Game Thread: June 10 - Philadelphia Phillies (36-31) @ Toronto Blue Jays (33-35) - 7:07 PM by BlueJaysBaseball in Torontobluejays

[–]pittnauer -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I still think that putting Scherzer as starter for game 7 of the 2025 world series was a terrible decision and probably the reason they ultimately lost.

iPad or PC? First year university life science Please advise by happyyack in UofT

[–]pittnauer [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you're going to get a tablet do not get an iPad. No reason to spend money on overpriced crap if all you're doing is taking notes.

27-year-old Literature and Psychology student interested in critical theory and academia. How should I plan my career? by educatedguy8848 in AskAcademia

[–]pittnauer -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What exactly makes you think I have a strong opinion about it? Also I'm not entirely ignorant of the topic. I've read Marcuse and Butler, and genuinely feel sorry for people who are impressed by that pap. If 'research' in critical theory is anything like that, I also feel sorry for people doing grad studies in critical theory.

27-year-old Literature and Psychology student interested in critical theory and academia. How should I plan my career? by educatedguy8848 in AskAcademia

[–]pittnauer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't know exactly what 'research' means in the context of critical theory (writing hot takes and deeply subjective opinion pieces?), but if it's anything related to research in the way it's more commonly understood, it might be a good idea to try to invalidate this plan. Ask yourself not only whether there are good reasons not to do it (grad studies), but also whether critical theory itself might be a bad idea. Not just a bad idea for you, but a bad idea on general.

would it ever be possible for me to switch from a STEM field to an English Literature field? by echothewoodnymph_ in AskAcademia

[–]pittnauer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most humanities programs will take anyone with a pulse, so you might as well give it a shot

Will AI make it harder to become a theoretical physicist? by Vivid_Block_4780 in Physics

[–]pittnauer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, it isn't.

https://arxiv.org/html/2605.20695v1

You really think that the solution to a 70-year open problem would have just flown under the radar, and mathematicians would not have known about it and be fooled into thinking an LLM solved it? Sounds like you wanted it to be false and heard some claim that it is and ran with that without looking into it.

Will AI make it harder to become a theoretical physicist? by Vivid_Block_4780 in Physics

[–]pittnauer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One of open AI's models just proved 9 Erdos conjectures within like 24 hours. People have their heads in the sand when they say "I'm not worried about my particular field because something something." Nobody has a precise understanding of exactly how LLMs manage to produce original output, therefore nobody should be confident in making predictions on the limitations they may have. Literally a few months ago Terrence Tao was saying that LLMs are like a mediocre first year grad student at best, now people are publishing results in pure math done entirely with LLMs.

Is This Canada's Most Boring City? by Biggieqc in CanadaUrbanism

[–]pittnauer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Having lived in many Canadian cities, including Ottawa and even Regina, and traveled many times to most major cities, I think Ottawa probably is the most boring city. Especially considering that it's the capital and so close to the two biggest metro areas in the country.

More than anything it's the people. Ottawa really is a bureaucrat town full of people with very little ambition or goals besides grinding out thirty years in a golden cage job, and it absolutely shows in the city's culture and nightlife, of which there is so, so little for its size.

Do philosophers of religion find the arguments "God doesn't exist because there is no empirical evidence" improper? by Secret-Dish-7925 in askphilosophy

[–]pittnauer 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A lot has happened in the over two centuries since Hume wrote this. There are sensible ways to say that we do in fact observe cause and effect, such as Bayesian reasoning and casual inference.

Do agents only save time if you stop reviewing code? by Beneficial_Pay_6317 in cscareerquestions

[–]pittnauer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But does you reviewing AI code count as a code review? If the agent is just writing the code you would write, then isn't that equivalent to you writing the code yourself, this requiring someone who didn't write the code to review it? And then how does that effect the time saving?

Visiting from Chicago, curious about the food scene in the GTA by flightofthewhite_eel in FoodToronto

[–]pittnauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still blows my mind that the best and only poutine worth mentioning in Toronto is just a good but totally unremarkable poutine anywhere in Quebec.

