It's an actual "AI" related term. It was just very short lived.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fwhat-is...
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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salesforceben.com%2F...

"A 2023 McKinsey Global Survey revealed that 7% of organizations adopting AI had already hired Prompt Engineers, indicating early adoption of this role across various industries, and Anthropic were advertising Prompt Engineering roles with salary offers as high as $375K â" which didnâ(TM)t require in-depth technical knowledge or even a tech degree.

It was touted as the job of 2024, and a year later, research suggests that the role is no longer attractive to companies. Per a recent survey commissioned by Microsoft, 31,000 workers across 31 countries were asked what roles their companies are prioritizing, and Prompt Engineer was ranked second to last among new roles companies are considering adding in the next 12 to 18 months."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fai.plainenglish.io%2Fwhy...

"The Rise of Prompt Engineering 2020â"2024

When generative AI burst onto the scene, prompt engineering became an essential skill for anyone looking to leverage AI to its fullest potential.

Early on, AI models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 had limited capacity to understand vague or unstructured input, which made prompt engineering a specialized skill to ensure the AI generated the desired output.

Slight variations in wording, phrasing, or structure could result in drastically different AI responses, and organizations quickly recognized the potential of prompt engineers to maximize the power of these models.

Tech companies and startups recruited prompt engineers at a rapid pace, and soon bootcamps and certification programs emerged to cater to this new demand."

Unlikely, it happened on Linux, too, only there was no option there to prevent the devices from powering down (or whatever), so I am forced to continue using Windows 10.

I doubt precisely the same bug happens in both drivers, written independently. Seems like a hardware issue to me.

I get the feeling that many people who will be opting for AI/cybersecurity are hoping to somehow get the gold star of approval that allows them to get a paycheck for not actually doing work.

Kind of like how a lot of people wanted to get hired by the big tech companies (meta, alphabet, apple, amazon, netflix, etc.) and draw a 6 figure salary for basically doing nothing - except maybe video blogging about how they were making a 6 figure salary for basically doing nothing.

I would caution people trying to treat this as the new MBA with an observation - if there's sufficient supply of "AI" degree graduates, then the individual value of that degree drops, same as with the MBA. The people getting wealthy at this stage of the game are the ones starting their own companies, or who already have established research pedigrees that make them prime poaching material.

Anybody trying to get a degree in "AI" right now that takes them out of the workforce for 4 years is going to get an incredibly rude shock when they graduate and find that most everything that doesn't relate to fundamentals (like data science, OSI, etc.) they learned is no longer relevant. Remember how hot "prompt engineering" was at one point? Yeah...

I mean... maybe software companies will finally start to optimize code instead of expecting cheap hardware to cover for them?

The nastier alternative is people are forced to push more of their data into the "cloud" for computing and storage, ironically, because now only the datacenters can afford upgrades...

If you have them turned on, Windows will dump a log and full or small memory dump.

I had severe BSODs on my current PC until I switched the "Performance" slider in Settings all the way right to "Best Performance." Now they're gone.

I believe devices powering down was causing the problem.

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For context for those not familiar with experimental/homebuilt aircraft. You can pretty much use anything off the shelf or custom. 3D printed parts (either self-sourced or purchased from dedicated vendors) are probably not uncommon at this point in time, depending on what you are using them for. Certified aircraft do not have this degree of latitude in terms of part sourcing and DIY work.

Now to the question about whether the owner made/installed the part, or it was sourced through the parts chain:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fartic...

"The Cozy Mk IV light aircraft was destroyed after its plastic air induction elbow, bought at an air show in North America, collapsed."

That sentence implies that the air induction elbow was purchased at an air show.

Reviewing the accident report ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Faaib-report... ), we get the following:

"The aircraft owner who installed the modified fuel system stated that the 3D-printed induction elbow was purchased in the USA at an airshow, and he understood from the vendor that it was printed from CF-ABS (carbon fibre â" acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) filament material, with a glass transition temperature3 of 105ÂC.

An alternative construction method for the air induction elbow, shown in the Cozy Mk IV plans, is a lamination of four layers of bi-directional glassfibre cloth with epoxy resin. The epoxy resin specified for the laminate has a glass transition temperature of 84ÂC, after the finished part has been post-cured. The aircraft owner stated that as the glass transition temperature listed for the CF-ABS material was higher than the epoxy resin, he was satisfied the component was fit for use in this application when it was installed.

A review of the design of the laminated induction elbow in the Cozy Mk IV plans showed that it featured a section of thin-walled aluminium tube at the inlet end of the elbow, where the air filter is attached. The aluminium tube provides a degree of temperature-insensitive structural support for the inlet end of the elbow. The 3D-printed induction elbow on G-BYLZ did not include a similar section of aluminium tube at the inlet end."

So apparently purchased through a 3rd party vendor, the owner installed according to an existing design variation (and got approval from regulatory oversight to do so), but apparently the 3d printed part installed did not meet the requirements for temperature resistance as compared to the glass-fiber/epoxy part specified in the plans, possibly due to the lack of that aluminum tube.

Modhi has turned out to be a real authoritarian.

Nuclear eye roll.

They're apparently active recalcitrant nuns. Odds are at least one lives to 100.

Life expectancy for an 85 year old woman is 7-8 years.

Given 3 of them, I'd bet at least one lasts a decade.

It's simple economics.

Degrees, undergrad or grad, have to be measured in terms of:

1. Raw cost
2. Opportunity cost during the time you go for the degree
3. Time left in your working life in order to recoup #1 and #2.

Once upon a time, for the cost of a few summers working, and a part time job during the school year, you could afford to get a college degree at a public university. The cost was reasonable, and the boost in career opportunities outweighed the lost income during the 4(ish) years you spent in school. If school suited you, this was a slam dunk.

Then at a certain point you needed loans in addition to working to get through undergrad. Rather expensive ones too. However, if you were in state, you'd get a discount. The cost went up, but the boost in career opportunities outweighed the higher cost and the lost income during the time you spent in school. Again, if school suited you, it would take longer for the benefit to show in your life, but if you expected to work for a few decades, the difference in earning power and job opportunity (especially during an era where the US was hollowing out alternatives to white collar jobs), would pay off.

At some point, the raw cost and the opportunity cost reached an equilibrium point with your ability to recoup the cost over your working life... and people started noticing that the bet that they were taking - that they'd remain employed long enough post-higher education, at a rate of pay better than what they would have had without the degree, was not as solid as they would have liked.

One wonders if during this time period, if there had been a competitive alternative to higher education tracked in US schools, such as apprenticeships (normally starting at the start of high school), whether we would have hit this "crisis" of higher education. I think with viable non-college career paths, which would have paid from the onset, and provided an applied pathway for schooling (you still need an education even as a plumber or welder, it's just not credentialed as a college degree), there would have been checks against runaway college costs. The lack of competition, coupled with railroading students K-12 onto a college track, allowed colleges and universities to respond to increased demand by... raising prices.

While drunk driving happens in Dubai, as a Muslim nation they have exactly zero humor about it.
I figure the rate of bad driving from other things like just being an absurdly entitled citizen or part of the royalty is more common.

I've actually been in Dubai, deployed there once. Visited the city a few times. It's "interesting".

Ugh.

Well, thanks for clearing up the question I had about people insisting that their sites outside US-East-1 being impacted during the outage.

I think this pretty much just underlines the fact that US-East-1 is basically their "test" version of prod...

They could make a note of mileage leaving and re-entering the UK.
Penalty for misplacing the documents would be paying for all the miles.
Or keep it in a database for tax purposes.