Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 127
Not for nVidia. They are the guys selling shovels to the gold rush miners.
Comment heh (Score 5, Insightful) 127
""Run as fast as you can.""
Translation: Me like money
Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 274
As an anti-racist with a geography degree, this is solving a problem that doesn't exist. Walk into any classroom on earth and chances are good they won't have the mercator projection on the wall, they'll have something better representative of area, often a Robinson projection.
Comment eh (Score 4, Interesting) 62
Ok, I'm tempted. Not enough to preorder, but if the reviews are good enough I might go for this.
Submission + - The 'Anti-AI' Panic Is Led by...AI Companies (hotair.com)
schwit1 writes: What we are seeing is a massive, pretty obviously coordinated campaign by AI researchers, companies, NGOs, and politicians to strangle competition in an industry and, as I will show, save the financial bacon of the top AI companies that are vastly overextended financially because they have made contractual commitments that they simply have no prospect of paying for.
Comment hmmm (Score 1) 92
This reminds me of a case where a British court and an American court each ordered litigants not to litigate a case in the other's court.This was in law school decades ago and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it's the same kind of issue where if you want to do business in either country you can get easily screwed.
Comment Re:Are You Sure? (Score 1) 167
I think the first poster in this thread got it essentially right. This "top researcher" is trying to whip up hype for the new startup he'll be spinning, shortly.
There's so much hype coming out of the AI industry right now and it really seems like they're playing the "any publicity is good publicity" card pretty hard. Why wouldn't he?
Meantime, I agree, the poster you're replying to is probably the most logical and well reasoned view in the thread. This is exactly what I've been trying to explain to my wife about all the insane AI stories we're seeing and hearing on the news every morning now.
Submission + - Independent review of NATS failure on Aug 28 2023
Mirnotoriety writes: Independent Review of NATS (En Route) Plc’s Flight Planning System Failure on 28 August 2023
A perfectly legitimate flight plan triggered a previously undiscovered software edge case. Both NATS's primary and backup flight-processing systems hit the same error and shut themselves down.
Once both systems were down, NATS's manual fallback could process only about 60 flight plans/hour, versus roughly 700–900/hour normally. That forced severe traffic restrictions.
What actually crashed? The failed component was FPRSA-R, NATS's flight-plan processing system at Swanwick. The flight was Los Angeles Paris Orly. Its flight plan contained a waypoint abbreviated DVL. DVL can refer to Deauville, France, but also Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Eurocontrol's processing had added additional waypoints to the flight plan.
FPRSA-R was trying to determine where the aircraft would leave UK airspace. It encountered the DVL abbreviation and interpreted the wrong DVL as the exit point. The result was logically impossible: the aircraft appeared to leave UK airspace before it had entered it. The software recognised this as an impossible situation and generated a critical exception. The primary system disconnected from the operational network and entered maintenance mode.
A perfectly legitimate flight plan triggered a previously undiscovered software edge case. Both NATS's primary and backup flight-processing systems hit the same error and shut themselves down.
Once both systems were down, NATS's manual fallback could process only about 60 flight plans/hour, versus roughly 700–900/hour normally. That forced severe traffic restrictions.
What actually crashed? The failed component was FPRSA-R, NATS's flight-plan processing system at Swanwick. The flight was Los Angeles Paris Orly. Its flight plan contained a waypoint abbreviated DVL. DVL can refer to Deauville, France, but also Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Eurocontrol's processing had added additional waypoints to the flight plan.
FPRSA-R was trying to determine where the aircraft would leave UK airspace. It encountered the DVL abbreviation and interpreted the wrong DVL as the exit point. The result was logically impossible: the aircraft appeared to leave UK airspace before it had entered it. The software recognised this as an impossible situation and generated a critical exception. The primary system disconnected from the operational network and entered maintenance mode.
Submission + - Parents Demanding Tech Opt Outs Take Their Fight to Federal Court (edtech.law)
Hasaf writes: On August 26, 2026, seven families from Lower Merion School District outside Philadelphia, PA, sued the District, the Superintendent, and certain members of the board, asserting violations of their Constitutional rights.
Plaintiffs allege that District leaders have presided over a digital free-for-all, where students of all ages can and do access online pornography, violent videos, gambling sites, and video games, including one in which the player’s goal is to escape from sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. Instead of paying attention in class, students consume an endless stream of short-form videos, browse social media, and shop. They chat with strangers and bully each other. They frequently interact with AI chatbots, which not only help them cheat on their assignments and diminish what they have already learned, but have also sent grown adults into delusional spirals and have coached other young people to take their own lives. Lower Merion students do this and more at all hours of the day: on the bus, in class, at lunch, and during breaks, and also at home, late into the night, when their parents think they are doing homework.
The complaint, with exhibits, can be found there https://edtech.law/wp-content/...
The link to the complaints is also at the bottom of the article
Plaintiffs allege that District leaders have presided over a digital free-for-all, where students of all ages can and do access online pornography, violent videos, gambling sites, and video games, including one in which the player’s goal is to escape from sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. Instead of paying attention in class, students consume an endless stream of short-form videos, browse social media, and shop. They chat with strangers and bully each other. They frequently interact with AI chatbots, which not only help them cheat on their assignments and diminish what they have already learned, but have also sent grown adults into delusional spirals and have coached other young people to take their own lives. Lower Merion students do this and more at all hours of the day: on the bus, in class, at lunch, and during breaks, and also at home, late into the night, when their parents think they are doing homework.
The complaint, with exhibits, can be found there https://edtech.law/wp-content/...
The link to the complaints is also at the bottom of the article
Comment Re:Just think (Score 2) 118
Fun fact, Ackman is a hardline Trump supporter who helped get him elected.
Comment uhh (Score 3, Interesting) 118
" suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,"
And they went with sight in the headline? Being unable to move is waaaaay worse.
Anyway, I feel bad for her and him (though he's a right-wing nutjob who has used his wealth to help drag down American society).
Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 504
The US produces more manufacturing output than every other country on earth other than China.
Comment Re:I think you're overselling Jobs/Ive (Score 0) 93
Yeah, the products were better under Cook.
Comment Re:Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 179
When you use that many italics to emphasize words it's a good sign you need psychiatric help.
Comment Re:Ad (Score 1) 12
It's appropriate for a Chess.com story given their app now has ads by sketchy, low-class companies
