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GPT-3 Training Programmers for the Present (and the Future)

I wrote a paper in Spanish and asked "someone else" to rewrite it Last year, I wrote a paper in Spanish about the future of programmers. TL;DR: Instead of manually translating my paper, I decided to rewrite it completely with GPT-3. When I asked it to translate the article, it decided the title was not good enough. So it changed it to present AND future đŸ˜±Scary, isn't it? Let's move on.So this is the original paper rewritten by GPT-3: // Translate this into English and convert it to a technical article: Summary The…

Bi by Julia Shaw review – the past and present of a maligned minority | Science and nature books

According to periodic reports in the media, bisexuality has been a brand-new fad since at least the 1890s. It was all the rage in 1974, for example, when the US magazine Newsweek discovered “Bisexual Chic: Anyone Goes”. A generation later, in 1995, the same magazine published a cover story declaring it “A new sexual identity”. In 2021, the Daily Telegraph parodied itself with a letter from an “Anonymous Dad” complaining about his bisexual daughter. “My daughter doesn’t like girls and boys, she likes boys”, he fumed. “But…

How to stay present when you’re on your phone

A cloaking device is a technology that makes your spaceship invisible to others. It’s a must-have for any modern sci-fi hero. But not even the Klingons or the Romulans had a two-way cloaking device. Many of us do—it’s our phone. When we feel that little “ZZZT!!” of a notification and pick it up, our sentient self becomes instantly invisible. Fascinatingly, the effect is two-way. The human world disappears to us at these moments. We can’t see anyone. We can’t hear anyone. There’s nothing but the phone when the connection’s…

PlayStation’s Push Into Mobile Gaming: Snapshot Of Sony’s Past And Present Mobile Market Plans

Sony has made it clear it's looking to diversify its business and explore new territories beyond PlayStation's single-player console games and into PC, mobile, and live-service markets. During the G&S segment of a Sony business briefing, CEO Jim Ryan reiterated the company's commitment to pursue PC and mobile audiences.In the slide specifically about mobile, Ryan said the company has "aggressive growth plans." Sony will partner with successful mobile developers, establish internal mobile development…

Snow-Capped Alps Are Going Green, And You Can See The Consequences From Space

The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover – a process called "greening" that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday.  The research, published in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite imagery across the entirety of the iconic European mountain range."We were very surprised, honestly, to find such a huge trend in greening," first author Sabine Rumpf, an ecologist at the University of Basel, told AFP.Greening is a well-recognized phenomenon…

Nick Jonas Says He’s ‘Trying to Be as Present as Possible’ With Daughter

Nick Jonas is opening up about how the birth of his daughter, Malti Marie, has changed his perspective. The JoBro, along with his wife Priyanka Chopra, welcomed their first child via surrogate back in January, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas. Since then, Jonas explained that tragedies—such as the mass shooting that took place this past week in Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead—hit a little deeper when you have a child.“The weight of everything is much more intense,” he told Variety during Sugar Ray Leonard…