MotoAsh

Definitely both. Training people to believe things without evidence, or worse, “because I said so”, is in fact bad for humanity.

Average cost seems to be ~13-30B, so, this is somewhere from 6-2.5 plants. I’ll be surprised if more than one gets built with these funds with the current administration…

I love me a good math lecture. (ok well, good ones, like 3blue1brown videos)

It reminds me of listening to fantastical stories as a child that I can barely fathom the results of, let alone the journey. I know I’m hearing very important and profound things, but for the life of me the depth passes me by. Like doggy paddling around the deep end of a pool without even realizing I couldn’t touch the bottom if I tried.

OH! I thought of another interpretation: Subjecting others to Danny McBride’s appearance is an asshole move.

Not sure I can agree with it, but it almost makes more sense than him being an asshole IRL.

Is there celeb drama I’m unaware of or is it a further reference to the character he played?

It’s exactly that and you know it.

more a horseshoe thing. Once someone gets so authoritarian, there’s kinda’ no point in even looking for differences. They’re both interested in tasting boot, so fuck 'em both.

Is it the story about trucks, or spelling “knew” as “new”?

rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.

My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.

That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

Literally none of that requires a live connection, or a connection at all if they add even an RPi5’s amount of compute to the bed.

Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.

Smart bed is fine. … Why does it need an internet connection at all, let alone a live one!?

Fuck these absolutely vile data harvesting trash companies that don’t even remember how to do things locally…

Yes. Yes implying plurality for a singular thing is, by definition, exaggerating.

LLM is being used in a colloquial way here. It’s just how the algorithm is arranged. Tokenize input, generate output by stacking the most likely subsequent tokens, etc.

It still differentiates it from neural networks and other more basic forms of machine “learning” (god what an anthropomorphized term from the start…).

It’s not about the commodore group, but about the bounds, “trusted more than MS” puts on it.

It’s like someone saying, “well, I like you more than Charles Manson?” It’s almost an insult.

I would trust a hobo more than an escaped convict, but that’s still a pretty low bar.

Wait, the brachiosaurus can’t either.

The result in the end should be an organized series of events, a process, that takes or produces data. The data can be anything from a single number in a calculator, to a text message, to your entire social profile. The process can be anything from basic math, to advanced math (i.e. machine learning, rendering, cryptography, etc), to performing simple operations on that data like shuffling that data somewhere else.

These processes are stacked on top of each other and utilized with basic logic (if, else, loops, scope, etc) and combined together with a myriad of programming patterns and algorithms, to produce higher and higher orders of complexity, that eventually solve a real-world problem.

The result is an ever increasing complexity of useful tools and processes that can either solve specific problems directly or at least provide discovery for other useful tools and processes that might.

It’s translating higher order problems from something understandable at the task level all the way down until a piece of specialized rock that only understands on and off can eventually spit out a meaningful result.

ok ok electrical engineers get the claim for the last sentence, and plenty of the real-world complexity, but hopefully it illustrates my point that ‘nothing’ is … just wrong. We cannot discount the absolute importance of abstract things. Everything from “imaginary” numbers to completely abstract things like philosophy have real- world consequences. If programming produces nothing, then MOST jobs that aren’t manual labor produce nothing.