..."Armagh," is what the forecaster said when he realized how miserable the weather was going to be that day.

I haven't seen it either, other than catching snippets of it on TV from time to time. I'm assuming that he's paying for exclusivity, so that she isn't working for other clients.

That said, that's an awful lot of money, better part of $400,000 per year. It seems ... unlikely that the client would directly pay that much. I would see a much more likely scenario where he's putting her up in accommodations and has lines of credit at various stores that she can use, but where she's otherwise on a short-ish lease. Similarly a distaff-counterpart in George Peppard's character as a struggling writer turned gigolo in Breakfast at Tiffany's where his benefactor is providing him with his apartment but he isn't getting a whole lot of actual money from her so that she can maintain control over him and can keep the arrangement somewhat secretive.

I didn't think I'd see Usenet's 'Eternal September' apply to scientific research.

If the number of scientists and doctoral-students increased then it would follow that the number of publications would need to increase, but it sounds like at some point the wheels came off and the rigor in evaluating research was left behind.

Which is why you review their social media profiles to see if they're worth offering any sort of comps to.

I have no doubt that the restaurants that cater to the wealthy and basically only the wealthy have always done this, following "the social pages" and the Who's Who books, and the sorts of other documentation about rich and/or famous people. They want those rich customers to feel known, to feel welcome, so they spend more money.

The only difference here is that they're acknowledging their sources now include a wider array of Internet sources, not just the complications put together and maintained by others.

When I had to drive to a particular part of town every now and then I'd use the carwash near my destination since they did a decent job and weren't overpriced. They always offered lifetime car washes as a rather expensive package.

Last time I was there they were still offering those expensive lifetime packages. Next time after that I was in that part of town, perhaps three weeks later, the carwash was fenced-off with rental chain-link fencing. When I drove past a month later the carwash wasn't only torn-down, but a crew was pouring a new foundation for an apartment complex.

Given the amount of time it takes to go through the permitting process for such construction, they would've known for well over a year before that the place was closing. They probably sold the land and worked out an agreement with the buyer to continue running the carwash until the buyer was ready to start construction.

I'm not inclined to purchase 'lifetime' anything unless my fairly short-term usage is going to be enough to offset it, because you never know for how long the place will be there, even if they are honest and attempting to keep operations running in perpetuity.

No, they aren't.

But if say, Madonna's daughter comes in, they might well ask her about how the 'season' is going, as she spends time in various parts of the world that nepotism has granted her access to, or if one of Bill Gates' offspring comes in, to ask how things are with the foundation that their now-divorced parents ran, or they might use what they've read to specifically steer-clear of topics that could cause offense.

This is sensationalism reporting. I would be very surprised if anyone who buys a $500-a-plate meal even reads this site.

When you're paying what's frankly ridiculous money for a meal then it's not the meal you're paying for, it's the whole experience from the moment you enter their establishment until you're walking out. It makes sense that a business catering to that sort of 'experience' is keeping records, you're their cash-cow, you're spending unnecessary money on a luxury experience and they want to do whatever they can to give you the experience sufficient for you to come back, and that means personalizing it for you, both to cater to what they know you want from dining, plus making it fit in to your greater life.

It sounds like the majority of what they're doing here is transitioning from paper records to electronic records, and cross-referencing to that which you as a customer are already vanity-publishing.

What's in it for me?

I have not been shown a particular use-case where I would directly use AI to my benefit. I don't make digital art, I don't need it to summarize any meetings were an "AI notetaker" would be permitted, I've found most AI-generated summaries are of questionable accuracy, and to be frank about it, technologies where it might be 'under the hood' that I use seem to be worse for it, like search results. I don't work with huge datasets as a researcher or clinician, and much of my professional time is spent troubleshooting things that are messed up by mistakes made by tech companies themselves.

What's AI supposed to do for me? If all I'm doing is making it generate things that I didn't need before, then it sounds like it's just a further waste of my time.

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Coding is to CS as math is to Physics.

Software engineering is building the supercolliders for physics.

Meanwhile we have LLM's declaring themselves Mechahitler.

Good job University of No Job Placement.

(yeah, some Universities have been giving CS degrees for HTML and MS Office)

Good one. :)

If we can't move the planet by then we've gone extinct too.

According to the Timcast review (spoilers) he never says either phrase in the movie.

Just some dope making posters, reportedly.

Apparently all the immigrant and Israel propaganda stuff is fake too.

Marketing Buzz achieved - don't believe anybody without verifying.

What is the current total Federal budget for science across all departments?

We have record homelessness, addiction, child trafficking, and a curiosity about the earliest moments after the Big Bang, if that even exists.

Oh and not enough electricity for humans and AI aspirations.

Given limited funding we need to prioritize.

Cutting the War Department funding in half would be another good move.

By all means if this can be philanthropically endowed, like the Simons Observatory, that would be fantastic.

And where are the Oil Sultan countries on this? Muslims used to be the very best Astronomers in the world.

Indeed, Glassdoor to show them the door.