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Macabre stuff, but indisputably scientific all the same.

It's stretching credulity beyond the usual exaggerated hype associated with AI. What we have now is semi-OK forecasting at scale, nothing more. We (as in the researches, platform a…

> It would never occur to me to create a programming library where you have the 'basic' open source version and the 'optimized' commercial version. It's occurred to plenty of other…

I've got a major a-hole neighbour that's been stealing my food when delivery drivers accidentally call at their home instead of mine. This guy has even claimed to be me to the deli…

In the words of the late Dr. Johnson, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being…

Absolutely not! I got my current role by going in to an interview and critiquing my previous employer's architecture, data pipeline and (complete) lack of data oversight.

This just begs the question why? It's not the 18th century anyone, if you want to get from A to B there's better ways. Even if you want to go sailing, just go and do it and have it…

> But Starbucks would never adopt such a robot, because they know customers wouldn’t like it. Incorrect - I would much prefer getting top-quality coffee from a robot than some bari…

Like it! Scrapegoating it is from now on in these circumstances.

The "do just the minimum" strategy of corporate inclusion and diversity.

Was working with a NOC technician who was responsible (along with some others) for a pretty large EMEA mobile network, with many millions of subscribers. There was an RFP to update…

Damn, if that's how they treat the higher ups I can only imagine what they would do with IC's lower down the food chain. Stripe were on my "would like to someday work there" list u…

This advice is all well and good, but what happens to your state of internal bliss when one of you a-hole neighbors deliberately brings their dog to do its business on your front l…

I guess all those malcontents working on "AI Ethics" committees now will be out of a job.

Fair play to the lads!

I hope they got around to fixing the D garbage collector, which was, and possible still is, pure garbage.

The track of this thing coming over nightly from Canada was so well known to the locals that they'd sit out and wait for it - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32608477-charlie-r…