Move Slow and Make Things

Post by geoduck14 » Sun, Apr 04, 2021, 4:21 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #28

bambax wrote: post #24

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> I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit That is nothing short of hilarious. The machine knows best! Who are you, human, to pretend you are able to measure yourself?! > AI for memorizing generic trends It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to e…

> It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to each individual. It's also an internal distraction. They'd achieve something much closer to what they promise if they just threw some old-school regression analysis at the problem. But that's not cool these days, plus it's hard to relabel as AI even for the marketroids these days, and would involve actual work :). This app…

Post by pdimitar » Mon, Apr 05, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

swiley wrote: post #132

pdimitar wrote: post #60

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Exactly because it's fundamentally hard, it must be avoided -- we the humans simply can't be trusted with it (speaking as a former C/C++ dev here). It should also be hardware-assisted (if it's impossible to stop it at the hardware level). Stuff like atomic counters were a good first step but the state of the art there hasn't moved in a long time (we don't have atomic 512-bit update operations, do we? if we did, a lot…

OT isn't done in hardware because it would be a massive waste of transistors. It would optimize many (possibly even most) software and would just increase cost and power consumption.