I have it on good authority that he's only using 10% of his brain power at any time.

He should probably hand it over to somebody else.

Banks are... substantially more powerful that all of the tech companies combined, regardless of how much money the spreadsheet claims they have.

They literally do not care what the opinion of an individual CEO is. There are lots of different powerful CEOs in different industries who all want different things to happen regarding interest rates. They can yap all they want, nobody cares.

The CEO of a mid-sized investment firm would have more sway. Which is still close to zero individually.

Wait, what??!

Listen to yourself. This is braindead hyperbole.

Never was there a time when the Little Guy could afford to build or buy themselves a high end workstation.

That was never a thing.

RAM prices are within the ballpark of the ten year inflation-adjusted price average. There's probably a hundred brands available on "that big e-commerce site," at a wide variety of price points, and including the most trusted consumer brands. There is not actually a shortage. And a mid-range CPU still costs more than 128G of RAM, which against is vastly dwarfed by the cost of a RAID array necessary for a "high end workstation."

RAM is a small part of the cost of a good PC.

And WTF makes you think the top public face guy in AI is personally responsible for the boom? Give me a fucking break. Quit worshiping him.

Looking at your username... he's ain't got shit on Bob.

Dingleberry, you may not have understood that news article.

"That big ecommerce site" has lots of RAM for sale, and the prices are within the normal ballpark of the 10-year avg. A lot of the price hysteria is because of a post-covid price drop with very low prices, right before the prices went up. But consumer RAM hasn't stopped being available, and won't stop being available.

Another thing you didn't realize, since you didn't read or didn't understand your link, is that it says one of the major suppliers has long-term agreements with 14 different long-term customers that use up capacity for the next 3 years. Those 14 customers are going to include the big retailers are wholesalers. Also, that brand of RAM is less common in consumer products than Micron, for example. It makes sense that the leaders in server RAM would have long-term agreements for all their product for 3 years. There's nothing exceptional about that. It was like that during the .com era, too.

Horse. Shit.
None of the companies that make the parts in my PC are going to ask for his permission to sell them to me.
He's got a lot of spreadsheet wealth, it doesn't mean he can buy AMD and Micron tomorrow.
When the bubble pops he'll still be a rich jerk, but there's a lot of rich jerks out there, and I don't need permission from any of them to buy computer parts.

The guitar amp that went to 11 was designed such that 1, 5, 10 all meant the same thing as regular amps, and 11 was overdriven to produce distortion.

The reason was that the only other way to get distortion at the time was with a modified amp. Which was fine in the studio, but for touring bands that doesn't work because you have to have a bunch of amps that will all sound the same with the same settings.

You were going good, and then you repeated some false bullshit in a pejorative voice that you merely heard and repeated, without understanding.

Can't watch crows from the basement kiddo, you might have to gird your loins and head Outside to look over the fence.

Crows do not sleep in flight. Surface Dwellers know where they sleep. If you happen to see one, you should ask about it.

But... watch out for mutants.

You can only distract a crow with a shiny once in awhile.

But you can earn loyalty every day with payments of dried papaya.

Not worthless, but pretty cheap.

I suspect this will be the future, but not before things get much, much worse.

I am exceptionally skeptical that your characterization has any basis in reality.

I suspect that your university changed its policy, and your proposed reason is merely what you heard people say about it. People who weren't involved in the decision-making and didn't consult whatever public information might have been available. Instead, they made a statement of hyperbole that fit their preferred narrative. And you credulously repeated that characterization as if it was a statement of historical fact.

Critical thinking is dead, and apparently, so is education.

It's pretty simple, you'd be an idiot to use an energy-inefficient algorithm like an LLM for spell-checking or grammar. Syntactic analysis is a long-solved problem that can be done efficiently using traditional algorithms that produce repeatable results without any plagiarism. The recommended replacements are syntactic corrections.

The point at which an LLM has been used is the point at which an LLM has been used. I hope that clears things up for you.

LOL wait, what?!??

Yeah, testing is easy, it's okay if it has some rough spots on the edge cases... right?

If it hasn't actually been exploited then it hasn't "hit" anybody.