What does any of that have to do with Beethoven and Wagner?

They are a public company, so you can check their financials.

It seems the problem was an NP hard problem, and the goal was to build a heuristic that gets as close as possible to a good answer without being perfect.

In other words, in this contest, the goal was literally to write buggy code.

Does/did it have any special features? Why did you choose it?

The summary beat you to it. ltr

Here it is as a competitor that hasn't been indicted (yet): https://www.renttherunway.com/

Were they invaluable? Now they are zero.

It's called Stack Ranking and it causes problems when people need to cooperate (like on programming teams), because people won't cooperate, they'll backstab each other. It's entirely counterproductive.

It works ok on sales teams when salespeople operate independently of each other. (ie, the more they work together, the less it works).

LOL no doubt that will hold up in court. The law doesn't say it has to be defined with the authority of the copyright owner.

The part about authority means that even if you manage to break the copy protection (which you have by switching your user agent), if you do that without authorization, then you've broken the law.

Again, this is one of the problems with the DMCA.

> ...returned to its original crime-prevention mission...

That "mission" is law enforcement's mission, not Ring. Go look at Ring's website and you won't find ANY mission let alone providng YOUR video of YOUR property off a camera YOU bought with YOUR money and installed with YOUR time and PAY MONTHLY to access your video... only to give it away to every stormtrooper with a badge.

Mission-creep is one thing, but here's another -- Ring users said they DON'T WANT THEIR VIDEOS SHARED WITH THE stormtroopers, ICE, or any other LEOs. Ring's "leadership team" is clearly not about --in any way-- doing what their paying customers want.

The Blink Doorbell (https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_US/blink-video-doorbell) doesn't require a monthly subscription, doesn't require you to provide the video, and doesn't share the [lack of provided] video with LEOs.

If you want to support a company with a product that doesn't have a "mission" to spy on you and give footage to the nazis, Blink's a good option.

The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 requires airlines to file tariffs indicating, among other things, the rates they charge. While there is a range, it's not unlimited, and advance (published) notice is required. There will not be dynamic nondesterministic pricing based on passenger net worth, ability to pay, past history of flights and fees, etc. That would violate the tariff and be unlawful.

As others have said, WERE Delta to ACTUALLY find a legal way to implement this, those of us who would be targeted will just fly other airlines. The last time I flew delta was August 2024 where we had two first-class tickets, two legs, four total on the round-trip. The seat pitch was cramped, there was caked on grime in the tray slot, and the seat pocket in front of us contained garbage. That was my only Delta flight in ten years, and the last Delta flight to come.

Sure, anecdotal evidence doesn't make for good statistics, but it's good enough to make my desire to vomit override my lack of desire to be financially raped by an "AI".

Face it, those of you who think this will democratize pricing -- it will only raise prices. Otherwise they'd stick to the current fares.

They shouldn't have gotten rid of calculus as a requirement.

If you want to learn to code, go to a boot camp. It's only 8 months. College is about learning to think.

Oh come on, that's not true. ChatGPT is just a text generator, but the Virgin Mary saved my little brother from being a newt.

Where?

Everyone signed the WIPO treaty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Robin Hood's CEO knows nothing of what his coders are doing, and you can tell because he conflates "AI code" with "AI code editors."

In either case AI can't yet code at any level of trust worthy of a flower stand point of sale system let alone a commodities trading platform.

He knows nothing. He speaks as if he does. Those are the signs of an idiot pretending not to have impostor syndrome.

AI isn't coding ANY production code ANYWHERE today. If it were, we'd hear about it from REAL companies with REAL software and
NO trust issues.

Yeah, all bullshit.