Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "vlogbrothers" channel.

  1. Lindsay working in her trademark "RATS" at 3:14 had to be intentional. (Thank you 🐀)
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  2. "It's work for me to say all the words to convey the thoughts." Yes this! I've struggled with communication for my whole life, because I'll have this crystal clear idea of what I'm envisioning, but when I try to convey it using words, I inevitably miss parts that are just obvious inside my head. It's a huge disadvantage for me in my day-to-day life, and I, fittingly, haven't had the words to properly describe it before now.
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  3. When I was undergoing a government background check, the dude asked me about my finances, and I said, "Not great. Living paycheck to paycheck," and the guy laughed and said, "Wow, don't usually get that level of honesty," to which I was thinking, Why would anyone lie about or sugar-coat this sort of thing when they already handed over their bank records?!?
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  4. Might as well get an autopen at that point. To be fair, I'm not one for whom signed copies (that weren't signed in person) have any particular value in the first place.
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  5. I cannot see that image of Tiktaalik and not immediately think of Lindsay saying, "Read my LIPS, this is a NO BONE ZONE!"
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  6.  @omri9325  I miss the old Kanye / the pre-Tiktaalik Kanye
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  7. I recognize some good Cognitive / Dialectical Behavioral Therapy when I hear it. I respect that it doesn't work for everyone, but I am privileged that it's a helpful tool in my emotional resiliency arsenal.
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  8. The YouTube submission system already has dropdowns for settings like license, caption certs and embedding settings—having a per-upload toggle to set permissible uses would be incredibly seamless, and most people would gladly opt their content into being included in model datasets, especially if there was at least a token amount of revenue-sharing.
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  9.  @jacforswear18  Thank you. I rewrote my comment, because I clearly hadn't conveyed my point well—my saying, "I don't get why people find value in non-personally-signed copies" was meant to be a statement about me, not about anyone else.
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  10.  @JoelCornah  According to the BBC, we closed the loop in 2020 when citizen scientists decided to name a newly discovered species Ptomaphagus thebeatle.
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  11. Fwiw, the phrase "dark patterns" still shows up in legislation and regulation—my understanding is moreso in the EU—and is something some people in power (like the US Surgeon General) are aware of and are actively trying to combat.
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  12.  @OriginalPiMan  Given how buggy YT's notification system is and how it deletes comments seemingly at random, I'd argue this site's comments are the least social media on the internet.
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  13. This is so cool. What an awesome opportunity to sit down and collaborate with one of your heroes. If I were Hank, I would have been out-of-my-mind nervous!
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  14. I really thought I was beyond that silly pronunciation war, but when he said GIF, I was seriously and autonomically triggered.
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  15. This is the second time this week I've come across Bembo. It's a darn attractive font, especially for a serif one.
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  16. Hey Hank. Data Scientist and AI policy wonk here. Some notes. - A lot of companies' legal arguments around "fair use" hang heavily on the use of the word "train." That's an anthropomorphism, and NIST has called out that we should stop anthropomorphizing this tech for that very reason (so train →fit, hallucinate → confabulate) - at 16:30 you talk about "bootstrapping," which is a common technique in machine learning. All indications right now point to bootstrapped datasets requiring heavy human review in order to be useful - 21:00 if I were a betting man, I'd bet on the bubble bursting, and soon. The Transformer framework is actually a step down from the previous generation of deep learning. What made it explode on the scene was that it was comparatively cheap to deploy. But that means there's a hard ceiling on how good GenAI can be without being prohibitively expensive, and ChatGPT is already costing OpenAI far more to run than they're taking in from revenue. I'm sure you have an arsenal of experts at your disposal, but if you have any technical or policy questions about any of this, feel free to ping me, and I'll be glad to point you to some authoritative resources.
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  17. ​ @DanknDerpyGamer True, "anthropomorphism" might not be the best term here. But the point is, the way these models become more accurate is vastly different from how humans and animals learn.
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  18. Devices like that scratch the best itches in my scritchy physicist brain. Chaos-induced order; simulated annealing.
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  19. Had never read it before. What a powerful poem!
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  20. Ngl I'm pretty relieved that there isn't currently an outbreak of reptile diarrhea caused by human-transmitted Tuberculosis, because that's where I just assumed this episode was going.
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  21. Finding out that both SwiftKey and FUTO keyboards for Android support em dashes by holding down "-" was life-changing—finding out that my Linux desktop environments supported them via "Compose"+"-"+"-"+"-" was mind-blowing.
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  22. If you like this idea you should read Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace (which, despite the similar titles, is not actually related to his best known novel).
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  23. I installed Tiktok a while back—because a lot of my favorite Shorts creators post there primarily—and I just couldn't engage: it was literal sensory overload! I uninstalled it within an hour. I guess my neurodivergence was protecting me there, and it sounds like I should be grateful.
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  24. Why did I think October was named for Octavian? Edit: because August is named for Octavian.
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  25. I connect so much with that feeling of wanting to be universally liked. It's only in the last year that I've embraced the validation of being disliked by certain groups. That is, based on by country of birth and my political views, I've been called a "traitor" and been told that my family surely spits on me. I was also unceremoniously fired from a job for calling out dangerous and wasteful practices and making "enemies" with those entrenched in the system. It took a lot of personal reflection, but at the end of the day, I realized that I'd much rather be hated for holding the right beliefs than tolerated or even loved by people who are actively seeking to make the world worse. John, as an author of several "banned books," I hope you can see the value in that distinction as well—which, in my mind, is an honor on par with a Pulitzer—that the messages you're sharing are so powerful, they frighten people who seek to oppress others and stifle thought.
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