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Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 72

you don't even need AI you only need "If then else"

As much as the marketers would like us to believe it, I'm not convinced any current LLM is much more than an extremely complicated if/ then /else tree. I was waiting for the part in this article where the "AI" was only fed data from a smell sensor and actually did an analysis, but we didn't get there.

It's not clear from the article if the LLM is provided with data that associates a smell or flavor with a compound. Given that info, I would expect a junior sys admin could easily put together a script to parse a descriptive word list and a set of mass spec data output to spit out "American or Scotch" in less than a day.

Comment Re:Bad case of WMV (Score 1) 300

Now that you've just gone off the rails by plastering me with a bunch of slurs that have no basis, it's clear that you're just here to stir shit and fling it around. I don't know what cult you think I'm in, but your repeated attempts to put me in one just means you don't have the slightest clue about who I am or what I believe. The world is shades of grey, maybe some day you'll be able to upgrade from black and white.

MAGA is a prime example of the Paradox of Tolerance, which they are using to it's maximum potential. In summary, being tolerant of intolerance encourages more intolerance. Any time someone tries to limit the hate filled crap they spew out, they have to cry about how their intolerance isn't being tolerated.

Freedom of Speech is generally meant as "freedom TO speak" and AFAIK has never been equated with "freedom FROM the consequences of what you say".

Comment Re:Bad case of WMV (Score 2) 300

it is a destructive and antisocial ideology

Thinking more people should be treated fairly by society, that they shouldn't be degraded, marginalized, punished, in many cases beaten and killed, because they are different, THAT is what you call antisocial?

The rest of your post just tells us that you don't even recognize the exact thing you are railing against are the core ideals of the MAGA base.

Do both sides have followers that go to far, hell yeah. Should the "Tolerant of people and ideas you disagree with" slider be set closer to Less or More, I would prefer More.

Comment Re:Sickeningly pop culture. (Score 1) 71

Per the Constitution, currency is also supposed to be backed by, and redeemable for gold or silver; as well as being managed by the Treasury Dept., not the Federal Reserve. The founders appeared to understand that fiat money would eventually become a hidden tax that would allow the government to have unchecked spending power and tried to keep that from happening.

Somehow that was overruled by a law, not an amendment

Crypto many or may not even be considered "currency", depending on how you want to define currency. It isn't generally accepted for payments, especially for taxes or fees owed to the government, which would be a more strict definition. If you want to define currency as any medium of exchange, then you can't say the government has a monopoly as anyone can exchange their time, knowledge, labor, or goods in a transaction for the same.

Comment Re:when the line out the door lay down some more (Score 1) 198

Sitting next to a table with used dishes makes you unhappy? If the restaurant has a host/hostess seating you, they generally aren't going to put you at a dirty table unless it's very busy and in that case usually quickly clear the table while you are sitting down. If it's a "seat yourself" situation, don't sit at a dirty table.

Source: 5-6 years as a cook and waiter

Comment Re:It wasn't even funny (Score 1) 128

The voice simulation was great

George Carlin had a raspy voice with remnants of a New York City accent. This has neither of those. I haven't listened to any real Carlin lately so can't really compare, but the pacing and tempo seemed way off as well.

If I heard this without the "this isn't George Carlin" intro, I would probably label it as a computer speech generator reading some Carlin inspired attempt at a comedy show.

Comment Re:How to make it even faster (Score 2) 121

I guess I'm old school too. I store objects in a hierarchy that I create and curate. If I lose track of an object, that's on me. In an automated system that tracks objects based on a externally, to me, applied set of metadata, I expect to lose track of more objects.

An old gnome email client, and Gmail, both try to do this with "tags" or whatever they call it this week. Leaving the tagging to me didn't seem any different than creating a tree of folders, other than being left with an enormous mess of an inbox. Now I'm supposed to believe a program that doesn't understand my thinking is going sort and tag things in a way that I understand?

[X] Doubt

Comment Re:The game of CEO musical chairs is on (Score 1) 27

In sports, just like the corporate world, it is often the case where a poor leader can be the cause of poor performance. Poor vision and strategy comes from the top. If you have poor strategy and a great team, you are probably not going to do well. It also tends to be difficult to fire the whole team and hire a new one.

Also In both cases, firing some middle level manager may or may not lead to a change in performance. They may not have a real say in the higher level strategy, and they aren't doing the actual work, so they're not able to have a large effect on overall performance.

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