I hate to be a downer, but I am among many other people who have working Apple ][ series computers, and we regularly run things such as Turbo Pascal. When I was young, I used Apple Pascal, but then later got the Z80 "CP/M" card and was able to use Turbo Pascal.

yeah, a task takes an amount of energy, not a rate, unless its continuous. Training a LLM is not a continuous task.

Dementia hits US senators (one of whom is now the President) hard. I didn't know the US Senate had such bad air. But I guess with all of the toxic personalities in there, I shouldn't be surprised.

llms trained wit just a dictionary and those message board, and then let them talk it out,,,would be hilarious

I liked his earlier work in the '80s, creating Miami Vice, that was an awesome show. I think his storytelling as a science fiction author is far less compelling.

Have two Bond movies been insufficient to show the obvious danger of such a deployment?

I guess the requirements of bandwidth and disk space for such a large and popular archive are too much for the university to bear.

It's sort of like the problem that OpenBSD has in maintaining their ancient releases; the multiple megabytes of storage required is just too much for their meagre budget.

I hope these problems can be solved in the coming 21st century.

I will not work on-site. Final, said and done. I came onto this job as a remote, and if you change the conditions that's equivalent to a change of workplace, so you have to pay me severance. Yeah, really. I don't care what amenities your office has, because nothing will compete with the exhausting commute, having to live near a city, and your loathsome 'company culture' (which is essentially a pecking order with a side-dish of sports-team references). Even if you opened an office in my tiny town, I would not want to work in it. If I want company and culture, I'll seek it, outside of the workplace.

I learned the hard way that one should not seek friendship, nor accept it, at the workplace. I once took a job in a city far from where I lived, where I knew no one. Workplace friends were my only friends. I got canned, and because the 'separation' was not a simple lay-off but part of a big corporate kerfuffle, I couldn't just meet up with most of these people outside or work. So, I lost my social circle, and was left collecting unemployment in a strange and hostile city. While searching for a new job, I decided to move back home, where I could be among friends, family, and familiar places. But social life withers without constant attention, and in the two years I was away from my home area, things and people had changed. It took me a while to rebuild & reacquaint myself. In summary, you can still wear the hat of your favorite home-town sports team in a new city, but all it does is make you a stranger in a strange land.

You must have the new sauce in your business plan. Doesn't matter if its a political movement, griftcoin, or Eliza 6.0. Otherwise, the low-effort, low-skill financial advisors won't have any way to know you're in the cool kids club and recommend your stock io the Iowa School Janitors Pension Fund.

What will the Next Big Thing be? My guess is Vietnam, make thing there, sell things there. No, I have nothing to do with the country. It will just become cool to do, because there's an actual business case that can be made, but mostly because it just sounds like something a fresh Harvard MBA would do.

Censorship is an anathema to a free society

There's great reasons for them to play along with the police state, and claim they're not.

This signal is useful because you know that you can't trust what the rest of the article says. Serious people don't says this. Serious editors wouldn't let it pass. Serious journals wouldn't publish such things. 'Nature' has been captured. Keep that in mind when reading things that don't seem to make sense - it may not be your inability to comprehend the paper that is the problem.

I am sad to report that Betelgeuse survived the occultation. We are sorry, but this lustering bully of a star will continue to scream its perverse message into the void.

US Federal Government should determine this by the user-agent identifier in the logs of those who use its websites, coupled to cookies. Then, all we have to do is use Firefox when accessing such sites, in order to keep this above 2%. Am I right?

They were not worth it, much of the 'COVID19' actions were a destructive scam.Utter disgrace.