aDyslecticCrow
Samsung the frame 65" for $2000 constantly pesters about $15 monthly subscription to change the art on the display to their selection of public domain historical artworks. Otherwise you're stuck with the default slideshow, which you're now forced to see since the whole sales pitch of the display is showing art when turned off.
atleast they had the decency to not show ads as default art instead... but i wouldn't put it past them
But I'm not sure one can even buy whole milled wheat like that... mabie speciality stores? I often buy rough flour that contains some husks for taste and texture, but I'm pretty sure that's technically fully milled white flour with husks mixed back in...
The starch part is mostly the same with more or less gluten. But ye modern grains contain much more more gluten (the article even mentioned difficult rising the bread) because it makes for fluffier bread.
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If you're sensitive to gluten, then it makes sense to avoid modern white flour... but it makes for badly risen bread.
you've ever tried barley?
I need reminders sometimes that the world is filled with humans doing wierd things to share with one another.
Not everything is about economic value or practicality. Making silly shit can be the goal.
A slighly taller variety of grass hardly matters.
- allow modern machines to harvest it more easily
- move slighly more of the plants energy into the seed
- prevent wind damage. (small farms bordered with trees was more typical historically)
On the historical side;
- The long stalks allow the crop to be bundled and dried without the seed touching the ground.
- It makes the stalks themselves useful as a building material in walls, roofs, isolation, bedding.
- It makes for a good grip as the seeds are pulled form the stalks with an historical thresher.
In short, we didn't start breeding grains to be short until modern post industrial farming techniques. Short grain does provide better yield on industrial mono-crop farming. But would have been seen as worse historically.
If we're talking about the US; then it's simply the very healthy and functional economic inventive of students taking out lifetime loans to pay school tuition for schools that have not actually risen in quality or format in 40 years. The more students; the more money to the school board! Lower those bar riiight down!
Lazy kids these days amiright!
Maths i a cool benchmark, but has the similar benefit to software; very easy to verify.
Cause at the current rate and scope of data center investments; they have to transform the world more than... every other software system we've come up with until this points combined; to justify their cost.
No, i meant this data. All data has bias based on how it's collected. All models (models as... Einsteins general relativity, not AI model) simplify reality with assumptions. You cannot make actions in our reality without making assumptions, simplifications or straight up guesses. Having decent guesses are the best we can hope.
> Biases lead to wrong actions.
Biases is the only way any action can be taken. Wrong actions can only be evaluated after the result has been observed; and even then the outcome of the alternative would remain unknown.
> that I self corrected later on in life, through reason and observation
That is incredibly naive. You have biases, i have biases. If we were not convinced by irrational arguments or suggestions then the advertisement industry would not exit. We have no reason to believe raising "intelligence" higher would help at all; intelligent people seem if anything more prone to finding false but convincing reasoning for their own established beleifs.
Everything is gray, only maths class have an answer sheet. Nobody agrees and will ever agree on how anything will ever be done; and the best we can do is argue until the majority are at-least pretending to agree.
Superintelligence will not change that.
Why would it correct any bias? how would it correct any bias? If data has a bias the analysis has a bias; correcting a bias against the data is itself by definition a bias.
"Super intelligence" (whatever we even define that as) will have whatever goals we give it; intentionally or not.
It's pretty good! The need came from the high variability of wind power. Less dystopian than ... data centers... urgh.
It's of course optional. If you optimise well you can beat the monthly or daily tables and save quite a bit. If you don't care; you pay whatever the grid operator estimates.
This is a storm, but hopefully quick to blow over with a panic frency of apt update or docker build.
The immediate exposure is faar worse here though, since its by design internet facing code.
A college enabled logging on their server as soon as they saw the news, and got dozens of attempted requests against index.php.
Post AI, Its efficiency pre announcing the exploit to bad actors until the official disclosure.
You can just watch the diff log of every open source project with a small local model, and look for anything that touches buffers, function pointers, or shell integration.
It could be an hour between release of a fix before the exploit starts attacking servers.
Guess what also could happen within an hour? A coordinated Internet wide panic that shuts down all vulnerable servers.
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We actually have a recent example. OpenAI hack.
An undisclosed vulnerability fix to a image formal lib; packages into debian 12 running in a docker, used by imagemagic, used by discourse running OpenAIs user forum.
This is pretty approachable maths, and explain really well. I've seen far worse in programming language theory papers, which would qualify as "software development" in my mind. There are plenty of users of this forum that would find this paper useful and interesting, with sufficient math background to read it to boot.
The reason everything else is worse than Amazon is itself because of Amazon. Once you've taken over the entire market; subsidising your delivery networks to the moon keeps the moat.
Amazon is just rentseeking the entire US consumer market while being a rather bad online marketplace. The only solution left is a antitrust breakup.
But imagine creating a readonly tree, working with that tree, and then disposing of the tree. This is where a arena allocator shines. It removes fragmentation almost entirely from the main allocator.
It arrives when it arrives.
> Steadily improving cheap quality you get for the most products
Have you proof read what you wrote? With your lack of specificity for the word "thinking", you're casting a rather broad argument; there is a troubling implications between your words.
* Trust what you're told, consume what you're sold; Do as you're bid, do as you're told.
* Don't question the script, don't step out of line; keep your "snowflake thinking" benign.
* The market knows best, so don't second-guess; Our Ford will provide, just consume and say yes.
Fooooord!^[1]
- [1] Brave New World; by Aldous Huxley
I feel like this issue goes beyond a single large legacy codebase. It can go beyond how the code works into what the code does. How should a thing behave may itself be institutional knowledge only Bary that was involved in the design process still remembers.
Pointing an agent at a problem in one codebase to write a patch can work quite well. But what do i do when the problem is either in the tool, the database, or the two API layers between? You may not even have the code for half of it as it's part of another department or externally purchased solution.
Bary would know, or know who to talk to, or dig up a PowerPoint slide he's been working on to explain it.