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Presumably a technical term peculiar to a particular discipline. It's an inflected form of "nou" in Romanian which apparently might mean "new" — not that my Romanian is any better than my Swahili.
The Type AI docs page seem to define it as a "fuzzy" boolean. A new idea that, eh prof Zadeh.
Using LLMs to process labelled machine input, producing labelled machine output make more sense than most AI codswallop. The labelling might be viewed as assigning primative semantics to the syntactic atoms (I hesitate to use the word "token.")
You start to have an actual reasoning system once your formulae can be assigned meanings that are preserved under defined syntactic tranformations.
The weakest link in practical use is as always the human element.
Ultimately in wider use you still have to capture what the user is actually asking in a natural language — often incredibly difficult as another human — and converting it reliably to labelled atoms that the LLM can process might be the most difficult part
Finally producing natural language output would also have challenges — never underestimate the profound obtuseness of much of the population — that is without even considering cultural, language and societal factors.
I could see this might be useful in programming contexts. Easily (more or less) parsed into tokens, well defined (in principle) semantics, a chunk of code could be this type of system's preferred prey.
> What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Zeppelin?
What series ? :))
At the same altitude: the same as unladen (103 km/h), I imagine. The air resistance (drag) dominates.
After donating its payload on a UK city I guess it would rise to a higher altitude to avoid the aircraft and anti-aircraft artillary of the day, where the air density (and viscosity) is lower and hence drag but the six propellers would also produce less thrust. The six (240hp/180kW) Maybach engines were designed for high altitude operation but presumably optimised for the operational (laden) altitude, likely losing power at higher altitudes.
Still a 100 km/h was pretty decent back then. I cannot imagine a Dreadnought pulling 55 kn although the picture of Jacky Fisher water skiing behind one is appealing.
> staying aloft for long periods was one of the strengths of airships
True although the R101 and Hindenburg aren't exactly poster children.
The 20km up would be a challenge but lower you would need a fair bit of power to stay on station in adverse wind conditions. Any airship would still be pretty massive and the prospect of the whole thing dropping on top of a settled area might be unsettling. I guess also extremely vulnerable to sabotage even if the craft used helium rather than hydrogen.
Using a scaled up drone quadcopter might not be too practical either at 20km as the air is getting a bit thin (.088 kg/m³ cf 1.23 kg.m³) for the propellers to get a decent bite on. ;) Helicopters seem to top out at 8.9km (Bell XV-15.)
Gliders have managed to reach 15km—20km presumably for short periods only, but unmanned craft with auxillary power (solar?) might be able to roughly maintain a position over longer periods.
The Super Zeppelins seem to have had a ceiling of 4—5 km but lots of area for photovoltaics. ;)
They had a payload of 27.7 t and unladen mass† 36.2 t so sacrificing some payload could raise the ceiling.
The flaw in this cunning plan is I don't think today you could build an L 30 for seventy million quid.
† obviously in this context "weighed" would be misleading. ;)
> They [the idiots] are deeply offended.
They hold they aren't sufficiently intelligent to be "Trumpettes" ?
(Remember they are called idiots for a reason,)
The whole boiling would hardly have the combined intellect to the plumb the depth of of a teaspoon so I would contend any offence would neccessarily be exceedingly superficial.
> You're not underground son, you're just unpopular.
OpenVMS on DEC Alpha while not popular (and now probably extinct) would still be a much harder nut to crack with a brick or otherwise.
I know one wealth management business here ran their IT on this platform into the 2000s.
ITsec has always used English to make themselves appear as ridiculous as they actually are.
The unfortunate block has been taken behind the barn and given a good whack with a lump hammer then ?
Concerned organisations ? The bricklayers guild might be a bit miffed over the use of scab labour.
"Out-of-Brain Experience", surely.
All the refurbished boxes I have purchased in the last few years came with Win11 (various editions) preinstalled. I just replace the system SSD and install various non MS OS on the replacement SSDs. Now of I have a collection of smallish unused SSDs with Win11 installed on them that are actually worth a bit more than when I bought the systems. The world has turned decidedly peculiar.
> Maybe people don't need everything in a bundle and don't want to pay for stuff they don't want or need.
I suspect if you unbundled all the components into standalone applications the individual crappiness of each would become patently obvious.
By bundling and dependency locking these applications together you might give the illusion of value. "Never mind the quality, feel the width."
Organisations have developed some rather Byzantine workflows just to work around the shortcomings of these bundles.
I would have imagined there would have been a market for tools to analyse, specify, develop and manage enterprise workflows independently of the applications used to implement the stages in the workflow.
With AI added to this noisome quagmire, Byzantine becomes Gormenghastian.
Fair dinkum ? WTF for ? Even loonier than the current crop. I always thought you would have to be both utterly intoxicated and profoundly dyslexic to spell USSR as CCCP but what were they thinking ? Solyut and Skylab firing off Napoleonic broadsides at each other à la Horatio Hornblower ? Black powder and cannon balls might be just as effective. I expect the loonies contemplating this nonsense will soon be spelling USA as США† without the benefit of vodka.
† Completely Witless America? Country without allies? These nutjobs wouldn't recognise cyrillic if it were chewing on their balls.
