In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.
I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?
I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).
(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)
It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.
It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition...
The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.
30% might well be the "biggest single factor." That study compared genes versus everything else combined.
The genetic contribution could be higher today too. That cohort was people born between 1870 and 1900, when there were a lot more environmental things that might kill you early, including two world wars.
I went hiking in Red Rock Canyon once in July and realized if I accidentally locked myself out of my car I'd probably die. Seemed fairly unhealthy.
People don't generally sell companies (in whole or in part) for what they're worth right now. They sell them for what they think they're going to be worth in the future.
Yes, and that's almost always appropriate for such a situation. The last price someone paid for a share is the best estimate of what you could sell your shares for. Your average retirement or mutual fund holder doesn't have enough shares to meaningfully move the share price.
Heat death? I'm not sure "healthy" is the right word.
Trying to remove board members so you can appoint ones you control, publicly talking about firing the chairman, and your power to fire the chairman, proposing devaluing the currency, etc.
But it doesn't matter what spin you put on it, the world is absolutely looking at it as a threat to the independence of the US Federal Reserve and therefore a threat to the stability of half the world's currency reserves.
Microsoft doesn't support hardware for any number of years, unless you mean their peripherals or tablets. They make Windows and they decide what the hardware requirements for new versions are going to be.
Windows 11 requires an 8th generation Intel processor and roughly the same for AMD. The 8th generation was released in October 2017, 8 (not 9) years ago. The 7th generation was released in August 2016, BUT, Intel kept manufacturing it until October 2020, 5 (not 9) years ago. And their various resellers kept selling them for several years after that.
Apple doesn't have a set years-of-support either. It typically provides security updates for OSes for seven to ten years, again, from first sale. But Apple doesn't typically sell the same hardware as new for four plus years like Intel does.
"TheStatsMan" doesn't think more accurate prediction helps improve things.
Note: I said "helps improve things" not "is necessary to improve things."
The stock price times number of shares isn't the value of the company, it's the valuation (or the market capitalization).
For once "valuation" isn't just some business dude adding syllables because it sounds smarter. That $200 you pay for the stock values the company at $200 * a bazillion shares. That's not the value of the company, it's what *you're* valuing it at, by paying that price for the stock. You are buying one bazillionth of the company for $200.
It's easy to calculate so it gets used as "Xcorp is worth this much," especially by people who want a big number, but you're quite right, that's not what it is. Something like the liqidation value (assets minus liabilities) is more like it, and is usually a much smaller number.
Corporate taxes are a thing already. We've even got a (most of the) world minimum.
Hue bulbs are Matter compatible.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
