I use a Canon 6d, which does not natively provide focus peaking. I also have no interest in mirrorless cameras, as I prefer looking through glass to looking through an EVF.

I like it for focus peaking, esp. for my manual Samyang 8mm f3.5. And back when I had the 400d, ML gave me a spot-meter.

Not shiny. Artisanal.

Certainly published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Better to teach them to ride bikes to deliver food.

"Legacy Media" (like MSM and LSM) is a MAGA creation designed to sow confusion.

I realize that Duolingo is not a translation platform, but my claim is that I have front line experience with how AI "understands" language. If the removal of humans for AI is consequential enough, how long until learners of English start saying "vegetative electron microscopy"?

Do you often criticize things you don't know or haven't experienced?

I translate Latin, German, and Dutch to English professionally. I have enough experience to know that AI translations are educated guesses that are normally within an acceptable range of accuracy. But it hallucinates in translations to an astonishing degree. If you do not know the language you are translating from, it can fool you easily, especially with the confidence it seems to evince when answering your queries. This is the same in OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok.

I've never used Duolingo. I do not know if it is interactive or not.

If it is not interactive, I don't know why you would use it except to collect badges.

And if it is interactive, you'll be "learning" a language taught by a model that guesses based on statistics and that at times will justify its output with logical tall tales that in no way reflect the language as it is used by native speakers.

Gulf of Mexico

As long as we are remarking upon scientific names, hycean is atrocious. A portmanteau from hy(drogen) and (o)cean, it manages to capture the roots of neither word. What I love about scientific nomenclature is that you can generally figure out what a name means if you know the base languages (usually Latin and Greek). Here, the etymological whimsy, or perhaps ignorance, makes that impossible.

New axiom: Don't ascribe to AI what stupidity completely explains.

OP is correct. This is precisely my experience in the two rounds of consultancy my university underwent. All the "painful" decisions were blamed on the necessities the consultants found. Which dovetailed perfectly with the wishes of the board. I know, cool story bro. Anecdotes are not good evidence. Whatevs.

Says the AC who probably never left his parents' basement.

took me a bit. bravo