Would not surprise me if some bureaucratic hurdle delayed things another 20 years. Also its a big assumption that environmental mandates will result in a change in the auto market in terms of real adoption. 2% of the auto market is EV. That may be a more difficult barrier to cross than advertised.

The article in the Houston Chronicle says people are fed up but it's not as political as many posters are assuming nor is it because many people worry that much about a repeat of last year's winter storm. First of all Texas is a great place for both wind and solar because it is flat with a temperate, sunny climate. Energy companies had already been investing in Texas renewables so we have one of the nations highest rates of renewable generated power. Unfortunately weather conditions and a sometimes iffy power grid make disruptions in power service more common than what is desirable. I live in a nice mid city area but my power goes out quite often. Flooding, hurricanes, and ice storms are much more pressing year over year problems than the once in a century weather event we had last year. It makes a lot of sense to install solar in a sunny geo like Texas than to use a generator. The installer companies are aggressively advertising and encouraging home owners to apply for subsidies. It's not that Texas is at all dystopian in terms of renewable power generation but that Texas is a favorable area for solar. So everybody is doing it.

Globally labor costs are up, while productivity and demand are down. Shrinkflation is a reality of the labor market that make excess hiring doubtful in 2022. The headwinds of Automation, Demographic Decline, Falling Global Demand, Inflation, and Inequality will probably get real by next year. Will the popular narrative of taxing the bourgeoisie to enrich the proletariat continue to apply when the demand floor drops? Can the anti work movement continue to flourish in an environment where the bubble pops? Personally I think neither capitalism nor socialism will save us from what is to come. Just wanted to hear some new ideas.

25 years ago in high school we were writing assembler and basic. 10 years ago I started building cloud native applications. Now I work with a lot of AI/ML applications. Each one of these scenarios is a different computing environment, requiring specific skills to code well. Writing a monolith in assembler was difficult but made easier through compilers and eventually bytecode. Cloud native microservices were at one time very difficult to orchestrate but modern declarative provisioning frameworks and API gateways make cloud native apps much more low code and easy to consume. AI/ML is a statistical platform that requires a validation strategy and feature engineering to be effective. The OP attempts to lump in all computing architectures into the same skill set and that is not reality. Soon we may be adding quantum computing as another form of compute. So get used to a heterogeneous compute environment.

I remember scientists warning about the feedback loop 10 or 15 years ago. Here we are and most people are still thinking that a sin tax is going to solve the problem. That ship sailed some time ago. Climate change is here to stay.

My wife is hearing impaired so we always watch subtitled content.

I work in the AI field and remember talk about a major paper from Theranos about how they had made very sophisticated computer vision algorithms to examine blood cells. Frauds like this are quite common. How often do we run into AI problems where some idiot forgot to grayscale the images and the model learned to discriminate based on race? More commonly an executive will make the call to cherry pick data or just skip validation completely. It's fraud and it happens all the time. Holmes sold vaporware and it put human lives at risk. How is it that any more fraudulent than the collections algorithm that learns to send more notices to lower income brackets? Or any other AI startup without a real product? Is Uber exploiting its investors with a business model that cannot possibly turn a profit? Isn't the algorithm Facebook uses to boost antivaxxer posts harmful to the public? Holmes is not an outlier, she is just another lazy CEO who has a product that does not actually work. It is fraudulent but insanely common. So it is a little strange that she alone is in the hot seat.

My uncle gives Ivomec (brand name) to his cows for parasites. Apparently there are dumbasses who take the same dose as cows or horses. At that level it can cause brain damage and blindness. Apparently in some areas up to half of the poison control cases are from idiots who took ivermectin. Apparently can just see the doctor asking ... "so you took something made for a horse... and why?" Too funny.

Maybe it's different in other occupations but as an IT consultant type working remotely has been somewhat common. After 20 years in the business I was able to shine during the pandemic due to having remote management skills gained from years of working with offshore talent. A good portion of my work is creative business development of new software. So I am not really seeing huge problems with remote work or being noticed. It's more like most managers are not the ones focused on staying on top of tasks and keeping their team efficient. Different skill set.

Data poisoning attacks work on a variety of models, not just NNs. There are some excellent papers out there showing how to poison a linear model. The scenario of encoding a malware application is only the beginning. A good attack can manipulate the outcome of the model in favor of a given solution. So it's about time people started paying more attention to model security.

