LLM, aka artificial summarizers, have grown horribly worse the last 12 months. Humans have slowed posting q and a in favor of ai answers, but LLM is only as good as its human material. Eg, 2 people I know each spent 2-3 hours with friends using paid Claude to fix their printer before giving up and calling me; I fixed each in 3-5 minutes by deleting the printer and re-adding; in March I asked ai if the world cup was this year and it contradicted itself answering No this year is 2026 but the world cup will be in 2026; I asked it a basic arithmetic question about modula and floor commands and it included 9-8 = -1; I just asked it when a nba team starts training camp and it replied in 2024; I asked it what the best bluetooth speaker is for iOS 26 and it explained that iOS 26 will be released in 2032 and the current version in iOS 17 but recommended a bluetooth speaker for iOS 18; I save screenshots of these horrible answers. A Carnegie Mellon study recently found ai agents are wrong much more than half the time. CEOs have the wrong mental model of what LLM does. The main creator of LLM recently said LLM is a dead end and about as smart as a house cat. You all know about this trend but I restate it because repurposing or continuing to use data center equipment for inference may not be profitable if its results are so junkie. Also data center inference chips burn out extremely fast 1-2 years from extraordinary intense initial use so the mind boggling costs never made economic sense. I have personally known several tech CEOs and their salient characteristic is fearless aggressive boldness, absolutely not intelligence. The initial impressive uncanny LLM honeymoon was like businessviagra for them and they redid their wardrobes to accommodate that but who would buy their used clothing as they shed them when the phenomenon wears off? Granted, ai finding bugs is pretty cool.

About a year ago a high end art gallery in San Francisco paid at least $500k to two scammers impersonating two NY museums that bought artwork. It started with a comprised email account at the gallery. It wasnâ(TM)t discovered until the gallery complained it hadnâ(TM)t received payment. In that period, the thieves moved the money to prevent it from getting clawed back. One NY museum had cyber insurance and paid right away. The other, I do not know. This rightly freaked out all the nearby galleries, and they all started requiring live phone voice confirmation of bank account numbers for transfers. A friend of a friend got an email from his manufacturing vendor in China telling him to wire the agreed $500k payment to different bank account, but the almost-victim immediately called the manufacturer and confirmed the email was an impersonator who hacked his email. A client of mine told me they receive fake invoices for real completely work all the time. All this is a main reason bank robberies are way way down. That is not where the big easy money is anymore.

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For example, IBMâ(TM)s Hollerith machines in the 1930s and 1940s were giant and required regular onsite visits, including in German concentration camps where there were essential to processing the ghastly affair (tattooed numbers on victimsâ(TM) arms were IBM punch card numbers). When the German gov tried to save money by printing its own punch cards, IBM threatened to cut off service, so the gov backed off.

Besides the vodka, the engineers gave it thick babushka thighs. I offer the team my enthusiastic contrafribularities.

Or at least not in cities we just visited there for 3 weeks. I stepped outside our apartment and walked along bike paths everywhere, hopped on a trolly, hopped off then walked all over, jumped on a train to another city â" rinsed, washed and repeated. And we never even needed to borrow bicycles. Never took a cab, even from the train station. Never even thought of taking a cab. If it were raining hard, maybe. Driverless cars? That is like mocking Europe for not offering much XXXXL clothing or 96 ounce sugar water drinks in corner stores. Yep, Europe is way behind the US.

I like this quote, but I can't find the source: " A man stops arguing with others when he starts arguing with himself."

IBM also survived the Great Depression by selling machines to the Nazis, as described in the book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, by Edwin Black. IBM not only supplied the behemoth machines for each concentration camp, they also serviced them there and supplied paper punch cards, even intimidating the Nazis by threatening to stop servicing the machines if the Nazis printed their own punch cards ( to save money). Those tatooed numbers on concentration camp victims were ibm card numbers. I recommend the book.

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Totally true. I know a disbarred attorney. A pathological liar. A middle manager at my wifeâ(TM)s employer thought he was being clever by hiring the disbarred attorney as a lowly office assistant in order to get free legal advice. The middle manager quit a year or two later and stuck the org with one of the most pernicious little devils you can imagine. He clawed his way into becoming union steward then local union president, a job few want, where he terrorized just about everyone. His pay is minuscule but his ego feasts on the souls of others. He always says heâ(TM)ll be reinstated soon because the judge who disbarred him made a mistake. Heâ(TM)s said that for years. The dolts in management fear him because he sued them and won for some nonsense. NEVER ever think you can use an evil person for your benefit. It never works out and enables the wicked to rise into more power. Sound familiar? Iâ(TM)m looking at you, Apprentice producers and Fox-enabling Matt Groening.

The same thing might be happening to humans already with human news echo chambers untethering their consumers from reality.

I'm not sure, but my experiences with rolling blackouts in northern CA haven't been about grid capacity in the last 15 or so years. All the rolling blackouts I've seen were to prevent fires from above-ground power lines, which caused massive fires, death and destructive when conditions were dry and winds were high. High winds and dry vegetion + above ground power lines = rolling blackout. Power plant batteries would have nothing to do with such rolling blackouts. Other parts of the country, e.g., Texas, seem to have rolling blackouts because of dificient capacity at times.

Here is a Scientific American article explaining that annual flu death figures are estimated, not counted. Actual counted flu deaths are much lower. Apples to apples comparison is actual counted flu deaths to actual counted covid19 deaths OR estimated flu deaths, which is the publishe cdc number, to estimated covid19 death, which is a much larger number than actual counted covid19 deaths. https://blogs.scientificameric... quote of article In the last six flu seasons, the CDC/âs reported number of actual confirmed flu deathsâ"that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirusâ"has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts.