It is odd to think that AI is now easily doing things we were absolutely 100% assured were “impossible” 3-4 years ago and no one comments on that.
Those same idiots now are screeching about “plagiarism machines” and “AI is evil” while knowing nearly nothing about it. The clowns are noisy, but rarely right and almost never worth paying attention to.
Too much of the left expects you to the apologize and grovel before them for their own self-caused failures.
And I’m not about that. I am all for helping the poor and downtrodden. But I refuse to have anything to do with a performance of penitence because someone else isn’t up to snuff. It’s insulting and reduces us all.
Which is I guess the point.
I really am spiteful. If I had a few billion dollars, a big part of that money would be spent buying Mozilla, firing everyone there, and finding anyone who had anything to do with destroying Firefox and making sure they never worked again.
Really.
I realized a lot of the left was actively evil (as much as a lot of the right is, to be clear) when Iryna Zarutska was murdered. Here was the “perfect” victim: A refugee from an actual war who’d come to the US trying to make a better life for herself. She was attending college while working, attractive, and riding public transit as a good (in their mind) person should. She was the exemplar of what should be living the American dream — if the left just simply did not want to destroy America.
And their response to her brutal and heartbreaking slaughter was either crickets or, “Just what pretty white women deserve” or “It’s worth some level of sacrifice like Iryna so that wandering meth-heads can make up for their oppression” or “Doing anything to make sure people like Iryna get to live is racist.” And similar.
Man, fuck them. I’d trade one Iryna for every last one of their clown asses.
Definitely. I’m one of those who grew up with constant prep for war (and nuclear war) with the Soviets. The younger people who don’t recall any of that have a vastly different mindset when it comes to many political and social topics. Scientists can prevaricate and dissimulate all they like, but that’s a very huge and extremely substantive generational difference there.
Most written media is mid-wit slop, because thereโs a literacy gate just to participate at all. If you canโt clear it, youโre not in anyone’s view, and if you can youโre funneled into a narrow band of โreadableโ output.
So the people who can barely read are aspirants hoping for the day they can finally understand the slop. Meanwhile, the mid-wits who are the actual target audience treat the pap like the ceiling. Itโs all they can grok, and they get offended the moment you suggest they stop accepting spoon-feeding and look past it to something more complex and accurate.
So for those reasons slop is about all there is.
This is correct. The US’s clownish obsession with enormous pollution-spewing trucks and fossil fuels is not mirrored by the rest of the world. We are being and will be left behind. In about five years, more than half of the cars on the road worldwide will be EVs. In 10, it’ll be more like 80%+. All except here, where Ford moronically canceled the electric F-150 because the American right now believes batteries, the sun and wind are gay.
Fucking idiots.
I was forced to use the new WordPress editor for a bit again and goddamn it is a piece of crap. It’s impossible to do anything and even basic text editing is terrible. Copy and paste somehow doesn’t even work reliably, which is something that for most applications was solved in the 1980s.
It’s absolutely insane that someone released this. And of course it has its cheerleaders that claim that if you don’t want to use this utterly-broken mess that you “just hate change.”
Yes, I do fucking hate change that harms me, thank you very much.
Even though I use it for some things, I really hate Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and the entire cult around it.
Most of the time it’s an incredibly inferior way of doing things. Stateless? Who asked for that, or needs it? For 99.98% of anything, state is important and matters! We had better tech that achieved even what’s attempted today in a far, far superior manner more than 20 years ago.
But my field is horribly cursed to reinvent poor implementations of past tech they aren’t even aware of every decade or so.
How do you keep showing up when the Help Desk has completely destroyed your soul?
No one can last more than 2-3 years on helpdesk. I did it full-time and exclusively for around two years and if someone had put a red button that said “DESTROY ALL HUMANITY” in front of me after that stint in hell, I would’ve slammed that doom switch so hard I would’ve broken my hand.
You just experience the very worst and stupidest there. All day, every day.
People should be rotated out of that pit and those stuck there should do everything they can to advance their careers to get out of helldesk. It takes a huge toll on your soul.
Some real crankery at Phys.org this morning.
How did this nonsense get published? This is some wild stuff.
