Comment Re: Something Something Peanut Farm (Score 1, Insightful) 50
You are out of your mind with this false equivalency.
For some people's beliefs and values, whataboutism is all they've got to offer.
Well, that and projecting.
Comment Re:That change alone ... (Score 1) 50
People have lost all sense when they hear "AI".
The even shout "aieeeeee!" when some something scares them.
Comment Re:How? (Score 5, Insightful) 44
I'm seeing more and more international boycotts against Israel.
As well there should be. At this point they're not much different than Russia.
As well there should be. At this point they're not much different than Russia.
Comment And M$ cut the ICC off (Score 1) 38
And there's any question why the EU is bulding the Eurostack?
Comment The CIA's Greatest Hits (Score 1) 136
If you haven't read The CIA's Greatest Hits (https://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Greatest-Hits-Real-Story/dp/1593764391), I can't recommend it enough. It's a very small/short book, written by a political cartoonist (so it's half-illustrations, and a really easy read)
Once you've read it, the fact that the CIA is giving its agents the ability to access millions of dollars in gold bars will not surprise you in the slightest.
Submission + - The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (fastcompany.com)
smooth wombat writes: Writing software is not just about knowing what to code. Verbally passing on knowledge of why something is done one way or the other, how to diagnose an issue, or what changes took place after implementation because no one documented those changes has been part of programming since day one. However, with the advent of AI, that institutional knowledge may be under threat.
It’s tempting therefore to imagine that generative AI will step into the breach and solve this for us. After all, even if you don’t want to turn a large language model (LLM) loose on a legacy code base—and there are plenty of reasons that you shouldn’t—having it generate documentation on the codebase itself might sound like a solution to the absence of other written information. LLMs can certainly summarize code back to you.
But hold up with that idea. Beyond hallucinations, there’s a deeper problem: Writing documentation is itself part of the thinking process. Whether I’m writing history or software, putting an approach into words helps refine it before I sink hours into implementation. Documentation also captures intent. An LLM may be able to summarize what a codebase does, but it cannot reliably explain why a developer chose one approach over another, or what trade-offs shaped that decision.
Moreover, it’s a chance for somebody else to understand why you did what you did. If they plan to change what I wrote (especially in a few years), they might understand why I needed to write it that way and what might be lost if you take it out. An LLM can read code that I’ve written. It might even scan a large codebase and accurately summarize what it’s doing. But it can’t assess authorial intent.
It’s tempting therefore to imagine that generative AI will step into the breach and solve this for us. After all, even if you don’t want to turn a large language model (LLM) loose on a legacy code base—and there are plenty of reasons that you shouldn’t—having it generate documentation on the codebase itself might sound like a solution to the absence of other written information. LLMs can certainly summarize code back to you.
But hold up with that idea. Beyond hallucinations, there’s a deeper problem: Writing documentation is itself part of the thinking process. Whether I’m writing history or software, putting an approach into words helps refine it before I sink hours into implementation. Documentation also captures intent. An LLM may be able to summarize what a codebase does, but it cannot reliably explain why a developer chose one approach over another, or what trade-offs shaped that decision.
Moreover, it’s a chance for somebody else to understand why you did what you did. If they plan to change what I wrote (especially in a few years), they might understand why I needed to write it that way and what might be lost if you take it out. An LLM can read code that I’ve written. It might even scan a large codebase and accurately summarize what it’s doing. But it can’t assess authorial intent.
Comment Re: Gold bars you say? (Score 1) 136
But why keep evidence of embezzlement at home?
Yeah, I think they forgot to include "stupid" in the long list of his faults.
Comment Re:Tech industry is right wing? (Score 0) 65
You are clearly not very aware of reality.
There are liberal Jews, and there are conservative Jews. In fact, in Judaism there are even (literal) religious branches called "reformed", "conservative", and "orthodox".
As you might expect, the "reformed" Jews tend to be liberal, but many aren't. Meanwhile, the "conservative' ones include some of the most batshit crazy right-wing political operatives you can find!
(The "orthodox" ones, in general, are too busy hanging strings and doing other silly stuff from 2000 years ago to be really active in politics).
Comment And your agent hallucinates (Score 1) 36
Or, as Charlie Stross said about crypto, "quick, invest now, or you'll miss your chance to lose everything!"
Comment Damn Communists (Score 4, Funny) 26
I am sick of these socialists and their damn unions, trying to
Comment clueless (Score 2) 42
A lot of trolls.
1. Union: will give them the power to fight Uber and Lyft. Sone "nerds" you are - you don't know that the algorithm is that someone takes a break, they get fewer and worse rates. If you're sick, ditto. (And before you open your yap, it's a lie: union dues average 1%-2% of your income. There are no "union bosses living high on the hog. There are NOBODY in a union making millions a year.)
2. So, we've been hearing about self-driving cars for years. And they're how common? (Gee, public transit means I don't drive...)
Comment Re:CEO (Score 1) 75
A 100% Ai company doesn't need an HR department ;-)
Comment Re:What is it with surveillance? (Score 0) 95
Someone rapes your mother, and the police know who it was (and thus his license), but they don't know where he is.
Are you seriously going to argue "it doesn't matter if we could catch your mother's rapist using new technology"?
Comment Re:Slippery slope and all..... (Score 1) 95
Because people who drive by school buses which have their lights on could be the next person to crash into a school bus full of kids.
Make they pay now rather than later.
Comment Re:What is it with surveillance? (Score 5, Insightful) 95
Look, I'm no fan of mass surveillance, but "Were the police unable to do their jobs before the Internet?" seems like a mind-numbingly stupid way to think about it.
Crimes go unsolved every day! Serious crimes, like rape, child abuse, torture, or murder. And with crimes like that, you don't want the perpetrator running around free and able to continue committing crimes!
So yes, people have a very good reason to want to make the police more successful, and no that is not a bad thing! It still doesn't make mass surveillance the right answer
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