Comment Re:Watershed moment will be deployment. (Score 1) 49
"...take energy from the grid when there is no sun." There IS no spare energy in the grid as backup. That's why you build the new feckin'-A power-plant !
Comment Re:It's possible to imagine that... (Score 1) 45
Wasn't there a paper out of IBM about 10 years ago stating much the same limitation ? Can't REM details right now.
Comment Re:Removing Whammo from my phone (Score 1) 63
Every foreign-based smartphone app can be replaced in two weeks. Big fuckin' deal for toxic globalists like you. Go chew on a Li+ battery.
Comment Re: How did we got to this place? (Score 1) 22
"The assumption was that language was a high level skill." Yes, language IS a high-level skill. Strings of events are not. Watch LLM output or an oak-leaf flutter-down from a tree. That's a string of events; zero skill exhibited by the leaf. To see high level skill in/through those events you will need humans ... Newton and Stokes ... and their peculiar human language.
Comment Re:Surprisingly on point (Score 0) 32
Do I smell an elitist stench in your comment? All wrapped up-in CSS & JavaScript crap? Naturally being a Linux-only lusr I DO look down on Micro$ofties of all ilk ... so I know elitist memes when I see them.
I've considered re-opening my old "ButchersBoulevard" website on Neocities ... choke on it.
I've considered re-opening my old "ButchersBoulevard" website on Neocities
Comment Re:Get rid of busses (Score 0) 121
Clever post. Some moderators have no sense of "ironic".
Comment Re:Article on the broader issue (Score 1) 92
You are so wrong: "All sport should be professional" . Ted Williams had a line about sports-fishing-tournaments. 'I don't care some much what they do to fish, but what they (payouts) do to fishermen.' As a long-time catch and release fly fisherman I agree.
I might add that achieving "fairness" among the incompetent requires both financial bankrupting and tyrannous government. Putting lipstick on a pig does not improve the pigs appearance and likely gives injury to the applier.
I might add that achieving "fairness" among the incompetent requires both financial bankrupting and tyrannous government. Putting lipstick on a pig does not improve the pigs appearance and likely gives injury to the applier.
Comment Re: Tariffs and rebates? (Score 0) 284
Why drive a "household" across Canada, when you can cut a deal with the railroad to haul you+car+trailer in lux ? Bet the train-ride scenery is really beautiful AND enjoyable. I've taken all three train-routes across the USA and they were amazing -- lost now of-course because of no-smoking and early-closing barcar.
Comment neo-mining (Score 4, Informative) 17
Cloud /*.ai over-reach in media/data/IP/energy really strikes home to me. The more cloud* tends to consumes ALL resources the more "successful" it becomes . I grew up in Scranton Pa, where coal-mining dominated local culture and consumed/destroyed most other forms of employment. Not just during 1860-->1960, but long after, when underground coal-fires polluted ground-surface and air. Scranton became ... and remains an economic/cultural shell ( it does manufacture 155 mm shells for Ukraine ). I see the grasp of cloud/*.ai following the same meme, but on a nationwide scale. Coal mining raped a gorgeous Lackawanna Valley and tried swallowing the Susquehanna River, leaving nothing behind , but a few wealthy families and toxic waste. Now is the time to ensure cloud / .ai doesn't do the same nationally.
Comment Re:Translation Time (Score 1) 64
What fool would goto Amazon for art? I mean, it's like trying to watch sports on a squints-ville smart-phone: nobody would do that ... oh wait ...
Comment Re:Eh (Score 0) 84
"Heck, they could easily overrun and conquer all of Russia from the Urals to the Bering Sea ". Well maintained and disciplined French and German armies have tried that. Something about pure distance creates problems. China believes in prudence ... I think.
Comment Re:Do their employees still need food stamps to li (Score 1) 55
LL&L economist here ... but, the GOLD standard is flawed beyond complexity. In America financial "panics" were endemic to the 19-th Century -- even tho the GOLD standard stood tall. Then the "BIG ONE" in 1929. Only WW2 with its' high taxes and rigid government control of consumption stopped them.
Comment Re:This is Treason (Score 1) 89
If that USA publicly traded company transfers classified materials to an "enemy" state that/those company C-suites will goto a Colorado prison with no courtyards & 23 hr/day of solitary ... or get shot dead in some alley after a coke-binge. I prefer the latter solution . USA after all is at war.
Comment Re:Where does innovation come from? (Score 1) 102
"LLMs cannot solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time, but they can help generate heuristic solutions or approximations that provide "good enough" answers for practical applications. "
So says my *.ai ..... I wonder what you had in mind . Is this a "back of the envelop" calculation for helium atomic energy levels ?
So says my *.ai
Comment Re: Whistling past the graveyard (Score 1) 66
Are you saying no novel computer code needs to be written, or are you implying much more. That humans have reached the end of knowable abstractions. Some science writers in the 1960s proposed "the end of science" based on the success of QM and relativity. Only history exists for them ... and Feynman supported them by saying 'history is what you read in a book'. Excepting biology/medicine perhaps they were correct. The 'end of coding' smells like "let LLM do it". I use *.ai like talking encyclopedias and they do OKey. Maybe they were correct, but I'm not a little confused.
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