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bstix, to memes in it's you

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s the foot of Kim Jong Un.

bstix, (edited ) to mildlyinteresting in But I need 97 of them!

The only rule on punctuation that I ever learned in English was:

If in doubt - leave it out

Anyway, I fully acknowledge that my cellphone autocorrected my first comment wrongly and that “its” should have had an apostrophe. I’m just not going to edit it, because it makes no sense in any other way, so no one should be able to misunderstand the sentence and the grammar nazi added nothing of value.

bstix, to mildlyinteresting in But I need 97 of them!

Here. Have some fucking apostrophes: ‘’‘’‘’“”“'”“”‘’‘’

There ought to be enough there to keep you entertained for a while. I don’t owe you any more. If you need more of them go ask someone else.

Also, here are the commas I forgot to put down this week:. , take them all for fucks sake.

bstix, to mildlyinteresting in But I need 97 of them!

Its enough for Hellview, population 96.

bstix, to lemmyshitpost in Just do it.

If the people I usually give this information to actually liked me, they wouldn’t be marking up the prices in the first place.

Walmart doesn’t just charge $4 for milk because it’s the market price or something. They do that because they fucking hate you and want all of your money.

bstix, to asklemmy in Why was Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan so bad for the American people?

He tried to “starve the beast”. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

The beast being the government itself. The idea is that the government is somehow overspending in comparison to the tasks carried out and it needs to be fixed by cutting funding.

The result is obviously that the government will function even worse, so it’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

bstix, to lemmyshitpost in Why do I do this?

Because you’re afraid. Don’t be.

Look straight at that face and say to the person in the mirror: “Hey, you’re a pretty neat person”.

bstix, to asklemmy in What is your earliest memory?

My first conscious memory is of me gaining consciousness at age 3 or so. Everything before that are visual or tactile memories that are difficult to describe.

Anyway, when I had children myself, I suddenly remembered a lot more of those. Things that I never knew that I remembered somehow got recalled by watching my own child do the same things. So at age 40 I vividly and weirdly remembered what it’s like to be standing in a crib, holding and twisting the bannisters.

Tactile memories are weird. I’ve always enjoyed coming to my grandparents house later in life, because of the way the handles on the cupboards feel just the way they’re supposed to.

bstix, to lemmyshitpost in It's finally over.

Not according to the latest Indiana Jones movie.

bstix, to lemmyshitpost in Truly inspirational

I’m impressed that it only took a quarter of a dozen fortnights.

bstix, to memes in She was right in 1992, the Catholic Church is still filled with pedophiles.

It had another run in the news following her death last summer.

There’s nothing wrong with people TIL today, because she was right then and still is.

bstix, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Electric eel

I liked the jackass skit better.

Edit: yeah okay if you haven’t seen it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80HRJgGgGR8

bstix, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

An unknown factor is if you even get to make a second try at getting 100% if you already passed with 50% on the first test. If it is possible to redo a passed test, I still find it unlikely that anyone would do so given that they know that they don’t know the answers.

Including the edit that you’re not told which one was right in the first attempt with a 50% score, it makes a lot more sense to accept the first 50% pass. Choosing different answers for the second try would only give the maximum score of 50% again, while choosing completely random answers again would only give the same chance as the first attempt, in which 0% is still more likely than 100%

Similarly, if you do get 100% on the first attempt, why’d you want to try again… a lot of the answers here calculate the overall statistics when using both attempts regardless.

bstix, to asklemmy in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

GPT-4 is a language model, and while it was an interesting take, it appears to be the wrong tool for the job.

The answer is wrong and without any documentation or proof showing the line of thought to determine the result it’s just a useless number.

Math is not really about the result. It is about understanding the process. Having an AI do that is completely against the purpose of asking this kind of questions in the first place. OP doesn’t need to know if the chance is 68% or 75%, but rather how to figure it out.

bstix, to asklemmy in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

You only accounted for the situations with one correct answer in the case where it is the first question.

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