Obviously didn't see the recent bruhaha about broken AI models due to over sensitive DEI type modeling.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/ar...

That wasn't AI's LLM problem, that was a human programmer (AI Training) problem. The result is effectively censorship. Luckily we live in a free and open society, so they were caught and exposed. The results were both terrifying and Humorous. I searched on Google a few different ways to get the link above, but Google has effectively (tried to anyways) censored it.

Censorship doesn't work in a free and open society.

Class Action Lawsuit should be available, right?

And I would suggest that any terms of service that changes functionality AFTER purchase is not a legal contract, as there is no option to negotiate. Terms of Service changes that take consumers' rights away should be null and void, IMHO

You don't think they tested it?

The DEI hires most certainly did test it. They programmed (aka "trained") it do be 100% woke like them. The problem isn't the AI, it is the people.

The problem with DEI type people, they think "diversity" and immediately assume everyone is the same given certain immutable characteristics. Those values were reflected in the results. Results that showed how utterly stupid that framework actually is.

"Put a chick in it, make her lame .. and gay"

Change Form Factors and see that issue mostly disappear.

Cellphone. one of the most used Computing devices, more powerful and capable than computers just a decade or so ago.

Linux on the desktop arrived, and people didn't notice (Android). The desktop screen size shrunk (physically), but has better than VGA graphics. People shift if you don't tell them you are changing their OS.

I'm a bot?

Oh no!!!!!

Anyways ....

Most people Do Not need MS OSes any longer. There is no "value add" to them at this point for Home/Small Office. The Lone exception is perhaps Excel needs. Everything else can be substituted with other platforms and software options.

There are use cases for specific software products, but with containers taking off, those will become less platform specific.

The Nursing Program at our local University requires BS degree just to get in. It's two years after that.

Residency is after 4 years of Med School, after completing Doctorate. It is technically supervised practice of Medicine, not education.

And if you wanted, you could tack on specialization studies for those that require even MORE.

Yeah, six years vs eight years .... "pales in comparison"

In my fantasy land, we'd have a variety of medical professionals with levels of expertise that all can be called "Doctor". My best example is the modern RN, whose knowledge and skill exceed that which were called Doctors 70 years ago. Literally better suited to be Doctoring than those of yesteryear.

In 90% of my health care needs, I'd rather have a RN than a Doctor. But the laws and regulations say I can't because they are not "doctors". (Nurse Practitioners are exception to SOME of those rules).

My point is we need regulation and yet that regulation gets in the way of advancement. We need to constantly revisit those rules to see where improvement can be made.

It's not socialism, because it wasn't compelled. The transaction was 100% free will gift and not demanded by anyone and no vote was ever taken, short of the Lady Dr herself.

THIS is free enterprise (not capitalism) and thus is okay. The benefits of Free Enterprise is that people can do what they want with their money, free from dictates from others. Socialism demands compliance and fails when people can opt out. It eventually fails anyway, because people can't opt out.

See also "Charity" (in the classical definition).

Here's that first sentence with them...

They've known for a while now, and been talking about it for well over a year.

They've known for a while now, and been talking about it for well over a year.

On Jan 1 2020 a new IMO (International Maratime Organization) regulation went into effect. The shipping industry drastically lowered the sulfur content of its fuels and the SOx content of ship exhaust plumes dropped by about 77%. (Other aspects of the fuel change also reduced some particulate pollution, too.)

The COVID sequestration also reduced shipping (and cloud-seeding exhaust from it), along with aircraft contrails and upper-atmosphere dust, and dust-generating industrial processes and transportation activity, which (like volcanic dust) also reflect sunlight over the ocean and lower temperatures.

I've seen claims that the reduction in ship exhaust plumes, alone, are enough to account for ALL the sea temperature rise since 2020, and that with the low-sulfur fuel in continued use the bulk of that excess heating will continue even as activity ramps up post-COVID.

Regarding the "hockey stick" graph. (Taking absolutely no position on whether Mann was honest or not, competent or not, etc.)

I was under the impression that the Hockey Stick graph had been shown to be defective as an indicator of warming, primarily because it took tree ring data as one of its proxies for temperature, but carbon dioxide concentration increases alone have been shown to substantially promote tree growth even in the absence of temperature increases. So how much of the sudden rise in the graph is from temperature increase (if any) and how much just from increased CO2 levels is unknown.

But I don't have any links to reliable scholarly articles examining this issue. Do any of you?

Telco's can and ought to clean up their CallerID lists. Those Telcos that are suspect get marked as SPAM.

The Legit Telcos won't let their customers spoof CID that isn't theirs. Those that do should be labeled as SPAM or at least "Unverified" or CID Blocked or whatever, I don't care. The Robodialers from India et al get automatic label, as the calls come in. Legit Telcos can label the spammy VOIP providers as exactly that.

The problems are fixable if the TELCOs wanted to really fix the problem. It's just too much effort without any rewards.