New models of gravity and cosmology could also be premised on Lษ . In cosmology, the energy released from the gravitational energy of the entire universe due to Lษ can function as Einstein’s original cosmological constant ษ , preventing cosmic collapse into a singularity. Gravity can be modeled as just the flipside of this process.
No it definitely cannot and is not! What in the hell.
This clown treats โenergy released from gravityโ (turned into heat/light) as if it could play the role of the cosmological constant. It simply cannot. As any Physics 101 book will tell you, heat and light is ordinary energy that thins out as the universe expands. On the other hand, the cosmological constant is a special kind of โvacuumโ effect that does not dilute the same way at all. That’s why it’s called a frickin’ “constant!”
The article also assumes thereโs a single, well-defined โgravitational energy of the entire universeโ that you can draw down like a bank account. In standard general relativity for an expanding universe there isn’t this kind of energy bookkeeping, so this makes no sense right at the outset.
It also implies this process could act like a constant background term. But anything tied to the expansion rate and to the universeโs changing mass distribution would vary over time, which is the opposite of what โacts like the cosmological constantโ means for any observation.
And what the heck does, โGravity is the flipside of this processโ mean? No! It really isn’t! That’s a cereal box slogan, not a theory. Unless itโs backed by precise equations that reproduce what gravity demonstrably does (lensing, time dilation, gravitational waves, equivalence principle, etc.), it’s all absolute crap.
And then I looked the guy, Matthew Edwards, up. He’s a librarian. Not a physicist, not a cosmologist. And he has a whole passel of papers that are all absolutely lunatic.
Please keep this garbage out of Phys.org.
This article gets something really right.
In fact, the advent of digital media marks the third information crisis humans have lived through: the first came after the invention of writing; the second followed the printing press.
This is correct. The Ian Welshian doofclown assertion that the internet changed nothing, meant nothing, transmogrified no human relation, is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life. And I grew up in rural North Florida, so I’ve heard some absolutely fantastically stupid things.
As the article points out, we are living through the first stages of what will be the largest information apocalypse (in my view) probably since the Sumerians first started pressing wedges into wet clay thousands of years ago.
And if you can miss that as Welsh has, I can’t trust your assessment of anything else.
(I’d argue that the first info crisis truly came with the invention of language itself, but that was probably more gradual.)
To those who say AI isn’t a substantive advance (or even more absurdly, a “plagiarism machine”) you’re wrong. No, it’s not a tech Jesus and it’s not the end of the humans on earth as the AI cultists imagine, but it’s at least the equivalent of gene sequencing + editing or other tech like that.
Most of you have a GIGO problem with AI — garbage in, garbage out. And here’s the thing: you’re the garbage in that equation.
Definitely. It’s become professionalized and corporatized.
The truly exceptionally-skilled people who were not well-socialized have been pushed out, mostly. Thus, the average level of talent has decreased by a whole lot. Contributing to this is that those like me who grew up with real computers and excellent troubleshooting skills are starting to age out.
This means that the average skill level is a lot lower, and most managers are not as competent. Relatedly, there is vastly more attention paid to the appearance of things (not software or design, I mean socially). The put-up-with-no-bullshit greybeards and (more rarely) doyennes have nearly all departed — what’s left are gladhanders, ass-kissers, corporate social butterflies and sycophants of all stripes.
It was a lot better field 15-20 years ago is what I am saying. There is no nearly no one left at my level any longer. Which means there is no competition but it’s also very lonely. Those with actual impressive skills aren’t present anymore, and the juniors coming up can’t troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag.
It’s been sad to witness.
It’s not racist to have more trouble telling people apart you’re not used to being around. It’s just normal and human.
When I first went to China, I had trouble distinguishing some of my first acquaintances from one another, especially at a distance. But then I got to know them and even from 300 meters, I was like, “Oh, hey, Ling Ling, we’re over here!”
Or, “That’s Xiao Mai on the way. I see her down the street.”
It took me about a month to get a lot better at distinguishing Chinese faces. And then I couldn’t believe after that I’d had any trouble. Noticing human differences and acknowledging them is not racism; that’s just life and reality. The left would do a lot better to accept that and deal with it like adults.