Digital twinning is a useful concept (and I'm sure they're doing it, or something very similar) - but using genAI/LLM on such an incredibly failure-sensitive and risky project would be beyond madness. For once the reasons for NOT doing this aren't budget.
Posts by Lord Elpuss
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Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
Re: "They add great value when the time comes to lay people off."
"To get fired from a HR position you have to be pretty much unspeakable, because you need to have pissed off all your own colleagues as well as the rest of the company."
Not true. HR roles are being hit by some of the deepest cuts presently; because what most of what they 'do' can be largely automated or replaced with AI-lite aka chatbots.
Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog
Re: Don't give money charities you cry...
Like those poor mugs who spaffed their donations up the wall so Patrice Cullors could buy herself a new mansion? You're quite A OK supporting that, along with calling those who object to it racists... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And for the record, you don't need to sign your posts. Literally nobody gives a shit whether you're A, B, Z or The Poster Who Used to Call Himself Q.
Re: RNLI vs chuggers
DoubleLayer I think you're right. My point isn't that I feel these services should necessarily be restricted or cancelled; simply that funding, in the broadest context of ANY service, is by its very nature finite AND intended for a specific objective. Allowing those who are not in scope of this objective to take advantage of the service decreases the quality and availability of the service for those for whom it IS intended, which isn't fair as it's their money (directly or indirectly) that paid for it. See also: restricting access to the NHS to legal UK residents.
I don't believe it's practical to ask RNLI boat commanders to deliberately ignore anybody struggling in the water. To do so would be inhuman, not to mention impractical (ask them for ID before picking them up? Throw them back if they can't show UK residency?) HOWEVER - the RNLI should not promote itself as a service to non UK-residents, and (in my view) should make it clear that that is NOT why it exists. It has neither the funding nor the mission to save the world.
That is my point.
Re: BLM is (was) also a charity
I didn’t confuse anything. BLM, and everything associated with it, is nothing more than a scam concept staffed and supported by grifters, workshy oxygen thieves and professional victims, with the singular intent of padding their nests at the expense of the gullible and weak.
Clear enough for you?
Re: RNLI vs chuggers
” Rescue doesn't care.
> what happens if the people needing rescue are attempting to migrate illegally?
Idem.“
Well; when it comes to funding, they should. Not to mention the fact that it’s a tool in the smuggler’s arsenal knowing that if all else fails, we can dump them in the water and they’ll be picked up anyway. Remove this safety net and a part of the smugglers’ value proposition goes away.
Re: RNLI vs chuggers
Where I am, chugging and/or shaking the bucket is illegal. If you want to collect on the street, you can stand there with a hi-viz and an (approved, licensed and tamper-proofed) collection receptacle, but you can't approach people or shake/jingle at them in order to attract attention. Occasionally some scummy out-of-town students on 100% commission will try it on, and the local population seem to relish the challenge of teaching them a well deserved lesson when they step out of lane.
One of the vastly better laws, in my opinion.
Re: Measuring efficiency
Samaritans' bad result had next to nothing to do with supplying phones for volunteers. A VoIP server and a bunch of handsets costs pennies in the scheme of things.
Of course if you're giving hundreds of your volunteer staff un-MDMed iPhone 15s and expecting them all to be there and accounted for at the end of the month, then yes that could be an expensive proposition. But then that's fully, 100% on you for being an idiot.
IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips
Re: RE: Mainframe Skills Council
"...questioning "Why are we allowing 'managers' to keep their jobs when they apparently can't make wise, foreseeable business decisions?""
To be fair, most managers have zero power, influence, budget or freedom to make decisions of any scope. Executives are the ones with the power, and even then not all are created equal; you have to go pretty high to find somebody who can make strategic decisions versus day-to-day.
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters
YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting
EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine
Re: Sweep
"Zero is already taken."
It doesn't generally work like that. Fines are payable - at least in escrow - within a short period of judgement being made. They can appeal and might have the money returned to them if successful (and interest is generally applied either way) but they don't get to simply delay in perpetuity.
Apple is fully entitled to determine the rules inside their App Store that they created, own, manage and curate.
But THIS - "...because the anti-steering rule also prevented developers from telling users about cheaper prices available elsewhere." - is bang out of order. And I completely support the EU in striking it down.
Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs
"An SoC simply means auxiliary components are integrated with the CPU and GPU on the same die."
I admire how you just casually throw 'simply' into that sentence.
"What makes Apple Silicon perform so well is its fast I/O (the basic M3 already has a 100GB/s memory bus, plus a clever cache and paging strategy) and UMA (which avoids having to move GPU data between RAM and GPU memory)."
You just described Apple's SoC. Which is my point. Well done.
Re: All Apple’s Machines Are Glorified Laptops Now
"Even their desktop machines are basically laptops in bulkier cases."
You could say literally the same about any manufacturer. Laptops and PCs are generally all variants on the same core chip or SoC, with different ancillary devices like battery, screen, power supply and active cooling added on dependent on the use case.
The only real 'different' devices these days are servers. And even - many to use the same core silicon with the R&D budget expended on GPUs.
"But, if you buy Apple's claims, that's the equivalent of 16GB on a Windows PC because efficiency."
It's 'because' SoC. Efficiency is the byproduct.
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff
Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe
Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row
Re: Capitals
"I don't believe that black or white in this context are proper nouns."
They're also not a race. Capitalising them is a symptom of the creeping wokeism infecting 'journalism' in pretty much every sector nowadays - either because the publication concerned is genuinely rabidly left wing, or (more likely) they're afraid of the backlash from certain shouty and ethnically inconvenient quarters if they fail to toe the line and bow down before the wokerati.
One of my hobbies is capitalising White in comments on left-wing sites, then watching the shouty activists tie themselves into knots trying to insist that capitalising Black is correct and proper but capitalising White is racist; whilst literally ANY argument you could bring to either justify capitalisation or deny it applies in equal measure to both.
Re: re. would that not mean that White people are now in the Global Minority
I checked the dictionary definition of Oppression and interestingly, there's no mention of a timescale before it becomes applicable. Maybe you should contact Oxford or Collins with your 'views'.
Or better yet keep them to yourself, and try not to be such a sneaky little racist next time.