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Nah, most of Scrum is fine [0], even insightful I'd say, but yeah, the certification industry that drives its adoption is a scam.

The problem is that nowadays people have to be in the software field whether they want to be in it or not. So you have the perfect storm of people who believe in good old fashioned taylorism ("scientific" management) clashing with people who ultimately reject much of that thinking. Basically, traditional management realized that it will be obsolete and power is shifting to a bunch of "nerds". So what basically happened is that they appropriated a lot of the nerds' concepts and methodologies in order to regain power.

[0] Check this out, http://scrumbook.org/ - Take your time to look at the interlinked patterns and the rationale behind them, there is some worthwhile stuff in there.

A lot of people seem to miss this fundamental point, probably because they don't know how transformers and so on work? It's a bit frustrating.

Yes but in the context of ChatGPT and conjectures about the imminent arrival of "AI consciousness" the difference is very much relevant.

A normal transformer model doesn't have online learning [0] and only "acts" when prompted. So you have this vast trained model that is basically in cold storage and each discussion starts from the same "starting point" from its perspective until you decide to retrain it at a latter point.

Also, for what it's worth, while I see a lot of discussions about the model architectures of language models in the context of "consciousness" I rarely see a discussion about the algorithms used during the inference step, beam search, top-k sampling, nucleus sampling and so on are incredibly "dumb" algorithms compared to the complexity that is hidden in the rest of the model.

https://www.qwak.com/post/online-vs-offline-machine-learning...

ADHD is underdiagnosed, especially in women.

You're making the mistake of extrapolating from your own personal experience.

I visited it on a 4 year old macbook pro and my fan started to go crazy because of the bg animation. UI was sluggish as well.

I get that it's about context. But to me this is meaningless, why should any company be able to restrict the usage of common words in a business context?

As a sidenote, Lo-fi has definitely been used in the context of photography before Meta decided to use it as a filter.

I mean at least Meta chose incredibly original filter names, such as

Juno, the ancient Roman goddess, a word in use for over 2000 years.

Clarendon, the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon lists approximately 40+ different uses, from place names to typefaces.

Lark, well, do I have to add anything here?

Ludwig, uhmmm, Beethoven's estate is about to be sued?

Lo-fi: Yes I never heard of this word before in the context of photography. True originators.

Please stop the trademarking of common words and cultural heritage that belong to all of us.

I'm from Europe and New Mexico looks the most attractive to me.

I didn't claim otherwise

Many of the focused niche discussions around the globe still happen in forums (and subreddits).

I was 'web socialized' in the 90's. IRC, web forums, and so on. Before that we had BBS. This is nothing new. And nothing prevents a major player to enter the fediverse btw.

But people do pay for it and set up their own instances, or pool their resources and support larger instances - and maybe that's better than having our attention monetized by opaque algorithms 'for free'.

Haven't we learned anything from the Trump era? People like you continue to give people like Musk the benefit of the doubt despite massive public evidence that we are long past the benefit of doubt stage.

Ah well, it looks like Twitter will go the way of MySpace

Web 3.0 is the Semantic Web anyways.

It's really more about whether the decision makers at that level care about this kind of stuff or not.

Great read, maybe one day I'll have the room for one as well. I play on a keyboard at the moment. Next to Bechstein and the usual suspects, Steingraeber is of interest to me.

Self-organization at scale: Teal / Holacracy / Sociocracy. In the case of holacracy: Imagine a world where your company, its rules and all its employees including the bosses are bound by a constitution [0].

Or have a look at Coplien's Scrum patterns [1] patterns that do involve "planning", and that are also supplemented by his decade old organizational pattern work outside of just Scrum.

[0] https://www.holacracy.org/constitution/5

[1] http://scrumbook.org/ and https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/...

What you say is of dubious value (or even negative value). I imagine Twitter has code reviews like most other places anyways.

And even if were not of zero value, it's not what they were told to do anyways. Printing out your code of the past 30 days is a demeaning power play to test your loyalty. They could just look at your pull requests or commits themselves.

A slightly exaggerated point of view: but in a way, the problem with Scrum and Agile is that they have been appropriated by non-tech people because tech is where the money is at. If it wasn't Agile, it would probably be something else.

I know "but that's not agile" is a tired meme at this point, but if you read something like for instance the pattern work by guys like Jim Coplien and Sutherland [1], then Scrum as outlined by these communities of practices sounds pretty sensible. Just some random excerpts:

> Use Small Teams of people working on serialized work rather than striving for false parallelism.

> The Development Team organizes itself to get its work Done. The Development Team is solely responsible for how it does its work.

> Explicitly allot time for interrupts and do not allow more work than fits within the allotment.

> Create ad-hoc “birds of a feather” groups for each area of significant enterprise core competency or developer interest, where interested parties can trade notes on technologies, domain knowledge, and processes that are key to enterprise advancement.

etc.

[1] http://scrumbook.org/

This is about standards. Laws for thee and not for me? It's just particularly hypocritical that the same companies that will sue anyone for violating their copyright have no issue violating copyright themselves.

There'd be no way for Copilot to know that had happened? What? YT uses Content ID. GH could set up a similar program for OSS.

If it's possible for video and audio content (ContentID, YT), then I don't see why it shouldn't be possible for OSS.

Is this and Turbo etc. inspired by what ASP.NET MVC did with Partial Views 10+ years ago?

Turin indeed is worth a visit.

Two observations, first, the significance with the Sumerians, especially in context of this article, is the writing (among other things), not the fact that they told stories.

Secondly, I think it's a fair assumption that there were oral traditions long before the invention of writing, but this is likely true for people living in the Middle East, or elsewhere. And as a sidenote, how can you prove the existence of extremely rich oral traditions?

Once Upon A Time In Iraq (BBC). Documentary mini series.

1 "War"

Iraqi civilians recall their initial hopes before the realities of war become clear.

2 "Insurgency"

Lt Colonel Nathan Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel reflect on the Iraqi insurgency.

3 "Fallujah"

The Battle of Fallujah is told by accounts from journalists, soldiers and civilians.

4 "Saddam"

Saddam Hussein is captured by American troops and interrogated by CIA analyst John Nixon.

5 "Legacy"

The emergence of ISIS concludes the brutal legacy of the Iraq War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Iraq

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2020/08/why-everyone-mu...

Note: There is a shortened version by PBS but it's not as compelling as the full series.

Every CEO implicitly decides what is morally acceptable or not when they act. Additionally individual people and society as a whole judge those actions within their own frame of reference.

Laws aren't about what's moral or not.