> packing lots of signal into fewer words
That is not descriptive of any AI output I've ever seen.
Massive walls of words that could've been expressed in 2-3 well-written sentences, that's the norm for AI.
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That is not descriptive of any AI output I've ever seen.
Massive walls of words that could've been expressed in 2-3 well-written sentences, that's the norm for AI.
This is completely disconnected from reality. Biden would have been considered a republican in any era except the current hyper-extremist times.
Nicely expressed.
I don't know about the Economist nor about the UK, but in the USA most programs that could benefit the poor are specifically designed to have very onerous processes to qualify and requalify with the intention of discouraging people from applying and to reduce success rate in obtaining the benefit they are on paper qualified to receive.
Anecdote I like to tell.. I was working on a financial planning software, intentionally purely vibe coded as an experiment.
I eventually discovered AI had implemented seven duplicate copies of tax calculation functions. All of them different. All of them wrong. All of them giving different answers for same input.
Not even the most junior of newbie junior engineers would do something this crazy. But AI was happy to do it. It will solve the immediate problem, efficiently. Even if the most efficient solution is something ridiculous like this.
From a quick search a 3090 looks to go for about 1500-2000 USD. So let's say $4K for two.
I'm spending far over $1K/month (employer-paid) on cloud AI, so if that could be anywhere near comparable we're only looking at less than a few months break-even.
Less really, because some months are more expensive. This month I'm up to ~$500 and it is only day 4 of this month.
This is absolutely how how corporate America works. I don't know about Apple specifically, but most in companies with a marketing departement, you can bet eating your hat that they do.
Nothing wrong with making immigration laws strict, if that's what a country wants. That is totall fine.
But there is no justification to beat people up, kill them or throw them into concentration camps. Just tell them no in a professional manner and politely send them back to their own country (also, not some random contry they haver never been in).
Don't rely on chat history. Have it write and maintain summary files that you can import into different sessions, at least for anything important.
I'll grant they are superior at least right now. But also, they are too expensive.
We ($work) are finding that it is best to build engineering discipline around AI usage (who would've thought!) and use the cheaper models like Cursor Composer.
Using Opus we can blow through an entire month budget in an afternoon, so while more powerful, it is no longer practical except for rare very complex tasks.
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I am guessing on age though, mainly because for anyone who grep up when charts was the only thing that existed, this wouldn't be a question.
Unfortunately November is going to be a historic voter supression event like nothing ever seen before.
Huh? So if they live 10 miles away they must walk 10 miles? Surely not, but then how does it work?
When I was young I attended a karate dojo. One interaction that always stayed with me was when someone asked why the guy with a black belt could do the katas differently.
The sensei answered that when learning, your task is to learn to do the katas perfectly. As a black belt, you have amply demonstrated that, so now your task is to be creative and build on the foundations.
I liked that answer, it applies to everything. Learn the basics before you are allowed to question them. After that, you must question them.
I guess we can debate if that isn't what the US is about, but regardless, it is depressing.
Traveling around the US, the most notable thing is how everything is the same. It is so horrible. No matter where you go, it's the same chain stores, often in the same arrangement and layout. If you get dropped blindly in most towns in the US, there is no way to tell any difference, it's all cookie cutter identical.
Occasionally you run into town that have character and a unique style. Those are the treasures of the US. But I'm sure soon enough those will also be paved over with the same fast foods and chain stores to comply with being identical.
Take the Orion Nebula as an example. Visually I can't see anything there. But even a short (~30 second) exposure in a single frame (no stacking, or darks, or any fancy technique) brings on a stunning image.
But, why is anything worth doing? For most hobbies the fun is the doing not the result.
Why do woodworking when I can get a better quality piece for less in the store? Why fix my car when I could drop it off at the shop? Why travel anywhere when I can just get the same tourist trap photos from instagram?
I mean (based on peer replies) it does come off as a funny question, but I guess if you're young enough it is a totally legitimate question! Never thought of it that way.
But yes, you have a star chart, or atlas. The North Star locates your north and everything else you can then reference from your chart.
(I'm not familiar with southern hemisphere viewing)
And after a little while you recognize the major constellations by sight, so you can orient yourself vs. the chart even if you don't see the North Star for example.
Planets are different since their relative position changes all the time, so a static chart can't tell you where they are. But there are really only four planets you can see with eyes (Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn) so you learn to recognize them pretty quickly.
None, since the USPS is not government-funded.
This is of course not true, why say clearly incorrect things?
First, there is no "American system" as such, because every state is responsible for running elections, so there are 50 state systems in the US.
More importantly, I get my ballot in the mail only because I'm registered to vote at the DMV, you know the same agency that issues the very ID they check to make sure I'm elegible to vote.
You don't just "waltz in" to the post office or whever to get a ballot.
Seem silly, but just try going to the police with crisp hi-res video of a burglarly and try to get them interested. I know people who have done it and all have failed. "We don't have time for this", "Value is not high enough to pursue", "Just call your insurance, not us".
Unfortunately the “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is completely wrong in politics. In politics and lawmaking, always attribute to malice, not stupidity.
Lawmakers appears extremely dumb on TV for the most part, but the teams behind them are actually very smart (pure evil, but smart). All the loopholes and bugs in laws are, to them, a feature. It allows them to always prosecute regular citizens, but the favored people (politicians, campaign contributors, oligarchs) always have a free pass. This is by design.
Even the simplest bayesian filter will score better than gmail.
I guess I'm a newcomer, only lived in Silicon Valley for ~30 years (will be 30 in a few months).
5%? No. That's a lot of people.
At least in the USA, the one and only thing that matters is what benefits the top 0.0002% richest (approximate percentage of billionares in the US). Nobody else matters anymore.
In most cases, what happens is they give a lot of weight to input from those who agree with the predestined outcome, and none to those who differ.
In these city meetings, all the decisions have been made behind closed door already (often with substantial greasing of the wheels), the open hearing are just for show.