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As long as we're talking about long-form technical content going back to the 1990s, I have yet to read anything from ChatGPT that is as engaging as, say, articles or books by Philip Greenspun or Peter van der Linden. Maybe (maybe!) Cha
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I have overseen DO-178 / DO-330 tool qualification projects. To be able to just pay a vendor to do it for us? Worth every penny.
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Is this a new level of user satisfaction wrought by AI? Sounds like there has been a non-AI solution for a while too?
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By this metric, anyone who brings their homemade lunch to the office is of less economic value. Anyone who brews their own cup of tea is of less economic value. Anyone who who has a shorter commute is of less economic value than someone els
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Maybe start some sort of trade / manual labor business, and do it with the grace and elegance of a software engineer. E.g., offer as much in the way of online signup / online service requests as possible. Don't make horrid, b
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This might not be considered hip and modern any more, but I think there's still a lot of good fundamentals described, and well-written: http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/
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https://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
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What mobile platform, if any, did you use before Android? I used PalmOS for years before switching to iOS. Whenever I've picked up an Android phone I have felt confused by the interface, but long-time Android users tell me they feel th
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/book-titles.html
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One reason that I used to print out code for review was so that I could take a bunch of code somewhere else away from my desk, such as to a coffee shop or to a more comfortable chair. With lightweight, high-resolution laptops and tablets, t
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We had a local Amiga user group, and they had many (most? all?) of the Fred Fish disks on floppy disk, a big box of them, and would make you a copy for a small fee. I remember being so excited to get a CD-ROM drive and the "Frozen Fish
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https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1998/10/21
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Do they really say "sugar free" on the label? I think the claim is that one serving (one tic-tac) has 0g of sugar, which, assuming rounding to the nearest whole number, is probably true. Unfortunately, that might lead someone to s
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Wow! Not sure I've even heard the phrase "fuzzy logic" since December 31, 1999. What did happen to it?
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Used an HP 48GX for years until realizing that was great in college but had become overkill. Sold it and bought an HP 35s that I still use.
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I suspect that he has not been involved in this project for a long time, but early on, Eric had the help and support of Guy Steele.
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I don't know for sure, but I am under the impression that they just do one transaction each month to each charity, rather than multiple (such as whenever someone donates). One charity that I support used to have a link on their website
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I work in aerospace. Most code here is most certainly not written by AI. My personal opinion is that this is not going to change any time soon.
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I don't know how calculators are used in classrooms today, but when I was going through school, the general idea was that we could use calculators to do tasks that we had already learned to do. E.g., we could not use a calculator at al
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Well, I for one do not "trust" the accuracy of its output. It may very often be right, but it's not an expert system or truth maintenance system. And especially if you're doing original research, trying to seek out prima
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I might imagine that this is a good example of it not truly "understanding" what it is saying, but saying the statistically most likely thing.
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Given Sussman's aversion to mysterious black-box AI, that's an interesting observation. The curriculum change brings everyone one step closer to not really understanding how things work. Of course, it's often pointed out, &qu
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As far as my opinion goes, I lump game software in with other software. There is definitely a more artistic element to games than there is to most productivity software, but I think that people still really don't think about the person
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Why do people care about the author more for novels than for software? I think it has to do with art vs. utility. I imagine that, likewise, people would care less about the author of a programming language manual, or about the author of the
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Junk websites with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads(technologyreview.com)
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Yes, I've been using the paper bag method for a while. Tastes better than prepackaged microwave popcorn too!
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https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
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There definitely has been research into such concepts. Paro, for example, while not a "human replacement", was meant for emotional support: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_(robot) I imagine that with the
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Besides finding that 1% of good content, if AI is increasingly used to generate the 99%, then the people who otherwise would have written the 1% might not even bother pursuing the field any more. I am concerned that some subset of new goo
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asks for no more Thus far, this is significant. AI only does things because we tell it to. It has no desire to create, or to improve itself, or to advance the state of the art. Will this change? I don't know. I don't presently s

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