I'm reminded of a joke meme...

Interviewer starts, "so it states here on your resume that you can do multiplication very, very fast. So what's 131x467?"

The applicant replies, "76,543!"

The interviewer objects, "that isn't even close to right!"

The applicant responds, "well, it was very, very fast!"

I guess "grouseoverabeeraboutbitches.com" was already taken.

Because I can only expect that's the actual attitude of the majority of those who've signed-up for such forum.

Do you think that any of this crap has anything to do with progress?

You know what this is? This is that scene from Amazon Women on the Moon where Steve Guttenberg's character goes to pick up Patricia Arquette's character for a date and the background-check teletype machine gives her red-flags about him based on input from prior dates. Someone took a joke from a movie and tried to make a real service. Then someone else has reactionarily created a distaff-counterpart to that joke of a real service. And no one involved knows a damn thing about IT security.

And even if there were good intentions, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> you now have to upgrade$$ your membership to 'gold star' or 'executive'

you're historically backwards.

the business membership is the base membership. they added the less expensive membership, but held back some hours for the business folks to partially placate them.

the business members' purchases are what keep the place going; the cheap membership is just a bit of gravy.

>if you ignore that number of animals they have that want to kill you.

so you're saying that the solution is to import hostile wildlife from Australia? :_)

hawks

That doesn't stop me for Pining for them, though.

We've long been accustomed to France surrendering to Germans, spear throwing tribesmen, and the occasional Boy Scout troupe.

But, really, come on now. Surrendering to jellyfish is a new low . . .

hawk

what kind of behavior would demonstrate that LLMs did have understanding?

An LLM would need to act like an understander -- the essence of the Turing Test. Exactly what that means is a complex question. And it's a necessary but not sufficient condition. But we can easily provide counterexamples where the LLM is clearly not an understander. Like this from the paper:

When prompted with the CoT prefix, the modern LLM Gemini responded: âoeThe United States was established in 1776. 1776 is divisible by 4, but itâ(TM)s not a century year, so itâ(TM)s a leap year. Therefore, the day the US was established was in a normal year.â This response exemplifies a concerning pattern: the model correctly recites the leap year rule and articulates intermediate reasoning steps, yet produces a logically inconsistent conclusion (i.e., asserting 1776 is both a leap year and a normal year).

The average employee lasts well less than a year at a fast casual; this had little to do w/her background.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcasual.com%2Fblo...

I am absolutely certain many of those kids are great at writing code; what I have found in the last ~3y of hiring candidates out of undergrad and/or masters programs is that they DO NOT interview well.

They can answer esoteric technical questions about software dev (I *assume* this is because they study for coding interview questions) but they cannot possibly answer more general questions about themselves, how they would operate in a real-world business setting, and/or how they might build something from soup to nuts.

I'm not asking them to give me real-world experience; but, I expect a college graduate to be able to think about questions asked critically and provide a coherent and thoughtful reply to that question. Even if it's technically 'wrong', the conversational nature is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for any work I have done in my 25+ year career.

Anyone can have AI solve most esoteric technical coding problems now; interfacing ability w/others on the dev teams and the rest of the business is what is important in getting shit done.

Colleges need to start investing HEAVILY in leveling up their students in how to interview well.

"Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle."

I think this single sentence says more about it than anything else in the article.

>But what if I want to drive from New York to Las Vegas all in one
>go on a Coke fueled journey of self-discovery and action?

If you're going straight to the tables from that, we'll happily comp the room for when you crash, along with more drinks and meal! :)

>It's been on my desktop since 1997.

which is the year I took it *off* my primary desktop, iirc!

At that point, FreeBSD supported my hardware.

Linux still ended up on some laptops when I was in a hurry.

I couldn't tell you whether either FreeBSD or Linux can play nicely with the other's filesystem, though--back then they both did enough intermittent damages to the other's filesystem that I had do uses a DOS partition to share between them.

This led to my having to ask for a replacement windows CD from the university. It's not like I used it more than a time or two ago. year, being on FreeBSD, but sometimes it was needed for some screwball stuff.

I'd looked high and low before giving up and asking. It isn't a big deal, as the university had a master licensee, but still.

And then, a few months later, I found it.

My fire had put it into coaster duty!

Err, why?

"well you said . . ."

[eyeroll]

the tech guy and I got a good laugh out of it, though.

My neighbor is a general contractor. As in, he owns the general contracting business and is the license holder for the company's operation. As the GC he's either visiting the various jobs around the state that his company has contracts for, checking up on the work of the subs, meeting with the customers, meeting with the inspectors, sometimes acting as part of the demolitions or cleanup or gofer crew depending on if there's something that needs to be done that isn't strictly covered by the various subs or needs to be done post-haste. This calls for driving a lot of miles. He doesn't need a heavy truck, but he definitely needs a truck.

He just bought one of these Silverado 4WT trucks, and installed a 50A charging circuit at home as the main panel is right on the other side the wall of the garage from where he parks. He charges at home and so far for work, has not had to use a charging station anywhere else. He's pleased as punch.