Viewing profile — jamesrcole

After the endings of Thimbleweed Park and Return To Monkey Island, I lost a lot of respect for Ron Gilbert.

> "Having the courage to go on when nobody believes in you" If you're doing something that isn't like how people are used to things being done, is novel, or is contra to common bel…

> As we advance it becomes more difficult to advance. You obviously make most advancements around the things that are easiest to improve. Then all the easy things are done. This is…

I would expect a model's result each time to be of a similar quality to the other times. There's something wrong if it does a way better or worse job, at the same problem, sometime…

it's unfortunate that they live an extra 6 months???

Though you'd want to make sure there's no essential information that only this employee knows, because that action might terminate that employee's desire to cooperate with the comp…

technology gets cheaper over time. If they were always going to cost the amount they do now, you might have a point. But they'll eventually get much cheaper.

> I've long considered writing to be the "last step in thinking". I think it's often useful to use writing all the way through the process of thinking through something, rather tha…

And if there are aliens? I'm being serious. Why does it have to be human intent? And I think it is entirely feasible that at some point -- how far away, I don't know -- AI becomes …

We're in the very early stages of AI generated art. What will it be like in 10 years time? 20? 50? You might think it won't get much better. I think that's unlikely.

I assume they mean "we don't yet know all the things a computer can't do, only certain limits".

it's common in Australia

The science fiction author Greg Egan has been "battling" with Google for many years because, even though there are zero photos of him on the internet, Google insists that certain p…

A tool that can handle more than one question at a time is useful. Modern LLMs handle that with ease. So it's completely reasonable to be critical of that limitation.

Who said it was? I’m pretty sure they’re trained on a lot more than just those.

what do you object to about it? I don't see an issue with referring to "the corpus of human knowledge". "Corpus" pretty much just means the "collection of".

There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.

You talk about it as if doesn't exist anymore. If you're not aware, it still exists.

> He also should have run this through a spell checker. What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.

[EDIT: people downvoting this, how about you explain what you object to in it] > It's really a bummer to see this marketed as 'AI Discovers Something New'. The headline doesn't sug…

> You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction. > I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my ar…

> These videos of robotic cow milking machines, feed mixers and distributers and pushers, and manure roombas are amazing! These robots need to be named "moombas"

I think it’s probably for the better… but it’s a bit hard for me to judge. I don’t know much about the project, and didn’t understand those details, so I don’t know how important t…

Some feedback on the webpage. "The goal? To make the inside of systems explainable. [image] caption: "The need for moldability is pervasive. The treemap shows the classes of Glamor…

The text you quote doesn’t really answer the question. Does “number of kids” come under their interpretation of “overall financial circumstances”?