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Yeah, you’re right about that. They view IT as a “cost center” to be cut to the bone (despite being essential to their product and strategy in most cases), while they have no problem with paying consultants astronomical hourly rates for nonsense like this.

I get that these companies (airlines, widgets, whatever) don’t see IT as a thing that generates revenue, but it’s like having electricity or running water. You don’t think about it much, but if you don’t have it, you’re fucked.

Beyond parody

The ROÍ will be happening any day now, we promise. Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts.

Around where I live, they first shut down during covid with the excuse of preventing transmission. Of course they just never opened up again. Ditto water fountains.

I had 512 in my desktop a decade ago

I have some bad news about how closely Econ 101 resembles the real world…

I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!

Flick doesn’t just do license plate readers. They do all kinds of surveillance cameras.

Sounds like that feature would really cut into their overdraft fees.

There’s been a bunch of airline IT meltdowns in recent years, some much much worse than what you described. Airlines just decided IT is a “cost center” and decided not to maintain it.

Sure. Reasonably reliable backup power is a very good thing, but losing power isn’t necessarily a catastrophe.

They’re assuredly checkpointing, which is SOP for any long training. Lots of things can go wrong besides power loss.

So I take it you’re a marine engineer or similar?

Drug companies spend more on marketing than R&D

If there’s anyone I can trust to give an accurate and unbiased assessment of AI company finances, it’s surely an outfit selling a “finance CLI for your trading agent”

Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.

In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”).

I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits

It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse

I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome.

I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now.

I assure you they would be more than happy to order it for you.

The behavior of a single model and version can and does change. There’s not only built-in stochasticity, but closed hosted models like Claude are tweaked and changed all the time.

Buying the physical book from Amazon isn’t a great way to stick it to Bezos. Just have your local bookstore order it for you, it’s easy.

He’s such a good guy

wow, that’s crazy that OpenAI is saying that negative opinion against them is actually a nefarious foreign conspiracy, and does not actually indicate people hate them

Ah, Axios. The same great outlet that has gotten the scoop on the Iran war ending numerous times.

More of a lot of things. Universal healthcare (as opposed to employer-provided plans) encourages people to start their own businesses. UBI would be similar, but moreso.

You’d really think they’d really check everything and cross their t’s after their previous issues in marjorana fermion QC. I generally have a very high opinion of MS research, but this is getting a bit embarrassing.

Bingo. The typical data scientist has a masters or PhD in a non-CS quantitative field, and has had exactly zero CS or software eng classes. It’s a shame, because once you get over some of the idiosyncrasies, R is a really powerful and flexible functional language.

I’m a big fan of Polars. It’s really fast and memory efficient. With the lazy streaming functionality, I’ve been able to easily process 1 Tb+ data on a single machine (you do have to be careful to not do any operation that would cause the whole DF to materialize in that case).

It’s certainly miles better than Pandas, which has a terrible API in addition to being comically inefficient. In my group, we generally use it for any new work, and have also swapped out pandas for polars in critical spots of our existing code - the latter giving a huge benefit relative to the amount of work it took.

I largely agree with you on SQL being the common denominator, but there are some things that are just awkward in SQL, and much easier to do in Python or other general purpose language.