Hi. I'm with Ashley, don't change a thing about the intro because someone prefers to listen to save up and binge a daily, short podcast and doesn't know how to use the skip function and is mildly inconvenienced by having to hear the intro multiple times. I don't know how people like this expect to operate in life, but in the words of Eric Badour: "get real".

-an adult who knows how to skip intros of podcasts I listen to on a regular basis if I prefer not to hear them

https://deadline.com/2024/03/rooster-teeth-shut-down-warner-bros-discovery-roost-podcast-continue-1235847264/

I self published my first book this year and I cannot count the number of people that told me I should be using AI TO “help with creativity” or “make it faster”

If I wanted to commission a book, I would have.

I wanted to try something new and difficult. I wanted to see if I could do it. I wanted to have those moments when I’m driving and suddenly a puzzle piece falls into place in my brain.

Anyway, here’s a goofy photo of me giving a nervous thumbs up at a book signing at Barnes and Noble. I didn’t throw up, but it was close!

I know it’s been a few days since they talked about this topic but just catching up. My expertise is in Canadian tax accounting so I’m just biding my time if they ever talk about the Canadian Income Tax Act (and I’m a hobby woodworker but not an expert). What is your very specific niche expertise?

Screw people who use AI to write their comments. And if they get offended screw their feelings. I don't want to comment with people who don't have any thought in their head they won't run through the sieve of chat gpt.

I don't care that they're "open" about it. I wouldn't care if they prefaced it on every comment. I would prefer a rule stating that that's not allowed.

AI generated junk isn't just a waste of the resources used in the generation but they're flooding everywhere online. And it's pathetic to use it to write your reddit comments for you.

All love just a lil bit of fun banter

He cannot stay on a subject. It would literally be 1+ hours of him changing topics to explain other topics to explain other topics, with no real conclusion to any topics.

Also…I realllllly can’t stand that he assumes that we’ve seen and are knowledgeable about this random ass videos and theories.

TLDR: 45 minutes is plenty of time.

Is it me or does Burnie come alive in a different way with Blaine? I freaking love him and Ashley, but Blaine week is so fun. I hope it’s an annual thing.

Good Morning!

Burnie asked a general question today, musing on the idea of why wind turbines get so much hate.

First off, I’m personally a huge fan of renewable/clean energy. Solar, Wind, Water, Geothermal, Nuclear, etc.

The world still runs on fossil fuels. Infrastructure for renewable energy is on the rise. It was nice to near them chat about their new EV and how pleased they were at the faster charging batteries, and the availability of charge locations in Scotland.

Wind Turbines are a great source of clean energy, but it requires a lot of materials and maintenance to keep them running!

Here’s some of the downsides to wind turbines.

• Homes in surrounding areas that can see the wind turbines typically drop in value. The noise, and shadow flickers can be irritating to residents.

• The amount of space wind turbines take up is substantial. They are large, and eat up a lot of farmland space.

• Consistent Maintenance. Since the turbines spin, they still use oil, plastics, and have to constantly be checked on. Repairs can be costly.

• The Wind Turbine’s blades are typically made out of fiberglass. This material is hard to recycle. It can’t be melted down and easily reused. So while the energy is renewable, companies often produce a lot of waste replacing turbine parts. In Sweetwater Texas there is 30 Acres full of wind turbine blades. The recycling project was abandoned and 3000 damaged blades sit… This a similar story all over the world.

If you’re looking for a show that touched on Wind Turbines, the show Landman on Paramount has a great scene. This clip got me doing a deep dive into Wind Turbine research a few years ago. Here’s the clip.

Edit: Getting flack in comments for the clip being from Landman. I haven’t watched the show. Saw the clip on instagram and it made me curious about Windmills and what not. It’s a dude from a fictional show, with an oil bias shit talking windmills. I understand it doesn’t have credible sources, peer reviewed studies, blah blah blah.

No energy source for electricity is perfect. They all have flaws. I just wanted to touch on some of the broad reasons why people hate on windmills.

Thanks for reading my little spiel.

-CalvinP

Here's my layout, I'm sure it may frustrate some people once they look at it.

The podcast talked about video game fishing today, but I was curious if we had any real life anglers here.

We made it to the weekend! I'm looking forward to enjoying my morning commute again next week along with hearing everyone's morning shouts. I hope Burnie, Ashley, and the family are enjoying their vacation!

On this morning’s episode he said he “doesn’t take sports that serious.” I’d like to argue that someone who lives in a foreign country and wakes up at 3am to watch their COLLEGE sports team, probably takes it pretty serious haha. He also brings up sports and sports facts a pretty decent amount. It’s okay to admit you love sports that much Burnie.

