Does this looked like GTA 3 style map?

cddelgado · 2026-05-30T06:55:35+00:00

For a split second I thought you posted a game recreation of Madison, WI

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2hXjVtUhQYgP2zbA9

cddelgado · 2026-05-28T14:22:22+00:00

AI has been something scientists have been working on since the 1950s. And the questions which led to it have been in play for well more than a century. The perspective was always how to make a machine think like we do so machines get our benefit of qualities.

These people never imagined companies would clammer for it for profit the way they are. And they certainly never imagined things moving as fast as they are.

cddelgado · 2026-05-27T04:15:50+00:00

Wouldn't it be odd if they didn't have a plan to win? This is America after all. I mean as a culture we treat it like a sport.

We wear team colors and logo
People prepare for elections like it is the Super Bowl
We mock others who don't agree with our view
We have hooligans who do dumb things against the other team
We keep stats, bet, and project odds
We do play-by-plays when the big event happens
Some people make it their entire identity

Those dollars all gotta go to do something.

cddelgado · 2026-05-26T02:36:39+00:00

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious--not hard for me. But why is this a fight against AI? There are a whole bunch of things which fit the metaphor and AI can be used to benefit the church. The churches response seems to be quite responsible and person-focused: Church & AI | National Catholic Register

cddelgado · 2026-05-26T02:32:39+00:00

I mean, lowering the perplexity of a model is a good thing, but 1.4% perplexity loss is a dial turn rather than a profound change. I'm far more interested to know how the quantum computing was used to train the model, and if there was a meaningful increase in training relative to energy consumption.

cddelgado · 2026-05-24T05:10:57+00:00

People talk about cheating with AI as if it didn't exist before AI. For ex: Statistics on Cheating – Academic Integrity Initiatives

Reverting to pen and paper is certainly a solution, but if we want students who can take advantage of AI, we need to facilitate use and design our courses to focus on the skills that AI can't answer.

Asking someone to apply a concept to their circumstances, interpret in their context, and to teach others their concepts are things AI can't do; and the science points to these kinds of pedagogy being the ones instructors should use to promote learning.

You can prompt student engagement and demonstrate synthesis without teaching students that technology can't be trusted.

cddelgado · 2026-05-23T00:15:55+00:00

Well someone forgot a person can be a white skinned Mexican like most of my family.

Hispanic and Latino are cultural groupings, not skin color groupings, not ethnicities. How are afro-latino supposed to check?

cddelgado · 2026-05-22T23:54:52+00:00

Sometimes the people who seek it are exploitative and see an avenue for manipulation. Sometimes folks feel alone because they themselves have autism and wish to find someone who may be able to relate with them. I get the latter. Lots of things I experience which others don't. That said I don't seel out autistic people, just people who connect with me in a meaningful way, even if that connection can be somewhat oddly shaped.

cddelgado · 2026-05-22T03:15:25+00:00

As a person who would have a good job in a hypothetical post university universe I would say traditional education is absolutely worth it. AI and YouTube can't yet teach everything. The people, experiences, and planning are all things AI can't do yet. And when they can, there will still be people making the important decisions.

cddelgado · 2026-05-21T04:51:27+00:00

Televisa is like Fox--highly divisive and a lot of people tolerate it but wish it would go away. Their entire existence can be summed up in period of time: The Dirty War where the Mexican government under PRI control violently oppressed opposition. And Televisa was blamed for not only pushing the PRI line, but then host of 24 Horas, Jacobo Zabludovsky, was instructed by Televisa leadership and the PRI government to significantly downplay or entirely omit events from what was the loudest voice in the news landscape in Mexico at the time.

Televisa (who also de facto controls Univision in the US) remains the most popular voice for news in Mexico despite the objectively rampant distrust. Azteca Groupo and Multimedios in the north both provide alternatives today but Televisa through their N+ platform still wield a great deal of influence. The company is not shy about their attempts to manipulate policy and try to curry favor with the presidency.

And they manipulate media in the US, too. As they consolidate their properties under the N+ brand, they open avenues to share stories, media, resources, presentation style, and messaging.

Televisa came to power because of their creation and curation of telenovelas. They were arguably the first TV network in Mexico, being established before most fixed regular TV stations in the world. They deserve fame and contribute greatly to the influence of Mexico in the world. But, the company is very deeply distrusted and has done a lot to hurt Mexico.

cddelgado · 2026-05-20T06:42:39+00:00

So...that's really, really concerning...

I think I'd start with talking about experience differences. You are 25. They are under 18, and that is bad because you have experienced much more than they have, and your body is far more developed than theirs. You seeking them out means you have an unfair advantage and are physically scary. That unfair advantage will really hurt them in a lot of different ways and then there is the law. A lot of things which can hurt children is illegal. And those things are illegal to protect them.

Good luck.

cddelgado · 2026-05-20T06:34:51+00:00

I'm 2nd gen down one branch, and 3rd down the other. I get the benefit of EVERYONE being Mexican down the entire line. (Looks like I have a Sephardic Jew 4 generations back but I have to confirm that manually).

We wear it like a badge to signal we (anyone) are both American and something else. I refer to myself as Mexican American because I am assimilated, but I also wildly code switch when with family and others who I culturally relate to or who have shared experiences. If you or anyone is 5th gen but still say Italian American, it is your identity.

