Oh it won’t end

“retention bots” of some description wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest…

endless wars of who’s federeated with who

i’ve been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but “endless wars”?

Simply put, because you often want to change the state of something without breaking all the references to it.

Wild off the top of my head example: you’re simulating a football game. Everything is represented by objects which hold references to other objects that are relevant. The ball object is held by player object W, player object X is in collision with and holds a reference to player object Y, player Z is forming a plan to pass to player object X (and that plan object holds a reference to player object X) and so on.

You want to be able to change the state of the ball object (its position say) without creating a new object, because that would invalidate how every other existing object relates to the ball.

hahahahahaha nope.

Reads like someone took an English Lit major, switched to Philosophy, failed both, and is currently at a STEM major college party talking wank…

No need to crash it, they could build at a controlled rate so that average house price growth is roughly the same as wage inflation, which seems moderately fair. The real problem is private builders with private investors will never be motivated to do this. The real problem is why they’re used at all…

Trying telling an artist you’re not stealing something when you use their work without permission…

We were promised hyper-intelligent computer systems that would usher in an era of unparalleled prosperity and innovation.

With the advent of ChatGPT, some say these modern-day oracles have arrived.

Others say they are nothing but bullshit machines.

Technologists and publicists gush about how Large Language Models (LLMs) will revolutionize the way we work, learn, play, communicate, create, and connect to another.

They are right that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.

And they are right that by providing a way for people to talk with machines in ordinary language, LLMs constitute a dramatic step forward in making computing accessible to everyone.

Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at a scale we’ve never before encountered.

“I think it’s going to be the most transformative technology humanity has ever created, potentially on par with or exceeding the invention of the printing press, electricity, and the internet.” Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

For better or for worse, LLMs are here to stay. We all read content that they produce online, most of us interact with LLM chatbots, and many of us use them to produce content of our own.

In a series of five- to ten-minute lessons, we will explain what these machines are, how they work, and how to thrive in a world where they are everywhere.

You will learn when these systems can save you a lot of time and effort. You will learn when they are likely to steer you wrong. And you will discover how to see through the hype to tell the difference. ?

It’s traditional to crap on the brummies, but I’ve come round to the melodic innocence of a good brummie accent.

The actual worst is the unremarkable and boring middle class thames estuary accent, esp out the mouths of strivers in London who think they’re something special.

Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

It’s predictive text on speed. The LLMs currently in vogue hardly qualify as A.I. tbh…

My history might be dusty but I don’t think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His subsequent deception once in power is what you might refer to as the coup.

Trump on the other hand…

It is a coup if people vote for it?

Looks more like a pregnancy test tbh…

The whole thing seems incredible.

How is “oh it was epilepsy” a defence when you’ve never had an epileptic fit before? No history of it.

You’ve all seen a million YouTube videos of someone panicking and hitting the accelerator when they meant the brake. Unfortunately far far more likely than “invisible epilepsy”.

I can’t believe they didn’t charge her (first time round).

She was probably haring it along Camp Road (as well-to-do Chelsea tractor types are known to do). And completely fails to take the right hand bend properly. This leads directly into the school playground.

Or, by some miracle, are we to believe that, of all the moments for it to happen, InViSiBlE ePiLePsY struck at the exact point where someone driving too fast might lose control?

Pls… shame on the CPS…

Edit: if this is a defence that works then EVERY TRAFFIC DEATH where someone wasn’t paying attention could be defended on exactly the same terms. “It was mysterious epilepsy”. Crown prosecution: “well… can’t prove it wasn’t. Guess there’s nothing for us to do here”. ffs… it’s nonsense. Does she know someone influential or something…

The thinktank have since moved on to their next study: “The defecation habits of ursidae in arboreal contexts”

Places I’ve consulted at have typically gone through noun lists unconnected to the work. Noun lists like i) greek gods (project Perseus) ii) Roman gods (project Janus) iii) literally random nouns (project Rainbow) iv) precious stones (project Sapphire) and so on…

Saved you a click of the Independent’s usual clickbait nonsense:

• the research is conducted by an author of a new book he would like to sell you

• ‘spiritual’ has such a vague definition as to almost mean anything

• one characteristic is “a yearning to connect with something bigger than myself”.

• entirely unsurprising this is how a younger generation categorise the lack they feel as a result of covid isolation and disillusionment with unobtainable material life goals

• ‘spiritual’ in this context means ‘life feels empty but I think there should be something more’

• belief in a personal god and the authority of religious leaders is at an all time low

• aside from that there’s a small minority of the conservative religious seeing a small increase (muslims, evangelical Christians)

That is true. Why people think enormous content servers should be run for free boggles my mind…