Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the “Science, Public Health Policy and the Law” website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡

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    You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.

    According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:

    365 + 1⁄4 − 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days

    So,

    1041 / 365.2425 ≈ 2.85 years

    Or 2 years and…

    0.850161194275 × 365.2425 ≈ 310 days and…

    0.514999999987 × 24 ≈ 12 hours and…

    0.359999999688 × 60 ≈ 21 minutes and…

    0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 36 seconds

    1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s

    Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!

    Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and…

    0.852054794521 × 365 = 311.000000000165 days

    Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.

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      Engineers be like…

      1041/365 =2,852

      .852*365=310.980

      Thus 2 y 311 d. Or really, fuck it 3 y

      Edit. #til

      The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

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        Or really, fuck it 3 y

        Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.

        Edit: However, the lemmy client I use, Eternity, shows the entire date and time for each comment instead of the age of it, and I’m fine with that too, but unsure what I actually prefer…

        The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

        Which client and how?