From a technical perspective it really was considered a great movie for decades, It is, as you mention, extremely racist, and that eventually outweighed any merits of the film itself after the techniques it developed…
No, because it is a historical novel. You have to blend fact and fiction in that, not because you are trying to deceive people, but you have to recreate conversations that were never recorded, get inside the characters'…
>The irony here is perhaps missed by many. He didn’t grade homework in the first >place. He paid assistants to grade. This is common practice among tenured >professors with grant money to spend and graduate students…
If anything, art history defines "modern" later than the real historical meaning ("modern art" starts in the 1860s after the invention of photography). In history modernity starts in the 1500s - in Western culture…
I remember when Arthur Andersen Consulting (a software consulting firm that had split off from the accounting firm) renamed itself to "Accenture" in 2001 a few months before the Enron scandal. Although they already had…
Probably because an LLM couldn't write in his style (which reminds me of Arthur Whitney's (kdb+, etc.)
The analogy of a shepherd to his flock gets used a lot in literature and religion, but it doesn't really work in the way it is normally intended because shepherds aren't doing it out of altruism but because they want…
Except there are always going to be many more sheep than wolves because how predators live. Just like how billionaires need the masses to support their predation.
There's the traditional German rabbit/hare stew Hasenpfeffer (literally "hare pepper" as hare or rabbit and pepper are the main ingrediants). You may remember it as the dish at least one of Bugs Bunny's foes wanted to…
Even the original UK article just says "the President". Things may change as the US may not play the leading role in this century as it did the last, but despite many countries having presidents (although not the UK),…
It just seems intentionally unpleasant -- as in the insult "Piss off!" You don't say "Urinate off!" or "Pee off!" just like you don't say "Make love off!"
What's wrong with "urinate" or "pee"?
A lot of places claim things for "security" and violating them is grounds for firing because truthfully or not, they claim circumventing them is exposing data. We used to be able to choose our e-mail client as they had…
I preferred Skype (which Microsoft bought years ago but only killed last year) -- it also, at least in its final iteration, did the share screen thing well and just seemed snappier than Teams.
I wonder when we will move onto harder tasks -- I remember around 2007 people were using Crysis (also a first-person shooter) as a test of new computers as when it was released hardly any computer could run it without…
Butler also wrote a famous essay "Darwin Among The Machines" (1863) before Erewhon, which treated this concept not as fiction.
If this was the case, all car manufacturers would have done the same, and at least at first, they didn't.
Does that work? I'd think if it could plan things out itself it wouldn't need a roadmap, but maybe it is like how LLMs "reason" by arguing with themselves.
I'm curious why you ask the question, Do you think the Cultural Revolution (this was the anti-intellectual movement in the 1960s-1970s, not either of the literal revolutions China experienced in the 20th century)…
So many people think literal computers get slower "due to age" as well, and not mal/bloat ware.
The problem with this dystopia is that there would be no way for the rich to make money if nobody could buy things. Over a hundred years ago Henry Ford (not a nice guy by any measure) paid his workers enough that they…
I think most people try the "extreme end" of vibe coding -- "Claude, write me an app to do X" once or twice and realize that doesn't really work -- to get it to work reliably you basically have to write a ROADMAP.md…
Which is why it ultimately helped art because it removed the incentive to just make paintings as realistic as possible because there was a tool that did that boring task better.
No, they always do. The confusion might be that you think evolution means "get better". But evolution of languages, just like biological beings simply means "changes over time".
Dictionaries exist to show what some people currently believe a word means. But it is poor argumentation to argue that a word should only mean what the dictionary says. That's the "old man shaking his fist at the…
From a technical perspective it really was considered a great movie for decades, It is, as you mention, extremely racist, and that eventually outweighed any merits of the film itself after the techniques it developed…
No, because it is a historical novel. You have to blend fact and fiction in that, not because you are trying to deceive people, but you have to recreate conversations that were never recorded, get inside the characters'…
>The irony here is perhaps missed by many. He didn’t grade homework in the first >place. He paid assistants to grade. This is common practice among tenured >professors with grant money to spend and graduate students…
If anything, art history defines "modern" later than the real historical meaning ("modern art" starts in the 1860s after the invention of photography). In history modernity starts in the 1500s - in Western culture…
I remember when Arthur Andersen Consulting (a software consulting firm that had split off from the accounting firm) renamed itself to "Accenture" in 2001 a few months before the Enron scandal. Although they already had…
Probably because an LLM couldn't write in his style (which reminds me of Arthur Whitney's (kdb+, etc.)
The analogy of a shepherd to his flock gets used a lot in literature and religion, but it doesn't really work in the way it is normally intended because shepherds aren't doing it out of altruism but because they want…
Except there are always going to be many more sheep than wolves because how predators live. Just like how billionaires need the masses to support their predation.
There's the traditional German rabbit/hare stew Hasenpfeffer (literally "hare pepper" as hare or rabbit and pepper are the main ingrediants). You may remember it as the dish at least one of Bugs Bunny's foes wanted to…
Even the original UK article just says "the President". Things may change as the US may not play the leading role in this century as it did the last, but despite many countries having presidents (although not the UK),…
It just seems intentionally unpleasant -- as in the insult "Piss off!" You don't say "Urinate off!" or "Pee off!" just like you don't say "Make love off!"
What's wrong with "urinate" or "pee"?
A lot of places claim things for "security" and violating them is grounds for firing because truthfully or not, they claim circumventing them is exposing data. We used to be able to choose our e-mail client as they had…
I preferred Skype (which Microsoft bought years ago but only killed last year) -- it also, at least in its final iteration, did the share screen thing well and just seemed snappier than Teams.
I wonder when we will move onto harder tasks -- I remember around 2007 people were using Crysis (also a first-person shooter) as a test of new computers as when it was released hardly any computer could run it without…
Butler also wrote a famous essay "Darwin Among The Machines" (1863) before Erewhon, which treated this concept not as fiction.
If this was the case, all car manufacturers would have done the same, and at least at first, they didn't.
Does that work? I'd think if it could plan things out itself it wouldn't need a roadmap, but maybe it is like how LLMs "reason" by arguing with themselves.
I'm curious why you ask the question, Do you think the Cultural Revolution (this was the anti-intellectual movement in the 1960s-1970s, not either of the literal revolutions China experienced in the 20th century)…
So many people think literal computers get slower "due to age" as well, and not mal/bloat ware.
The problem with this dystopia is that there would be no way for the rich to make money if nobody could buy things. Over a hundred years ago Henry Ford (not a nice guy by any measure) paid his workers enough that they…
I think most people try the "extreme end" of vibe coding -- "Claude, write me an app to do X" once or twice and realize that doesn't really work -- to get it to work reliably you basically have to write a ROADMAP.md…
Which is why it ultimately helped art because it removed the incentive to just make paintings as realistic as possible because there was a tool that did that boring task better.
No, they always do. The confusion might be that you think evolution means "get better". But evolution of languages, just like biological beings simply means "changes over time".
Dictionaries exist to show what some people currently believe a word means. But it is poor argumentation to argue that a word should only mean what the dictionary says. That's the "old man shaking his fist at the…