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"AI has been very popular among people wishing they had seven fingers on each hand instead of five"

Newer models don’t have this issue.

Now, everyone gets five fingers and a thumb, as requested.

But most unfortunate for Numbers. We have 4 fingers, making binary capabilities, now if we had 60 fingers... then it would be a different story. With 5 fingers on each hand, and two hands, that is the product of two primes, and with 7 fingers on 3 hands, also the product of two primes... You have something to look forward to in Genetic Engineering 2077. Eight fingers on 4 hands? Personally, my fingers count only to 1023, and have for decades.

The article points out specific use of specific techniques to probe cache and other efficiencies, which is valuable.

"....and 17 other bus stop conversations you'd never expect to have."

Think of how much more you could get done

I call it "the stranger".

I think another hand instead of extra fingers would be much more productive

Totally, I'm making a somewhat 'disposable'/weak joke

It's a fun play on the idea of a productivity enhancer. AI - the extra fingers or hand - does well to spare me effort, I just think productivity may not be the right way to look at things

"[I'd do it but] I only have 5 fingers"

Emacs users and Lisp? For sure, since the ITS days.

I wondered if this was a saying translated from another language.

People downvoting you probably don't realise this is a direct quote from the article. Maybe if you had written some actual comment, too...

Sorry about no additional comment, I couldn't think of something clever that included an Inigo Montoya reference...

> Inigo Montoya reference

Huh? Who?

Princess Bride character

who wants revenge on a six-fingered man

Inconceivable.

(But also, you must go watch “The Princess Bride” tonight to catch the million cultural references you’ve been missing.)

It was a no-content throwaway comment in the article too; highlighting it on HN is pointless. I doubt the downvoters would care much whether it was in the article or not.

It's the latter bit for me. Ok, so it's a quote from the article. So what? What's interesting about it? What's funny about it? Don't make me guess. Tell my why you thought it was worth your time copy-pasting it into the comment box. Foster some discussion!

FTR, that had me chuckle, it's quite funny considering the fingers nightmares current day generative "AI" comes up with

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