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One thing people often don't realize or ignore: these LLMs are trained on the internet , the entire internet. There's a shit-ton of bad and inefficient code on the internet. Lots o…

Maybe it's things like 4-year tenure, or shorter tenure, or something else. But I think it's a matter of motivation, Bob. > The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I j…

We've seen what happens when we pretend the market will somehow regulate itself.

Depression isn't just feeling sad. It's not necessarily caused by anything external. You cannot necessarily just "figure out why" you feel bad; that's really not how it usually wor…

I wouldn't go that far, but there was a now-famous study (Princeton?) that showed that doing aerobic exercise for maybe 30 mins every day, about five days per week, was equally eff…

One fundamental difference: Wikipedia is not a for-profit corporation. OpenAI is. That probably matters.

For all intensive purpose's their one in the same.

Quote may be cliched, but still it's valid. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could , they didn't stop to think if they should ."

I had that issue, and I think I still might have it in my closet. (Weren't those Robert Tinney covers amazing?) I always wanted to try out Forth but had no real opportunity. Maybe …

What would you propose? Donating money to blackhole political organizations? Taking to the streets? None of that, or much of anything else, will "do something about this". There is…

Samba is used for Windows support.

Anyone care to boil this down?

Not necessarily true, as the success of streaming shows. The problem comes when the unbounded greed of the billionaires in charge leads them to inflate prices beyond their customer…

The aggravating part about this: that was not the intention of the copyright clause. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors a…

Having lived in that era: no one "complained endlessly", or even at all, about the internet. It was seen as magical. When compared to not existing at all, being slow wasn't all tha…

That seems very dependent on which company you work for. Many would not grant you that kind of flexibility.

Presumably because there's a perception that if there are lots of rich people, they can afford to be gouged. This begs the question of how many rich people there actually are, thou…

> Why code when you can just ask the computer to do what you want and get the results. Because then you won't know the design of the code or how it even works. The hard part of cod…

"Journalism" is now often just a euphemism for shock porn and clickbait. At the end of this Atlantic article, the author admits: > Luckily for humans, though, skepticism of the str…

Stupid question, maybe, but IANAL: is this even legal? Isn't it illegal to pay others to bury your competitor?

This kind of smokescreen only works for so long. Once it all starts failing and profits dip, things will change.

As an Apple Music customer, I am heartened to hear that they do not promote AI songs and that they pay artists more.

My company isn't. Apparently, "We've heard of Microsoft" == "They won't do anything wrong with our data" in the minds of non-technical lawyer types.

Don't leave out ChatTelex and ChatCarrierPigeon.