Comment You don't need AI to screw up targeting (Score 2) 286
We've been doing that for years. AI allow you to fuck up much faster and more efficiently however.
Comment redefining insider trading (Score 5, Insightful) 76
Traditional insider trading: The CFO reads a quarterly balance sheet before the earnings call and dumps his options.
Web3 insider trading: An engineer looks at the top -b process table of humanity's morbid doomscrolling, sees a homicide spike, and places a decentralized wager from an apartment in Switzerland. We have truly achieved the cyber-dystopian future William Gibson warned us about, only it's profoundly stupider than anticipated.
Comment Re:Or they are giving a discount... (Score 1) 165
Is it just me, or do model Ys look like humping dogs?
Comment Weâ(TM)re already doing this (Score 3, Informative) 65
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
Comment Stingrays have been around for years. (Score 1, Funny) 172
Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.
Comment Umm, no (Score 1) 263
It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.
Comment Found my comment (Score 1) 79
On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.
Who's this old guy in the mirror?
Comment Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
of production made the USSR what it is today!
Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1) 205
Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.
It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.
Comment Re:So not a big deal (Score 1) 160
Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)
Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 193
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."
Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning
Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."
"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment It can't answer basic questions factually... (Score 4, Interesting) 57
...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".
Is this what you want for the future?
My thoughts back when R1 came out:
Comment When I saw the re-releases of Dogma and Holy Grail (Score 1) 152
Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
