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by bgwalter 1y ago
People do that here, and mostly they are not downvoted or flagged (though sometimes they are). But the important part is that the funding for "AI" skeptics is practically zero, whereas the funding for "AI" boosters is ba
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is not at all an ad hominem. Disclosure of interests and conflicts for interest were assumed to be declared in the open even a decade ago. Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest, Trump launched a coin pump & dump
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Here’s a breakdown of the networks present, what they mean, and how they relate to the map’s context ... The first red flags. Conclusion The map is a diagram of networks—pipelines, oilfields, terminals, company concessions, and shipping
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The "AI" slop description of the map mentions: Heavy lines traverse the map, notably from Iraq (Kirkuk) to the Mediterranean (Tripoli, Haifa) ... I can see the pipeline from Kirkuk to Tripoli on the map, but the pipeline from Ki
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Like many in the AI space, Farid said that those who use breakthrough technologies will outlast those who don't. "AI" professor tells everyone to use "AI". With the usual fatalism that nothing can ever be done abo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The question was asked May 23, 2018 at 12:42 , the answer came May 23, 2018 at 14:51 . That is a very quick response time. OpenAI took the answer from here or elsewhere, stripped attribution and credit and a tenured professor celebrates t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"AI" does not encourage real thinking. "AI" encourages hand waving grand plans that don't work, CEO style. All pro-"AI" posts focus on procedures and methodologies, which is just LARPing thinking. Using &q
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Sure: Google fired the Python language team in 2024 that contained a couple of the worst politicians who were later involved in slandering Tim Peters. Before that, Google moved heavily from Python to Go. Microsoft fired the "Faster CPy
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by bgwalter 1y ago
In the UK? I can choose "reject all" after a couple of obnoxious cookie banner clicks in the EU.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The syntax is a monstrosity. You can also extract a proven OCaml program from Coq and Coq has a beautiful syntax. If you insist on the same language for specifying types, some Lisp variants do that with a much nicer syntax. Python people
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is sort of ironic because the Pythonistas did not leave out any opportunity to criticize Java. Java was developed by world class experts like Gosling and attracted other type experts like Philip Wadler. No world class expert is going t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I disagree with Doctorow's conversation with a student at Cornell. You can prevent further misallocation of funds by agitating against "AI" usage in general. If you are at Cornell, organize meetings, protests etc. against the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Because they follow any corporate initiative that gives them something to do, even if the type hints are the most unreadable and hackish form of typing in existence.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If Larry Ellison overtly censors TikTok, teenagers will leave. Do I understand that the strategy here is soft power so that teenagers get approved content via the algorithm in the hope that they don't notice? That is a pretty big gambl
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by bgwalter 1y ago
UAE was engaged in crypto dealings instead: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chi... "Earlier this year, World Liberty, the crypto firm run by the Trumps and Witkoffs, an
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Since every "AI" company frantically releases new applications, may I suggest OpenAI+ to copy the resounding success of Google+? Google+ is incidentally a great example of a gigantic money sink driven by optimistic hype.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
“We are exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need,” chief executive Julie Sweet told analysts on a conference call. Julie Sweet could be replaced by an &
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The methodology involves search hits, Stackoverflow, conference and journal articles. In all of these Python is artificially over-represented. Search hits and Stackoverflow questions represent beginners who are force fed Python in universit
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I felt reminded of Hofstadter's Goedel/Escher/Bach mysticism that somehow everything is recursion.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
From a neural networks professor: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ki/rojas_home/documents... "However, we should be careful with the metaphors and paradigms commonly introduced when dealing with the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If managers are convinced by stakeholders who relentlessly put out pro-"AI" blog posts, then a subset of programmers can be forced to at least pretend to use "AI". They can be forced to write in their performance evaluat
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by bgwalter 1y ago
People here are claiming that "AI" emits fully working products, so with that reading they are not just a tool. Also, you would own a chisel and the chisel does not spy on you. The "AI" factories are owned by oligopolies
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So essentially, you are redundant now and celebrate it.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
LGTM! I'm sure it comes with a correctness proof, too! The newer blog posts appear to scan forums like this one for objections ("AI" does not work for legacy code bases) and then create custom "benchmarks" for their
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by bgwalter 1y ago
My theory is that the cURL maintainer is independent and can respond forcefully to the "AI" nonsense. Many other projects always have some corporate maintainers who are directed to push "AI" and will try to cover it up.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"AI" does not make anyone stronger. It destroys thought processes, curiosity and the ability to research on your own. Seniors just use it to produce the daily LOC that resembles something useful. If mistakes are introduced, they h
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The quoted part is really amazing. The author of the article just makes claims and clearly hasn't been exposed to any real art or music education. I suppose to some extent he means taste in programming, but anyone who is writing such a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The RedHat apparatchik at the top of the link is amazing. Attacking others from his secure position and celebrating more corporate influence: "Good news is several Google and Apple engineers have volunteered to help with libxml2 and li
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Deleted, because the "AI" geniuses and power users pointed out that Tao does not have a point. You can get this one to -4 as well, since that seems to be the primary pleasure for "AI" one armed bandit users.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"Database" was not meant in a literal sense. Clearly a lot of knowledge from similar problems is encoded in the model, that is why you can use models as a kind of fuzzy encyclopedia. It is like an open book exam for humans where t

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