Yes. With companies declaring that they're going to replace most jobs with LLMs it seems weird that universities would be telling students they can't use them.

The entire university system is broken and they haven't yet come to terms with that.

But I'm sure Xi would much rather throw money at building up local AI chip design and chip manufacturing.

I'm fairly certain it's highly related to our health and diet. Anecdotally, I've noticed a huge difference both with myself and others.

I've made a number of observations on this, personally, and over the years have figured out some things that help them avoid me (or prefer others):

* High vitamin D. You're either getting this from sunlight secondarily or foods (eggs, fish, etc.)
* Garlic. Lots of garlic. This one's the biggest, and for me one of the easiest to address since it tastes good with food.
* No perfumes or scented deodorants. They love that shit. Avoid it like the plague.
* Generally low-carb diet (no crap starches).
* Sulfur. This one surprised me, but it's something we naturally need and don't usually get enough of in our diets. I found it out on a lark during a particularly buggy camping trip when a woman I was with (who wasn't being bothered as much, contrary to my experience that women are bothered more often) swore by it.

My wife also noticed a marked decrease in skeeter interest in her when she stopped being vegan.

Also anecdotally and related, because i know this comes up a lot in outdoor talks lately: ticks. They hate oregano and garlic oil. And neem oil, topically, mixed with lotion. I've had them climb up my sock and then fall off (seemingly intentionally) repeatedly when trying to get onto my skin after a diet heavy in garlic and oregano. It's at least as effective as DEET and sticks around longer.

Sweat also seems to attract them, perhaps due to it causing the odors to be more airborne.

Weekend fun car would be the summer car.
Remember, the winter car is used for dirty tasks even in the summer.

So then you support laws that empower unions to do more than just fund leadership's politics?

> Along with the 8 hour day and the five-day work week (for those of you with a life other than work), vacations, benefits - every single thing came from unions.

All those things came from companies wanting to hire good employees and keep them. The more benefits they offered, the better employees they got.

Look at Henry Ford, who doubled his workers wages because had more than 100% annual employee turnover and doubling the wages meant he got the best people and they had nowhere else to go for a better-paid job in the auto business. Or the entire health insurance system in the US which largely came about because employers wanted to hire more and better people in WWII and couldn't raise wages so gave them more benefits instead.

My girlfriend is in a union. A few years ago a new employee was such an asshole that a couple of existing employees quit over it. They tried to sack the new employee because she was still in her probation anyway and could be let go for any reason, but the union blocked it... even though other union members had quit their jobs to get away from that person.

I've rarely seen a union anyone I know belongs to do anything worthwhile.

We tried the whole "if you don't like it, leave!" Boomer thing but then it turned out that many companies are run by sociopaths with no concept of normal human behaviour. So no, they don't get to say Muh Private Company any more.

The big problem with AI Art is getting the "AI" to do what you want. I'm currently generating an ebook cover and there would be some great covers if I could tell it "yeah, take the text from image #2, take the background from image #4, take the character from image #5" and have it produce the cover I want the way a human artist could. But instead I generate 500 images, quickly go through them, pick the one that sucks the least and run it through an AI upscale model which can also make style changes while upscaling.

It's still an improvement over the old method of going to a stock photo site, paying $2 for an image that kind of works and adding text to it.

Fortunately their "AI" is just a very complicated random number generator. It can automate or accelerate a lot of work but humans will still need to monitor the output for when the "AI" takes a few tabs of digital acid and starts hallucinating.

But if they ever achieve their Holy Grail AI which is smarter, faster and cheap than humans then there will be no The Economy for humans any more. Humans will be as relevant as oxen to most of the oligarchs.

I've been a rider for about 15 years. The absence of shifting is one of the things which makes EVs significantly less fun (in both cars and bikes/scooters). Even video games and movies recognize this in how they implement futuristic EVs.

The clutch on a bike is also more important than the clutch on a car, and it's a big part of the feel of a bike. Motorcycle clutches are 'wet', you can be half-on and half-off clutch. This is useful for helping control against engine torque to the wheels, 'engine braking' as well as controlling launch. For anyone accustomed to riding, it's a necessary feature, because it's literally how motorcycles work. Remove it and it doesn't feel like the same thing; it removes a lot of the enjoyment and tactility of the activity, and subsequently the enjoyment, of controlling a machine. It feels like you're doing something (and you are).

EVs feel more like a railcar, it's the exact opposite of the freedom of movement that motorcycles give you.

> Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

If I remember correctly, Henry Ford literally started out trying to make electric cars, but they sucked so he made the Model T with a gas engine instead.

You do have people doing that in the UK, but it is more people with million pound incomes.
I also lived in the midwest and never had seasonal cars. Now I have a car and a truck. I drive the car unless I need the truck.

Are you sure? AI coding is creating plenty of security vulnerabilities to find in the future. Like all those websites with no authentication that were mentioned here a few days back.

Who are they going to hire to reliably distinguish between junk content and real content?

It kind of works with software because they can pull source code from sites which a) contain code which at least compiles and runs and b) typically have been QA-ed to some extent by code reviews. It doesn't work for the Internet in general because it's absolutely full of junk which only exists to bring in advertising bucks and the companies don't want to pay humans to scour the Internet to try to separate real data from junk.

Hence the models will only get more junky as time goes on.