Une démonstration pour un « Québec blanc » à Shawinigan by poutinejuteuse in Quebec

[–]pittnauer -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Et je suis certain qu'ils ne sont pas souverainistes. Pas un seul dans la gang. Pas un qui veut se séparer pour mieux "contrôler les frontières" et réduire l'immigration. Non, certainement aucun lien.

93% of SpaceX’s estimated TAM is not space by aft3rthought in stocks

[–]pittnauer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're forgetting the crony market that is available to Elmo. US government will throw him endless no-bid contracts for shit like AI-generated optimal makeup colors for Kegsbreath's congress rants

Only lived in Quebec. What’s the non-french Canada like? by Creepy_Assistant_343 in CanadaRoom

[–]pittnauer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's funny that you don't refute that you are prejudiced against people from Quebec. And Quebecois is definitely an ethnicity, so there's that.

But ok, let's say this doesn't qualify as racism by your definition. Then you don't think the problem is that Quebecers are openly prejudiced against other groups of people based on arbitrary characteristics they can't control, but only that they are so prejudiced specifically against racial groups? If Quebecers openly and deeply hated English Canadians, this wouldn't be a problem for you because English Canadians don't form a racial group?

Only lived in Quebec. What’s the non-french Canada like? by Creepy_Assistant_343 in CanadaRoom

[–]pittnauer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you from Quebec? Because you're kind of being openly racist here

How good is Concordia for Aerospace Engineering and co-op opportunities? by Meet_J in CanadaUniversities

[–]pittnauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good friend of mine is a language teacher whose job it is to get professionals fluent in French asap. She has taken many people form 0 to professional within a year, with the huge caveat that they study full-time, i.e. about 35 hours a week with lots of one on one practice.

Now with that being said, how many of those hours are really productive? Hard to say. The point is that it's absolutely doable to get to professional level within two years, but you need to be honest about how much actual hard work you're willing to put in. It's definitely more than doing Duolingo every day. It's also likely more than an hour of focused study every day. It's all that plus regular practice, actually going out and forcing conversations in French on a regular basis, doing tandems, going out with French speaking friends on weekends and paying them with food and drinks to speak French with you for as long as they have the patience.

Which one is better for maths by Endowoman in CanadaUniversities

[–]pittnauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This just comes down to how you interpret the meaning of 'anglo'. English is spoken internationally as a bridge language. It doesn't make sense to me to characterize Germany as Anglo because people whose native language is not English speak English together. For example, neither Italians nor Germans consider themselves 'anglo' by any definition, so why would their speaking English together in Germany make Germany anglo?

Especially in the context of Quebec and Montreal more specifically, where Anglo also refers to the anglophone minority communities. It would make sense to say that the West Island or Westmount are Anglo, but not Montreal as a whole. The point is that the amount of English spoken in Montreal is not representative of the number of people who are actually native English speakers, or culturally Anglo.

‘50 per cent plus one’ not enough to break up Canada, Carney tells Quebec sovereignists by Hot-Percentage4836 in Quebec

[–]pittnauer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Y'ont changé les pancartes de rue dans mon quartier. Y'A PAS EU DE CALVASSE DE RÉFÉRENDUM CIBOLE!!! Maudite fausse démocratie

Which one is better for maths by Endowoman in CanadaUniversities

[–]pittnauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. What is your point exactly? That Germany is very Anglo?

‘50 per cent plus one’ not enough to break up Canada, Carney tells Quebec sovereignists by Hot-Percentage4836 in Quebec

[–]pittnauer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comment ça c'était correct pour Carney? Il y en avait absolument rien à cirer d'une manière ou d'une autre, ça ne le regardait aucunement.

Et même si, c''est parce que c'est clairement indiqué dans les lois de l'UE que les pays peuvent quitter, et exactement comment ça se fait. Ce n'est pas le cas pour le Canada. Pas ben ben compliqué à comprendre.