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Comment Re:Not holding it right. (Score 1) 62

The disconnect is the "promise" is that LLM brings expertise down to the masses. If AI is "too hard for Ford to get right", that dramatically undermines the messaging that drives the current expectations and levels of investment.

This is very much evidence that companies can't be as bullish as they might inclined to be, because whatever you may think of Ford, the typical company is probably worse.

Comment Re:Quitters (Score 1) 62

It's less funny when you have people literally and sincerely saying this...

I have to take some solace in the fact that these are the same idiots who talk a lot and do nothing that I usually ignore who do this all the time, but management is extra entranced with them over the AI cheerleading this go around...

Comment Re:$500 million (Score 1) 79

Maybe for starting their own businesses, but I don't think just to compensate them for having to take a job that's "beneath them". Like you indicate, if another person makes $15/hour and didn't get a handout because they never made money, it would seem awfully unfair to give someone more money because they used to make more money. Easy to argue that the person coming down should by all logic have more financial resources already than the folks working the jobs. If their lifestyle based on higher income is infeasible with available jobs, think the reasonable sentiment would be "tough". Sell that car and settle for something more modest or take a bus, the same sort of compromises the lower paid coworker has *always* had to make. I suppose if anything, some financial relief for those trying to support a college kid where scaling the lifestyle down isn't as straightforward, but broadly speaking they don't have a particular right for government to help them more than they help peers that never made a lot in the first place.

Comment Re:1 Angstroem (Score 1) 104

Keep in mind it's not and hasn't been a specific measure of something in particular in a while. It's a rough analogy for how a traditional process would have to make gate length to achieve the same density. So it's impossible to make a gate length that small, but by taking other measures it is supposed to be "just like getting them that small".

Comment Re:Volvo but not Polestar? (Score 1) 113

Both parties are electing extremists. This is because our voting system is broken.

Some sort of ranked choice or approval, and STV for electing more than one representative per election, would work. Unfortunately the party in charge (of either side) does not want that because it means their extremists will lose. So this likely will never be fixed.

Comment Re: Subtext is scarier (Score 2) 64

AI is stupid, but it can track details and at least provide a hint.

On the "make stuff that works" side, I've had the experience like yours. If someone lets it go too far, then it's a headache and it's easier to roll it back. If anything a bit painful as it's "empowered" some of the worst to make my day harder, being confidently incorrect all the time.

On the "find stuff that's broken" side, well, humans don't have the attention span and the AI techniques are catching little but critical mistakes by humans. In my codebase that has had regular security reviews for over a decade, including a few outside consulting companies, this year marked the first year that the teams had LLM at their disposal. It found two security issues that no one had noticed, one of which had been there almost essentially from the beginning. Admittedly, neither were exactly world ending (both required attacker to log in with admin privileges and the things you could do were a bit constrained), but they were real and undesirable. One of them kind of missed the point and although it mis-characterized the behavior, it put a light on an area where a human could actually think through and sort out the real issue, and how the flawed approach applied more broadly than the AI identified.

So AI as a review tool can work, it has a significant amount of false positives and misses stuff of course, but it can either directly catch or inspire human attention on a sketchy area.

The security team said that it was actually quite remarkable they only found two vulnerabilities that both required admin access, that most projects they dealt with ended up with 4-5 vulnerabilities exposed to either unprivileged users or even unauthenticated access. This is the sort of code the world is mostly built on.

Comment Re:Morons (Score 1) 93

Presumably, this is the whole point of these contracts, to hold the customers accountable for Micron making memory for them when the broader market is not necessarily looking for that particular memory.

Now I don't see how this can work out in one of the more well documented ones. OpenAI had at least a trillion dollars of these sorts of purchasing commitments, and even pretty bullish assessments don't support their ability to make that much purchase. So I do anticipate the market failing to make their minimum purchase commitments. I'm presuming there are penalties in these agreements and so they probably get money for nothing unless it gets so bad that OpenAI goes actually bankrupt.

Comment Re:No infotainment screen makes little sense (Score 1) 204

It uses a screen as a gauge cluster, and puts the backup camera feed there.

They don't presume any speaker setup either, which would be a pretty key expectation of android auto in general.

They evidently will support a double-din mount of whatever you want, so you could add that without much issue.

Presuming reasonable access to channels to cable and mount speakers, I'm a huge fan of this facet of things.

I would like to see a couple of integration points, steering wheel controls and EV battery state/range estimates fed to the navigation like you get with other EVs and android auto, but no need to be as heavy handed as other platforms.

Unfortunately for my situation, it would lose out handily if a competitor had a midgate. I rarely need a substantial bed and usually need the seating, but it looks like it won't be easy to free up your bed if you have the seats in. Also subjecting the rear passengers to coming in by the front door.

If slate had a 4 door pickup with midgate to get longer bed, and maybe 20 inches or so longer to have that same bed even with rear seats available, I'd strongly consider it.

Comment Re:Backfire (Score 2) 111

You do know that if the immune system got confused about virus versus cells hijacked to replicate viral material, we would have been dead pretty much the first second you got exposed to a virus? This is what a virus does. The difference is the virus produces material that will re-infect cells, while the mRNA resultant material is not self-replicating.

You also know that we had *billions* of people use mRNA vacinne and autoimmune problems weren't even vaguely a concern, and it was effective?

Comment Re:Trump is lost in the past (Score 1) 242

The advantage of small reactors is that (in theory) you could build a plant with 20 or so of them. This would make them less expensive because they would all share the support infrastructure. The reason this would be less expensive than a single big reactor is that they can be individually shut down for maintenance, so a SMR that only works 50% of the time is useful, while a big reactor has to work 99.9% of the time. Obviously as you stated they also have to make SMRs work at all and at a price that is less than 1/20 of a big reactor, which has not been proven yet.

The fantasy that towns would put a single SMR in their town square or a data center will put it in their basement are just that, fantasies. But clusters could be a deal changer for nuclear.

Comment Re:Sounds like AI isn't really a significant part. (Score 1) 152

They say two things, one is that folks don't know how to deal with a released person:
"Their case manager may need to consult a dozen or more paper files or databases to learn whether they were convicted of a violent offense, if they require mental-health medications, if they can stay with family or need housing, and which vocational and educational programs they may have taken, among other factors."

The other:
"Not only would a more-efficient system help released inmates get the support they need, it could highlight who is likely to offend again after release."

So sounds like making more informed parole decisions?

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 181

Looking up a nuclear plant near me, the sustained power output is about a gigawatt.

Roughly looking up peak theoretical solar for a farm that could sit in the same footprint, it touches *maybe* 500 MW under impossibly ideal conditions.

Power density story is rough.

Further, the latitude causes some challenges seasonally for solar.

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