It does but long ago they all moved into a parallel universe pulling up the drawbridge behind them.
They weren't too keen on the way things were turning out in the "backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the Galaxy" so packed up and toddled off to a panuniversal version of Chiantishire (space Tuscany.)
> how is Larry Ellison going to keep trying to reverse-age?
Monkey glands† were popular in the 1920s and given history seems to be now rhyming on a century beat possibly "new again."
I encourage the lounge lizard to try it. The list of simian viral zoonoses is pretty long and commonly fatal.
Yes that's transplanting monkey testicles. See Serge Voronoff. I don't know where the monkey kept his nuts but definitely not in my sac.
If any assembly were also used I might avoid the renaming for obvious reasons.
I thought Python used garbage collection for dynamic memory management although (re)writing a garbage collector in a language like Rust could have unexpected synergies.
hazard [$liability as a fraction of the extra revenue generated] × risk [probability incurring said liability] ⪢ extra profit.
You don't have to be a certified bean counter to walk away from that deal. Run would be favourite.
I am guessing the possibilty that some of that potentially humongous liability could be transmitted to the grifters' AI shops, is behind their recent regulatory invitation — in a vain hope of obtaining a statutory indemnity along the lines of the prrotections accorded "common carriers."
This story broke here over the weekend with the public broadcasters portraying it as the AI cabal getting cold feet, forecasting imminent disaster.
The Vulture article casts it in more in the BAU socialise the costs - or losses - and privatise the profits model with which we are all too familiar.
If AI were to continue on its current trajectory the effect on the environment, global economy and our societies might well mean any "profits" might eventually prove meaningless although even more obvious the troika of "alarmed" AI nutjobs Amodei, Altman and Musk are equally incapable of understanding that.
Still I would take this as a portent and ditch any NVidia etc investments. One prediction just on the situation with oil and bonds is the market will go pear shaped anyway before the end of the year. Not so much pace or dawdle but flee I suggest.
The screen is 51.5" (130.81cm or 1308.1mm) with an aspect ratio of 21:9 (7:3?) which I suppose means that if it were flat it would be 120cm × 51cm (W×H.) Weighs 12kg or 18kg with stand.
When I started using a large monitor (4K) I found it useful to open remote sessions (mostly Nomachine virtual sessions) in 1920x1080 windows and just bring the one I was working on, to the centre of the screen. (Hint: use a different background (colour) for each important machine to reduce "mishaps.")
Could never work with curved monitors as I just got the same massive headache as with multifocal contacts.
The big monitors are now more useful with the eyesight going as I need to use larger point sizes/fonts.
Still some benefit to having dodgy vision: recently while travelling on a bus we passed a large advertising sign which appeared to ask "Are You Allergic to Your Pet's Food? …" Well not pigging into the poor blighter's tucker might be favourite. Of course not food, fur.
> > Before the year is out, we expect Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh to be replaced by a disembodied virtual insect brain.
> Much like what has already happened to the country's leadership
I would argue the country's leadership replaced by a disembrained virtual insect body. Phlebotomus fly would be favourite.
The H&HS secretary's vacant real estate is popularly believed to have parasitic worm in residence asserting its squatter's rights.
in order to locate the WW2 NAZI base.
Insanely there will be more than one nutter on this planet doing just that.
Anyway the lunar NAZI refugees vacated their base and quietly returned years ago and now run the Republican Party although some embarrassing habits die hard — a deeply ingrained arm action is apparently one not so easily suppressed.
> > O’Leary accused him of “telling lies
> The pot should not be casting aspersions on the discolouration of the kettle.
My thought when I saw that Ryanair complained about the "widespread delays and cancellations."
As the Führer said in his Ryanair rant: "Don't believe Michael O'Leary's propaganda, he's worse than f*cking Göbbels. He's a complete c**t!"
I imagine once the finger is extracted from the anatomy there should be sufficient room to insert "digital government."
"Everyone's job and nobody's responsibility." So business as usual.
All rather more "Are You Being Served" than "Yes Minister", I am afraid.
You can take the pitcher to the well once too often.
I don't see this planet being invigorated by AI's insatiable demands on its water and energy resources.
Up until now we have managed to avoid the worst consequences of our neolithic slash-and-burn mentalitiy — no longer.
I am fairly sure a decent swathe of the population just can't comprehend any kind of hierarchical filing system.
Possibly the wrong abstraction but I cannot imagine what type of mapping between a document's title (and contents) to a storage location that reflects the contents, could be sufficiently intuitive for these defectives.
In the now forgotten days of paper files there were filing clerks who undertook the task for their (defective) superiors.
The nightmare I can envisage is that an AI version of the filing clerk will be created to remove the need for a file system abstraction.
"Clippy, where did you put the contract from last week?"
" ¯\_(° -°)_/¯ "
> I bought Lattice C compiler for it, for my first foray into GUI programming
I never had an Atari or Amstrad PC but I bought some of the developer doco that a bookstore was chucking out. I think aspiring GUI devs in AU looked to other platforms (Mac, Amiga?)
