An ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently. Hopefully that’s not the case for GP

Used to work as a manager at a pizza place and we had a guy apply to deliver who had the same name as... their son.

Allegedly Jr. had a lengthy record including some drug offenses and something like a DUI / DWI. Naturally Sr. And Jr's records got crossed since they have the same First, Last, and Address, which caused Sr. many headaches including that we required a driving record check that would fail on a DUI / DWI.

This is definitely dependent on individuals. It’s a reason during some conversations people can never seem to get a word in edgewise, even if the person speaking may think they’re providing opportunities do so. A mismatch in “pause length” can make for frustrating communications.

I am also too lazy to google or AI it but it’s something I remember from when I taught ESL long ago.

That makes sense! To be honest I’m referring to my audio engineering degree and the pause was specific to noticing silence in audio so I’d 100% agree that in conversation it can vary between people as I know some many people who will not let you get a word in

Not sure I’d call them _video_ games per se but anecdotally (me) it does work.

That said NYT crossword has existed for much longer, puzzle games are a longstanding feature of many newspapers.

Argh… yes … I was being lazy, and definitely didnt want to spend the calories figuring out or coining the right classification for what the NYT is doing.

Yes, the crossword has existed for longer, but it was never the core source of funding.

It’s interesting, and I doubt it can scale - every newspaper has its own puzzle section?

Right I guess in the old model they were often syndicated. But as a kid I remember seeing things like the jumble, word search, cryptic something or other etc. in my local small-ish city newspaper

I find the occasional research roundups from the “your local epidemiologist” newsletter informative:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/long-covid-re...

Weren’t there well over 100 launched, most of which were intercepted by Ukraine, and 20 made it into Polish airspace?

I thoroughly enjoyed their Toronto show on that tour. To be fair it was the first time I’d seen them in concert so I didn’t have any points of comparison.

I also hadn’t really clued in to just how political they were until seeing their visuals, which I also thought added a lot. Surely not everyone’s cup of tea though.

ST is not electron..

My (somewhat elderly) father only refers to it as ChatGBT and when I tried to get to the bottom of why he said it’s because “thats what it’s called in my phone”.

Seems pretty scammy to me, akin to typo squatting with potential to collect a lot more personal information but he can’t always be reasoned with.

Hopefully he heeds my advice to not provide anything personal.

To maybe save others some time METR is a group called Model Evaluation and Threat Research who

> propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete.

Not that hard to figure out but the way people refer were referring to them made me think it stood for an actual metric.

Depends on who exactly you’re trying to convince.