You are correct that 307 days of the year counts as "most of the time." My city of 200,000 doesn't run any public transit on Sundays or major holidays. Instead, bus drivers on all shifts are scheduled to be home with their respective families.
Interesting to finally see something that more credibly resembles recursive self improvement even though this was just low hanging fruit and they didn't technically complete the cycle. Still way better than the crazy rhetoric I've heard in the past out of AI companies who think AI generated code constitutes RSI.
so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects
Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?
they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged."
So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".
That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.
Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.
No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.
Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.
People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.
Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.
If it would iron, fold and put away, I might think about it. Folding is not the time-consuming part there.
to shooing a cat away when it jumps onto a table
Lol, yeah. 99% of cats will ignore that.
As someone who lives in a country where every single vehicle on the road here is imported, I have no problems with BYD being subsidised if the price I pay is lower.
And, in closing, I predict we will never achieve mostly total security. Too many risks, too many bad actors. We will, perhaps, raise the bar so that the bad actors will require resources beyond the reach of even dedicated individuals. What's that saying, there's always someone faster than you on the road...
Well north of 90% of real world compromises already don't work by exploiting security bugs they work by exploiting people. Even if one could snap their fingers today and all of the security bugs in the entire world are magically fixed it would have no substantive real world impact.
1) it's expensive
2) the false-positive rate is very high
I do it for free on my own computer. The lack of signal rendered AI bug hunting pointless having attempted it continuously over the last three years. With current models (e.g. GLM-5.3 754B) both quality of findings and volume of nonsense have in my experience been quite reasonable. I am willing to suffer way worse for the types of results AI has already provided.
This reminds me of the early days of valgrind where it was almost unusable at first and a few years later improved to the point you take literally everything it says seriously. Obviously AI isn't that but the step change is similar.
In the past if you gave models a focus or enough leading questions they might figure it out but never when left to itself. Seems a lot of the recent gains are a result of post training behaviors to act more systematically
That all being said, you're not wrong.
Each LLM is going to be better or worse at finding different bad patterns, and incorrectly identifying certain patterns as bad that are fine.
But the fact is- if you let that LLM throw its head against the wall for long enough- if you burn enough tokens- there's a good chance there will be a couple of diamonds in the sea of bullshit- and that's the problem.
The first time I run code through the model the top line is almost always useful. You have to scroll down to get to the bullshit. Even rerunning the same model against the same code is useful.
Is there a reason people prefer things like looking up things on stack overflow over the manual?
Not quite a manual, but I bought a Packt book that's supposed to help me learn Azure. Specifically, it claimed to have a number of sample projects to help me better understand Azure and use it more effectively.
In its chapter regarding configuring a site-to-site VPN, it glosses over the part where one is supposed to configure the local side, and its sole metric of success is whether either side has a connectivity indicator. In its chapter regarding storage options and tiers, there's no project at all. In its hybrid EntraID section, it says to just download Entra Connect to my domain controller - y'know, the one I just have lying around.
Claude was able to hold my hand through creating different resources, and took its time explaining the concept of a "resource group" multiple times until I understood the concept. Stack Overflow doesn't have that sort of instant gratification, but it does have enough of a group of people who can usually answer a question well-enough.
Written documentation has its place, but it requires a VERY good writer to express an idea in a way that will make sense to readers who, almost by definition, don't understand what the author is trying to convey. It's a skill that isn't at all easy to do, so quality of manuals vary greatly.
Its not the physically changing the clocks thats the issue you idiot, its the general pointless hassle of it.
Pretty fucking obvious to anyone with a normal brain aspie.
It is obvious to you because you were thinking it and you believe it. To someone who doesn't know what you are thinking and has a different value judgement of what constitutes a hassle and therefore no reason to infer it refers to anything other than changing clocks your remarks are nonsensical.
Personally I see no hassle with non-clock related processes involving optionally going to sleep a little earlier once a year and since what "it" means is outside of the subject of the sentence and was not qualified in any way it is unreasonable to expect others to guess your thoughts.
" How would such language constitute anything other than a distinction without a difference?"
Says the man without a job, kids, elderly parents or any kind of responsibilities.
If by "it" you meant something other than changing the clock you could have used the English language to communicate this. Neither myself nor anyone else can read your mind.
Air is water with holes in it.
