"Once you've built the solar panel, shipped it, installed it, tested it, and paid any tariffs and other taxes on it, the energy is very close to free, assuming the point-of-use is very close to where the solar panels are installed.."
There, fixed that for you.
in "conflicts of interest."
This is a good change of pace.
In the past, he's make bold pronouncements on things he doesn't know much about.
My AI's name is "Your Dragon." You publish an feature-film-length instructional video and you expect me to NOT use it???
See page 41 of Apple's Hard Disk 20 manual.
For Apple's add-on software that made it work on the original Macintosh 512K, go here.
Add a statement "Here is your Wikipedia article on..." and poof, it will disappear!
If the people pushing the "delete" button are doing their jobs right, they will be checking the edit history to make sure it really is "AI slop" and not a human-created page edited later to make it look like "AI slop."
a retracted paper is an admission that they lied
This is frequently the case, but not always.
Sometimes an author will retract his own work if he later realizes it was based on faulty data or a faulty process.
Sometimes a publisher will tighten its standards and retract something that was considered acceptable under an earlier, more lenient standard.
I wouldn't want a medical doctor that learned their trade on the job
If he'd been doing his work at a better-than-medical-school-graduate-level for long enough to have an established track record, I wouldn't automatically turn him down. That said, I don't think my government allows you to call yourself "doctor" (in the medical sense) without an M.D. or government-recognized equivalent (D.O., etc.).
By the way, most medical doctors in my country go through a long residency, which amounts to on-the-job-training mixed with classroom and practical education. If they learn new skills that didn't exist at the time they were in medical school, they probably learned them "on the job," at a training seminar of some sort or other, or possibly (gasp!) from reading it in a journal or other publication ("self-taught!").
We care A LOT about prestigious degrees where I work. If you have one, it lets us know not to hire you because you're a stuck up, entitled rich kid who will cause problems.
If you said "... because you're more likely to be a stuck up
If every one of your interviewees has been a stuck up, entitled rich kid, that leads me to believe you haven't interviewed enough people to get a truly representative sample.
On the other hand, the number of people who can graduate with a prestigious degree* without some amount of skills, knowledge, and effort is much lower than the number for Podunk Community College.
* after excluding elite athletes and other "special students" who are "exempt" from the normal you-don't-put-in-the-work-you-flunk-out process that applies to everyone else
Wikipedia ruined my life
If you are a Wikipedia-addict-in-recovery I can understand you saying that, but other than that, I don't see how it could ruin your life all by itself. If you are a Wikipedia-addict, black-holing from your network might be a good 1st, er, post-first-step (the "first step" is admitting you are powerless over Wikipedia...).
If you mean Wikipedia's content about you ruined your life:
If you are a living person, Wikipedia's policies, editors, and overlords generally do a good job of keeping out unverifiable gossip that might ruin your life.
Someone infamous might say "Wikipedia ruined my life" but their life was already ruined without Wikipedia.
quality is measurable (Science Citation Index for example)
This too can be gamed.
people assume you're recording, so they are suspicious or tell you they cannot consent so turn it off.
Tell them you are hard of hearing. Most people will understand.
If you can, use a transcription app that explicitly does not save audio or text beyond the current session's look-back buffer.
In the workplace, you may have legal protections if your hearing is so bad that you need this as a medical accommodation. Outside of work though, you may just have to rely on charm and sympathy to get people to accept it.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's take on the 1991 radioactive frogs.
Musician Fred Small's more lyrical take. "Glub, glub - Oh my God! / Hot frogs on the loose"
Read the Wikipedia pages for Microsoft Windows and its various versions for details.
Basically, Windows 11 is the "next version" of Windows 10 which is the "next version" of Windows 8.1, of 8, of 7, of XP, and of 2000, of NT 4, and of lower-numbered versions of NT. I've heard rumors, probably true, that at least some source code from the earliest versions of Windows NT is (with modifications) in Windows 11. That said, don't try to take any compiled applications from early-days Windows NT and run them on Windows 11. You CAN run some Windows 2000-era applications on Windows 11 though.
If you want to think of the newer versions as all just "upgrade versions" of the older versions, you can.
But if you asked Microsoft, they would say they are different operating systems.
I'm sure the cops working for TLAs that have to look at this stuff *wish* they could forget it.
Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde
