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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   I like that the Bank of England spells out the "sudden correction" this time. In 1996 Fed Chair Alan Greenspan warned about irrational exuberance, in 1999 he warned Congress about "the possibility that the recent performance
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   I call it PEAKS: Performative Extreme Agile Kiddie Scripting
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   Suddenly the pictures look like in the 1990s again. This is the company that radicalized software engineers and open source projects throughout the Biden administration and cheered on any woke cancellation. And if Harris is elected in 2028,
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   "anlasslose Chatkontrolle" => Chat Control without cause . Ok, maybe these are not weasel words in this case. The CDU probably wants to present itself as a friend of the people using a popular issue that they don't really
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   That's nothing. Compare https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 : "The phone/computer will just become an edge node for AI, directly rendering pixels with no real operating system o
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   The administration tried to sneak in a ban on "AI" regulation into the "Big Beautiful Bill", but fortunately failed last minute. The administration facilitates "AI" exports: https://www.iaps.ai/
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   Would have worked in 2022. Now all oligarchs swore loyalty to Trump, the Ellison family is buying CBS and TikTok, LLMs are audited for compliance. Even here Trump criticism is rare now, because everyone feels being watched. If the Tesla Opt
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   That is the tragic part. This administration ran on a platform of bringing back the real economy and manufacturing. Now they fuel the Bitcoin and "AI" bubbles, which are nonessential and non-tangibles. The GDP increases are fake.
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   by bgwalter 1y ago

   So it is a secret tool, they will "gradually reach out to interested maintainers of critical open source projects with CodeMender-generated patches", then they "hope to release CodeMender as a tool that can be used by all sof
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    They are backed by crypto bubble experts. It is all horse trading and coercion: https://www.ainvest.com/news/trump-ai-crypto-czar-sacks-nvid... In today's episode Lutnick puts a UAE deal on hold until the UAE inve
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    The skepticism is not sudden. Various kinds of circular deals were common in 1999/2000, shortly before the bubble burst, when telecom equipment makers subsidized their customers in order to prop up sales.
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    I'm not sure why that is even a question? Should mathematics go back to Fermat style natural language? “Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum pote
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    The chilling part is that a guy named Wouters threatens to ban Bernstein in a characteristically rude CoC message: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/RK1HQB7Y-WFBxQaAve... Trust the process!
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    Except that generative "AI" is a tricycle for the mind that prevents you from ever learning how to ride a bicycle.
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    This is just a bureaucracy making up fake excuses. qsecretary , the autoresponder, is way less annoying than having to create a new account everywhere on each SaaS platform. At least you know your mail arrived. Everyone has no issues forci
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    Newell Brands stock price fell sharply during the first Trump administration from $53 and is now at $5.40. Marketing this as a success story of U.S. manufacturing is insane. If the WSJ honestly thinks the outlook is better now, it should at
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    40% of global DRAM output: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star... All for creating worthless TikTok videos with Sora 2, while we don't get graphics cards and DRAM and our electricity
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    refulgentis mentioned your fly.io article as evidence that the "AI" science is settled. I remembered quite a bit of a blowback and unfortunately saw the Mataroa article last week. It contains a reference to Matasano ; I didn&#x
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    My mistake. I confused Mataroa with Matasano: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-arti...
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    I don't think many people here are interested in how something works. They want to see the headline "Curl developer finally convinced by AI!" and otherwise drop anecdotes about Claude Code etc. All comments that want to know
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    I suppose the downvoters all have subscriptions to the tools and know exactly how the tools work while leaving the rest of us in the dark. Even Joshua's blog post does not clearly state which parts and how much is "AI". Neith
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    The usual argument at the bottom of the article "the wealthy will leave" only applies if you let them take their money with them. If you can sanction Russian oligarchs, you can sanction French people who got rich in France and the
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    If something is found by Valgrind, we can reproduce it ourselves. Here we get private bug reports found by "his set of AI assisted tools". The set seems to be: https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    “With today’s tools — including AI — it’s no longer necessary for artists to learn a craft. What matters is the content, the idea. It doesn’t matter what tools you use if you achieve it.” This article is an "AI" advertisement. T
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    Most people don't run any Python programs on their machines except for OS package managers. Google and others moved to Go, and the Python job market does not reflect these statistics at all. Python is well marketed, with dissenting voi
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    And the article is kicked to the third page because it is well written and the demoware metaphor is so powerful that it needs to be suppressed.
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    You know that Linus was at one point "typing code into an editor" to review other people's patches because he found it easier to catch mistakes that way. If your field of software engineering is so simple that you can survive
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    The initial ChatGPT release in 2022 was the product of 7 years of private research that in turn built on decades of public research. Rumors say that Google wasn't far behind at the time, but didn't push releases. Perhaps because t
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    What is the target market for this? The videos are not good enough for YouTube. They are unrealistic, nauseating and dorky. Already now any YouTube video that contains a hint of "AI" attracts hundreds of scathing comments. People
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    by bgwalter 1y ago

    It is more difficult to trace the funding of these. Also of course if you label something "AI" even if it really isn't you automatically get funding.