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Comment Re:Would Pablo Escobar pass these tests? (Score 0) 258

The "correct answer" from a trumpistanian AI is the one its owner likes at that particular moment in time, ...

Clue: That is pretty much every AI.

... as your former "government waste" lord and savior ....

Your TDS is showing, you are the only one mentioning the orange dude here.

... showed you by retraining their model every time it contradicted them publicly.

Clue: That is pretty much every AI.

Based on this observation, it seems quite likely that the trumpistani kids will get a correct answer, by this most appropriate definition of correct.

Clue: Correct in the LLM sense does not match factually correct, it means a pattern match of words of a sufficient probability. Words that may be the "garbage in" of the phrase "garbage in, garbage out".

Comment Re:Some will "not pass" ? (Score 0) 258

No, it's not that those who don't pass will be stuck there, it's that they won't qualify for the elite Green Berets. And that's just being used to illustrate how some people just can't wrap their minds around math.

My argument/joke still applies. They will never get past the concept of "won't qualify". Its too alien from their "lived experience". :-)

Comment The who put us on moon with slide rules ... (Score 1) 258

Escobar hired accountants that knew math, and threatened them with a painful death if they stole money from him. That's the sort of people skills that students will need in the United States of Gilead.

You might want to consider that the folks who put us on the moon using slide rules were the products of local school boards, minimal state interaction, and near zero federal interaction. Their schools pretty much focused on how to read and write, how to do math, and how to build or make things with your hands. And you had to do some PT every day.

Somethings experimentation with a system leads to a bad state, backing up to an early state is part of the process of exploring a different direction.

Comment Some will "not pass" ? (Score 1) 258

Here's another real world example: most adults know that if 100 soldiers try out for the Green Berets, only three will pass, but if you ask them what percentage passes, they'll draw a blank.

It's not the math, it's the concept that some will "not pass". They are stuck there, never getting to the math.

Comment Apple knows how to stop the cruft ... (Score 1) 63

This is why things tend to work better on Mac. Revisit 3-year-old software, and it probably won't compile. Apple's Xcode IDE will inform you of about three deprecated frameworks and their "modern" replacements, which you must now rewrite your code for.

Annoying as it is, it sure cuts down on the cruft. :-)

Comment Windows has been fine since Win NT (Score 1) 63

I can take a Microsoft branded laptop ouf the box and it'll spend two days crashing and installing updates. You can't do that with Linux/MacOS

Funny, I built a DIY PC and installed Windows and Linux, and both run flawlessly. It's been that way since the early 90s for me. The only machine that had problems was a PC laptop school chose for me. I reconfigured it for dual boot, but the Linux WiFi drivers were crap.

For DIY my parts are carefully chosen. It's 3rd-party drivers that are usually to blame, both for Windows and Linux. MacOS less of an issue when you don't let users plug things into slots, USB/Thunderbolt/etc., or no go.

Comment Re:Visual Studio is a great IDE, but... (Score 1) 45

I'm probably going to go for the 48GB/1TB as far as storage.

I tend to try and buy a laptop that I'll use for several years, this seems like my best bet right now. It will be replacing a 9 year old Dell Precision laptop that I've been using daily since it was new.

24GB or 32GB will be just great for the 7-8 lifetime of the Mac.

Comment Can't assume these cars are exportable (Score 1) 207

If the reality is that China is producing more cars than they can sell, that does not lead to a crash. It leads to them exporting more cars. EV's are a growing market in the world that will eventually have a demand for all that production capacity.

You are assuming these cars are exportable. Things designed for the domestic market can have safety, IP infringement, and other problems if one tries to export them.

You will find these cars at Chinese run worksites around the globe. But that'll just be gov't policy, not some sort of actual demand at these sites.

Comment There is no unmet demand in the US (Score 0) 207

In China they have an oversupply of vehicles In the Us we have more demand than supply.

No, the US does not have unmet demand. US production slowed due to low demand.

The main US market isn't fully convinced to go EV. The early adopter segment is happy, but that's a very different group of people than the main market. Totally different circumstances, different needs, different concerns, ...

Should be easy to solve these problems.

Actually transitioning from the early adopter market to the main market is notoriously difficult. A well known and well discussed topic.

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