hawngyeedun | 5 months ago | on: How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]
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hawngyeedun | 2 years ago | on: Akira Toriyama has died
It's largely due to the Dragon Ball anime broadcast overseas. The series has an incredibly large following in LATAM and South/Southeast Asian countries in general.
hawngyeedun | 2 years ago | on: Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk
This book is available through open access. Click on the "PDF" icon to download the full text or browse individual chapters by clicking the table of content below.
hawngyeedun | 5 years ago | on: ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020
I don't see anything to be gained from this call other than solidifying the current administration political stance. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be an incredibly destructive decision creates little to no benefits to the American society... For instance, that "6% of all students" alone contributes a great deal to the US economy:
> According to the Commerce Department, international students contributed $45 billion to the U.S. economy in 2018.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506072-ice-tells...
hawngyeedun | 9 years ago | on: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Added an explanation to my comment.
hawngyeedun | 9 years ago | on: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Those who have not lived outside of the US (or NA) don't realize how hard life is for the rest of the world; most will just move right back within months.
Been there myself. Life ain't easy out there.
Edit - A little bit of context here: I am speaking as someone who was born and raised in a developing country rife with racial and political problems. My point is, a lot of people who are yelling about immigrating due to the election result are overly naive with their outlook. It takes an incredible amount of effort to adjust to a new environment, not to speak of giving up the connections and comfort they have in the US. It's not as easy as just "moving to another country".
hawngyeedun | 10 years ago | on: Blog Little Things
Interesting, so basically a middle ground between the conventional length of blogs and microblogs. I wonder if that begs for a new way of organizing/producing medium-length contents of this sort.
hawngyeedun | 10 years ago | on: “Hong Kong is not China” illustrations cause controversy online
While the issue itself is worth discussing, I am unsure how much attention should be put on this particular series of illustrations. They are consist of mostly nothing but mere generalizations and biased criticisms. For example, the comparison between "glass heart" versus "normal heart" is just meaningless: http://shanghaiist.com/upload/2015/07/hk-china-illustration5...
Needless to say, the author does have very strong opinions about this topic, as seen on the studio's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/localstudiohongkong
hawngyeedun | 10 years ago | on: How I became an artist
I was in a similar situation about 8 months ago—You just have to pick up a pencil and go for it.
I had just finished college and found a great job. With all the free time I didn't have in school, I decided to buckle down and start taking art seriously (instead of doodling cartoon figures). I knew I need to start out by building a solid foundation, which meant that I have to really familiarize myself with the basics and maintain a daily habit of learning+practicing (even if my brain no longer wants to operate after 7-9 hour of work). That's what I have been doing in the past 8 months.
It takes quite a bit of self-discipline and sometimes it's just hard to get yourself to commit to it, but it the end it's all worthwhile. I have made (small) decent progress... It's a wonderful feeling, to know that you are able to confidently produce something that you would've not been able to do so several months ago. Here are some of my recent practice sketches: https://i.imgur.com/gtR8T2t.jpg
Proko has several tutorial series that I strongly recommend for beginners that are looking for somewhere to start: http://www.proko.com/
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Some do, and they think that they are using it as a replacement. I've been doing research on its use among college students and I've heard firsthand that some of them (especially from students in non-STEM fields) think ChatGPT can be as useful as, if not better than, search engines at times for _seeking_ information.
You may be talking to a specific subset of the population, but once you branch out and observe/hear from broader demographics, you'd be surprised to learn about people's mental model of the genAI technologies.