Verdun in ww1 say almost 50million shells. We’re gonna need more shells to actually win

As a manager, fuck Thursdays too

Thursday is bigger in Edinburgh too. Friday is a ghost town in many an office

You’ve never had to reason in a test? Problem solve in a test? Design in a test? Sure, some tests are memory tests, but plenty aren’t

Mini vivas for every assignment, yaldi!

Papers are being disrupted. Exams will become more relevant. Can’t use AI with only a pencil and paper

Yeah, my favourite ever laptop. Would love to see the netbook return. Cheap and cheerful. Chromebooks just not the same

Look at Heathrow recently too. There’s one substation that will be both critical ane vulnerable also, dirt cheap to cause maximum effect

For the most part, I agree. But YouTube is full of gold too. Lots of amateurs making content for themselves. And plenty of newspapers are high quality and worth your time to understand the current environment in which we operate. Don’t let them be your only source of news though, social media and newspapers are both guilty of creating information bubbles. Expand, be open, don’t be tribal.

Don’t use AI. Do your own thinking

Given your prompts, maybe you are good at discerning flaws and analysing your own arguments too

Wikipedia isn’t to be referenced for scientific papers, I’m sure we all agree there. But it does do almost exactly what you described. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe has some great further reading links. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology has some great reads too. And for the time short: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology which also has Related Pages

I’m still yet to see how AI beats a search engine. And your example hasn’t convinced me either

I’m still sceptical, any chance you could share some prompts which illustrate this concept?

You search for topics and keywords on search engines. It’s a different skill. And from what I see, yields better results. If something is vague also, think quickly first and make it less vague. That goes for life!

And a tool which regurgitates rubbish in a verbose manner isn’t a tool. It’s a toy. Toy’s can spark your curiosity, but you don’t rely on them. Toy’s look pretty, and can teach you things. The lesson is that they aren’t a replacement for anything but lorem ipsum

You do know it can’t reason and literally makes shit up approximately 50% of the time? Be quicker to toss a coin!

I prefer reading. Wikipedia is great. Duck duck go still gives pretty good results with the AI off. YouTube is filled with tutorials too. Cook books pre-AI are plentiful. There’s these things called newspapers that exist, they aren’t like they used to be but there is a choice of which to buy even.

I’ve no idea what a chatbot could help me with. And I think anybody who does need some help on things, could go learn about whatever they need in pretty short order if they wanted. And do a better job.

Get that shit out of there

No surprise to me in 2025 after seeing them side with No in 2014 in Scotland. Morally bankrupt, liars, and religious fundamentalists are all they have left in Scotland. A wasted vote

We need to start taxing these and making them uninsurable. Money talks, and the damage these investors are doing means they need to be held accountable for these investments

At 21 what you know about you can fit in a lunchbox. So talk about what you’d like to know more about instead. Could be some self improvement, could be educational, could be travel, could be musical. You get the idea.

You were gifted two ears and one mouth too. Ask questions, listen to the answer then delve deeper into that topic with a follow on. Aim for a 2:1 listening to talking, but it isn’t a hard rule.

You also have a passion (or you wouldn’t even be on lemmy!). Think about what makes it great and share it if you are asked.

First dates usually have an activity too, what you doing? Some things might benefit from some research

CEOs are weird. DDG might be a privacy champion but it is still a for profit company. Meaning Weinberg wants to make bucks too. If Chrome is worth $50bn what does that make ddg worth? If Google get slapped with an anti-trust and forced to break up, who might benefit from the big bucks that might be floating around? And ever noticed how CEOs tend to fail up? Fluffing google is a nice advert for the next head of google search here.

Show me monetisation strategies, and hence value per user for the installed base if you want to claim that kinda figures imo