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The Earth Is Flat

nocurve.org
2 points·by bentobean·в прошлом месяце·1 comments

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

nature.com
1 points·by bentobean·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

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

sfstandard.com
2 points·by bentobean·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

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

saastr.com
3 points·by bentobean·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

Accelerating Science with AI and Simulations

news.mit.edu
2 points·by bentobean·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

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bentobean
·14 дней назад·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Is this the Star Wars equivalent of dressing up as characters from The Handmaidens Tale and being overly dramatic?
bentobean
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.
bentobean
·2 месяца назад·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 месяца назад·discuss
> Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs.

What a time to be alive.
bentobean
·3 месяца назад·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 месяца назад·discuss
> “It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…”

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

Wow!
bentobean
·4 месяца назад·discuss
If you haven’t seen that “Everything is a Remix” documentary you should. It’s so good.
bentobean
·4 месяца назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
The “Cool Tools” catalog.
bentobean
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
This is a joke.
bentobean
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Someone has to win. It might as well be me.
bentobean
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I would really like to hear more about these acquaintances who think they are evolving.
bentobean
·7 месяцев назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.
bentobean
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I’m not so sure that equating more laws produced with “greater productivity” is necessarily the right idea.