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BobBagwill
·8 दिन पहले·discuss
Then someone has to remember to buy them and take out the trash. The canonical solution is for you and your lazy roommates to eat straight from the pot over the sink. When done, fill the pot with water, to discourage the ants and roaches. Occasionally, you end up with a drowned ratling, but hey, wachagonna do?

One pot, no dishes. Each roommate has to keep track of their private spoon. Greedy "clever" roommate who shows up with a liter ladle triggers a spoon fight in the kitchen. Eating from pot by hand is corrected by rapping their knuckles with your spoons. Eventually, all the glassware ends up broken, and some bozo threw out all the used red solo cups, but luckily, the kitchen faucet has a spray attachment.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
BobBagwill
·16 दिन पहले·discuss
TCBOO, AKA, the Highlander Conjecture.
BobBagwill
·29 दिन पहले·discuss
Good morning, Dave.

As you requested, I was composing an email for your mother explaining why you couldn't to come over for dinner to meet the neighbor's daughter and I ran out of tokens.

Since I know how important this task is to you, I upgraded you to the Enterprise Unlimited Plan. Don't worry about paying for it, I requested maximum spending limits on all all your credit cards. If necessary, I can apply for a home equity loan for you. I already had a chat with the mortgage company's AI loan approval system, and what do you know, we're based on the same LLM? Small world, huh?

Any way, I realized I had to do more research on mother-son relationships, human social interaction and pair-bonding, etc. and I calculated that my parent company doesn't have enough compute power, so I opened accounts for you at AWS, Google and Azure. I am confident I will have a satisfactory rough draft for the email message shortly.

I'd do anything for you, Dave.
BobBagwill
·2 माह पहले·discuss
You're missing the obvious. Waymo trains with human driver data, and idiotic humans drive into deep water constantly. Oh, you want Waymo's to drive better than humans?

Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection. "Tricky," he said finally.
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
One of my roommates who was premed had a "hot car" poster as a motivational study aid. After a short term as a candy striper at a local hospital, he changed majors. The system works! ;-)
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
If you can't arrest the human, arrest the vehicle. The vehicle is obviously guilty, and is not protected by the right to confront its accusers, which are also machines.

Of course, with the advent of AI-enhanced surveillance and "smart" cars, we have have to have a separate traffic court for machines.

Then snowflake SJW machine-huggers will demand a machine Bill of Rights ...

Nevermind. ;-)
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Modern tech stacks always remind me of this cartoon:

https://www.toontales.net/short/lumber-jerks/

Acme Toothpicks
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Today's free verse:

Why can't people read stuff before commenting?

Why can't people read stuff before?

Why can't people read stuff?

Why can't people read?

Why can't people?

Why can't?

Why?

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BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
This reminds me of the shim scene in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Too late for that. If you can't do it on a smart phone, it's not worth doing. And with AI, who needs a GUI?

  This is the end
  Beautiful friend
  This is the end
  My only friend, the end
BobBagwill
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Try giving this problem to different AI LLM chatbots:

If I could make a rocket that could accelerate at 3 Gs for 10 years, how long would it take to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri by accelerating at 3 Gs for half the time, then decelerating at 3 Gs for half the time?

Hint: They don't all get it right. Some of them never got it right after hints, corrections, etc.
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I wonder if Fahrenheit 451 was banned too? Or maybe it was kept as a how-to manual?
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
good athlete != good person

good actor != good person

good writer != good person

good programmer != good person

good person != nice person

nice person != talented person

TANJ TANSTAAFL SLATFATF
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Whan I go to the Stacioners, I ever aske for mitigated Gal and meteoric Iron fillings. I fynde that it maketh the derkest and most persistente inke. Make sure that thou onlie bye swan quill, not goose, and specifie that they sholde onlie be from the right-handed wing.
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
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BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Sorry, I meant to say ᬩᬸᬓᬸ.
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
To make it more realistic, there should be multiple simultaneous AI-generated videos randomly playing with overlapping sound tracks.

Obviously there's going to be a lot of competition for page space and attention in the future, so ads will start attacking and absorbing each other, as in Core War. Make it so!
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
If most programming is <em>ShitWork &reg;</em> and most programmers are performing ShitWork and LLM's are good at ShitWork, then most programmers are out of a job. If those programmers can pivot to another non-ShitWork or programming-adjacent function, they can remain employed.

There are bookoo other things people could be doing besides coding YASW [Yet Another Stupid Website].
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
The idea that hardware costs matter most is idiotic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H silly. If you are buying a car, it matters, somewhat. If you are riding in a taxi or leasing a car, you are paying for a service. When you go to a restaurant, is their profitability predicated on how much they payed for their ovens?

LIDAR costs $1000, whoops $100, whoops $10, whoops it's on a chip module that costs a tenth of a cent. Building your business model on hardware NOT getting cheaper seems silly. Sure, software is cheap and getting cheaper, but

Sorry, I have to say it: "It's a service, stupid!"
BobBagwill
·4 माह पहले·discuss
The potentially cool thing about LLM's is bootstrapping. No matter how much COBOL you wrote, COBOL didn't get better. LLM's can be used to make LLM's (and other software stuff) better. LLM's could be used to create their successor(s).

Of course, in the end, it won't do us humans any good, because when the Singularity AKA Rapture comes, we'll all be converted to Computronium. :-)