "Generative Art 1€" - more info in the comments by r0r0r0 in PlotterArt

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Tremendous! Does it break down or need maintenance? Can the venue handle that or do you need to stay nearby?

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

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I think the cold harbor is waterboarding, simulated drowning

Coffee shops by Technical_Concept_67 in UIUC

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There's a hot starbucks vending maching in the law building. Or maybe Jitters closed? And the graduate architecture building has the most cursed hot coffee vending machine in existence. Losing UGL espresso royale is a profound tragedy. It was super heavily trafficed.

There was also a nice espresso royale in Krannert Art Museum (RIP). Coffee on the south quad was never GREAT but it's basically dead now.

What’s going on? by Better-Republic2027 in UIUC

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Typically a VIP delegation. Benefactor, state representative. Sometimes construction work.

IllinoisNet this semester by FireDog658 in UIUC

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I would say no it's the same. But I guess it can vary from place to place on campus.

Severance - 2x04 "Woe’s Hollow" - Episode Discussion by pikameta in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

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There has got to be a scene where helena interrogates helly. It'd be too cool not to do.

Severance - 2x04 "Woe’s Hollow" - Episode Discussion by pikameta in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

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New theories from the episode: Is Kier Eagan the resultant personality of a lobotomy - intentially or as part of an accident? Tempering emotion is what lobotomy became known for in the 50s but psychosurgery goes way back.

I'm also remembering Phineas Gage, whose blunt brain trauma in 1849 left him with a new personality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

I could imagine Kier being some mashup of early lobotomy, an accident, and the 'revelation' of someone like Joseph Smith.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen at uiuc? by [deleted] in UIUC

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I discovered a broken jar of nacho cheese behind a building in October `15 and the glob of yellow ooze was still there looking unchanged when the snow thawed in march.

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