I need to plug "Grave of the Fireflies". I initially didn't watch it with my kids because (at the time) it was only subtitled, and one of my kids was too young to read.
One night I decided to watch it after I put them all to bed, and the older ones snuck down and watched it with me. They loved it, and I cried at the end.
In the US, Real Estate Agent is a sink-or-swim job. There are a lot of barely competent real estate agents who go through the motions, but otherwise only superficially understand how to do the job.
For example, I run an HOA, and agents routinely forget, until the last minute, to come to me for the HOA's paperwork. The state even requires 10 days notice. I've switched to an attitude where I proactively reach out to the seller (not agent) early in the process.
Dolby was just pre-emphasis of the higher frequencies before they were written to the tape.
It will sound the same with 8 bits. 8bit quantization will give you 48dB dynamic range (best case). Call it 36dB practical, around the same as an average cassette tape.
Basically, on analog media, playback speed isn't perfect. There's constant speedups and slowdowns. This creates a "waa waa" or "wow wow" effect that's noticeable when playing a constant pure tone.
> Spending your time cleaning up AI slop that you didn't want to write in the first place doesn't sound like much fun.
Pretty much every job I've had since 2003 involved cleaning up human-written slop.
For the moment, I'm finding that AI speeds up certain things: It can bang out unit tests in a few minutes, or do 80% of the work for me; but once it gets to the "test, make small change, test" loop, that's all done by hand.
Human written slop is SIGNIFICANTLY more enjoyable than LLM slop, it tells a story no matter how bad the dev is. LLM slop is a tidal wave of meaningless drivel.
As a someone who's fixing my own slop from the all the past years and with the help of the good coding agent, no less, no, human slop is not enjoyable, it's embarrassing.
For me the keyword in your comment is "also". What this word means to me is that, whatever faults textbooks might have, there is no alternative solution. They replicate a problem that all books have.
However, within the domain of textbooks, you still might find good solutions for these bias. These bias are mostly within history and social sciences and good and reputable Universities are renowned for publishing books in these domains that are quite balanced, comprehensive, deep and rigorous. Oxford and Cambridge are the 2 best examples that come to my mind. The U.S. has good Universities too, but after their government declared a war on science and knowledge I'd be carefull before trusting these universities.
To put it in perspective, people used to consume mercury-based medicine. I'm sure if the glass is thick enough, the risk of a spill (and your health) will be generally managed.
People used to do a lot of stupid stuff. If you live alone and are conscious of the risk, sure, this is not a terribly dangerous item if you're safe about it. If you live with pets or children, it's entirely sensible to be concerned about the risk. A mercury spill can seep between the floorboards and contaminate your house with volatile mercury vapors for years to come if not properly managed.
One night I decided to watch it after I put them all to bed, and the older ones snuck down and watched it with me. They loved it, and I cried at the end.
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