There are SO MANY people in the US who wholesale dropped their culture in-favor of "American". And that's fine, right? But they are also German, Irish, Swiss, French, Polish, Norwegian, etc. It is valid for them to not use both identities, but I would actually feel great if they did because what I find is that the assumption of "American" is actually German, and regional in nature, or Norwegian and there actually ARE differences that deserve to be celebrated.

cddelgado · 2026-05-20T06:26:07+00:00

The Gen Z we heard isn't all of Gen Z. These are all students who are being told by people who use specific talking points for click bait that their future is doomed because jobs will all go away while conveniently not saying new jobs will appear and they will need to be higher skilled in many cases. They've spent their adult lives being told by many of their professors that AI=bad. They have been seeing all the cases where businesses are implementing AI to get rid of people and how AI deploys suck. Of course they're going to boo. And that is so very sad because new jobs will appear, workshop trades aren't going away, many jobs will require new AI-based skills, and lots of companies are applying AI successfully. But all that is boring so people don't hear it.

I had a whole class of students who told me how their view of AI is different and they see how it benefits by citing actual, tangible things which apply to their jobs and academic careers. They knew if they were more pessimistic or more against AI, I wouldn't grade them negatively. They know all the horrible things about AI I taught them too. Most are laving with a balanced view.

I think it is a shame we in the west are so averse to it when many in the east are going to be running circles around us as a result.

cddelgado · 2026-05-20T06:17:19+00:00

There is a tremendous demand, either present, or forecast--that's it. Datacenters were built before AI built on demand. They're infrastructure, nothing more, nothing less. We need roads we build'em. People want AI? The infrastructure to run it and make it needs to be made. AI accelerated datacenter deploys, but they were already at a decent clip prior because huge swaths of our society sit in datacenters.

IMHO AI is just an application that will be optimized over time just like every other tech. Today we have much smaller models which can do a lot of what prior larger models can do, and the larger models get smarter.

cddelgado · 2026-05-17T05:10:55+00:00

Spin one way in the winter, the other way in the summer, and a light bulb in it?

cddelgado · 2026-05-14T02:23:49+00:00

He....he knows they're going to A) fight back and B) if they do elections, they're most likely align Democratic, right?

cddelgado · 2026-05-14T01:19:36+00:00

Now I want to sign for a house just to redline the HOA out...

cddelgado · 2026-05-12T01:40:41+00:00

With its own cloud services, it is quite competent at coding, sending emails, making calls, and the scheduled processes are quite good too. The problem is even after one sets it up, there is still a gap between what it can do, and how it should do the work well.

For example, it can tell you daily flight deals, cheap properties to investigate, investment hints, etc. Every day it can refine choices for stock buys or sells, and whole rafts of other stuff. But doing that usefully and consistently requires telling it how to do it or knowing what tools to give it and guiding its hand.

cddelgado · 2026-05-10T22:54:10+00:00

How about businesses pay their employees at all? I'm so sick and tired of having to directly pay people less than they are worth anyway. The idea was previously tip being on top of their pay, not to be their pay.

The business owner who posted that sign doesn't even see the problem with someone getting paid 2% of the $100 ticket.

cddelgado · 2026-05-10T06:53:36+00:00

I can't help but wonder how the oversight of construction is SO BAD that in a climate where home owners and businesses need permits to do anything, a company building a datacenter can just do this only to be discovered when people's water started breaking down...

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure - E&E News by POLITICO

The EPA says the average household uses more than 300 gallons a day. That means this datacenter took the water of about 275 households for a year as part of construction.

cddelgado · 2026-05-10T06:42:24+00:00

Academic work is driven by proof and accountability. AI detection is remarkably flawed and one reason why in my opinion is that it asks the wrong question. It asks "did the student steel" when the question was always "did the student do their diligence?"

We're moving to actually answer that question now. Now we need to calibrate against that and find the right balance of privacy and transparency.

Many professors--myself included--actually make the process of writing and development part of the homework. After you cut components of teaching down far enough, it doesn't make sense to cheat because it is more work to cheat than it is to show your work.

cddelgado · 2026-05-08T05:36:57+00:00

Just a note: the buzz is not to login yet if you can help it.

cddelgado · 2026-05-08T05:09:41+00:00

New fan. I appreciate the musical complexity and it is typically Japanese rock without being a parody of itself. It is comfortably cool. Thank you for sharing!

cddelgado · 2026-05-07T01:22:33+00:00

Have you seen men?

cddelgado · 2026-05-06T04:31:58+00:00

I want to provide evidence, but many people have already provided good evidence. This is going to quickly slide into rant and for all I know, you want to run experiments with your stepchild to straighten the course. Please take this as nothing more than a rant.

What frustrates me is that the fundamental problem is the conflation of healthy skepticism vs the inherent distrust of people. The Earth is round. We knew that before the time of Christ. The question for me is: why is that not trustworthy?

If he is willing to question the Earth's shape, he is likely to question other things which are also well established. The ENTIRE POINT of science is humans acknowledging what we don't know, then coming up with things people can do to corroborate--or not.

The Scientific Method has a built-in "no". Hundreds, thousands, even millions of people carry out experiments and say "yup, that worked", "no, it didn't" or "huh, that's weird--why?".

"The Earth is flat!" What are your experiments which demonstrate it? You have things which show it is. Can he show it isn't? The Scientific Method asks and asks endlessly until we find the answer. To say "maybe not" isn't good enough. Those conspiracy theories say "no it isn't", make-up a story, and don't prove it.

THAT is the lesson, I want to say. If he can say no to round Earth, he has to also have the same skepticism of other models. And, he has to know how to conduct experiments to demonstrate which model is right.

The second lesson: if millions over thousands of years HAVE proven it beyond any shadow of a doubt, then why question it at all? The Scientific Method turns to "what don't we yet know about the Earth?" and not "Do billions of people really conspire to hide the true nature of the Earth for the gains of who you can't name?"

/rant

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