I'll accept my reading comprehension mistake if you can quote the passages you're referring to, but I don't see what you're talking about in the GP link
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But wait, we already had a working mechanism to signal exactly this type of opting out[1] so let me rephrase the OP question: why does OpenAI get to be exempt from existing opt-out mechanisms and implement their own?
It certainly does seem as if they're trying to position themselves as a new standard against which content owners have to actively opt-out, and thus disregarding the already existing active opt-out signals. But that would mean that they don't actually care about privacy, and their opt-out signal is disengenuous! That can't be right, can it?? Surely everything they do is in good faith, just like every other corporation ever!
Anyway, the fact that they disregard existing privacy standards and rolled out their own privacy standard definitely gives me a lot of confidence that they will forever follow the privacy standards they themselves created!
Now excuse me, but I have to go get treatment for terminally metastasized sarcasm.
> XP was peak if hardware compatibility is important.
It all started with Windows NT 4. It had its own kernel and was enterprise (and network) focused, compared to Windows 98 (which was Windows 95 (which was Windows 3.11 minus the DOS host dependency)) with bolted on network capabilities.
Windows 2000 is literally "Windows NT 5.0", and Windows XP is "Windows NT 5.1". The win95 lineage was decisively killed by Windows Me, after which the NT kernel took over the entire product line.
Like, guys, when even the people who are making your product don't want to use it, this counts as data about how successful the product will be. If you have to force paid employees to use the product, then you'd have to pay users to use it too: there's no profit margin here, there's no user base.
Let's mention the missing step: don't even bother to run the code.
I'm simply embarrassed to admit how often I've been in teams that not only "don't use the software" (i.e. no dogfooding) but even "don't run the program". It's embarrassing. These types of teams miss bugs that get shipped because not one of the people involved in making that software has ever even actually run the damn app, let alone actually used it for any length of time.
This is shameful and embarrassing. Our profession is a joke. How can we even call ourselves professionals?
The author is David E. Pozen, who is Jewish, but presents an analysis that is based on the laws and regulations that do/should direct Columbia's governance.
He comes out on the side of the pro-Palestine students.
> Taipei is an extremely clean city, and completely devoid of pigeons due to the absence of food leftovers on the streets
Yeah, no, that's not the reason. It is true that Taipei has no food leftovers on the streets, but the pigeons aren't "gone", they're trapped in rooftop cages, mostly for pigeon racing (but occasionally to be cooked).
Taiwan has more pigeon racing than any other country on earth, according to Wikipedia.
Not really? It both overexplains simple concepts (e.g. the billiard table scene) and underexplains important concepts.
The Netflix show just has awful writing, and only cares about visuals. My favorite example of bad writing is the very last scene, where three characters are having a conversation, then one of them suddenly gets up and says "let me show you something". So they drive for (seemingly) hours, apparently in perfect silence, only to get out of the car, look over a field, and deliver a handful of pithy lines, followed immediately by "okay let's go back". (For book readers: this is the "bugs vs. humans speech").
Anyway, they're both ephemeral garbage. I guess 3BP will be like Dune, where it takes decades for a decent adaptation to show up.
So is the USA but it's still very expensive to live in NYC or SF. This isn't a Canada problem, it's a Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal problem (and their wider metropolitan areas), which together account for more than a third of the country's population.
> Why can’t Canada build more homes?
Partly due to idiotic zoning laws, partly due to the "missing middle" layer of the housing market, but mostly due to "investment properties" that sit empty and may as well not have been built at all.
> why can’t we ban foreigners from owning homes?
We sure could! Or just tax the hell out of it. But it wouldn't sit well with real estate developers and the politicians they've purchased.
With all our popular narratives about the inevitability of scientific progress, it's always refreshing (from a historical point of view) and important (from a personal, ethical perspective) to remember that there's no guarantee that chronologically later developments will necessarily be improvements on earlier conclusions.
It brings to mind our current replication crises in science.
For many of us on this website, we'd probably think of Neal Stephenson, who might have long digressions about cryptographic schemes, or Lagrange points, or whatever other "cool science fact" might be tangentially related to the plot.
