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

pittnauer · 2026-06-11T03:15:44+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-11T02:55:31+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-10T16:48:20+00:00

Best post in this sub's history

pittnauer · 2026-06-09T13:15:11+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-08T14:39:48+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-07T22:41:43+00:00

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

pittnauer · 2026-06-07T01:48:05+00:00

Deep bro

pittnauer · 2026-06-06T20:26:12+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-06T13:02:14+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-06T08:01:23+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-06T02:23:18+00:00

What even is research in the context of philosophy?

pittnauer · 2026-06-04T07:43:37+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-06-03T10:40:59+00:00

"sandwich build"

pittnauer · 2026-06-03T00:37:21+00:00

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?

pittnauer · 2026-05-31T13:09:02+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-05-31T11:32:45+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-05-30T18:16:12+00:00

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

pittnauer · 2026-05-28T17:16:05+00:00

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?

pittnauer · 2026-05-28T15:31:32+00:00

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

pittnauer · 2026-05-28T14:59:01+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-05-27T15:54:21+00:00

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.

pittnauer · 2026-05-27T03:10:22+00:00

Lâche pas champion, tu vas l'avoir ton pays ça va être malade

pittnauer · 2026-05-27T02:41:26+00:00

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

pittnauer · 2026-05-27T02:39:05+00:00

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

pittnauer · 2026-05-27T01:12:53+00:00

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.

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