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I’m ambidextrous, but I still favor my right hand…for most things. Some tasks I do preferentially left handed; some I switch back and forth. I vaguely remember my paternal grandfather gently trying to correct me on task handedness a few times, but nothing abusive or persistent. To be clear...

You HOPE. Thing is, just like laws written by lobbyists, pharmaceutical companies and other institutions DO try to influence what info gets disseminated to the general public. Back when my Dad opened his private medical practice in the early 1980s, pharma reps would ply him with all kinds of...

Just make sure it’s not Dire Grass.

Part of me also wants to inject some of Blazing Saddles, if only to interject the line, “Where the night women at?”

Going even further into left field- and possibly crossing over the fence into the bullpen- Paint Your Wagon. If you don’t know it, it’s a musical comedy with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin set in a town in the throes of a local gold rush. Substituting silver for gold…🤔 And of course, given the...

You might appreciate this jazz interpretation by Alex Skolnick’s (Testament) jazz trio. And Post Malone is (surprisingly) is a metalhead who has done some decent straightforward covers of several iconic tunes, including: T Pain also caught me off guard with his version: Oh yeah, There I...

Some birds have not forgotten their ancestors.

Gotta ask…the language in the first one is…? EDIT: had a free moment and found out the lead singer is Ethiopian.

The award and other facts were also misreported. https://www.tortmuseum.org/liebeck-v-mcdonalds/

I know a couple people trying it with mixed results- not bad to damn good. I’m not going to yet because I’m still concerned about side-effects. I’m a poster child for unusual medical events.

This needs to be a playable game…except maybe with Emus as the main antagonists instead.😜 Aussies v. Emus II, coming soon!

I’m reminded of the chicken cannon story. They were designed to fire chickens at plane parts to simulate bird strikes. But the first time they used it (back in the late 1940s), the poultry penetrated everything like they were AP rounds. When they complained to the cannon design crew, the...

My freshman dorm was voted most dangerous dorm on campus. I think the running dart fights (using standard darts) had something to do with that. My favorite made-up game was actually from my senior year of HS- “Tron”. We’d go into an empty classroom and smack a superball around with textbooks...

In fact, McDonald’s had settled a bunch of coffee burn cases in the decade leading up to the case, and chose the Liebeck case as their line in the sand. The plaintiff actually offered to settle several times, but McD’s wanted to fight for their right to parboil.

The combination of inaccuracy coupled with a major increase in energy (and thus, pollution) costs for marginal (if any) improvements in work output marks its use in certain fields to be inherently unethical.

Personally I’ve never used an AI for legal research, and I’ve rarely had issues finding the case law, codes/statutes I’m looking for. And usually pretty quickly. I don’t recall ever needing more than a couple refinements to get usable results. As someone else put it, it seems like a solution...

Just had a horrible tangential thought: We know that some AIs are incorporating the errors of others because their training process included those errors in the training. GIGO. If law-specific AIs are being trained in a similar fashion, what’s to stop them from incorporating erroneous...

Not just that; he’s a BIG fan of the Socratic method, and “So what?” quickly became the most terrifying syllables uttered to his students.

My CivPro prof would love you for that.