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did they use ai to make the image? "wood of of year"

Sadly, it's a Chomskian paper, and those are just too weak for today. Also, I think it's sloppy and too Eurocentric. Here are some of the biggest gaffes or stretches I found by skimming Moro's $30 book, which I obtained by asking a shadow library for "impossible languages" (ISBN doesn't work for some reason):

I think that Moro's strongest point, on which they spend an entire chapter reviewing fairly solid neuroscience, is that natural language is spoken and heard, such that a proper language model must be simultaneously acoustic and textual. But because they don't address computability theory at all, they completely fail to address the modern critique that machines can learn any learnable system, including grammars; they worst that they can say is that it's literally not a human.

I wish this attitude was more pervasive at Apple, my phone actually autocorrects to "Lock Screen" when I type it out in lower case.

I also enjoy :

Radiation/shielding impacts on mass ignored; no degradation of structures beyond panel aging

Getting high-powered electronics to work outside the atmosphere or the magnetosphere is hard, and going from a 100 meter long ISS to a 4 km long orbital data center would be hard. The ISS has separate cooling radiators and solar panels. He wants LEO to reduce the effects of cosmic rays and solar storms, but its already hard to keep satellites from crashing into something in LEO.

Possible explanation for the hand waving:

I love AI and I subscribe to maximum, unbounded scale.

Author works for something called Varda Space (guess who is one of the major investors? drink. Guess what orifice the logo looks like? drink) and previously tried to replicate a claimed room-temperature superconductor https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-diy-race-to-replicate-lk-99/

Some interesting ethnography of private space people in California: "People jump straight to hardware and hand-wave the business case, as if the economics are self-evident. They aren't. "

Page uses that "electrons = electricity" metonymy that prompt-fonding CEOs have been using

Him fellating musk re tesla is funny considering the recent stories about reliability abd how the market is doing. And also the roadster 2, and the whole pivot to ai/ROBOTS!

(The author being positive on the theoretical SpaceX going public vs a little bit later the reactions of the spacex subreddit on Musk actually saying they will go public later is a funny split of opinions. The subreddit saw it as a betrayal https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3ma4hvbajns2d).

Sir a NaNth deletion has hit the home directory.

Oh god, reddit is now turning comments into links to search for other comments and posts that include the same terms or phrases.

You see, tilde marks old versions of files, so Claude actually made you a favour by freeing some disk space

~/? More like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why do they think they are going to have any input in genAI development either way?

Anyway seeing a previous wave of shit burden you with a lot of unrelated work after deployment isnt the best reason to now start burdening yourself with a lot of unrelated work before the new wave of shot is here. But sure good luck learning how LLMs work mathematically Kevin.

Dave Mosher is a Principal Consultant at Test Double, and has experience in legacy modernization, agentic coding, and explaining CORS poorly to people who didn't ask.

What legitimate experience does he possess? I can only assume legacy modernization means throw spaghetti microservice buzzword architecture at the client. And he admits he doesn't really know CORS. I see these blogs about how LLMs are so much better than humans for programming yet never written by someone who has put together anything more complex and bigger scale than their myspace page in '05.

Not even one paragraph in and I already see an "it's not X, its Y".

When I look at the cast, I don't just see a rat and a bunch of chefs. I see the archetypes of our modern tech landscape

Oh god, I'd be so happy to see these people prove their point by actually shipping stuff that works instead of sitting in the corner throwing insults at how everyone else is dumb and are going to be left behind any day now.

tf is jai

Why is Jai ground-breaking? Jai is so important because it is an effort to build a modern systems programming language from the ground up by a very gifted and experienced developer.

programmers. programmers never change.

With his knowledge of all C/C++ shortcomings, he rethought every one of these problems to give them an easier to use, more elegant and more performant solution. In this way Jai really is a better and modern day C, and also a C++ done right.

"14 competing 'modern take on C' languages? Ridiculous! We need to develop one definitive alternative that fixes all the problems with C++"

Getting mad because developers have not had time to update a piece of code that wraps another piece of code and blaming it on the language is in interesting choice.

Telling a whole project 'your language sucks you should rewrite it in my pet language' is always a nice classic of the nerd genre. (Happy I never got a big language hangup like that. (Apart from a short bit of a dislike of functional programming languages, but that was just due to a bad early experience)).

who tf is zerophase (apart from a lunduke fan)

Purdue and Google recently expanded their strategic partnership, emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships that are essential to accelerating innovation in AI.

https://www.purdue.edu/ai/

Translation: somebody's getting paid off

🎶 Money makes the world go 'round 🎶

I learned yesterday that Helsinki’s uni is also on the list: prompts not only tolerated, but encouraged

been starting to wonder whether these are like the google etc plays there: “suuuuure you can get a sweetheart deal for our systems” [5y later and much storage on the expensive rentabox] “hey btw we’re renewing prices, your contracts are going up 400%. oh and also taking data out of the system is $20/TB. just..in case you wanted to try”