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by gnerd00 1y ago
there is no "we" or at least not sufficiently differentiated. Another layer is inserted into .. everything? think MSFT Teams. Your manager's manager is being empowered.. you become a truck driver who must stay on the route,
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by gnerd00 1y ago
this was true, but then it wasn't... the research world several years ago, had a moment when the machinery could reliably solve multi-step problems.. there had to be intermediary results; and machinery could solve problems in a domain
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by gnerd00 1y ago
yeah agree -- it seems like a mistake to use retail banking for real business amounts of money and transactions. I suspect that young adults focused on a fast-moving tech world really did not live the hard lessons of the past with business
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by gnerd00 1y ago
UC Berkeley students embarrassed themselves on the world stage by attacking the free speech rights of conservative speakers... petualant, threatening and very in the media. People in Berkeley familiar with the history bent their heads in gr
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by gnerd00 1y ago
I support Wikipedia from the first day -- and this is true. I had to laugh! there is bias for certain.. of many kinds.
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by gnerd00 1y ago
back in the day, bookstores specialized.. Barnes & Noble were a warehouse-sized super-commercial shop from the start; pushing vapid crap was certainly in that mix. Unfortunately, Amazon Books out-inventoried even the behemoth Barnes &am
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by gnerd00 1y ago
you realize how ridiculous this is, in some ways, since a "master copy" of anything that is reproduced, is just like reproducing a machine-stamped master copy.. in the digital artifacts world, it is even more true
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by gnerd00 1y ago
June 23, 2025 - US Federal Reserve Board announces that reputational risk will no longer be a component of examination programs in its supervision of banks
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by gnerd00 1y ago
OK except there are +1 million non-profits.. so you enthusiastically characterize "many" .. what about the long tail? What about uniquely effective? A large number of economic jurisdictions worldwide have no such thing. Why the
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by gnerd00 1y ago
absolutely a real interview, stunning in the racism of the farm owner, actually
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by gnerd00 1y ago
As an American, I was fascinated to see an interview with an older Italian farm owner. She employed Sikhs in eastern Italy for farm labor. In the Italian language interview she explained like she was talking to a close friend, how actually
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by gnerd00 1y ago
my neighbor said he recently plugged in his iPhone to a PC while logged in to his Google account in the browser, and all his iPhone contacts were imported into GMail contacts.. is this possible? the contacts are now in Google GMail, and he
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by gnerd00 1y ago
one of the original junior Sims C++ devs was an undergrad from Reed college.. he is now director of some kind for Overture Maps iir
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by gnerd00 1y ago
this has carefully costumed role playing characters in the first second -- the title is misleading and/or "con"
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by gnerd00 1y ago
> pretend that China allows rampant ecological destruction in their pursuit of goals and then pretend that the US is constrained by some pollution restrictions. got it, I definitely did not say that, or mean it.. I do not claim those sta
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by gnerd00 1y ago
no disagree and object -- it is misinformation to describe LLM progress blindly assigning human development. Tons of errant conclusions and implications attached as baggage, and just wrong.
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by gnerd00 1y ago
you ask yourself .. for most people, that means closer to average reply, from yourself, when you try to figure it out. There is a working paper from McKinnon Consulting in Canada that states directly that their definition of "General A
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by gnerd00 1y ago
> Transformer model just trivially blowing everything else out of the water no, this is the winners rewriting history. Transformer style encoders are now applied to lots and lots of disciplines but they do not "trivially" do an
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by gnerd00 1y ago
> We have no recourse. This is just misinformation. This is an international board. Many readers will take this as fact. There are courts and there are laws on the books, and yes many cases are enforced. Not "enough" for some,
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by gnerd00 1y ago
AI-centric phone-like OS? .. hard pass. California gave rise to so many inspired and marvelous technology in the past, but this always-on Big Brother world built on massive pools of cash.. n-o spells no. I do not understand how people acce
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by gnerd00 1y ago
Your computers are useless -- they only produce answers
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by gnerd00 1y ago
does this explain the incessant AI sales calls to my elderly neighbor in California? "Hi, this is Amy. I am calling from Medical Services. You have MediCal part A and B, right?"
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by gnerd00 1y ago
one of the GNU/Hurd maintainers is a neighbor .. he is over 70 now, with degree in physics from a top-ranked US university, most of his days are spent dealing with serious health problems.