One dollar for each unit sold. Seems fair.

-S

I haven't taken a CS course since the Reagan administration, but even in the olden days, The Halting Problem seemed to preclude software that could prove correctness.

I don't think you're talking out of turn, I think you've identified a major limitation of any such software.

Or better yet, "False Hope" -S

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast interviewed Blake Lemoine in early April. The host, Steven Novella, is a practicing neurologist and professor of neurology at Yale university and he wasn't having any of Blake's nonsense.

The interview is wide-ranging and starts at about 40 minutes into the podcast episode. For me, the most interesting part of the interview comes at 59:00, where Dr. Novella schools Lemoine on the current state of neurology and our understanding of how specific structures in the brain relate to specific emotions and our experience of being sentient.

"Hallucinating" is a word we use to describe living brains misperceiving the world. By using that word, we're buying into Elon's frame that ChatGPT is like a brain. Its not. Its nothing like a brain.

Its not reasoning. Its not perceiving. Its not anything.

Its a statistical bullshit machine.

When it says something weird, its not hallucinating - its bullshitting.

Lets call it that.

ZuckFuck

... or "AstroGlide". :-)

It certainly means that all Slack posts must now be composed as SOQL queries. This will have the side effect of creating a consulting industry entirely dedicated to writing custom SOQL postings for you and, ultimately, the Foo Fighters will play at the new Slackforce convention.

YouTuber Austin McConnell produced a good explainer on the high cost of printer ink cartridges and the underlying forces that perpetuate it.

Its both enraging and cathartic.

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It seems Twitter has been taking lessons from IBM circa 2001:

https://slashdot.org/story/01/...

I seldom hear about the maintenance issues of the trans-bay tube.
A catastrophic failure of the trans-bay tube would certainly shut the system down for years.
Anyone knowledgeable about how that clever bit of engineering is maintained?
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$5000 is not enough for me to watch Bio-Dome.

-S

...because I know some harry-nosed wombats who would prefer it if we weren't.

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If I say "Ghosts aren't real", I get moderated informative. If I post "That particular Ghost you call god isn't real", I get moderated troll.

Marry Me.

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Because the censorship covered by the First Amendment deals only with the Government.

Exactly. In the US, Republicans and Democrats alike have embraced outsourcing of government services to private companies as a means of saving money.

But what we've lost as a result is accountability, regulation and Redress. No one seems to have considered the consequences of splitting up the Public Square into a million little private squares, each setting its own rules and standards. Or, perhaps, they have considered the consequences and then gone and done it anyway.

-S