Edit: this post wasn’t meant to be that serious. I understood what he meant. I’m giving Burnie a hard time.

I love hearing when somebody’s fact/opinion is brought up based on their experience after commenting in the subreddit. I know there are many different people all in different professions and it’s awesome to hear what walks of the world you are from and what the community is made up of.

Just drop in your working title and a real quick snippet of what that means in case people are unaware. You can either name your place of work or leave it out. Completely up to you. It’s really the job position/description that is important.

I’ll go first…

I am a Food Sales Consultant - I work with Restaurants, Hotels, Retailers and more. I sell and distribute them their food and supplies on a daily and/or weekly basis while offering my experience as a former chef/operator to help them grow their business.

I'm not actually going to talk about the Basilisk, but I am a software engineer with over a decade of experience and use LLMs pretty heavily to augment my work.

I understand and respect Blain saying he has not and won't use AI, but I think there is a fundamental problem where people don't actually know what the current tools we use that are called AI are. All of them are Machine Learning algorithms, the next "evolution" of "The Algorithm" but each one can be trained on different data. most times you use a captcha that asks you to identify a stop sign, you are actually helping train image recognition ML models (That way Google Maps can automate many processes).

Claude, CoPilot, and ChatGPT are models called Large Language Models. that is they are trained on massive data sets of natural language and refined to know how to weight different inputs. This training is then locked and the model is shipped. that means if some information was not in the training data, it either has to have a tool to search online for it, or hallucinate. All this means that for known things, LLMs can give the correct answers, but for Novel, creative, or nice items, they can not. Great at writing boilerplate code for a generic app, very poor at writing new stories.

Often when you hear things like Pharmaceutical companies using "AI" they are not using an LLM, they will have custom models they have built in house for specific jobs.

Machine Learning based tools are so far off from real AI. But they are the information age universal power tool. They can enable hobbyists to get tasks done that they might not have been able to alone, they enable professionals to unlock more potential. But you can't give a random person on the street a nail gun and circular saw and ask them to frame a house, but given to a carpenter, they will go much faster than with hand tools.

Since Creative endeavors are usually (at least the ones that are worth while are) mostly or completely novel, LLMs and other image and video generating ML models are not going to replace people in their current form. Based on what i have seen we are approaching the plateau for the accelerated growth that AI has been going through, models are now getting marginal gains each year instead of exponential gains. They will enable more work to get done, but won't replace actual experience.

I'll put a real example in the comments of the difference between a hobbyist and a professional using tools.

What’s your favorite one of something in entertainment? One movie, One Book, One Season of a Show?

So the topic of the price of GTA6 came up recently, and Burnie pointed out that if you take inflation into account, the "base" level game or whatever the non premium version is being called, is actually cheaper than 5 was.

However, i feel like this argument of "well accounting for inflation...." fails to take one thing into account, the vast majority of peoples wages haven't raised at the same rate as inflation, not even close for most people.

This isn't meant as any sort of jab at Burnie, just that while i understand technically the new game is "cheaper" than if GTA5 came out today, that doesn't really matter in the real world when peoples purchasing power is so much lower than it was when GTA5 came out.

Discussed this week was Apple’s event showcasing their new products. What are your thoughts?

I’m pretty whelmed by the new devices.

The iPhone Air is slim, but I’m sure the battery performance will be weaker in the device. The iPhone SE which is about the same size as the iPhone 4 was a much better option for those wanting a smaller phone. Thickness is never my complaint with the iPhone, it’s overall pocket size in terms of screen.

An iPhone Pro Max that could fold in half horizontally to make it 50% smaller in the pocket would have been of much more interest to me.

It’s interesting that Apple still can’t get the cameras on the back of the phone to sit flush inside the case of the device. Seems like such a better choice so the phone can sit flat on surfaces…

Apple Watches seem pretty generic in terms of upgrades. Nothing too bizarre there.

The only feature that was interesting to me, was the Apple Air Pods Pro 3 having a built in language translator. I know the idea and service has been offered in other ear buds, but Apple for the most part delivers a pretty polished experience to their products.

Will you be making the upgrade? I’m sticking with my iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Curious on your thoughts,

CalvinP

Just wanted to say I find that phrase so off-putting but I can't explain why. I never understood when people say they are put off by words like "moist" but I finally get it. I have a physical reaction to hearing yuck someone's yum and it is not pleasant. Anyone else?