Posts by Matthew 25 288 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2009
I like to do things myself because then I understand why I did it that way. That means I can document it and come back years later to update it.
If I say to AI "I want a THING" I may get a THING but I have no idea why it won't work on the last Thursday of the month or how to fix it.
To be fair, I hate all instant messaging based collaboration tools. I suffer with ADHD and find all these things so distracting I'm unable to do much of anything. Ping, there we go again. Ping, is that one more important? Ping, that was funny - I'll reply. Ping the server instance for the other division has started acting up. Now where was I?
Three things
1 It is COPYright
Applies when work is copied. Storing in a digital format is creating a copy. This doesn't usually happen when a person reads, listens to, or looks at a thing. But does happen when training LLM. Plus some statistics.
2 LLMs are not general AI. They cannot think.
If we rely on LLMs for our words, pictures, music etc we will never have anything new. Only rearrangements of things that already exist. That is how they work.
3 In that sense, what we are told about LLMs is a con. They are a cul-de-sac for the human race because we are told we are getting something new from them when all we can possibly get is recycled. They cause stagnation in our thought process.
Amazon is often cheaper
Amazon often has free delivery
Amazon often has free returns
If others wish to compete they need to match that, not charge me $$$$ for the privilege of spending my money on their store.
If I am unsure about things on Amazon I usually use a physical shop.
I for one would love a modern BB10 device with a real keyboard. Half the time my touch screen phone ignores me. The other half it thinks I have touched the key next door to the one I thought I had. If I hadn't broken it, I would switch back to my old Q10 and put up with the slowness, inability to handle modern web, lack of apps etc just to get a real keyboard and a phone that fits in my pocket.
Yes. I totally agree, but it's not just Microsoft. Google, Facebook, Apple, and just about all companies with any sort of online presence do the same to the best of their ability. It is worth more to them than the products they are peddling. Why do you think most of these 'services' are without money cost to the end user?
Lets chop down the few remaining trees, dig up the remaining fossil fuels and burn them, put loads of nasty poisonous chemicals into our rivers and seas - in our bid to stop polluting the air and then we won't have to worry about AI out smarting us.
</sarc>
Lets face it, we're probably going to do it anyway. People are all for stopping other people doing things as long as they don't have to stop doing anything up themselves.
We are probably just Golgafrinchans and will solve out problems by sending out three ships to colonise the galaxy. I'll probably be on the first ship to leave, the B Ark, with all the other useless numpties.
As Douglas Adams wrote "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
I'm always worried that stop start causes extra engine wear.
All those finely ground bearings require a certain amount of oil pressure to protect and cushion them from the huge forces of exploding petrol / diesel (enough to move a ton or two of car rather briskly) and also stop them moving metal to metal. The pressure is created by pumps driven off the engine (actually part thereof) and dissipates when the engine stops. So every time you start it there is extra wear. This becomes much worse if you load the engine before oil pressure has had chance to build e.g. from a "clutch down - start - go" cycle.
Start stop is really a bit of a con. Its greenwash for the motor industry to show government that they are reducing the emissions from their vehicles, while at the same time hiding that they are consuming more resources.
Mine was Eruobell then Telewest vefore it became Virgin. I just have the slow connection so that 100Mbits Down 10Mbits Up. It usually exceeds this. I have never had a problem I needed to call them about so can't comment on customer service. The price is a bit steep though.
She is a Doctor not a data scientist. This article says nothing about her fitness to be a GP. It just shows that specialisms should be left to specialists. The whole argument is specious. Assumption should never be taken as consent. e.g. 'I assumed you consented to give me access to your bank account'
I am not sure I agree with you there. If you swap hydrocarbons for electricity you'll need an awful lot of the stuff.
Currently there are 31.7 million cars and 4.2 million LGVs on uk roads according to the rac foundation.
Average EV battery capacity is 62kWh(apparently).
Given not all of these will need to charge every night let's say half. That is still 982GWh of electricity on top of what we currently use. I doubt we will have the generation capacity for that and our European allies will not be able to top us up, as they do each winter, because they will be struggling too.
Sorry I don't get your point..?
There are 2 cars lets call them L and W.
L is unlocked and has the keys in the ignition.
W is locked and the keys are far away.
They can both be stolen but which is vulnerable?
Yes, you could pick the locks, or smash a window, but I know which theft my insurance would pay out on.
So it is OK for Linux to be wide open because Windows could be broken in to?
Actually, radio is inherently analogue. Even when you have created your digital multiplex you still transmit it using an analogue process because those radio waves are um... waves. How much simpler to just modify, say, the amplitude or frequency of one of those waves.
For AM all I need is an oscillator and an amplifier. Feed in the signal I want to transmit to vary how big the output is and Robert is your mother's brother.
For PWM its even simpler because I only need to transmit two states (big wave & small wave at the same frequency)
For FM I just control the frequency of the oscillator with the signal I want to transmit. This is very wasteful of bandwidth, which is why it is restricted to VHF.
No Computer. No complicated electronics. To transmit a DAB Mux I need all the stuff you mentioned PLUS one of the above analogue processes.
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