- washadjeffmadThere's a short story with a similar plot from "Valuable Humans in Transit" by qntm.
- Somehow, continuing the trend, this will affect none of the people responsible and only harm Millennials.
- It's a protection for the faculty and students.
If you fail someone who rarely attended class, and they claim that they did, asked you for support, and never received it, how might you defend yourself?
If you have an excellent student who encounters a hardship, how might you petition for leniency to allow them to drop without penalty beyond a cutoff, or delay submitting final grades until they can complete makeup work?
- I tend to do the cookie baking, so it'd be a little silly for me to be mad over someone eating them.
And for what it's worth, no one deserves blame for their cookie habits.
- The 'blank in the firing squad' technique of snacking is a pretty typical girl thing.
Eating cookies? Perfectly fine. Eating an entire bag of cookies? Gross. Unthinkable.
But how many cookies is really fine to eat? The safest best is not to know, either by breaking them into uncountable pieces or leaving some in the bag for someone else to finish (meaning, you ate less than a bag of cookies and are safe).
- I'd much rather not have every part of my society for sale to someone with infinitely deeper pockets.
We're not the customers of healthcare, insurance, mortgages, etc. The planet's wealthiest pensioners are. No difference in comp is going to make that work out best for you.
Also, the existence of Cadillac plans implies that someone in our government doesn't believe the population at large should be receiving world-class care. It's like when Senator Biden had two cranial aneurysms, had top surgeons flown in on taxpayer dime, then fought against universal healthcare.
We're all already paying for the best healthcare in the world, just not for us.
- GCC was a psyop to destabilize the private compiler industry.
-Someone, surely
- > James Mulvenon says he has been targeted by suspected foreign agents ... “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman”
If I were the journalist, I would have asked for a statement from his wife.
- You know, I realized the same thing after seeing a guy in one of our 3D print communities consistently printing life-sized models scaled with LuBan for his students. He had a garage full of Bambus, a bunch of photos of his models in an apparently high-trust community elementary school, and it just clicked when he said "rural Kansas".
We operate one of the largest print farms in the nation, and I can count the number of human-scale or larger sculptures we've put out in the past decade on one hand.
- Tokyo, private room. I'm sorry, I made it sound like that's what it cost at a food court.
It just tickled me so much that he admitted he was a little disappointed that he didn't get an "authentic hibachi experience" like at the Japanese steakhouses back home.
- Food is cheap, but skilled labor is expensive. In the US, it's common to go out to eat because the reputation and wages of labor for food service have been crushed, but in Japan, asking another human to pour your beers and make you food and then clean up in an izakaya carries an appropriate cost. A friend who'd never left the US was shocked to learn going to teppanyaki cost almost $200/person... and the chef didn't even do any tricks!
The minimum wage seems impossibly low, but there's a human economy - no one who works doesn't eat. You can have fresh, nutritious meals and ingredients right from the field for pennies on the dollar practically wherever you go. The variety is mind boggling, as is the convenience.
- The gimmicks aren't the product, and the customers of frontier technologies aren't the consumers. The gamers and redditors and smartphone fanatics, the fleets of people who dutifully buy, are the QA teams.
In accelerated compute, the largest areas of interest for advancement are 1) simulation and modeling and 2) learning and inference.
That's why this doesn't make sense to a lot of people. Sony and AMD aren't trying to extend current trends, they're leveraging their portfolios to make the advancements that will shape future markets 20-40 years out. It's really quite bold.
- This is mostly commentary on the state of Matthew's knowledge of AI tooling. You can use preprocessors, train your own text encoders, build pipelines to automate tasks that you might not want to dwell on so you can focus on art.
AI is just another tool. Not everyone who uses a computer is an artist, but you'd be hard pressed to find an artist that doesn't use a computer who doesn't make it a point not to.
When I think of the golden age of motion graphics (pfft), I'm not thinking about fleets of pale interns toiling in Adobe After Effects to produce choppy renders at the wrong resolutions because they're still clinging to their college MacBooks.
I'm thinking about the analog system that After Effects was created as a digital, computerized abstraction of— Scanimate. And I think about the confluence of tech that enabled that and the people who seized upon a problem and solved it. It's entirely possible to do what these tools do completely manually and traditionally, but where are the high moral purists expressing disappointment in the spiritual weaklings who rely on computers to create art? When did doing become diminutive?
I love that AI can break the individualization of struggle that some artists believe in, because what's really important is growth and evaluation. Matthew was successful, and now he's insulated and grumpy. He leaned into a strength that became his brand, and I think with how little he's left his comfort zone, this Ayn Rand phase was inevitable. He's not going to give it up and start over to prove he's a "real artist", but he'll tell people doing art in other ways (most of whom will not become successful or profitable but who still have done) that they're not legitimate for exploring differently.
Art is still hard. You can't cram for art school. You have to be able to prove yourself, continuously, to your clients, your audience, your family, and yourself. Art is a pursuit in virtuosity of the fundamentals, even if other people don't like what or how you do it. And if Matthew stands by his message, then the people struggling under the disapproval of people like him who may not help you or want to see you succeed, and don't give up are doing exactly what forges an artist's spirit.
- It's a brand with household name recognition. It's also a bit of a plug piece (NWL has had a rough decade).
The most newsworthy detail here is probably the WSJ publishing an article that could be construed as somewhat pro-labor.
- Search for "workshop labor rates meme". It's just part of knowing the business beyond the craft.
- I just googled this: https://www.scribd.com/document/924955773/Kirk-Letter
- I've stopped using YouTube and run a bi-yearly Google Takeout (and wipe).
- Yet its expressionlessness captures the lobotomized drone-like corporate flair that characterizes mainstream Linux today.
I'm not against it as long as we don't erase Tux from older projects.