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Comment Re:0.5 mm resolution (Score 1) 25

Also, they claim it is safe due to lack of radiation. But ultrasonic can fuck shit up too. I mean ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones, shear and fragment DNA (for NGS prep).

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Comment John Brunner would be proud (Score 1) 25

These are all basically following the model of the Delphi Polls from his novel, "The Shockwave Rider". The only step left is for the government to start prioritizing funding for projects based on what people think is likely to happen and we'll be all the way there.

Comment Wrong assumption in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 83

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 20

retains access to the AI startup's technology until 2032, including models that achieve AGI

Exactly how do they envision an autocomplete gaining sentience?

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Comment Re:Pulled a Steve Jobs (Score 4, Interesting) 381

The problem is that Ivermectin isn't a placebo. It's a real drug with real side effects and that puts a real load on your body when you take it. People who say "it can't hurt" are forgetting that anything that effects your body is diverting resources from other metabolic processes, like the immune response to cancer. There's a reason that double blind studies are a thing, not only to see if a drug does better than placebo, but also to see if it does worse.

Comment Will we finally learn our lesson? (Score 1) 32

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

Submission + - Python Software Foundation refuses $1.5 million grant with anti DEI provision. (blogspot.com) 1

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program.

"We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.”

Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Comment We had DEC Minicomputers (Score 1) 192

It was a small room with a PDP 8/i attached to a KSR-33 running Edusystem BASIC, and a PDP 8/a hooked up to a DECWriter with 2 8" floppy drives running OS/8. I spent most of my high school years in there. I founded my school's computer club and wrote all sorts of programs, including one that printed banner messages on the paper tape punch and a biorhythm generator (hey, it was the late '70s) that ended up in the DECUS catalog.

One of my two high school yearbook pictures is me sitting in front of the DECWriter. By the time I was 17, I had outgrown the computer room, had my own TRS-80 and was dialing into MIT-AI.

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