awisema

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   by awisema 2y ago

   “The work is mysterious and important”
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   by awisema 3y ago

   There was room full of them at UMass in the late 80s, and a huge bundle of fiber than ran down the hall to the lab that used them. And, there was a parts spare that I used when I took AI :-)
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   by awisema 3y ago

   The claim that somehow LLMs as they stand are somehow the answer is disturbing. ChatGPTs ability to be authoritatively wrong is a serious problem… Just to see what it would do, I gave it a basic word problem the other day (two people drive
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   by awisema 3y ago

   Absolutely! I spent 20+ happy years in academia. I loved research, I loved working with grad students. Were it not for the funding changes and the retirement of my faculty, I hope I would still be there now.
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   by awisema 4y ago

   If you are interested in approaches to combining programming language and database semantic. There is a bunch of work in this area from the 80s… Look up “Persistent Programming” and “Database Programming Languages” (DBPL). And yes, get off
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   by awisema 5y ago

   In 1909 E.M. Forster published “The Machine Stops” a dystopian vision of a world where nobody ever leaves their individual rooms, and instead interacts solely through “the machine.” 1909! Neuromancer, The Matrix, the list goes on… Plenty of