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The Earth Is Flat

nocurve.org
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From quantum computing to mRNA therapeutics: seven technologies to watch in 2026

nature.com
1 points·by bentobean·5 mesi fa·0 comments

AI writes the code now. What's left for software engineers?

sfstandard.com
2 points·by bentobean·5 mesi fa·0 comments

The Rise of Invisible Unemployment in Tech: 2026 Will Be the Year It Changes

saastr.com
3 points·by bentobean·5 mesi fa·0 comments

Accelerating Science with AI and Simulations

news.mit.edu
2 points·by bentobean·5 mesi fa·0 comments

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bentobean
·14 giorni fa·discuss
> As we all know, the foundation of Western diatonic music theory is ¹²√2, the ratio between the frequencies of successive semitones.

Nods knowingly. Yes, of course. I definitely know this.
bentobean
·mese scorso·discuss
Is this the Star Wars equivalent of dressing up as characters from The Handmaidens Tale and being overly dramatic?
bentobean
·mese scorso·discuss
There are four vacuum repair shops on Cape Cod, and I’ve never seen anyone walk into any of them. I bet a big chunk of these funds are funneling through there.
bentobean
·mese scorso·discuss
> a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability, and achieving that realisation is probably the only real contribution of AI to date.

Bingo.
bentobean
·mese scorso·discuss
I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.
bentobean
·2 mesi fa·discuss
AI is a force multiplier for whoever is using it. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, AI can be used effectively. In the hands of an idiot… watch out.

Most people are idiots.
bentobean
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs.

What a time to be alive.
bentobean
·3 mesi fa·discuss
MacOS does this as well, and it drives me nuts. No, I do not want files on my desktop to be synced to iCloud.
bentobean
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> “It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…”

Nice try, ChatGPT.
bentobean
·4 mesi fa·discuss
“Microsoft Tentacle” - Now there’s a name for a new product line.
bentobean
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> The streaming service Deezer said earlier this year it is receiving more than 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily…

Wow!
bentobean
·4 mesi fa·discuss
If you haven’t seen that “Everything is a Remix” documentary you should. It’s so good.
bentobean
·4 mesi fa·discuss
This hits hard. I’m getting hit with so much slop at work that I’ve quietly stopped being all that careful with reviews.
bentobean
·6 mesi fa·discuss
The “Cool Tools” catalog.
bentobean
·6 mesi fa·discuss
This is a joke.
bentobean
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Someone has to win. It might as well be me.
bentobean
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I would really like to hear more about these acquaintances who think they are evolving.
bentobean
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months.

If true, how much of this is a result of:

1. Genuine technical advancement

or:

2. Shoveling trillions of dollars into compute resources in order to service incoming LLM requests in a way that is completely unrealistic over the long term?

In other words… are we talking about genuine, sustainable innovation that we get to take with us moving forward and benefit from? Or are we talking about an “improvement” that is more akin to a mirage that will eventually disappear when the Ponzi scheme eventually collapses?
bentobean
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.
bentobean
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I’m not so sure that equating more laws produced with “greater productivity” is necessarily the right idea.