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I'm sure you and your team were very aware. That was a very cool project and I'd be interested in hearing about your experience. My comment was more directed towards the armchair tech generals out there.

Many people underestimate the challenges of working in this environment. The DARPA challenge is like saying that boxing is the same as hand to hand combat. There are many similarities but the first has rules and parameters and the second has none. I find that people in IT tend to arrogantly proclaim things along the lines of, "I've set up a Kubernetes cluster. This can't be any more difficult." but it's more like setting up a Kubernetes cluster where you're paying someone else just like you to do everything they can to destroy it including giving them a knife and stabbing you. Then letting them loose in the datacenter.

I believe the telco’s did dc power for years so I don’t think this anything new. Any old hands out there want to school us on how it was done in the old days?

What about a possible future with a programming language designed from the beginning with AI in mind? It's fun to think about what that might even look like.

How is this dismissive? It's a fairly straightforward statement of fact. The only way I could possibly read it as dismissive is if you interpreted it like, "These approaches are typically limited to [old, boring ass,] RDF-based web data and do not capture the [rich, luscious] dynamic, user driven interactions seen in [beautiful] modern web applications"

I've had the same gripe about having to keep up with a second language just for the build tool for a while. Try taking a look at JeKa https://jeka.dev/

Anyone interested in this subject might find this art project interesting as well "Deep Fake Birdsong 2020" https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/deep-fake-birdsong

If you want to jump into the ethics cesspool try taking a look into living donors.

People warning about a coming AI winter are almost as annoying as people doomsaying about AGI. It’s going to be somewhere in between. It can be disappointing and revolutionary at the same time. We had the dot-com crash and yet out of that grew some of the largest corporations the world. Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc

Reads like it was AI generated.

Why bother with reorganizing the files? By this point you don’t need the filesystem abstraction. If it knows where to put it it knows where to get it. Why don’t you just ask for the file you’re looking for?

I don't know why I never see anyone mention JeKa when they complain about Gradle and Maven. https://jeka.dev

IPFS is an interesting idea but there are a number of limitations that keep it from taking off. It’s also a bit of a timesink because the initial idea is good and it sucks you in and only later do you see the problems.

> Seeing a heavy Apple user try switching to Linux on their laptop was a real eye opener for me.

I’ve been using Linux since 1996 and Linux on the desktop has been and continues to be a disaster. It’s only good for two things, opening a terminal or a web browser.

…and an LLM agent.

People assume this is a completely absurd answer but there are times when it is correct to put glue on a pizza. The LLM picked this up because advertisers put glue on pizza to get that cheese pull shot. The next question is will LLMs ever develop enough understanding to distinguish these two cases. Personally I think LLMs will figure this out long before a bunch of ontologists stop bickering about it.

Why would WASM be any more difficult in Rust than in C?

What it means is that people who don't know anything about AI can get in on the AI hype. You only need a vague understanding of AI. You get to talk about the implementation and use of AI but none of the nuts and bolts and then then give lots of talks and presentations on the ethical use of AI while advocating for review boards and oversize committees that will be staffed by these dilettantes who become gatekeepers.

A better question might be why wouldn’t AI’s hallucinate?

I’m not so sure it correlates, although I can see where you’re coming from. I know plenty of people who don’t get jack done because they’re so busy being tidy, thoughtful and organized.

Looks like a CLI version of a tiddlywiki

That’s what Stardog is doing https://www.stardog.com/

I can just see it, “Did you buy me these flowers I was it that stupid app?”

People say that I'm cynical but wow this is just off the charts. It also makes me really optimistic that something big is right around the corner. When people start with the "it's all been done" and "nothing good or better will ever happen again" it just means they can't see how things will change. Because they're blind they won't see the next big thing creeping up behind them and when it finally does become apparent they'll exclaim, "Wow what a breakthrough" when the truth is more likely that it's been something that has been brewing for decades. I have some guesses about what the next ones are.

It's an unnecessarily inflammatory title. It seems to imply that we were making progress until those damn millennials screwed it up and undid it. Also "undid" seems to imply some deliberate action.

Also from the article.

"Yancy sees three explanations for higher death rates from heart failure: First, the persistence of risk factors and the necessity to intervene there. “That’s actionable,” he said. Second, the persistence of health inequities. “That is theoretically actionable, but it will require as much public policy as it will require medical therapeutics and lifestyle change.” Third is the outsized influence of Covid-19, a phenomenon he said we have yet to understand."

So why are risk factors and interventions "actionable" but health inequities only "theoretically actionable"? There's also a direct connection and large overlap between health inequities and lack of interventions so the first and second are almost the same thing. The influence of covid-19 was the most interesting but they just shrugged and said, "We don't really know much bout that".

What's hard to understand here? Older generations are showering themselves with money to wash away their problems while the younger generation is poor and suffer from unaddressed health issues.

If it's so inevitable why has nature only managed to do it once? (I'm leaving the dolphins and mice out of this discussion. --HGG)

New age hustle culture.

Is this a specific tool that implements fountain codes then?

This sounds similar to fountain codes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code

“AI invents cures for different types of cancer” seems like a moonshot

What about AlphaFold? It’s just one piece of a very large puzzle but it’s not like AI needs to do it all.

I don’t think AI will be a complete solution for much of anything but I do think that it will be a part of the solution for just about everything.