• 0 Posts
  • 955 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 18th, 2023

help-circle

  • If you’d have read tye article, you would have learned that there were three groups, one with no gpt, one where they just had gpt access, and another gpt that would only give hints and clues to the answer, but wouldn’t directly give it.

    That third group tied the first group in test scores. The issue was that chat gpt is dumb and was often giving incorrect instructions on how to solve the answer, or came up with the wrong answer. I’m sure if gpt were capable of not giving the answer away and actually correctly giving instructions on how to solve each problem, that group would have beaten the no gpt group, easily.









  • The issue is, it means you may not be putting the best person for a position, in that position. Affirmative action stuff all sounds great until you see someone with better performance, more experience, and qualifications get passed by on a promotion because of their gender, race, or sexual orientation.

    Where I work does unbiased testing based out of standard books that questions are pulled from so there’s no bias. Unfortunately not every field can do such a thing.



  • For career fire departments, smoking ciggarettes doesn’t seem more pervasive than other places. Many departments haven’t allowed smoking while on duty for quite a long time, and we work 24 to 48 hours per shift.

    As to the pfas and cancer, you’re right about a lot of what we end up breathing in and smoke we get on our skin from firefighting, but you don’t actually need that study done to already know that pfa’s cause cancer. That’s been covered by other studies outside of firefighting equipment to know that pfas are cancer causing. Further, it’s been proving that pfas can be absorbed through the skin, and finally, it’s been proven that firefighters have had higher levels of pfas in their bloodstream.

    So it’s not that firefighters have more cancer and they’re just claiming it’s because of the pfas. It’s that they know pfas cause cancer and that our bunker gear is leeching pfas into our body’s.






  • My state (US) finally just got rid of the law against switch blades/automatics. Mainly because it became a defunct/useless law that was made back when other knives were hard to open or took two hands to open. But in today’s world of flippers and spydercos and spring assist and all of those that are every bit as quick and easy to open, banning an otf or switch blade just didn’t make any sense.



  • For like 75% of all home purchases, screw realtors. They’re fairly useless for what they charge, and any inspectors they recommend are bullshit inspections you wouldn’t want to trust.

    I bought my house 15 years ago and did it without any realtors involved. Both parties saved thousands in exchange for doing like an hours worth of paperwork.

    If it’s a simple straight up purchase of a home that you’re able to go look at first, skip the realtors. Get your own inspection done after negotiating price without going through a middlemen that try to keep the buyer and seller from speaking to each other, and if you aren’t comfortable doing up the paperwork, have a lawyer do it for less than a grand.