Stupidist shit since Bush's "No child left behind". Just repackaged in a woke wrapper. As someone with dyscalculia I failed every one of my high school math classes. With the poor quality of teachers in high school, holding the other kids back until I caught up would never work. We could repeat the same grade ten times with no improvement. Fortunately for me there were outstanding math tutors in college who found that the numbers were my problem so they taught me the logic without numbers. After that I started setting the curve on my math tests. Now I have a minor in math and an engineering degree. The difference in quality between teachers paid sub minimum wage in high school vs math PhDs in training is too great to overcome with nonsense like this California rule.

Hilarious. "I dare you to regulate me". Huge companies benefit greatly from regulation because it prices smaller competitors out of the market. Once more the political elite get played by the plutocrats.

Instead of doing anything about the coronavirus or lifting a finger to help anyone via stimulus, the Republican Party is doubling down on culture wars. I used to be a Republican but at this point they are literally doing nothing. All the virtue signalling is really disgusting and lazy. They are not doing their job and trying to cover it up. Screw you, useless politicians.

If Austin is the next Silicon Valley why are there more tech jobs in the Dallas area? There are probably more AI startups in Houston from desperate oil companies looking for revenue than in Austin. San Antonio also has a fair amount of tech. Basically Texas is a big place with several cities that have tech capabilities. More like Silicon State than Silicon Valley. Not the same as California but still a good economy.

It is very easy to believe that Autism is not a disability and that due to savant syndrome maybe those with Autism are a bit superior. Unfortunately it's just not true. There are a lucky few who can hide it well and are high functioning enough to eke out somewhat of a normal life. There is a large majority of very disabled people who are never going to have a normal life. In between there are a number of people with Autism, especially females, who have somewhat reduced symptoms with age not because they grew out of it but because they learned how to mask their symptoms. On a personal note my youngest brother is a typical low functioning Autistic. He talks in echolalic speech, is unaware of external stimuli such as traffic, has a low IQ, and will just leave the room if there are too many people. He is a low level savant who can recognize some words without being trained. And he enjoys obsessively adding up numbers. As an adult he lives in an institution and requires daily care. Not exactly what one would think of as a superior form of neurodiversity or even better adapted to the environment of technology. By contrast I am extremely high functioning with a life that would be the envy of other Autistics. My IQ is uncertain with scores on a childhood test of 162 but in college a score of only 120. I have the stereotypical engineering degree. Additionally I am a savant who was able to read at age 3 or 4 by observing word shapes and processing those shapes, their colors, and movements. Daniel Tammet has a very similar ability with numbers. I have a wife and a job as well. On the surface I seem like a savant superhero. A real success story. The problem is my life is filled with disability that is only overcome by very hard work and the ability to trick others into the facade of normality. I have mild dyspraxia and my movements are clumsy with very poor proprioception. I have agraphia due to my mind operating on swirling, moving shapes that makes my handwriting nearly illegible. I have dyscalculia due to my number line having certain numbers that exist out of body and get tangled up. To compensate for difficulty with numbers I found equations with no numbers in them and let my text processing handle the logic. Computer programs. My social life has been abysmal. As a child the other kids hated me and I was very unpopular. For years I pondered the question "what did I do wrong?". There is an instinct of behavior that NTs have. Compliance with these behaviors is not optional and non-compliance is punished violently. I had to learn from books what these expectations were as a teenager. Through experimentation with various mimicry and things from books I was able to make people like me. I learned to force myself to maintain eye contact for longer periods of time too. Unfortunately the longer I hold eye contact the closer people get to me. That's a little terrifying. Another social problem is a difficulty understanding third person. When someone else is talking negatively about a person who is neither me nor them I cannot help but to think they are talking about me. That has led to more than a few fights or arguments. Visual overloads are common too. As someone who lives in a world of moving colors and shapes things like solid green grass or the colors and words in the supermarket can be overwhelming. I tend to wear sunglasses outside the house to tone down the signals. Tricking other people into thinking I am normal or masking is part of everyday life. In my early childhood my parents would tell me to stop rocking so I learned to suppress the rocking. When children in kindergarten saw me hand flap they laughed so I learned to move that into a facial tic or eye blink. Instead of having outbursts of meltdown I internalize that into a shutdown and become temporarily mute. The end result of all these coping mechanisms has been enormous stress and anxiety throughout my life. I take anti-anxiety medication and self medicate by overeating. Eventually it will kill me. The point is my entire life has been learning how to move autistic behaviors into NT behaviors like a trained dog. That's not a cure. That's not a superman. Neither is it some evolutionary technology adaptation to the upcoming singularity. I am a person with multiple disabilities that are crippling. Period. Neurodiversity is not superior. It's a curse. Anything else is the delusion of mythology.