Me? Me, specifically‽ He cared, it’s so sweet ❤️

This is actually a confirmed meme though.

Except for a couple of details from the link you posted: there were only two worms, and they are likely of the same age (don’t think this can be determined more specifically than ‘around 40 thousand years’), and the picture is absolutely wrong.

because words are spelt as phonetically

And consistently /s

I thought the joke was that monologue should not include a second actor. But maybe it was about spelling ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, GorrillaX?

However you define it, a central nervous system or other type of similar central unit would have to be a requirement, because that is what would actually be sentient

Without CNS there would be something else sophisticated enough to show sentience that would have been sentient. So to me it looks like this is not really a requirement, albeit it’s simpler to say that it is.

As a side note, I think that given how human-centric humans are (which is to be expected, really) even if we were living with another sentient species on the same planet we would argue they are not sentient for whatever reason we could come up with, and change sentience definition accordingly

Remember how everyone was expecting the end of the world in 2012, kind of like that.

I personally don’t find it romantic anymore

Yeah, that was the point of the joke

But you’re right, better leave a link, the more people know, the better

I don’t know, whenever I hear such arguing it makes me feel like it emphasises the issues we as humanity have gotten into, not belittles.

I mean, hearing “everything is doomed” is kind of epic and has it’s charm. Hearing “only the humanity is doomed” makes me feel shitty and want to do something about that.

So that’s why I can’t print greyscale documents when my yellow ink is too low!

I expected him to aspire to become a politician until the last frame

This is the art level of fuckery, making it this bad was definitely harder than making it okay

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know for sure, but my advisor used to worry about the amount of successful PhD graduates, because of the department quota, iirc

Not everywhere, I guess. The advisor needs to show good numbers to the stakeholders board, after all

I think they had some specific metric in mind when they said this. But on the other hand, this is kind of a “you’re here” situation, AI can’t do that now, there’s no telling that they can’t make it do that later. Probably it would be a much more useful AI at that point, too

What is it this time?

I’ve been far away from academia for a long time, but last time I read papers on voice processing it went something like this:

Abstract: we’ve achieved [very good results] using this one simple trick…

Body: actually, we will maybe not tell what was the corpus we used to measure how good we are. We’re also going to omit several important steps where they can be omitted nonchalantly, so that reproducing what seems to be a thorough description will be a pain

So, I don’t know if it ever is all nice and simple, but man could it be better if things were always done in good faith and professionally

I think, the bigger problem is when the abstract tells that everything is all nice and simple, but in reality it’s not

But it’s not Wednesday yet 😯