"Breakthrough" to me would be like Isaac Newton inventing calculus to calculate pi. This feels more like $12MM in tokens was spent to add another digit to pi using the old way.
I thought as much- my point is that as AI capabilities continue to expand, AI skeptics inadvertently and ironically end up belittling the humans they presumably hold in high esteem vs. the "cold machines" that aren't capable of true thought or creativity. When one says that solving a Millennium prize problem is not impressive, one is essentially demeaning practically all mathematicians and the field of mathematics itself.
Given the history of OpenAI and current litigations, I would say they've developed a bit of a reputation for not respecting intellectual property. I'm dubious they have some unbreakable moral code that would prevent them from viewing and using user data.
Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things.
> Kind of a bummer that 95% of software engineering is dedicated to creating a padded cell to make sure no one makes a whoopsie instead of doing creative and interesting things.
s/software engineering/running a business.
I'd much prefer that the people building the bridges and planes I use, or the staff at the hospital I visit, have procedures in place to prevent them from "making a whoopsie" than the space to be creative or interesting. Even if they enjoy their job less.
The good news with software engineering is that unlike building a plane or running a hospital, nobody is stopping you from making your own projects and being creative and interesting as you want!
Yea, it's too bad that "making whoopsies" has become such a common occurrence, treated so casually, in what is made out to be a serious engineering discipline.
I mean, all engineering disciplines seemingly build in for margin of error / tolerances. e.g. Bridge, etc. are often overbuilt in case of faults in materials or expected circumstances.
I do agree our profession grapples with complexity in bad ways though.
Programming languages are what you build creative and interesting things from, building in safety into your tools is a good thing.
I wouldn’t want a nail gun that shoots in the wrong direction when you apply the incorrect amount of pressure. Software engineering over indexes on an obsession with the tools themselves over the things you make with them.
His book Higher-Order Perl was really good and introduced me to some interesting programming concepts, but it also helped me realize why no one uses Perl anymore
Reviewing the individual formulas in an excel report is psychotic. Normally what I would do when checking someone elses work for errors is spot check a couple of the values in a column and calculate them by hand to see if they matched up. Either that or just implement the step myself in excel and see if I got the same output.
That's a lot like reviewing someone's regular expression. Like I'm not going to read through a 100 character regex to see if it matches semantic versions, I'm just gonna pull it up on a regular expression tester and see if it does what it should.
> Like I'm not going to read through a 100 character regex to see if it matches semantic versions, I'm just gonna pull it up on a regular expression tester and see if it does what it should.
How? Do you have all the values from the semantic versions lying around for a comprehensive test in the engine?
But also those 100 chars can be in 10 lines with comments, so you can fire the engine on specific parts to help with verification
No, they used the existing system of due process to investigate whether crimes were committed at Mar-a-Lago. They didn't claim national security to shut it down.
To punish grifting garbage that sees breaking the Emoluments clause as a challenge to do as much as it can, that has attacked the welfare & good of this nation.
never has the constitution been shat on like this, remotely. i want there to be consequences for being a fucking piece of shit monsters & raining shit down upon the world. for the decades of fraud and money laundering before. for the emoluments violations. for the high treason of getting people to try to over throw the elections.
two sides-ing this can kiss my fucking ass, get right the fuck out. you have nothing. maybe some pathetic little shrivelled complaint. and you know what? i'm fine if "both sides" have to face consequences for their violations. abuse of the state, of state power deserves incredible condemnation and outcry, universally. but this shit? this shit deserves the most stringent strongest response of the state, if it wants to maintain any pretense of law & respect. party of law & order has proven itself to be a sham. RIP congress.
you seem to show up in threads and spit nasty garbage. i recommend not doing that. i recommend positive contributions to humanity that have hope and forward thinking and outlook on what is good, that don't just cast negativity and spread rotten undermining about.
right; but the problem is that the gov spends billions on ICE instead of prosecuting companies that employ undocumented persons, so the problem doesn't really go away (but it makes for good show and gets GOP votes, which is the only reason for it in the first place)
I'm betting these things are not going to be moonsized so accordingly thats loads of light focused into a pretty fine point. When you aim your telescope at the moon, you don't have to use much magnification to start cutting down the bulk of the light hitting your eyeball, zooming in on the satellite will have a much different profile here.
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