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For those who read this title as being about Dr. Bill Bruford, the legendary English jazz-rock drummer, this here can be our little bemused happy place.

45 years earlier in some cases. I found the Robie House in Chicago (built in 1910!) to be a total head-trip.

None of the billionaires got that way by throwing money at egg studies. Bold to think they'd just start doing it now. Insurance companies don't fund medical research AFAIK? But if …

Space is not a hedge against these things. At best it's our final tomb. There is no backup plan.

Then your issue is not the S&P methodology, which despite changes in detail remains, as you've said, aimed at filtering out undesirable companies from the index. Your issue is that…

Because it's selective, the S&P by definition does not reflect the actual market. It reflects a subset of it. If you're comfortable with this notion of what the S&P does, then you …

> Because the index needs accuracy. No, it doesn't. At least, not the way you are probably defining it. This sounds to me like you may be trying to use the index for something it's…

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A business that can bring in a steady $2.5B a year doesn't seem like a bad business to me, so long as they can turn that into a profit. I think there ought to be a recognized place…

I thought the AI art was okay, actually! For AI art. For me it's contextual. In the case of engineering presentations in particular, I'll live with some AI art if it means less rea…

Haven't read the book, but points two and three definitely struck some bells in the back clocktowers of my mind. More generally, reading a bit of Orwell was inescapable in my schoo…

Mostly when presented disagreeably. You might reflect upon that.

I've been here longer than you, buddy. I think you're the one that needs to leave.

But you cannot predict a priori what that deterministic output will be – and in a real-life situation you will not be operating in deterministic conditions.

> This bug is categorically distinct from hallucinations. Is it? > after using it for months you get a ‘feel’ for what kind of mistakes it makes, when to watch it more closely, whe…

I think it might be a bad thing. I'm no stranger to math or computer science, but even after staring at the front page for a minute I was ready to dismiss this as the ravings of a …

Hah! XML strikes again. :-) I understand that Spain was a participant in LexML as well... I gather they've since converted to something else?

1. The Register reports OpenAI is well ahead of Anthropic in B2B contracts. It's Anthropic playing catch-up, not OpenAI. 2. In any case, the announcement strongly suggests that cus…

I hope OpenAI realizes they cannot buy developer goodwill.

I went to a James Gosling talk where he excoriated the Emacs users in his audience for clinging to outdated technology and not using a state-of-the-art IDE. But the IDE he was hawk…

As a Mayflower descendant I would scarcely say that. But the fact that you offer cheap platitudes and tales from hundreds of years ago to justify why it's OK to consider why the cu…

There's no lemonade to be found here at this time. What there is to be found are a bunch of tone-deaf people who seem utterly ignorant and indifferent to the war's reality.

Please do not use the occasion of the death of thousands of Iranians in a war we launched against them as some sort of illustrative point about return to office and birth rates in …

1. I don't disagree that attributes have been abused – so have elements – but you yourself identified the right way to use them. Yes, you can inline attributes, but that also leads…

I disagree on several points here: 1. I think attributes absolutely should exist. They're great for describing metadata related to the tag: e.g. element ID, language, datatype, sou…