Posts by Pascal Monett 19002 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
So the air is coming out. I'm waiting for someone to slash the tires.
What will this mean for the dozens of bitbarns that are programmed ? I've got the feeling that the electric grid has a chance of surviving the next decade just fine.
Death to AI, and end of career to all the besuited snake-oil salesmen who charmed the Boards all over into believing in it.
Absolutely.
Old tech works on its own. The besuited CEOs and MBAs cannot extract monthly revenue from it, and so cannot increase their bonuses.
So the resurgence of this tech is more than an annoyance, it's the barbarians at the gates.
Unfortunately for them, while preaching Sun-Tsu until breathless, they know only too well how Rome ended.
I'm sorry to disagree with your cookie-cutter argument.
Warning students that they can be expelled if they protest is already a blatant disregard for democracy.
One would think that a University, of all places, would want to demonstrate intellectual enlightenment and enter into discussions to find out what the problem was and what was needed to solve it.
Instead, they used Stasi-like tools to find the troublemakers.
Whatever happened afterwards, I call that facism.
Yeah, that'll indeed bruise an ego, especially one who doesn't know he doesn't know but thinks he does. Ergo, this was obviously the nicest decision they could take.
That said, it's nice when you get a manager who knows the nuts and bolts. There's less waffling about with business-speak in meetings and when you explain why something can't be done that way, there is agreement without much discussion (that's supposing that you know what you're talking about). Plus, if you're doing things right, you get his entire support when things still go pear-shaped.
So, that's how much we have lowered our expectations. We'll be happy to find the dead, fried remains of some bacteria somewhere before Jupiter.
I remain convinced that there is intelligent life out there in the Universe. You can point a telescope anywhere in the night sky and, with enough time, you'll find entire galaxies. You can't expect me to believe that none of them have developed intelligent life. Beings that look up into the night sky and wonder, who else is out there ?
The only problem is the trillions upon trillions of kilometers between us and them.
And there's no Universal Postal Service.
Yeah, sure. Whenever we get "advanced" AI I'll agree.
We don't even have AI now, what gives you the right to talk about advanced AI ? Do you have access to some special version that no one knows about yet ?
Marketing will remain marketing, but a fucking reality check is in order here.
You need AI for that now ? I thought you just needed a sensor, like, for exmple, off the top of my mind, the microphone that's already included, plus a bit of local CPU code to adjust the volume "automagically".
But no, now you to send the data God knows where to have it treated by God knows what and spend a portion of your Internet bandwidth on that simple function.
I am curious to see just how fast and how far this new AI-Pixel version will crater. I hope the hole will be deep.
It is reassuring to learn that an important industrial figure is aware that you need to educate and train actual humans if you want your company to thrive in the future.
Pseudo-AI can eventually be a useful crutch, but it is nothing but a crutch. If you don't have a human to ask the proper questions, pseudo-AI will never be able to answer (whether right or, more likely, wrong).
Inconvenient why ?
Almost nobody outside China speaks Chinese (Mandarin), and almost no one in the billion-plus population under Bejing's iron rule speaks English, so where's the problem ?
If China's own network admins cut off access to the world for their state-sponsored network terrorists, I think that that is that much time saved from bothering about them.
And how exactly are you going to manage that ?
First of all, you'd have to have the means to determine that it's a child using the VPN (because guess what ? Adults have professional reasons to use VPNs. I know that because I have a Swiss customer that requires that I join its network from Switzerland. I'm not going to drive 300km every time I need to connect to their network).
Then, you'd have to determine that "the child" is doing something that you have decided is "unwholesome". Who are you to decide what is "wholesome" ?
I'm sorry, this is 2025.
How many times do you need to be warned that social media is just milking you to get the message ?
If you can't understand by now, then there's only a cluebat to the face - or a great big hole in your bank account - that will get the message across.
And I'm sorry if I do not sympathize.
" is how little some most companies care about training"
FTFY
Training is expensive. It is based on the idea that the emplyee is going to stick around and benefit the company from the training.
Interns are not really expected to stick around.
Especially in the days of low-capacity (compared to today) hard disks whose fragility was easily demonstrated, they should not have been in charge of testing that disk without supervision.
Failure on the part of the manager. He didn't do his job. So it's normal that he deals with a replacement.
The question should be : Are UK taxpayers is anyone getting real value from SPA24 Microsoft ?
Sharepoint ? Excuse me while I ROLFL. SQL databases are 1000 times more efficient.
Active Directory ? Does Linux need that ? I don't think so.
Anything Borkzilla does is a vector of attack. That is not the case of Linux.
But I'm just pissing in the wind here . . .
Color me stupid, but Open Source is Open Source. How come there are different versions of it ?
Yes, I understand that various entities see an interest in subverting Open Source for their own selfish interests, but if they cite that are based on Open Source, then Open Source should be the rule.
If you don't want to publish your code under Open Source, that you fucking stay Closed Source and shut the fuck up about it.
The cost of what ?
Dealing with one employees daily work, or dealing with risk of having your entire worforce's date on someone else's server that can be hacked any time ?
I swear, if ever I am in a situation to have a meeting with a Gartner marketing representative, I'll start the meeting by putting a loaded Smith&Wesson on the table and then I'll say : "Okay, let's talk reality.".
I don't care what interface you are using to consult a true expert system in your domain.
An expert system hasn't been "trained" on scraping posts from Reddit. It has been build on actual experience in the field.
But morons don't care about that, and they vastly outnumber intelligent people who know what they're dealing with.
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