Been programming for 15 years now on a journalism degree and English minor because I was “washed out” by calc 2 and physics courses despite being excellent in my programming courses, and decided to get an internship programming anyway - luckily they really needed a Linux guy.
Turns out being a good calculator - which is all courses that don’t have you doing proofs is doing - isn’t a prerequisite for being a good programmer of a calculator.
The local spring and water-hole, of course.
The pluralistic one is great. I love that he explains “the reason the chatbots sound like hackers is because they’re imitating the hackers in their training data”, which is both funny and reminds people “these are just predictive next-word generators”.
Yeah, I considered pulling my patreon for them the moment I saw the title.
In “A Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI”, Cory Doctorow has a good bit about this kind of sensationalism referring to news that is actually targeted at potential investors taking over the airwaves - which both the title and ending of this video definitely are. I did enjoy the middle where it went through how the LLM harnesses actually worked together and communicated; that I think was novel. But the sensationalism starting at the title is shit, and I question here whether it’s just a bid to get more views for them, as opposed to drinking the cool-aid.
Either way, they get one more strike before I pull the plug on my end.
As someone who’s currently winning the game at the moment, I will note for those interested but unfamiliar that “winning the game” is what Eve players call taking a break. At this point, it’s more fun as a game to read about. But getting to that point was an adventure for sure, and I still hang in my old corp’s spaces.
Most of the game is boring, but the fun parts absolutely gave me the highest adrenaline highs of any game by far.
God I loved Tactics Advance so much. You know there was a DS sequel? Looks badass, I’m concerned I’ll just ruin the magic memories.
Like, a startup my employer helped with is using AI to read biopsies and other medical imaging faster and more accurately than ever. The dataset it is trained on is enormous. Millions of images tagged only with the diagnostic information, all de-identified. A pathologist still has to sign off on it, and that pathologist is the point of accountability.
The trouble with this approach is the same issue you get with nearly self-driving cars and llm-assisted code: at a certain point, the tool is good enough that the person just signs off on the results, without checking it. In the same way you can’t expect someone to drive for 6 hours just staring at the road without eventually zoning out, you can’t expect a doctor to keep seeing accurate results without eventually zoning out.
That’s not to say there isn’t a place for these, but I don’t know how you dodge the “zoning-out” problem.
Dang. Can’t wait to pay my taxes in Robux
What, you went with Big Pussy’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services? Or are you just ruling out pretty much every Italian funeral home?
I think the low standards result from the fact that, unlike Bush-era satire, Trump is pretty close to being ignored except for the last season of South Park. During the Bush era, every cartoonist and satirist was falling over themselves to highlight Bush’s shittery, such that the current media world in comparison is a defaening silence. And it would be wonderful for things like this to lead to Trump becoming the joke Dubya was by the end of his shitshow.
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Nailed it
They’re paperclip optimizers. We’ve designed an economy that said “make people compete for dollars, it’ll give us the best products” and sure enough the people who rise to the top do nothing but ruthlessly compete on getting dollars. And just like the thought experiment, in the race to gather more dollars, they trample the human race.
My trouble with Bavarian food is the flavor is entirely in the “savory” section. Would you like some buttered noodles? How about just a chicken that’s been wonderfully cooked but unspiced? A friend referred to it as the kid’s meal section at restaurants.
Or current wife who’s he’s paranoid is cheating with him. LOVEINT is fun.
Damn, even gen X forgot about gen X
Not-a-lawyer, but I’m quite sure I haven’t signed any TOS allowing Flock to capture or retain my data for any amount of time. Just by driving through a city where some other idiot signed away my rights probably shouldn’t hold up in court.
Also not a lawyer, but once a journalist, and one thing we were made aware of in college was that streets were public property, and anything done on them (or even done from the view of them - e.g., in your house but visible from the street*) was considered public. So unfortunately even if the city hadn’t signed it, if someone recorded you on the street doing it, they could keep it on their servers and/or publish it to the world without worry.
* - I meant to ask but never found out if this meant getting drunk in your house in view of the street is public drunkenness.
And just to highlight this for OP’s question: “How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?”
A lot of users jumped ship to fedi or gave up altogether.
Basically, everyone who would protest have left.
Oh, I was being advised about a “Mediterranean diet” back in the early 2000s for my epilepsy. But mass adoption at this level - like, “Protein Chocolate Milk” - bro, do you know how much protein is already in chocolate milk, before you add more? - is absolutely grifters gathering around a new fad, and RFK and the current admin is nothing if not on the grifter train, or “economics and politics” if you want to call it that. The GLP-1 note from others is actually a good point as well.
As a bachelor, a dishwasher is already a cabinet. It doesn’t need emptying.
I’ve considered buying a second dishwasher so I can just swap between two self-cleaning cabinets.