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Posted by chavenet

https://www.metafilter.com/210664/Its-about-you

But all jokes (and anxieties) aside, are there any legitimate reasons we should be polite to AI? The answer is yes, at least according to one recent study posted on the preprint server arXiv.org by a team at Waseda University and the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, both in Tokyo. Using polite prompts, the authors found, can produce higher-quality responses from a large language model (LLM)—the technology powering AI chatbots. But there's a point of diminishing returns; excessive flattery can cause a model's performance to deteriorate, according to the paper. from Please Be Polite to ChatGPT [Scientific American]

Related: Skywalkers are all abnormally nice to droids

https://www.metafilter.com/210664/Its-about-you

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Some thoughts on keeping yourself informed and still sane, in this time of overwhelming overwhelm everywhere.

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Posted by Glinn

https://www.metafilter.com/210663/One-Thousand-Square-Foot-Hanger-System

How ThredUp Resells 17 Million Garments Every Year (Business Insider) [YT: 12:29] TW: Uses AI. "It feels like you're in the Matrix, but it's clothing."

Around the world, a garbage truck's worth of clothing is dumped or burned every second. Includes other efforts and recycling experiments around the world. The hanger system is reminiscent of the door scene from Monsters, Inc.

https://www.metafilter.com/210663/One-Thousand-Square-Foot-Hanger-System

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Posted by Mitheral

https://www.metafilter.com/210662/Just-keep-swimming

You have probably passed over thousands of them with giving them a second thought. Culverts are a vital component of our transportation infrastructure and the US Federal Highway Administration (USDOTFHWA) has spent a lot of time figuring out what works best for any given constraints. They have a six part youtube series laying out some of the design tradeoffs of assorted options including how those options can enable aquatic organism travel thru a culvert.

You can skip the first 2 minutes of each video as it is a repeated description of what the series covers.

https://www.metafilter.com/210662/Just-keep-swimming

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I was at my desk using the old computer my uncle sent me back in the 90s, typing away, but the keys on keyboard required a lot of force and were hard to use, so I picked up the keyboard to see what kind of cord it had, thinking maybe I could get a new keyboard and plug it in, but the cord wasn't attached to the computer! But it still worked! DUN DUN DUN.

(This dream is based on: When I was in high school, my computery uncle sent me a used Tandy something or other (Tandy 1000, maybe? it had, among other things, a word processing program (DeskMate?) and Sid Meier's Civilization I on it and came with absolutely no documentation), and yesterday one of the keys on my dad's Chromebook was sticky. Now there are two computers that have almost nothing in common.)

((Also, I'm getting better at knowing, emotionally, that the 90s weren't "ten years" ago, but I'm still not going back far enough. My original estimate was twenty years, but no that was literally thirty years ago, dawg.))

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Posted by donnagirl

https://www.metafilter.com/210661/The-cream-is-coming-from-inside-the-corn

Often thought of as no more than a rarely-contentious canned supplement to improve the texture of boxed cornbread, creamed (or cream) corn is a delicious dish in its own right.

There's little-to-no actual cream in most traditional US recipes or in the American Indigenous corn dishes that they are derived from. The creamy texture is a result of "milking" corn cobs to release a starchy, sweet liquid. Beyond being a common potluck offering (especially in its enhanced, Million Dollar version), creamed corn is also found in the mysteriously named pâté chinois popular in Quebec, and adapted by chefs who "elevate" it or use it as a polenta-like base. However you enjoy it, just be aware that if you find an 85-year-old can of creamed corn it is under extreme pressure, full of lead and probably not fit for consumption.

https://www.metafilter.com/210661/The-cream-is-coming-from-inside-the-corn

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Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

https://www.metafilter.com/210660/From-dry-farmland-to-thriving-wetland-swamp-revival-provides-hope

From dry farmland to thriving wetland, swamp revival provides hope. The Mount Burr Swamp in South Australia is brimming with water, giving conservationists hope its success can be a blueprint for the future.

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