Economic mismanagement assumes there is economic management, and this is a very recent development. I would wager that we still do not know how to manage economies well in the long run - case in point US deficit and wealth inequality.
Such a good comment, I would also add how much our perception of technology lifting conditions is conflated with the increased ability of governments to steer the economy to smooth things over.
I guess that is at the core of Google vs Oracle, they copied the API kept the implementation clean-room. It was definitvely ruled that this was fair use. If fair use applies to something as strict as re-implementing an API, I would argue it applies to something much more elusive, like cloning UI/layout.
This happened to me in elementary school. We were doing fingerpaintings using plasticine. After all the bikes were hung on the wall, mine was racing the other way... Somehow it really stuck with me.
Hmm.The point was that people with Alzheimers have trouble interpreting images, and obviously remain concious until the latest stages of their disease.
> do have long-term memory from their training and thus act very much like someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Your 8th grade science teacher may be disappointed too. Drawing such analogies using unequivocal language "very much like" disregards the limited understanding of LLMs, the false analogies between computer and biological systems, and the complex nature of Alzheimer's disease (no it is not just short term memory loss, not even close, for example ability to interpret images)
Gearmany's pacifism is just like its green energy transition hypocrytical and ineffective. Their Energiewende was to shutdown nuclear to bring back coal. Their Zeitenwend amounted to bankrolling Putin's war machine via the Norstream pipelines at the expense of the very same countries they tried to anhiliate in WW2. So yeah, I think I can crack a joke.
What makes ggplot great is that it allows manual adjustments AND has a nice declerative grammar. Hard for me to see the value of a plotting library without being able to adjust plots.
Me neither, but what you present is a false dichotomy. Science used to be a past time of the wealthy elites, it became a profession. By opening up it up progrss was accelerated. Same will happen when publication will be made more open and accessible.
Perhaps the real issue is the gate-keeping scientific publishing model. Journals had a place and role, and peer-review is a critical aspect of the scientific process but new times (internet, citizien science, higher levels of scientific literacy, and now AI) diminish the benefits of journals creating "barriers to entry" as you put it.
What an utterly disappointing comment. FWIW I spent 15min on the app, and found it very helpful to see examples of the various kinds of skin lesion - it will likely motivate me to see a doctor when I see a similar malignant skin lesion. Educating people is very helpful.
If you take advantage of all the featuers in Teams, perhaps. But we needed a tiny bit from Workbench, a little bit from Connect, and sliver from Package Manager - and Teans ended up eating a huge portion of our IT bill, effectively stunting our efficiency as a research organization. Over the years, while our use case did not change, our Posit bill more than doubled.
Thank you for the response! My key recommendation is to unbundle. At one point we have been told "It got 35% more expensive, but it does so much more now it supports Python" - we didn't ask for Python. To effectively use Connect with private packages you need this other full-blown institutional Package Manager license, 99% of your users will not need. Also per-named-user pricing (rather than per active seat) is so aggressive. A user uses a shiny app once in a year, still need a full per year license.... I feel Posit is one of the most agressive companies in terms of upselling, while positioning as this benevolent PBC / Open-Source institution - just go full Oracle at least we will know where things stand.
I am talking about the RStudio Server and Connect - these are really expensive. One of the sales reps claimed that it is so expensive because they are a PBC and support open-source development. As in if they were just for profit it would be cheaper, but we should feel good about paying more. I could not take it.
I think this is pretty much how many Amish communities function. As for me, I prefer making decisions on how to use technology in my own life on my own.