Not yet... not even by a long shot, really- but the trend is undeniable. The question is whether or not it happens before my retirement.

I'd say I spend a good 30h of spare time a week working with LLMs right now.
The last couple of evenings, I've been trying to get an LLM to solve a Towers of Hanoi puzzle.
There are certain regimes where these things are surprisingly stupid.

Utter bullshit.
Statistical models have been used by scientists for ages.

The problem arises when you treat a statistical model like a source of truth. Don't do that.

AlphaFold uses a network that is structurally analogous to an LLM- they call it a network of evoformers (as opposed to transformers)
The markov-chain bolted to the front-end of that could be bolted to the front-end of any LLM too.
So more accurately, AlphaFold (the system) is very much a product of LLMs, but also much improved for that domain.

Comparing AlphaFold to an LLM is like comparing a car to a motor.

Correct. Parent is a lying ethnocentric shit-for-brains.
Food illnesses and mortality due to them in Europe are over twice as high as the US per-capita.

You were saying?

But in America no business on Earth chases the latest tech. They will sometimes spend a shitload of money on fancy text make it look like they are cooler and hipper than they really are like how back in the day .com companies would have fancy chairs and desks. But I think that's different than what we are seeing here.

I really do think this is designed to meet a specific need but whether it actually does that or not is extremely debatable. As I mentioned before reading body language isn't an exact science and as a million reasons it can go wrong. Most body language experts when you actually put them up against scientific testing fail miserably but it doesn't stop people from wanting to meet in person to get a "read" on somebody whether it actually works or not.

Because I'm fairly autistic (I'm here ain't i?) so I can't read body language worth a shit.

Deepfakes are a relatively new thing and I would think anyone who can read body language would pick up on them pretty quickly.

Also keep in mind it's entirely possible this tech doesn't work. You are absolutely correct that reading body language isn't an exact science in any way shape or form and has not in any way been quantified. It's also a complete clusterfuck because all sorts of things can throw off your body language.

But the fact of the matter is investors like to meet in person because of it whether it works or not and there is a constant demand to come up with a way for them to meet without actually having to fly down to places.

It's entirely possible this just turns out to be snake oil but that's the market.

Voters keep voting for tough on crime bullshit and this is what you get when you keep voting for tough on crime bullshit.

Every year crime goes down regardless of the number of police but every year we keep adding more and more police.

The job of a cop is to arrest people or give them tickets. Both of which have numeric values associated with them meaning they have quotas whether anyone likes to admit it or not.

This means you have too many cops and not enough crime.

And that means the cops are going to have to go looking for crime and people to arrest to keep their phony baloney jobs.

You can already see this with a rash of perfectly sober people being arrested for DUI.

If you hire somebody to arrest people and give out tickets and there aren't enough people to arrest or give tickets to they are either going to find people and manufacture people for that purpose or they're going to lose their jobs and their damn well going to know that they're going to lose their jobs.

And this is not an economy you want to lose your job in. And it's also not a country you really want to be unemployed in. And if you know anything about the caliber of individuals we hire for police, literally refusing to hire people who score too high on intelligence tests because they quit too quickly, then you know those people are not going to want to lose their jobs under any circumstances.

The grandparent is using Trump as a figurehead for general right-wing extremism and panic driven public policy. He's not explicitly saying Trump is the problem he's just using Trump as a stand-in for the entire Republican party, the heritage foundation and project 2025 and the whole sodding mess that is the right wing strategy post Goldwater losing.

But that's a hell of a lot to type out so he just made a flippant comment about Trump and counted on your ability to read context and nuance. Which given that he is mostly speaking to Americans was probably a stretch...

It uses a loophole with law enforcement buys the data instead of obtaining it through regular investigative work.

It's a loophole that absolutely should be closed but you are correct with the current right-wing extremist administration there is basically no chance in hell of that loophole being closed.

It's like how basically everyone agrees that civil asset forfeiture or the practice of cops charging your property with crime instead of you and then stealing it should be illegal but it never gets banned.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have tough on crime bullshit legislation that makes you feel safe ala security theater and really exists for the sake of petty revenge and also not have the cops occasionally steal your car or your house.

Way back in the day a buddy of mine who is a musician was hanging out with and playing music with a guy that dealed pot.

Some of my buddies music gear was at the guy's house, keeping in mind that these were all minors this was a long time ago. Figure 16 and 17 year olds but still under 18.

The cops took everything. All the music gear that was stored there got taken and the parents in question lost their house. This wasn't exactly a drug kingpin this was a dumb kid selling a little pot on the side to buy music gear.

I never did find out if the parents got their house back but they probably didn't.

This was going on 40 years ago. And nothing has changed even though if you asked 90% of people they would tell you civil asset forfeiture should go away.

It doesn't matter what you want if you're not willing to give something up to get it. And a lot of times the thing you have to give up is complete nonsense bullshit but you still want going to give it up. And so the cops can still steal everything you own at any time for any reason.

the exact same thing is why we have right Wing extremists in charge of the government and why your personal information can now be used against you by cops without a warrant.

By the time you ask yourself if it was worth it it's too late

Well you sure showed me...

Also behold the legendary +2 troll moderation. It won't last long so enjoy it while you can. It means mods are arguing over my post. Every time they do ultimately somebody has to begrudgingly admit I'm right...

I would love to be proven wrong about America's use of slave labor but so far I have not and we're going on 250 years...

So if you are an investor one of the things you do is meet with the people you're going to invest with because you want to read their body language.

While reading body language is kind of a pseudoscience there is something to it. But you can't really do it effectively over video.

I don't know if this technology actually works for that but that's the problem it's trying to sell. If you throw a bunch of money into a company you want to meet with the people you're giving that money to try and determine if they are scamming you.

Also remember that most investors are people who just got lucky and blundered into a ton of money so they can't make intelligent determinations and decisions about who to invest in. That's how we got theranos with Walgreens dumping so much money into it they had to close multiple stores...

Or even if a relatively tiny chunk of shellcode is able to run in, say, your browser due to some exploit du jour. That relatively tiny bit of code (this can be done in dozens of bytes) can now watch every physical thing you do on your machine, including authentication. Grab screens. You name it. You know this already, I'm just fleshing out exactly what you mean by it for readers.

This is absolutely true.
To that end, X client-servers likely aren't going away any time soon. The real issue we actually run into is client-side toolkits no longer supporting X.. But I also don't think that's going away any time soon (at least until we have a viable replacement)

I think it's just one of the mill blunt instruments and classic voter suppression tactics like shutting down polling locations and making it difficult to register the boat and challenging voter signatures.

It's easy to get caught in the weeds and spend all your energy on little shit and ignore the big shit too. A lot of times the big things are boring as hell to deal with.

There is also a tendency for humans to want to believe they have secret knowledge because the real world is nasty and chaotic and the belief that we have secret knowledge allows us to think that we have a handle on all that misery and chaos. So that's something else to watch out for.

So to summarize I think Trump it's just going to use basic votor suppression to continue to win elections and then manufacture crises like the old reichstag fire to finally seize complete power. Since nobody learns from history it'll work

I'm not a Wayland fanboi. I'm a "1 of 2 things need to happen to X: It needs a rather large refactoring and redesign, or it needs to die."
The people who write Display Server code have chosen the latter. Personally, I don't have a preference.