Grifters gonna grift.

Exactly. Artists have used technology as it evolved to make music; AI is just one more technology to adapt to using. What AI is doing is giving people who can't sing or play an instrument a way to make music and sell it; treating the money stream of major labels and artists. Services like Spotify also make it easier to make money while bypassing the traditional gatekeepers; which helped small indie artists but now is adding to the competition.

While injection molding has cost and scale advantages, It also has large upfront costs and isn't easy changed to accomplish design improvements. There are also other costs that 3D printing can help limit, such as storage, logistics, etc. It all depends what you want to do. For DOD, the ability to customize as well as print replacements and parts deployed are key advantages; and something they have been working on for years. I remember seeing a laser 3d printer in the earlier 2000's designed to print replacement parts in the field; rather than have to airfreight parts as needed.

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People blindly trust computers because, well computers. I've had cashiers, for example, try to give me change for a 50ty when I gave them a five and they miss entered the amount; or ring up an item for a fraction of the correct price because and then say it is correct when I point it out, because well, computer.

Unfortunately, we are surrounded by idiots...

Good points. My limited exerience with AI in technical areas is that don't discern between the various quality of reports, and seem to value quantity over quality.

The true UFO believers will just put this down as more disinformation to keep the 'true facts' from the public; proving you simply can't fix stupid, no matter how hard you try.

Love that. I've done a lot of work on metrics and constantly have to explain to clients to think about what behaviors it will drive because we all are good at figuring out how to game them. When I worked at a big consulting firm billable hours were the key; most of my projects were fixed cost with prices high enough tha my actual hours vs billable ratio was less than one, and often a lot less. So when I was close to my target I'd give other team members hours if they were in danger of falling short so they would not get dinged at bonus time. Since the contracts were fixed costs, it whether I billed 1 hour or 1000 to the project did not impact the client at all; my only constraint was not billing so many that the project had less than a 25% margin, but also not more than 25%. The games we play to get our cheese...

No doubt. Killing HyperCard was a big mistake, IMHO, when you think of what could have been. I played with it on my ][gs. It was powerful and relatively intuitive, and had Apple moved forward could have been a major player in today's internet. Of course, that would have meant Apple would have had to expand it to Windows but doing so very well might have created the first cross platform browser. Given Jobs' focus on design, the net might be a vastly different experience had he pushed HyperCard development forward; and the Mac a preferred development tool. What might have been; although some things live on like the finger pointer cursor. Every time you see one think of Bill and his gifts to us...

As you point out

, which reduces core void fraction, increasing moderation and power output of the reactor. However, what matters is what you can put on the grid and i should have been clearer that a plant can uprate significantly higher than the op’s 5or so percent via a comprehensive update.

GE Hitachi show uprates of 5-20% are possible, depending on what is done to the plant.

It's not just coding. I have a friend who uses it verbatim, so he claims, for market analysis and preparing marketting materials. Based on my experience, I would be surprised f it actually produced the quality he claims. When I said my experimenting with it produced outcomes that were sort of correct, useful to id areas to look at but not ready to send out un reviewed, especially since its prose was stilted and full of superlatives. He said the problem was my prompts and that it can't be the AI because it is so smart and knows everything. While I agree my prompt writing skills are rudimentary, I don't buy into the so smart it doesn't need human intervention.

Perhaps, but it can speed up the learning process since it is always available so yu get instant feedback; something communities don't. While my coding isn't faster and may actually be slower since I need to understand and digest what it is recommending, but it has cut down on total time by reducing he time spent waiting for a response or endlessly searching the web for a answer.

Your better search point is spot on. For me, the biggest help was identifying concepts I may never have stumbled across in web searches or community forums; and the ability for it to explain how they worked. It also often offered multiple approaches and explained where they were a good fit based on what was being done; and never tires of being asked questions. It's also great at explaining error messages.

I have no idea how great the code is it writes, and grey beards may scoff at how inelegant it is and have better ways to do it; but it but it has helped me be more efficient and clean up my code to make it better. As a result, I created our app in far less time with better code than without it.

Very true; and failure will be blame on AI. I shudder when I think of what the code will look like that will be written by junior consultants, using AI, employed by the big consulting firms. One thing I do know is their rates or total hours charged will not change.

I think it depends on how Ai is used. I decided to learn python a few years ago; my previous coding experience was in Fortran and some VBA. I get how to structure a problem, and flowchart a solution. After a few online classes and community help, I was developing an app for my company. Nothing fancy, but it does the job. I then decided to try Claude to see what it could do to add some features. It easily generated code, but the key for me was to ask it to explain, line by line, what the code did. In some cases, I asked follow on questions for more details. It became, in essence, an instant answer version of the community. I would rewrite other sections based on what I learned and see if it worked and if not asked for help. It has become an on line tutor for me; not a tool to simply cut and paste. For me, that will be a real promising use of AI in coding.

I also tried chatGPT, but it went in circles and eventually suggested my earlier non- working code.

Sure. Journalist’s job is to uncover information, and if the Russians have lax enough security that they put sensitive information in publicly accessible databases, even if it requires use of proxy servers, then that is their problem, not the journalists.