Also, one can detest AI as it's manifested now, which is merely code for inequality and needless suffering, a way to transfer more to those who already have too much.
We really need to rethink our capitalistic obsession of running things like a business. Cutting costs to increase profits obviously doesn't make sense in areas of education, healthcare, public utilities, and prisons, to name just a few.
Hell, Boeing is making a strong case that it doesn't even make sense for businesses to be run like a business, much less these public goods...
Can confirm, by having taught in a business college, that most end up unquestioning automota in corporations. A surprising amount do it to take over the family business. Essentially, business programs teach greed. Or, that it's OK to be greedy because metrics for greed exist. Either way, they end up much like what LinkedIn turns people into.
What makes going out to eat in the U.S. much less fun is the fact that your time is limited. The table has to turn over to someone else after the allotted time and I hate it. I don’t appreciate people telling me I have to go.
Yeah, this is a very impersonal norm. Nothing about it says: welcome. And when they say welcome they mean: come in quickly and give us your money, then leave.
I'd love to just sit and relax. I guess there's a war on these two things, if you think about it.
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
Here's the logical structure of what you will be taught in terms of #statistics as a masters student in pretty much any #science field.
If MY DATA is a sample from two random number generators of PARTICULAR TYPE, and MY TEST has a small p value then MY FAVORITE EXPLANATION FOR THE DIFFERENCES IS TRUE.
This is, quite simply, a logical fallacy. The first thing wrong is that your data IS NOT a sample from a random number generator of that particular type. So we can ignore the rest logically.
I don't do stats like a textbook in general, because that's all too shiny (and linear) for the real world. It's best to work from the Scientific Method itself and the nature of the data (like ordinality, etc.)
Either way, you're describing statistical fishing, which I don't see as research so much as digging for gold.
Still, I live in a car, so maybe being true to form is a detriment in today's world. Good guys finish quite last, I guess.
Well, it's partly a decision to value time much more than money, but yes, I don't feel as though I fit in anywhere that things are done incorrectly as a norm, which rules out a lot.
I won't work on weapons, or banking. In general, I won't do any work that directly harms another. As such, I remain poorer than I'd like to be.
Imagine a much more moral Einstein. History would throw him away.
I knew you and I had a lot in common. I could feel it.
I too am a firm believer in do it when you can, even if that means taking classes from a nursing home. Others won't easily understand this. The programming is just too strong.
We need meaningful work that can be done with pride and a lack of crummy management. Need. There are probably too many folks like us, not being used efficiently. The world could be so much better, easily. Change but a few things!
BREAKING: House passes bill to criminalize criticism of Israel — a bill opposed by numerous Jewish groups, numerous Jewish members of Congress, and the ACLU.
"Rubber bullets (also called rubber baton rounds) are a type of baton round. Despite the name, rubber bullets typically have either a metal core with a rubber coating, or are a homogeneous admixture with rubber being a minority component." - Wikipedia
It is more accurate to say "Riot police are shooting students with rubber-coated-metal-bullets."
I know that doesn't roll off the tounge very nicely, but that's ok 'cause it probably shouldn't.
Important question: when have large-scale student movements been on the wrong side of history?
I may be biased by my progressive leanings (no, scratch that, I'm definitely heavily biased by them) but it seems like we can reliably look to the young to see the direction we should be moving.
I don't care where you stand politically or your views on the fucked up situation in Gaza, everyone should be standing up to loudly support the rights of students across the globe to protest.
Not going to lie, I'm skeptical. Very skeptical. But there is a chance CO2 emissions will have peaked in 2023.
"We find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024 if current clean technology growth trends continue and some progress is made to cut non-CO2 emissions."
Regardless of if it actually happens, it is important to recognize the progress we are making, which are more rapid than most realize and many predicted. There is hope.
The current system is immune to the real world only in the form of delusion. Problems bigger than the system will devour it, like the growing cost of Climate Change.
I agree that all should do what they can. The problem is the constant and professional obfuscation of anything climate. Making it harder to know what right is.
Someday, when all is on fire everywhere,
We may be too hungry for the word Elite,
We may eat in spite of the label.