The correct definition is incomplete return of value, not "no return of value". The real estate and dot com bubbles had tremendous value, but were overpriced. Specifically, "An economic bubble (or speculative/financial bubble) occurs when the market price of an asset, such as stocks or real estate, rises significantly and over a prolonged period beyond its intrinsic or fundamental value"

Whatever intrinsic value LLMs have, their capabilities are greatly overstated. The investors watched too many movies, just like half of /. AI in movies?...fucking awesome. ChatGPT? Vastly inferior to what it is sold as.

Ah, 8-bit 6502 Zero Page programming with no distracting usable video or any decent sound.

What is the maximum value of moral turpitude?

FTFY

A better way to learn. The more tactile feel of it combined with the accumulation of physical notes seems to be an improvement.

What I am wondering is if you have a stylus and also probably one of those gloves to keep you from smudging the screen how does that compare.

One thing I do know is that if you are really going to learn things you have to use them in a effective way. Basically you need projects that use the data and the learning. But having students do that versus just testing them on problems individually is very expensive and we don't like spending money on kids that aren't ours. It's really kind of an every man for himself world these days.

This is where the conspiracy theory falls apart. Specifically, you were expecting the cheapest programmers to make non-shitty code. It's effectively a proclamation that MBAs are not to blame for the shitshow we're in.

Counter-conspiracy theory: AI created the programs and material to make MBAs before astroturfing the internet to promote their effectiveness to dumbass executives. All of this so that MBAs would statistically sabotage software across all sectors to keep programmers from the truth.

One good side is the hack writers Hollywood uses are like Junior programmers; ripe for AI to replace. The bad side is people will eat shit with a 30% marketing budget... more with AI marketing bots...

But really the problem is producers and execs. They get too much say and control over the creatives. Those hacks then force the creatives to adapt to them. It's rare when things align and something great happens-- except places where all levels are functioning in balance... like Pixar had for a while and predictably declined as soon as the balance was undone and it would have been a miracle if Disney didn't screw it up. Even when trying not to; but they were trying to knock it down because they made everything else look bad.

YES! I read that Ellison is suing already!
He didn't hold his breath and bury his nose up trumps ass just to buy his kid one media empire! Expect CBS to become another FOX. Consider all those Oracle systems powering the government and how an AI could use them to help target enemies. Maybe he can find the Epstein tapes? No, not the files which are just the tip of the iceberg; but the video connected to those many internal "security" cameras found in just one of the guys houses. (Also, if there was a way, Epstein found a way to meet him. I'd think he'd be more into drinking the blood of children or sucking their souls like the Disney villains he's always looked like.) This is a guy who owns a huge island of Hawaii with only the pesky democracy holding him from further control.

If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.

Lots of windows apps were possible because of quicktime for windows. Adobe was built on top of it for a long time.

Long ago when Quicktime was dying because Apple abandoned it in the 2000s; the developer list had an email asking opinions about open sourcing quicktime. Apple should have open sourced most of it. MKV didn't need to happen. I certainly liked the ability to have reference movies that just worked and took no space.

The API wasn't easy. It was also a massive codebase. I don't think anything has matched it. They did more than codecs; conversion. It handled timecode and editing - the backbone to every video editor for decades was made of Quicktime. It wasn't just for playback and compression. It handled audio and images too. Maybe it didn't need to be so huge...and try to be everything A/V for everybody. They should have handed off most of it to open source and we'd all be better for it if they had.

Lying is a virtue in the USA. Hypocrisy and lack of shame are powerful leadership. Everything a supervillain monologue says about the hero wasting their gifts on others and self-limiting being weak -- that is the mantra of the USA.

The old superman shit is a farce; today's USA is Lex Luthor. Disagree? look at who represents them. Actually representative of the nation's character.

I didn't vote for this but the majority defines the country. us good people are a minority.

This. It is BAD but the Ellisons was just James Bond super villain scale.

Kind of the joke I was looking for, but I just wish the YOB would finish imploding and go away. Unfortunately I feel like it's too late. This trend started a long time ago, and the YOB is only the peak so far. Now that the precedent has been established and the paths to harvesting the government are well established, it's not like they'll stop after the YOB disappears.

Instead, whatever stupid stuff the YOB says today, we wind up discussing it until he says something more stupid tomorrow.

(Heck, notwithstanding his "You're fired" catchphrase, he hasn't even fired Hegseth yet. I didn't expect him to last out this week.)