It's true. LLMs can't code. All they can produce is text that looks like code, just like any other text the produce. They lack the ability to consider, reason, and analyze. This is an indisputable fact.
Try not to take sensationalist headlines at face value just because they affirm your silly delusions.
My silly delusion that LLMs are a useful tool, that I, a working programmer, actually do use productively? Okay
Noticed that as well, the quality of the output depends on the quality of the input. And you have to know something about the subject the output is about to know whether is good or garbage (or look at it period and not put blind faith in its output). We've seen it with lawyers using it for arguments then not double checking the cases. Sometimes AI just makes up stuff.
Right, it's a tool. In the right hands, it is super useful.
Exactly. I drive a 1996 Honda Civic. If I were to buy a new car, that is the sort of car that I would be interested in. The sort of car that is inexpensive and capable of driving at freeway speeds. If the government would let me buy a Toyota Hilux for $12K I would do that tomorrow. Instead I get enormous pickups and SUVs that get through the loopholes in our current EPA standards and that cost more than my first house.
I just spent a week in Peru where Chinese cars are quite popular, and the taxi drivers that I talked to were pretty happy with theirs. The mentioned, time and again, that, for the price they were great cars. They were definitely popular. I would buy one of those. They tend to have manual transmissions, which I know how to drive, and which I trust not to leave me stranded.
If I could buy an electric vehicle for $10K I would do that. It wouldn't be my only vehicle, but it probably would be my primary vehicle. I love the idea of electric vehicles, but it doesn't make sense to replace my ridiculously inexpensive (paid for and hyper reliable) Civic with an expensive electric vehicle, or my far more useful Honda Odyssey mini-van. It sort of makes sense to replace the Civic with an electric vehicle, however, if the price is right.
Haven't bought a tablet for quite a few years, do they normally use SIM cards now?
(If so, what makes it a tablet vs. a "big phone"?)
I saw that, but no idea what it means.
Looks like there are some docs on this. This one may be relevant.
Certain topics do not lend themselves very well to the scientific method.
It's kind of hard to set up 100 universes, say, and run them through a few billion years. You can't do the experiment part.
What does the build process do that doesn't produce the exact same bits every time?
I'm guessing it has to do with "sans the likes of embedded signatures".
... did none of the devastated women (quoted in the story) pony up the missing 5% of the org's budget then?
Or if they were never asked, why were they never asked?
No, its not. It wouldn't be SO bad though, except that they no longer allow memory upgrades after the fact (at least on all the entry level stuff where they start at 8gb), and whilst 8GB of memory for a PC cost $25 or so, Apple wants $200 to bump up from 8GB to 16GB of memory.
Apple uses their software to lock their users into their hardware ecosystem where they charge exorbitant amounts for stuff.
So, people can protest so long as the things or people you are protesting against aren't inconvenienced or have to look at your protest.
To a large degree, yes.
You don't annoy people into submission. There is a societal contract where we all have to live together at some baseline level of cooperation. There can be disagreements that don't affect that, but when you start interfering with societal level functioning (blocking traffic, etc), then the rest of the public just becomes angry at the protestors.
Societal controls are what keep those other people from mowing you down wholesale with their cars. You can't expect to benefit from those parts of organized society while trying to halt others, because eventually the people in the cars will start "protesting" in their own way by running you over.
If you want society to keep them from running you over, then you also have to expect society to clear the road.
I know y'all like using 1984 as a manual, but you don't have to follow it so exactly.
(Although, limiting it to only two minutes would be nice.)
It is literally true. Every word of it.
Jordan (formerly Transjordan) is the Arab state carved out of the British Mandate of Palestine after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
The rest was designated as a Jewish homeland, but the Arabs violently objected.
Of course, every other party of the Ottoman Empire except Turkey itself is also now an Arab state.
In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, one day after the modern state of Israel was created, it was invaded by the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
Israel won, but Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
