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This happened to me and I tried to recover the last licensed version I had used but mixed up my shortcuts or something and, after the 100th time I saw the nagware screen, I gave up…

Troll / flamebait

I used to be at Amazon on the B2B retail side and at the tail end we got automated A.I. spamming our TT's with completely wrong summaries. Some great "progress." Internal search ha…

That's a nice thought but I've only had one physical in the last 15 years. I'm sure others are sitting in the same boat.

So that's why they dropped "Don't Be Evil."

The problem I see with A.I. research is that its spearheaded by individuals who think that intelligence is a total order. In all my experience, intelligence and creativity are part…

Have you tried creating your own programming language? How about solving unsolved frontier problems in mathematics? Ever written a book that won a Pulitzer prize? How many language…

Oh for sure, I've gone as far as trying to get people to change their votes to avoid what we're currently putting up with. But you can't argue that each party paves the way for the…

I agree. As someone with libertarian ideals I dislike both of these parties (almost) equally.

Yeah, that's a very good question. I kind of doubt it since we've moved beyond a world of common sense. If this ruling holds the best thing would have been to have never paid the t…

> You're trading correctness for speed. That's AI in a nutshell.

Schrodinger's HN: LLM's are really great. No don't make me read it!

That's not quite a valid point considering the article's conclusion: sowing dissent in the sciences allows companies to more easily package and sell carcinogens like asbestos, lead…

Sure but only because I'm unemployed, in debt, and behind on child support payments.

I understand your point however no one forced Microsoft to buy GitHub and use it as a Trojan horse for A.I. And for that matter, they have all the power in the world to put gates a…

Right? Within 30 minutes of the first film you have a military tribunal discussing the dissolution of the senate. People who are triggered by politics in Star Wars have very low me…

67% of the time it works all the time?

Taking a wild guess, was this at Fog Creek / Stack Overflow?

Indeed I was playing with a local model and thought I might work on a difficult project I've been putting off which is a new programming language. As I described the task, the mode…

Humans are social creatures. The existence of a tool that can replace humans is not nearly so depressing as the realization that a loud and powerful group of people are zealous and…

Not really, only when looking back at the 60's and 70's when most of the important algorithms I use were invented. For example, LR parsing and A*. Just wait until the MBA's and pol…