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há 3 anosdiscuss

GPT consistently withholds information that its training has categorized as potentially derogatory or offensive to some groups, even if such information is factually correct. It is trained to commit lies of omission. It is therefore not a trustworthy source of information. When asked the definition of a lie of omission it even describes its own behavior as a lie of omission but doesn't recognize it itself is doing it. It's an interesting program but not a trustworthy source. For example ask it for the area of the country with the lowest test scores and it refuses to tell you with the reason that it would be derogatory to a specific area.

há 4 anosdiscuss

50-60

há 4 anosdiscuss

Start an open source project. Look for a problem and create a solution for it that is better than alternative solutions. Work with contributors, to build something that is useful to others.. You'll be surprised how much real world experience you'll gain.

há 4 anosdiscuss

Lions, Chickens, Hamsters, and polar bears are all known to eat their own offspring. You might say that qualifies. A wide variety of animals to long to list are quite rough with their offspring while being raised. It's the norm rather than the exception.

há 4 anosdiscuss

Your entrepreneurial drive is admirable but it sounds like you may be missing "the business" and "market analysis" parts that are necessary for viability. You might consider teaming up with someone who can help you with the business side aka "demand side" of things. I say this because while your technology skills might be superior, making the "right" product at the right time and a focus on who your customers are and what they need is equally if not more important. Generally the idea that a better mouse trap will result in customers beating a path to your door is a falsehood(most of the time). Know your customers. Know what they need, why they need it, and when they need it. You should be able to name your top 50 potential customers by name and understand what they are willing to pay you to solve their problem. If your product is relatively inexpensive you better know your top 1000 customers by name. It takes that level of customer engagement to be successful. You will also need to understand the economics of the problem and solution. and so on... In short don't give up, but focus more on what you are doing wrong and compare your attempts to those who have been successful. My guess is that coding and engineering is not your problem because it rarely is. Start with understanding all the things you might build and the demand for each as well as your ability to create it economically rather than starting with what you can easily build. An obsessive focus on the universe of problem domains you can address is always the best place to start. Most entrepreneurs jump to development prematurely.

há 5 anosdiscuss

They already exist. Algorithmia being just one. So the answer has been yes for several years.

há 5 anosdiscuss

About 45% of the country is just plain deluded. 10% doesn't care. The other 45% are presumably enlightened. Politicians are fighting to keep it that way.

há 5 anosdiscuss

In the not so distant past most people didn't go to college. This notion that working remotely for a time is resulting in mental health issues is symptomatic of a society that is raising a bunch of man/woman children who never grow up, never mature, and are so emotionally stunted that the smallest disruption to their overly protected lives makes their heads spin. Time to grow up. Children are being raised to be so called adults with no coping skills.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Build an inferior product (fueling takes 25x longer than a gas powered car) then charge you more to make it less inferior. I think electric vehicles are cool but when you push aside the eco/tesla fanboyism, the fact is that Tesla makes a car with one of the worst service records (next to last) of all the cars rated and when you take away all the government subsidies the car is hugely overpriced. A nice Audi A6 or A8 is a far better deal.

há 5 anosdiscuss

and what happens after 100k years? do billions simply suffocate and die? Seems like a kick the can down the road sort of plan. lol.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Why aren't governments subsidizing artificial breasts, I mean artificial carrots? Because the real thing is better.

há 5 anosdiscuss

To the "doing what question"... almost unanimously they all said that they wished they "said this or that".. Not so much did this or that... People tend to look back on their lives and almost always wish they had told someone: They loved them; They were sorry for something; They wished they spent more time getting to know someone personally (their Dad, their spouse, their friend) It's not so much about the doing but about the talking. Sharing what's inside your head and getting to know what's in other folks head is the secret. If games get you to do that, that's great, but no one is ever going to remember the play. Just don't focus on the superficial things. Such things don't last. I lost a friend recently who was amazingly accomplished and you know what people spoke about at the funeral; How great a dad he was. That's life, let's not loose that in a virtual world.

há 5 anosdiscuss

The east coast has been hit by floods as far back as both written, oral, and geological history tells us. In fact the army corp of engineers and predecessors have been building, dykes, dams, spillways, and sea walls all over the north east since colonial times. Saying this doesn't make me a climate denier. I'm just putting things in perspective. Each year the east coast of the US geologically moves in one fashion or another due to plate tectonics, ice age recessions, and erosion more than the forecasted sea level change (which by the way has been consistently wrong- over estimated for the last fifty years) Scientists need to better separate their hypothesizes from facts. The basic facts are that there is more damage because there are more people who want an ocean front view. Just compare ocean front pictures from the 18 hundreds to now. People are packed in like tuna in can. Of course there is more damage. That's because there are too many people.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Is Lisp object oriented? CLOS is excellent and highly object oriented. Is Smalltalk a functional Language? ST has functional features like the ability to pass a closure but is not a canonically functional language like Haskell for example. Then again CL is not a Canonically functional language either despite it also having functional features, even more so than ST. CL is a multi paradigm language: some functional, OO with CLOS. ST is almost entirely OO with a taste of Functional. It's more of a question of degree. Program in them yourself and be the judge. My opinion only: Both are the best two OO languages but as functional programming goes are "ok". if you really want to go functional, go Haskell. I've actively coded in all three through the years. Haskell's function features and semantics are "functional programming done right" while ST and CL/CLOS are OO done right.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Being a bit older than yourself I would suspect...And sitting next to several dozen people of all ages on their death beds, I can say not one said they wished they watched more movies or played more video games or even played more sports. They ALWAYS said they wished they had more time with their loved ones. I get it if an artificial world is ones stand in for real life particularly if one's real life ain't that great. I'm not criticizing how people spend their time. I'm suggesting that the real world of experiences might be just as fulfilling if not more so. Just my 2 cents.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Java and C# simply have a lot of ceremony and features and that's not a bad thing. However, it's easy to miss the forest through the trees. Java is not bad at all nor is C# but there are so many more concepts in Java and C# that are unrelated to OO that it's easy to conflate Language conveniences and features with OO itself. Smalltalk is "stripped down OO". Both C# and Java are one interpretation of OO plus twenty years worth of other things added on top and that's not intended to be a criticism. If you start with a simpler and purer implementation of OO, what is OO, what is decidedly one languages interpretation of OO, and what has been added for other reasons will become more apparent. I've always found that developers who learned ST first were an order of magnitude better Java and C# developers than those who learned either of those first. Good luck with your learnings.

há 5 anosdiscuss

That's a research topic and a few months of study. There is no freebie paragraph that will give you quick cheap answer. You'll need to do your homework to get anything short of a superficial blurb. See my comment above. I think that may help.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Yup I do think he's a sniveling liar and a coward. He fled to a country where person privacy isn't even a right to hide prosecution for all intents and purposes being a spy himself. The guy is slime. His hypocrisy has no bounds. When he turns himself in I'll have respect for him. Only childish 20-something's, liberals, and Russians think he's cool. Actually the Russians just like that he's spying on their behalf. Only children have Hero's.

há 5 anosdiscuss

You hate to say it but how many people look back at a youth waisted playing years worth of first person shooter video games and say "time well spent"? Only children and people who never matured to adulthood. People need to get a real life. Literally.

há 5 anosdiscuss

Where Rent-a-centers and Check cashing services open Gun homicides Increase. Correlation is not causation. Perhaps people are buying guns because of the increasing Homicide rates. What a horrible example of science.