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Comment Ms Basic actual binary on photorealistic sim (Score 2) 50

Unrelated to 6502, but may be of interest because it's a very early version of MicroSoft Basic, here is a photorealistic sim of it running on an Altair with an ASR33.

It's the actual binary of the basic interpreter, running on simulated Altair and simulated ASR-33, with actual sounds and at proper speed. Gives a flavour for where the this Basic interpreter first saw light

https://s2js.com/altair/sim.ht...

Comment About the same it takes me to trust a human (Score 1) 179

When I ask my accountant a question, I've already done my reading and know what a correct answer should look like. If I end up surprised then I will be doing further reading, and perhaps get back to her with some follow-up questions. When I walk in to buy a TV and ask the spotty kid which one to purchase, likewise I've done my homework and already have some views. Even with my doctor - I well understand that Dr Google is not a helpful thing, but I will read and seek knowledge and work to understand what my doctor says. I tend not to just accept *anything* at face value.

AI is a useful tool in the hands of a skilled subject-matter expert. In the hands of a neophyte you may as well be walking into a bar after midnight seeking opinions.

What would it take for me to trust an AI? About the same for me to just blindly trust a human.

Note we do make exceptions where we don't have much choice -- airline pilots for example. I'm sitting back swilling my G&T where the T stands for Trust :)

Comment Re:Costs to much to watch that closely (Score 1) 57

The average fund manager, on average, performs worse than average. You'd think it would be a mathematical impossibility, but the way they achieve this miracle is through use of fees.

Another interesting data point is that, in general instead of putting your money with the manager who did best last year, a better strategy is to put your money with the one who did worst.

Being an active fund manager sounds easy and fun.

Comment Re:Email will not go away (Score 1) 86

But for that purpose, you need to be using email not gmail: the former is reliable (either delivers to the target or returns failure), while the latter keeps randomly losing mails from any server other than Google itself.

Especially when Cloudflare is involved. No bounce. Just dropped - sometimes.

Comment Re:Email will not go away (Score 1) 86

Concur. Emails get lost. In particular Gmail and Cloudflare sometimes don't play well together. The last week in particular. Nothing Cloudflare can do to fix it because Gmail is just dropping emails - sporadically.

Comment Re:Thoughts from my father-in-law (Score 1) 163

People die of prostate cancer - similar numbers to women dying of breast cancer. Note "die of", not "die with". The truism that "you're more likely to die with than of" is a great disservice to men -- it's only true because (pretty much) half of all men will die with some evidence of extremely slow growth prostate cancer, detectable only during autopsy. But plenty of men die "of" prostate cancer. In some demographics, more men die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer. BUT - many more years are lost to breast cancer and it sometimes involves young women leaving young children, so it's more tragic.

Comment You can't build proper... (Score 0) 808

... skyscrapers, bridges, or rockets without Lego.

Yes, you need Lego. But yes you also need to move on.

Python is for kids and scientists. Doesn't mean it's bad and doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. And doesn't mean it's not useful in a limited arena.

But dude, you have to grow up a little some time. That, or get a Nobel prize.

And that's the thing with Python -- it's for people feeling their way.. either feeling their way through their chosen profession or feeling their way through their chosen physical universe (and heading toward a Nobel prize). If what you want is to be awesome in your chosen profession, then you either need to be an astrophysicist or need to move past Python.

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