I was taken by the resemblance between the GEM interfaces and GKS stuff I studied at Uni. I just looked up GKS on WikiP — the resemblance wasn't coincidental.
The risk of buying cheap books just because they are cheap is that you end up reading vast amounts of stuff you know you will never need — like everything no one ever needed to know about the Zilog Z8000 cpu and mmu (although I did see an Olivetti M20… once.)
Krusty — comes with a ready made mascot.
My impression of competent Rust developers is that they were incomparably more talented† than your garden variety code monkey typically still in the employ of Microsoft.
How MS or any large tech corps that have recently enjoyed tranches of largely indiscriminate workforce retrenchments expects to attract and retain talent, escapes this bear of little brain.
I guess existing Krappy C/C++ Koders, Rust# and lashings of AI - Krappilot. What could go wrong ?
† also frequently complete PITA
> people unencumbered by the intellectual weights
Would cover the whole territory from middle manglement through the C suite to the board.
Curiously "backupability" already appears in Wiktionary with the expected meaning.
The word doesn't really have an exact synonym as it entails a number of properties from the ability to capture a consistent, single point in time image (snapability?) to the ability to restore a usable functional image. Even archivability ≠ backupability.
CMS — Content Mostly Shit, Crap Manglement Software, Completely Maims Sanity…
At least with separate mostly text files typically dispersed randomly over a shared drive, you have a fighting chance with grep (and find.) :)
Inverted indices were once used for this kind of stuff (no AI needed nor arguably any I) but I don't recall any specific Unix/Linux tools to build them. (DWB?)
Not so much a revolving door as a sausage machine.
I don't even recall what happened to the last one — or the one before that, or … bit of a blur really — not unlike the office of the UK PM, except they don't finish rolled up in carpet under the floor of the basement of Nº10. More's the pity.
new one on me. Has the whole Planet gone completely Bursar requiring a regular supply of dried frog pills ?
I suppose you would already be totally barking to source your "alternative" neuro·pharmaceticals from the likes of Microsoft.
Pill can also be used as a synonym for prat — presumably shortened from pillock.
'a so-called "brownfield” migration.'
Who dreams up this shit? Brownfield… very apt. Sounding like god·like terraforming tectonic engineers moving landscapes about and such, but are in all likelihood mere manglement gobshites.
Simon and PFY might use this nonsense, in extremis to put a swiftie over the Boss but circumstances that dire have yet to arise.
I guess it translates to: "We had such grand plans - new everything, no expense spared - until the bean counters threw buckets of ice cold reality over our hubris. We wil now stay where we are, use what we have and migrate our system calmly and quietly as befits a good stolid German corporate citizen."
> What a bunch of Cunning Stuts. The can go cook a bunch of socks.
In one line, two Spannerisms† appropriate to the behaviour of these scoundrels.
† a spoonerism that lost its way but doubles back to whack the reader in the back of his head as effectively as a 6" shifter.
Makes C.M.O.T. Dibbler look like a fine, upstanding member of the business community.
Someone from whom you could confidently purchase his signature rat·on·a·stick, certain that the impaled rodent was from a named species
To be clear … that's from Dibbler; I wouldn't trust Altman to shove a stick up rat's arse.
While their major offence was "stealing" this stuff from US thieves, their unforgivable crime is actually turning a profit from their use of AI — a prestidigitatory feat that has escaped Altman et al.
Amusingly the around the beginning of the 20th century the US engaged in much the same shenanigans as the PRC is accused of today.
Disregard of foreign intellectual property rights, industrial espionage, dumping products into overseas markets - including the British Empire - …
> Allow me to correct that statement : if you're on Linux, you're protected.
Even then I wouldn't have complete confidence that was the case.
Enough examples where a flaw has seemingly been fixed but hasn't and even more of the fix introducing even more but different flaws or vulnerabilities. Defence in depth is a thing for a good reason.
> how much longer is it going to take for manglement […] to securing their business operations ?
We need an acronym like MRDA for these questions: TAMFIBITW†
† "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" or abbreviated to the title BITW.
What ? Our Harry not too keen on our more diverse members of our community ?
Of course it is JKR to whom this observation refers. ;) … Rightly or wrongly.
Clearly a sentence and paragraph that got away from the writer — also a failing of mine. As her indoors repeats from her primary schooling: "a sentence <some grammatical stuff> and expresses a single coherent idea."
Whatever anyone thinks of JKR she can join Liberace, in crying all the way to the bank which is always some consolation. ;)
only the English can do eccentric or the British - barmy with such benign singlemindedness.
The cherry on the cake would be if he took up glassblowing to maintain his valves.
Glad it wasn't the R101 being simulated. :)
Says a lot about the dismal state of our world when Mike's efforts are a veritable oasis of sanity on an increasingly demented planet.
I am old enough to remember and fiddle with valves (very carefully) when I was a kid — they were still used in locally manufactured wireless sets - the valves were very small (30-40 mm high, 15-20 mm diameter) - and in B&W TV sets until much later.
Perhaps even more ironic in that Edgar J. reputedly also batted for the other side — probably apochryphal and certainly not openly.
I guess if he were in the closet he would have been so deeply into the wardrobe he would be talking with the White Witch.
