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Note to self. Pick a product name that an LLM could hallucinate.

I hear there’s always money in the banana stand.

If only everyone could have warned you!

I’ll save you a click “Canadians, historically one of the city’s most reliable sources of degenerates, have effectively vanished.”

The very year we declared a trade war with all our friends they stopped coming by to visit!

The only surprising thing here is that anyone is surprised.

This stop was illegal.

No crime was committed The pretext of the stop was a lie The drug dog falsely alerted probably due to manipulation of his training The officer repeatedly lied under oath

It looks like the entire interdiction operation requires that the officer lies at three distinct phases. (The pretext stop, the search, and in court)

Do we want our officers to lie under oath? Providing false testimony to the courts? Falsely accusing innocent people?

Pretty sure the answer is no. Pretty sure the bible has some things to say about Bering false witness or some such.

Ask someone who builds software for a fee. Are you able to do 90% more? Fire 9/10 engineers? Produce 90% faster?

No, no, and no.

Not all of them. I assure you no classic Porsches were bricked.

Maybe Tim Apple has cancer and his search for a successor is causing a bit of a leadership shuffle.

Or was it that Perl is a write only language and readability is maintainability?

By all accounts the job market is wildly different than it was a few years ago. I’m curious how much AI is being used to screen. I see some guys on LinkedIn with prompt injections in their profiles, I wonder if that would work.

He didn’t directly call Elon stupid. He said that a certain behavior is so stupid it indicates someone shouldn’t be at a tech company. The next step is causal inference. I’m sure Elon is familiar with the nuances of slander laws after he baselessly accused a hero rescue worker of a terrible crime and then hid behind his lawyers.

We can quit excel when they make it untrustworthy by adding ai hallucinations to it.

I wonder if it’s because Microsoft is hyper focused on a bunch of crap people don’t want or need?

So it can listen to you and serve ads that track your every movement, word and thought like an uncanny evil genie?

Better question, why are you still on facebook?

Madness, utter madness.

They did incur that cost… for decades. They were in a position where their customers were literally forced to use their product and they still couldn’t create something people wanted to use.

Potentially these last two points are related.

The prosecution presents windows 11 as evidence that Microsoft can’t do software. Actually that’s it, that’s the entirety of the case.

The prosecution rests.

We don’t have boffins here. That’s the Brits.

Try hanging out with people who have paying jobs doing the thing. (Not trying to break in, not founding a startup, not selling an idea). I worked at a FAANG company. People were honestly smart, capable, humble. (There was a strong correlation between the most effective tech people and their humility)

Maybe I got lucky. In retrospect I probably got super lucky.

When you operate big data centers it makes sense to refresh your hardware every 5 years or so because that’s the point at which the refreshed hardware is enough better to be worth the effort and expense. You don’t HAVE to, but its more cost effective if you do. (Source, used to operate big data centers)

I know everyone is asking the same question. Is the answer “because corruption?”

Pretty powerful headline. My first thought was “literally? How?”

Ah it wasn’t clear that he had posted the picture of the house. (The article I read simply said they asked about a picture and he denied knowledge of it) if he posted it that changes things.

I suppose if you posted a picture of my house and immediately thereafter a picture of yourself with a gun I’d call the police too.

As far as I’ve been able to gather, the image of the house was posted BY SOMEONE ELSE. The image of the firearm was posted from a country where firearms are legal. There was no threatening language in his post of the firearm. All charges were ultimately dropped (though he was arrested and spent time in jail over the post)

The thing you fail to understand is how afraid of guns British people can be.

There was an article a few years ago about a British man, ex army. The story goes someone threw a bag of shotguns over his fence. He found them. Brought them inside for safekeeping overnight, brought them to the police station first thing in the morning. Arrested and charged for possession.

As far as I can tell he posted a picture containing a gun. This scared someone who reported it. The police arrested him. No further evidence of a crime was found and he was not charged.

I hear Linux is hot these days.

I hear Linux is hot these days.

Good

Sure, but they reflect all known human psychology because they’ve been trained on our writing. Look up the anthropic tests. If you make an agent based on an LLM it will display very human behaviors including aggressive attempts to prevent being shut down.

I suppose if you want to split hairs with “first”, but blackmail probably needs to hop on top if we consider worst so far. I’m going to say the first time it reports to murder that will take the cake.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

Elon is 100% planning to put significant ai compute in space. He is probably planning to do it in a decentralized way.

He has the launch platform (spacex), he has the existing power and data infrastructure (starlink), he has the demand side. (Xai)

Will he succeed? That is different question. Is it possible to add enough power generation and thermal radiative capacity to starlink nodes to bother? Don’t know, but an analysis that fails to answer those two specific engineering questions is useless.