I'm still updating my Tripod page. But you're still failing to motivate curiosity or interest or civility or whatever. You do have a reason to post, right?
Me? I'm certainly not expecting much in the way of intelligent discussion on Slashdot these years. Mostly I'm trying to clarify my own thinking on whatever topic has managed to perturb my ADHD.
Productive FP thread though I couldn't find much on the angle I was interested in, the battery capacity of hybrid vehicles versus pure electric. However it seems there should be a fairly direct optimization problem for the engineers lurking around here. Weight of the engine versus the weight of the batteries versus typical driving behaviors and refueling versus recharging times... Sources of the electricity for recharging are also important. My basic guess is that the optimum solution for each driver is mostly controlled by that driver's typical driving pattern.
Just read Nexus and now into Pegasus to make sure I get on all the right enemies lists. Been a while since I've read any books about Amazon... And much longer since I read one from Amazon.
Sound the bugle call "More Funny mod points".
Again, I suspect a movie reference and I haven't seen it. And you have failed to motivate me enough to look up the possible meme. I think there was a time when movies were not weapons of mass stupidity. But perhaps my memories are slipping.
As regards your accusation, your post was so sloppy I have no idea what you were referring to within my comment or talking about in general. Unless you were going for Funny and didn't make it. Brevity is often the soul of wit, but I lack concision.
Acknowledged, but I was just focusing on a relatively minor symptom with a fairly obvious solution approach. Your aspirations seem higher.
"Move fast and fuck others"
Sadly on target.
But we already knew they were targeting the so-called smartphones.
You lack credibility to motivate research. But I vaguely recall your handle as sometimes Funny. Perhaps an accident or side effect of a lack of wit?
Make me laugh. Try to convince me you read a book this year.
FP appears to be a pointless win of the FP race. Care to explain what you [Joe Dragon] meant? Or maybe it would be more appropriate if you addressed your motivations? [Actually, on rereading it about five times I think it was intended as a joke. If so, you should have specified "war games".]
But without knowing what you mean, I am still sure that my perspective on the topic is different. Most of my career was spent in fields where AI is sure already having a huge impact and that impact is growing rapidly: Programming, teaching, and editing. If I was still working for money then I would face the choice of using the AI tools to compete or being too slow and unable to compete because I preferred to do more of my own thinking. But if I didn't already know how to think, then I believe the AI tools would prevent me from learning the fundamentals of how to think about, understand, and solve problems. And now I think we are the last human generation who will understand the basics and on that basis the future looks quite bleak. Many books and stories speculated about the resulting stupidification. The Time Machine is perhaps the most classic and memorable? (I could rummage around my database of books to find more citations. Or I could ask an AI to scan the titles and nominate candidates. The AI could probably complete the task within seconds.)
Just finished Nexus by Harari. Excellent book and I strongly recommend it (and my next writing project should be to extend my long review of that book). However he is an optimist and ultimately sees things through rose-colored glasses, while I am a realist and the real data has convinced me that the future is bleak. And I'm already sure that I've been flagged as a minor enemy of the state and the most optimistic perspective I can take is that I hope I am judged to be "mostly harmless" and be ignored on that bais. But "the state" probably already knows about "worse" books I've read and might decide to make an example of me.
Returning to the story at hand, my career even included a hitch in the service. Way back before this "Thank you for your service" garbage. There was a significant difference between the few officers who had served before getting commissioned and the rest of them. Those officers had learned some fundamentals.
[I'll check back tomorrow to see if the story produced any Funny. Slashdot will even be so kind to as to tell me if there are any direct reactions to my contribution... And of course I don't care about the TL;DR reactions. But tomorrow is the end of time in Slashdot's perspective, even for stories and topics that deserve more serious and longer consideration.]
But I'd prefer that the censorious sock puppets at least give me a hint as to which bit pissed them off. Perhaps the part about service?
"I LOVE BIG BROTHER!"
...like smokers and kerosene factories.
StfuGPT will be the next big LLM.
You should read Iain M Banks.
I think the police need to be trained to think, not trained to shoot first and think about asking questions afterwards. If you really are the quickest gun, then it's reflexes, not thinking. And yet if your mindless skill guarantees that you're going to win every shootout, then I also think that limits any claims of bravery.
However, given the American situation, it's really hard to argue that the police shouldn't assume any person they see might be packing.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (8) I'm on the committee and I *still* don't know what the hell #pragma is for.
