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lifeisstillgood
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About lifeisstillgood
Hardest part of parenting: living by standards you set for your children.
my newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/lifeisstillgood
Slightly dog-eared home site www.mikadosoftware.com
I am also campaigning to get Open Source developers to work with local government - www.oss4gov.org
paul@mikadosoftware.com @lifeistillgood
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But that’s just “normcore” - the written advice in human knowledge is all pretty similar and pretty normal. What is interesting is how much this will chnage as the body of knowledg…
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Comment #49137080
Forget “AI” (as in the magic pixie dust) - this is the way. Knowing what data you have, curating it, and sharing it so others can benefit is half the battle. In order to implement …
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Comment #49136448
Sorry I thought that a bubble was widely accepted. Are you arguing there is not an AI bubble, and that all the DC buildout is fine, going to be profitable etc? I am not looking for…
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I think I disagree There is a production eco-system - let’s call it The Hotel. It runs, people work in it and customers pay and it makes money. But it constantly needs changing. Ne…
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Comment #49132401
On the token limits etc - one assumes that OpenAI et al are able to “hire expert in field, and let them spend the equivalent of a million dollars of tokens” because they are not ac…
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Comment #49063017
It reminds me of “magic”. I say “expelliamus” and the wand flies out the other guys hand, not his hat, or wallet or the person behind’s sandwiches. The details always matter. There…
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Comment #49033709
This looks like a labour of love - fantastic
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Comment #49004953
Wait - how? I thought the whole reason the darn things are lower cost than equivalent PC monitors is the smart mode tracks viewing habits and seeks that to data brokers?
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Comment #48998525
I think at some point we have to give up the “we are creating AGI” and admit it was “a better search engine than Google, we can cash grab their ad revenue”
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Comment #48995475
The 10 most famous castles in the world Palace of Versailles France Forbidden City People's Republic of China Neuschwanstein Castle Germany Buckingham Palace England Alhambra Spain…
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Comment #48991180
Meh. That’s like saying we have a parking shortage in cities. No we have more car journies than we need. We have societies designed by the default choice. If that choice is walkabl…
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Comment #48968190
>>> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this. Can you expand? What counterfeits do you see (literally someone selling boxes labelled jamcorder? How do you handl…
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Comment #48967101
It’s a bit “follow for more”, but I do like the implications for industrial policy - a focus on long term, a means to support eco-systems not specific companies and ability to focu…
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Comment #48966650
I get that people object - but I don’t agree. I walk around with my face and my fingerprints and I shop and I use public services. I don’t go masked, and I don’t jump over the turn…
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Comment #48962914
I struggle with this. Wasting political capital on “ID cards” in Britain is a sensible choice for and incoming PM But a government digital ID is a fantastic basic utility every cit…