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Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:45PM (#42180154)
Both parties are in the wrong on this. Americans (and others) would be wealthier and the world would decarbonize faster if the tariffs on China were lifted but it is what the people want
Yeah this is absolutely disgusting tbh, revising my opinion of all previous nobels way down now
Re:I Am Tired of AI on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:58PM (#41701395)
They really aren't better than humans at math or logic, they are good at the benchmarks because they are hyper optimized for the benchmarks lol. But if you ask LLMs simple logical questions they still get them wrong all the time
Re:I Am Tired of AI on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:56PM (#41701381)
You are mentally ill and you do not understand LLMs, seek help and stop pontificating
I don't doubt that an executive requires a certain temperament that lots of people don't have and that the people who become executives are generally intelligent and capable. What I'm saying is that it is not a "trade" or "profession" that has specific teachable skills, knowledge bases and responsibilities like "engineer" or "lawyer" or "plumber"
SaaS type software has been so easy to build for so long and the margins have remained strong. I think the reason for that is that the SaaS software is an artifact of defining exactly what is needed for a particular function and that remains valuable and expensive
Executive isn't a "job", its a status, its not a skill, its just a position in the hierarchy, so no they will not have commoditized themselves
Re:Why are people paying so much for Vercel? on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:50AM (#41034360)
No one knows how to write code anymore, which is great news for those of us that do
Something has to give, American politics cannot be stuck between the party of pure evil and the party of pure incompetence forever
Re:What Extropic Is Building on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:04AM (#39679646)
^ How to spot a sucker
Re:Why I Left Rust on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:32PM (#36106546)
Good engineers and funding ?
When people say "easily", they don't mean "everybody gets to it". They mean "The chances are better than elsewhere". Which is true. And also fyi if you actually enjoy learning and growing you wouldn't sound so bitter about not making stupid amounts of money
The government is obligated to let you speak, no private citizen or organization is obligated to let you speak without interruption
Nobody is obligated to let people spew propaganda
Re:Nvidia Speeds Key Chipmaking Computation by 40x on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:47PM (#35319982)
No, AI rendering is crazy slow and will remain that way for a very long time.
Re:GOOD Meat gets green light from FDA for cultivated meat on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:59PM (#35256651)
Factory farming is infinitely more repulsive. Lots of us actually care about other living things
Re:GOOD Meat gets green light from FDA for cultivated meat on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:58PM (#35256638)
Factory farming is truly satanic.
Re:GOOD Meat gets green light from FDA for cultivated meat on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:56PM (#35256631)
Yeah we can also ban factory farming, like we ban murder.
Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:49PM (#35112550)
You're right I overestimated how fast we talk!
Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:27PM (#35112332)
4 words a second doesn't seem fast enough for a voice assistant ?
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before? on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:16AM (#34426805)
Its really not, have you ever spent any actual time in academia ?
Yes, SWE's require Computer Science, if you don't think so you've never done any real SWE work. Business majors do not teach you the problem solving ability required for even basic SWE work.
Who said anything about memorizing
Re:Tell HN: Tired of Hearing about ChatGPT on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:02AM (#33881048)
Its so predictable at this point. SV is just such a BS hype machine. There was 1 truly great revolution (the internet + smart phones) and everyone's trying to replicate it to make the big $$$. Its not going to happen. We are now in the steady state till the next truly big thing hits.
He's such a horrible guy. Really weird to see people so desperate to defend him
Re:Tech Talent Is Flooding the Job Market on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:37PM (#33819594)
what do you mean by that lol
Re:Hungary used citizens’ Covid data to help the ruling party on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:35PM (#33819565)
Some forms of conservatism are definitely a societal disease and Orban represents exactly that type of conservatism.
Re:Hungary used citizens’ Covid data to help the ruling party on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:30PM (#33819489)
If any of you were looking to spew a bunch of pseudo intellectual nonsense while distracting from the point at hand. This is a fine example of how to do it
Re:Hungary used citizens’ Covid data to help the ruling party on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:28PM (#33819459)
Uh when the motives are clearly bad it's less neutral to disallow calling it out
Re:Tech Talent Is Flooding the Job Market on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:40AM (#33731748)
They're pretty closely tied together. If you have a strong background in algorithms you should be able to understand ISA's and compilers more easily. In the end its just algorithms all the way down

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