In the desperate search for a new hype, tech investors have been trying for a while to position quantum computing as the next big bubble after crypto and AI. In today’s example, quantum services st…
ESR went like this after 9/11
Thousands turned out in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday night for a huge Halloween parade! Lots of excitement on social media! [My Spirit Halloween, archive] Except there was no parade. The entire eve…
they actually came up with something more fucked up than stack ranking
One of the great dreams of AI snake oil is a machine that will violate employment laws in a deniable black-box manner. Whether it works doesn’t actually matter. So AI keeps promising phrenology mac…
"There was a post, [pause], I forget who wrote it" <- the kind of thing I have said several times attempting to avoid leaking rationalist-evidence-bits.
gotta keep that power level under wraps
Keep in mind that, for theologically conservative (“the Bible is historically and spiritually accurate”) Christians like myself,
rationalists whoo
A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.
archive: https://archive.ph/wRpVA
appparently this is use of code-complete as well
Microsoft has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI, a bet that's weighing on the company's profitability.
Taking advantage of hot trends is the next wave of growth for Adobe, said CEO Shantanu Narayen ahead of the 2021 MAX conference, speaking of the “demand” for generative AI. No wait, Narayen was say…
WritePhilthily
our brains nearly fell out from the weapons grade inanity writing this one up
from someone on Mastodon:
Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.
If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.
I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.
Sundar Pichal, Google Q3 2024 earnings call:
We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster.
Firstly, if this is literally true they're completely fucking cooked.
Secondly, if it isn't, what version of it is?
the user has been guided to the egress via the waste disposal
these days lemonparty would be a (ahahahaha) docker image (fnarr etc)
camping out on a friend's box, two others had root, but they effectively never bothered. the disk filled one day and i went looking for stuff that wasn't useful. found that site, found it really was where DNS pointed.
my current box is the descendant of that one
unlike Rick, she did get laid
i used to be the sysadmin for lemonparty
it was quite a surprise when i found out i can tell you
the opera clip sounds okay until you look at the words
libretto doesn't have to be good, but goodness fucking me
You now have ideas, an all-purpose acknowledgments section, and a font. How should you present everything? “Write like you talk,” Paul Graham once said, but he forgot to add: “And talk like an asshole.”
If you like music even a bit, you might boggle at the idea that people would be happy with a stream of anonymous machine-generated slop. But to the music streaming business, caring which song you’r…
Machine learning for audio transcription is not perfect — you always have to check the output — but it’s often good enough in practice for real work. But OpenAI sells LLMs. When you sell hammers, e…
A follow-up to Expo’s Swedish coverage of the Future of Life Institute’s president
archive: https://archive.is/ux5pL
Social media these days features a whole lot of weird race and IQ graphs to support racist conspiracy theories. This stuff has long been funded and promoted by rich racists. Angela Saini’s excellen…
Altman has teased that Orion is coming.
Cybercheck, from Global Intelligence, claims it can find the key evidence to nail down a case. Cybercheck reports have been involved in at least two murder convictions. Cybercheck hands the police …
Radio Kraków in Poland fired a dozen journalists from its Off channel in August. On Monday October 21, editor in chief Marcin Pulit proudly announced Off’s new format — all the voices would be thre…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41929585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932632
you would believe how bad these guys are at understanding basic shit
[let's see how long for this post to turn into a shooting gallery]
Everyone wants generative AI! They want it so much that Microsoft and OpenAI are putting up $10 million to sponsor “AI fellows” at local paper newsrooms in collaboration with the Lenfest Institute …
AI is about ideas. They don’t even have to be your ideas! Blade Runner 2049, a 2017 film about an apocalyptic future, features fully autonomous AI-driven vehicles. The cars both fly through the air…
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/