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Comment How about nothing (Score 1) 34

but the instructions did not rule out form submissions,

Don't talk to anyone other than through your assigned (human) client. The way this was worded, it was asking for the AI to find a loophole in the rules.

On the other hand, I'd say AI has proven its worth as an attorney.

Comment Re:leap seconds are gone my dude (Score 1) 74

so even more software will be incorrect for historic time periods when leap seconds were a thing.

Who even needs to measure historical time that precisely? There's a principle in engineering and science called error probability. You account for it in your calculations and get over yourself about the last few CPU clock decimal places.

There is also the legal problem of measuring things too accurately. When did the Great Flood occur? Well, we have been living here "since time immemoriable" and the courts have judged our memories to trump your science.

Comment Re:Dark matter (Score 1) 74

It's the recprocal of the Street Light Effect. You don't look for where it is likely to be or where it's easiest to see (under the streetlight). You search where the rewards of sucess are likely to be the highest (citation for your research papers, Nobel prize in physics, etc.) Drunks search under the streetlight because the reward will always be the same. Found my car keys. Now I guess I'll (hic) be driving home.

Comment Re:The pill (Score 1) 187

The only difference between what you and I are doing and what the socialists seek is the decision making authority over asset allocation. They (socialists) presume the existence of some wise intellectuals with a perfect overview of the markets. We, on the other hand, rely on the wisdom of the crowd. Which time and time again has beaten the pundits' track records.

Comment Re:Not a real physicist then. (Score 2) 187

It's what they call a chaotic system. You have some positive and negative feedback loops. Which causes the system to oscillate around or settle on one of many possible points of stability (attractors).

Back when this paper was written, chaos theory was still in its infancy. So the author can be forgiven for using a better understood deterministic model.

Granted, a simplification of the formal definition. Some mathematicians will be here to mod me into oblivion shortly.

Comment Re:The pill (Score 1) 187

it is the wealthy building their fortunes off economic growth

Actually, I've built my fortune (such as it is) off of the same economic growth. Or in a recent case, the lack of it and the concomitant shortage of RAM chips. So, lack of economic growth in this case. And then there's oil ....

Everyone can play that game. But just sitting around and crying "Capitalism bad!" isn't going to help. "Workers should own the means of production!" Just checked my stock portfolio and it turns out that I do.

Comment Re:The pill (Score 1) 187

This.

I was going to say Roe v Wade. But the end result is the same. Fewer generations of the unwanted (and unsupervised) offspring crapping up the planet.

I don't know why slower population growth is such a bad thing. I'm a geezer (beyond some mandatory retirement ages), still working and contributing to the GDP. I hear complaints about how we are blocking promotion paths for young people. But even more about "Where's my UBI?" That's the Ponzi scheme.

Comment Re:Safer? (Score 2) 76

You think LLMs would write "Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:"? You think LLMs like writing sentences that end in conjunctions that express incomplete thoughts? Do you think LLMs write "high frequences", "naively pairs", call H.265 X.265 (I was thinking of what you refer to it as in ffmpeg), imbalanced parens after "lacks motion vectors",etc?

Don't get me wrong, I am a LLM user, I absolutely do use it sometimes for search, fact checking things I'm writing, spelling/grammar checks (clearly not that time, lol), etc. But I write my own posts.

Comment Re:Excellent Move (Score 1) 195

The fraud of firing 6000 workers and immediately hiring 6000 H-1Bs was too in your face.

The Dept of Labor did the right thing by suspending Microsoft from the PERM program.

Oh, you think this is about doing the right thing... the US government... the current US government? I mean it's cute that you believe that.

Adobe, MS, et al. are being targetted because they've got deep pockets. A few million given to the right orange madman and this problem goes away. They don't even have to do it in secret any more.

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