alchemism
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- alchemismVery Zen of you to say
- I've done professional ghostreading for published nonfiction authors. Many such titles are literally a synthesis of x-number of published papers and books. It is all an industry of sorts.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.
- Welcome to engineering management.
- Business software that is responsible for millions in revenue tends to resemble an ETL shell script more than a 3D game engine.
- The kids went out and found the “cheating engines” for themselves. There was no plot from Big Tech, and believe me academia does not like them either.
They have, believe it or not, very little power to stop kids from choosing to use cheating engines on their personal laptops. Universities are not Enterprise.
- I might dryly suggest that it is prudent preparation for the computing environments they will encounter in their future jobs. Like the way expensive prep schools have children wearing business casual...
- AWS Bedrock of course
- I'm also in the quaint demographic that believes WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was the apex of distraction-free writing. Switching disks to change the application was just the right amount of intentional friction to stay in the zone.
- My first experiments with LLM chat was to ask to produce text mimicking the style of a distinct, well-known author. It was also quite good at producing hybrid fusions of unique fictional styles, A + B = AB.
- The ground damage in the recent North Philadelphia Airport crash was only due to a chartered jet, but it practically wiped out a residential city block.
- AWS often deploys its new platform products and latest hardware (think GPUs) into us-east-1, so everyone has to maintain a footprint in us-east-1 to use any of it.
So as a result, everyone keeps production in us-east-1. =)
- It would not be called "The Paradox of Saving" if that statement was true! =)
- You are conflating macro- and micro- economics a bit in that statement. Entities accumulating wealth incrementing towards infinity contributes to inflation, e.g. My family can spend 1 trillion to out-bid my competitor for ownership of a villa worth 1 billion for bragging rights.
Commodity pricing may contribute to inflation over time. But commodity prices go down, whereas currency tends to move in one direction until the civilization backing it collapses, or the specie changes.
- It might make you Andy Warhol, though.
- Right now we are seeing junior hiring fall off a cliff, whether or not LLMs are responsible is hard to say. But if it does turn out that everyone performs to the level of the LLM, then a vast amount of business dollars can be saved by hiring starving English majors exclusively and dispensing with STEM majors altogether.
- Pair a senior with an agent LLM, pair a junior with an agent LLM, measure the output over some cycles. You will find your answer in the data, one way or another.
- In certain tribal societies, there is no "chieftan" per se, there is just the guy who happens to be correct about things more than everyone else, so his opinion gets the most weight.
- Yes - blades-of-servers replacing what was 2 or 3 rack mount servers. Both air exchange and power requirements are radically different in order to fill that rack as it was before.