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Comment Not mentioned (Score 1) 13

>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.

No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.

Comment Re:Losing what? (Score 1) 152

Actually a small fraction of the extremely rich do invest in or create things that a corporation wouldn't. But you can never tell which ones will do that, and they are often rather crazy in other ways.

I can't strike a good balance sheet on this thing. SpaceX required a wealthy backer to even get started. And probably Tesla speeded the development of electric cars by at least 5 years, more probably a decade. Those are really valuable contributions. They don't justify worshiping crazy ideas. But without the "extremely rich" class, they wouldn't have happened.

Comment Re:Math is Dead too (Score 1) 109

You shouldn't believe the hype ... in either direction. The vendors will always claim their product is better than it is, and those who are threatened by it will always deny the competency.

Unless, however, AI development hits a wall, one should expect it to continue to improve.

OTOH, I suspect that training it on the unmoderated internet has gone quite a bit beyond the optimal stage. That was good for basic grammar, and picking up neologisms, but beyond that it doesn't seem to lead anywhere. What is needs is "validated correct information with a relatively low noise level". And it still needs to be prepared to doubt it.

Comment Re:5x (Score 1) 109

Sorry, this just means you need to get better a modularizing your code...sorry, requests to the AI.
If it can only handle relatively small modules, that's what you ask it for.

FWIW, I expect that if it's true it won't stay true. (OTOH, I still code by hand, and only use the AI for hints as to how to do something in a language I'm not that familiar with.)

Comment Re:Testable Hypothesis (Score 2) 252

Also the newer homes are smaller. Even in suburbs the lot size has shrunk markedly, and the houses as well. I *think* the average size of a rural house has increased, but with all the open space around, that's a lots less significant.

But more importantly, this is but one of multiple factors all pushing in the same direction.

Comment Re:Houses (Score 1) 252

That's only part of the answer. Basically society doesn't really support having children. Part of that is housing, part is expense, part is time limitations, part is contraception, part is ...
I think that every simple answer is missing so many pieces that it's more wrong that right.

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