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They’re gonna create a competitor to OpenAI using the British Civil Service and government spending. Yeah, ok. Best of luck to them.
Re:The Advent of GenAI Hackathon Using Intel Developer Cloud on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:11AM (#38381108)
Come check it out!
Fascinating. Question: do you use any HPC or ML modeling in your work? Because if so we should talk.
It’s a book review of a book by that title.
Re:RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:08PM (#21447075)
RISC-V _and_ Rust? Straight to #1!
Re:Tetris on Google Sheets (2018) on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:22PM (#19772334)
Soooo... no.
Re:Tetris on Google Sheets (2018) on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:21PM (#19772330)
My google drive said the script needed full permissions over everything in my drive.
Always important to remember that a lot of the people slamming this stuff have no counter-plan because they either don't believe in climate change or just don't care about it. May an ill fate befall them.
Re:The Last Itanium on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:16AM (#19052032)
I remember people getting really angry when you called this stupid back when it was just rolling out. "x86 has too much cruft! The instruction set is crap! It won't scale well to 64 bit! Blah blah blah!"
Back when I was a neuroscientist I had a fun conversation at SfN (the largest neuro conf in the world) with a big up-and-coming researcher about the cerebellum. Her take was "I hate that thing. If I never have to read another paper about it again that would be great. It's dumb. I wish we could get rid of it." I wonder how she's feeling about it these days...
Discerning whether a story is fake or not is a cognitive task. Many people over the age of 65 are in some stage of cognitive decline. It should not be surprising to anyone that they would score more poorly than young adults.
Most attorneys don't work at large firms and don't make nearly as much money as the popular imagination would hold it. There is a huge glut of law school graduates that is driving down wages outside of the white shoe firms, as well.
Re:Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:04AM (#18561166)
Where do you live? Here in Chicago that's a pretty reasonable amount of spending for my family of 2.
Re:What You Have to Fear from Artificial Intelligence on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:41PM (#18438644)
I wrote this. If anyone wants to yell at me about it (and there are fair objections, I think), here I am.