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Comment Re:Poor James (Score 1) 106

Uh, yeh, no.

As a code quality aficionado, I have been vibe coding A LOT lately to improve all of what you mentioned.

My vibe code is clear, well documented, built entirely on TDD, and what the AI is fed are clear, reviewed requirements documents.

You are accusing vibe coding by poor engineers of producing poor results. But, you're not praising vibe coding by quality engineers for producing quality results.

LLMs are just new programming languages. And just like how I used to review hundreds or even thousands of lines of assembly language listings because we didn't trust compilers to produce quality results, now I review code produced by LLMs.

Don't be the guy who writes a business CRM in assembly because you don't trust the tools.

Comment Re:But they trust the Internet (Score 1) 208

Fox is a conundrum. Their main website often delivers pretty decent content. Their syndications and TV presence is insanely polarized crap. On the occasions I visit their website, I often find actual quality content. It's just not as exciting as the rabble-rousing idiocy, we all see from the outside.

CNN ruined themselves in my eyes when the broadcast medical doctors as "virus experts" during Covid. What the hell does a doctor know about microbiology, molecular biology, computational biology, virology, epidemiology...

I lean neither left or right. I'm more of leaning up... As in I form my own opinions and use my brains. I even sometimes agree with Trump's actions... god help me, if I believed in one of them.

Comment If they cannot find them then train them (Score 5, Insightful) 106

A company cannot always expect to poach someone fully trained from another company - especially when the skill is a new one. Training is an investment that will pay off -- depending on how much of a bubble AI turns out to be.

Expecting someone to work 7 days/week is stupid - a good way of causing burn out. The staff may physically be there 7 days/week but where will their minds be ?

Comment Re:Not because it can't (Score 1) 42

Umm... Yeh, and cutting people open to perform surgey causes holes in bodies.

If you build a machine which detects and treats cancer noninvasively, then if the machine causes cancer and treats it before it's a problem, I don't see the issue.

It's basically a machine that can put the eggs back in their shells.

Comment Consent of who you were speaking to ? (Score 2) 29

Did neon insist that you got consent of the person that you were speaking to before the conversation was uploaded to neon ? I suspect not, so a huge privacy breach. I think illegal in Europe under the GDPR, I do not know about the USA which seems to be a wild west as far as data protection is concerned.

Comment Re:Not because it can't (Score 0) 42

You're so cute.

The number 1 reason for unnecessary deaths ... Especially from cancer is that general practitioners lack the tools or expertise to detect anatomical anomalies before they are either symptomatic or growths are large enough to feel. Things like breast cancer would cease to be a problem if we didn't have to wait for lumps to form before treatment.

Solution... Easily accessible transmission X-ray full body scanners in malls and workplaces would allow people to pass through once a month and let an AI look for anomalies that when detected would be passed to a reviewer and then signal the health app on people's phones.

The cost savings ... Especially to countries with socialized medicine would be astronomical.

Suggesting human radiologists are so much better than AI and making the case that too many people would go untreated is foolishness. If a person even needs a radiologist these days, it means they should have been treated long before that but because some buttnut is skeptical to AI, tons of people will needlessly suffer because we have to wait for some barely educated human GP (I read all their school books, the curriculum is pathetic.. GPs are not even close to educated enough) to make a lucky guess or see a tennis ball growing out of the patients body before being treated.

Did you know that if AI and full body scanners were employed like this, phased array ultrasonic transducers would be able to disintegrate plaques and other growths, through a person's clothes in seconds? We die from cancer because we can't zap it away once we detect it because it would leave a considerable cavity and the patient would hemorrhage internally. So we slowly poison them... Generally with X-ray or gamma radiation and toxic poisons.

Embrace AI... Please... Too many people suffer because we're too dependent on shitty doctors.

Comment Re:IANAL but... (Score 1, Interesting) 93

So what's the basis of the lawsuit against Disney? There's no damages, so equitable relief? Of what?

They want to use footage from Steamboat Willie and do not want to be sued for breach of copyright. Although this fell out of copyright last year and entered public domain the Mouse is sufficiently litigious that they have a fear that they might be sued -- a reasonable fear IMHO. Thus the request for clarification which Disney would not give. Thus going to court is their only option.

That Disney refused to answer suggests to me that they know that they would lose any attempt to sue for breach of copyright but they are going to make it as hard & expensive as possible for anyone to use Steamboat Willie -- typical large corporation behaviour (that of a bully).

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