But the novel, as an art form, is effectively dead. At the high end of the market, it is at the mercy of the industry gatekeepers, and at the bottom end it has been given over to influencers; bring a guaranteed audience, and you get to publish your fanfic (names of characters having been modified to avoid legal action). There's no room anymore for genuine experimentation, and "good writing" is no longer the measure of a potential best-seller. Was that ever the case, anyway? Probably not.
I'd love to see an article like this, but focusing on how to bring the cool parts of novels into some new type of writing, rather than pretend that writing advice might actually affect the success of a novel.
Which we should give credit for: I only found PKD due to Jonathan Lethem's advocacy. PKD fans are likely to enjoy Lethem's sci-fi, especially Gun, With Occasional Music.
The crew of writers responsible for elevating PKD from pulp to cult deserve some attention, especially from PKD fans (aka "Dick-heads", which is just the most perfect name for a fandom).
> I'd like to see something from Heinlein before he had the stroke like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Plus one for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That's probably the best of Heinlein's work.
Voltaire (1694-1778) wrote a satirical account of a medieval university's oral examination on medicine: the examiner asks why morphine puts people to sleep, and the student confidently replies that morphine has a "dormative essence". This is a bit like saying that things with an essence of gravity fall towards the earth, whereas things with an essence of levity float towards the sky. The examiner proudly accepts that answer and bestows upon the student the title of doctor.
This was very funny to anyone educated in the time Voltaire was writing, since they would have known that morphine puts people to sleep because... it has round molecules with no sharp edges...
Edit: correction below, thank you thaumasiotes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSEoHLnIXYk&t=310s&pp=ygUSY2hp...
In Chongqing, map apps will often recommend a "nearby" restaurant which actually is several hundred meters away, vertically; you'll have to descend many stair steps before arriving at that restaurant, even though it looked so close on the map. In other words, the restaurant was not actually "close", when it comes to the time and energy investment required.
In this same spirit, New Jersey is absolutely not "close" to Manhattan, even if it looks close on maps. Traffic sucks, public transportation sucks, bridges and tunnels suck.
Examples given are: in coding and math, identifying potential mistakes in partial solutions, and suggesting how the student might get unstuck; in literature, an AI impersonates characters in a novel so the student can ask them questions (e.g. "Mr. Gatsby, why do you keep staring at that green light?"); in writing, the AI writes with the student, rather than for students.
The flip side is teachers saving time on lesson planning, grading, etc, all the work that's adjacent to actually teaching.
A lot of this is a feature preview for Khan Academy, and a big part of it is just the ReACT pattern[1] (have people settled on this name?).
To me, even all of the above is just an efficiency increase, which means workloads will increase to fill the available time, and we might see student to teacher ratios in the order of tens of thousands to one. How much of a future teacher's career will be about maintaining their AI systems? How much of learning will be like that too?
But Americans seem to care more about their land than their house, so maybe they confuse these concepts on purpose.
Code absolutely should be readable and as obvious as possible, but that itself can often be a sign of virtuosity; you've broken down the problem into such simple steps that reading it is easy.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, writing a short and clear program often takes much longer than a convoluted one. "Trash literature" is often full of unnecessarily adorned prose.
Interesting that both this system, and the one described in the article (over 2000 years earlier, and in a different part of China) had the singular purpose of managing floods, rather than irrigation or providing potable water, even though neither place has a history of frequent flooding.
There's a saying that "traditions are solutions to problems we've forgotten", and it looks like a lot of traditional architecture and infrastructure in China did take into account the types of climate change problems we're currently facing; modern Beijing flooded, but the Imperial City didn't.
[1] Pictures available here https://www.setn.com/m/news.aspx?newsid=1327789
Your opinion is wrong. The most widely spoken languages, in every historical period, are the most adaptable. Adaptability is the single most important factor in a language's ability to survive, in a useful/usable/used state, and always has been.
Canada has legalized medically assisted euthanasia, and we've already had cases of homeless people and chronically ill people seeking medical death due to hopelessness. We've had a government employee recommend assisted suicide to a military veteran who was just looking for a disability accommodation.
This is absolutely a case of "small steps that lead to dystopia", and we've witnessed these steps over the past few years. Economic and social conditions for specific demographics have become awful, and rather than trying to remedy those conditions, we're offering assisted suicide as an answer.
Words change, they always have, they always will. Get over it.
And anyway, the article's usage is consistent with the well-established phrase "smart guy", within which the word "smart" carries a sarcastic and derisive tone.