> Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company, but the hardware guy was not in charge. It would be closer to the roots to put a salesperson or designer in charge? And I mean design in the computer science sense, a tool matching a purpose.

Some feel weird when people say please and thank you when interacting with chat bots. If what TFA says is true, I am curious whether norms of politeness (or lack thereof) in chat bots, treating them as disposable, emotionless tools could also leak from chat bot interactions into human interactions. It seems plausible that humans cannot maintain a clear mental separation.

Maybe they should introduce meta-moderation, where authors and institutions get Karma assigned for the quality of their paper and review. Low Karma could then result in more oversight, more reviews, fewer allowed submissions, or a 1-year ban.

That was my experience before ChatGPT 5. With ChatGPT 5, here comes the qualifier: if you use it within its training data range, it's quite good. Within its training data means, doing what other people have done before and is likely to be found on stackoverflow. For example, setting up training a neural network with torch. If you go outside their comfort zone, I agree with you.

Danger lives when these tools are used in an area where the user even lacks the expertise to factcheck the answer. The responses sound very confident.

What's your approach to writing unit or system tests? Are you advising the LLM to write a test first, then check it for specification issues (whether what you meant is the behaviour that is expected in the test), then ask for an implementation?

Dark Energy is the name for the phenomenon an accelerated expansion of the Universe. This was measured by observing distance and velocity of distant supernova, and later also with other techniques (galaxy clusters for exampl). Dark Energy is the additional energy available for driving this, which is not accounted for in light-emitting baryons.

What causes the Dark Energy is another question, and that, indeed, has not been solved ("proven") to date.

Azerbaijan, Iran, Jordan, Namibia, Russia, Samoa, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay and most of Mexico abolished DST in the last 10 years.

That's how LiMux did it, and develop custom but open source software in-house to support local workflows.

But you will always have some fraction persistently complaining that it is not the Windows they are used to (being closely familiar from school, home, other jobs). And any issues arising can be blamed on not using Windows.
Then Microsoft comes along and gives you a very, very nice offer with the aim to shut down the initiative.

As cryptography demonstrates, checking is cheaper than working.

Also, only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Many people can build an app around an open source web engine that supports plugins and scripting. The rendering engine is the hard part and the bottleneck.

I wonder whether it might one day be possible to write one code base and have AI translate it to multiple programming languages.
Currently, each language has to reinvent the wheel and therefore you have incomplete feature sets.

Thinking of:
* encryption, hashing, cache
* scientific libraries, array handling, fast fourier transforms, image manipulation, MCMC
* video, audio, image codecs
* string handling, unicode, date & time
* HTTPS & database connectors
* ...

I think you are going the wrong direction - misspecification is the feature of LLMs people love the most ("vibe coding"): The LLM fills in the blanks by interpolating how others have solved this and the sharp bits that stackoverflow answers have pointed out.

[I am not condoning this, just conveying an observation.]

exactly. TFS says "People are used to giving consent for everything", but for everyone I know it is "People are used to reject consent for everything" - which is the default in the law, it is companies that want to move away from the default, not users. You can build stateful websites without cookies, you know ...

What's the killer app?

I think one that was floated is seeing in an easily comparable way the health information while browsing a supermarket isle? I'd be cool to give live context for from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the Wikipedia "Criticism" sections. Not sure I'd pay for it though.

Agreed, 404 Journalism Not Found - put it into context. Also, a properly managed land fill does not leak into the environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...