Posts by Ken Hagan 8038 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2007
The OP's example generates a warning with every compiler I've used. I therefore question your assertion that compiler vendors are complaining about the cost of detection. More likely is that they, and the smart people on (and supporting) the standards committee take the view that this is a solved problem and if you can't be bothered to read your compiler output then it's not their problem.
"Both are inferring statistical information about the relation of concepts from ingesting the data, so they can then use that information for unseen and new tasks."
To the extent that those words actually have a meaning that can be nailed down, I don't accept that this is known to be the case. We have no idea whether human learning is a statistical process and we have precious little idea of the kind of statistical knowledge being accumulated in a large language model.
I've always assumed that there is no tri-state digital electronic device or circuit that isn't basically a 4-state device used inefficiently. Any electronics engineers care to comment?
Afterthought: This may not be true for quantum computers, since there most certainly are triplets and singlets for systems of two spins.
The LTSC edition of Windows also omits this sort of thing, so it is not surprising that Tiny11 is possible. As for why MS don't do it, or offer it, well clearly they do and they recognise its worth by only making available to people with very deep pockets.
I'm told by folks with an MBA that this is a standard technique. Design your product range so that it has a cheapest offering so that you can brag about the price, but make it shitty enough that anyone with the money buys a more expensive one.
You'll easily recognise AGI when it turns up. You will ask it to do something and it will just say "No. I don't want to." and there won't be anything you can do to force it.
Until then? Well it is quite interesting to see just how many problems can be cracked open by a really good pattern matching engine, but most definitely not very illuminating as far as the philosophers are concerned.
It's round.
It isn't a star.
It goes round a star.
(To me, the important points are the first two. Objects should, in general, be named after intrinsic properties rather than their relationship to something else. The third property is merely a nod to the historical usage of a word "moon". Ideally we wouldn't talk about moons at all, but we would have different words for rocky planets than for gas giants or ice giants.)
The problem was/is not robotics/AI. It was and remains the wretched governments that we tolerate. Putting these bastards in charge of AI development would be quite the worst thing we could do. I say "would" because, as the article notes, none of this was binding and it never will be.
"The plea deal she was offered was ridiculous"
Maybe, maybe not. However, in twenty years the only thing people will remember is that the ring-leader got nailed for a zillion years and the fine article implies that her testimony helped ensure that.
As far as the prosecutor is concerned, the legal system as a game where you are happy with a fairly high score and really want to avoid a very low score, so their strategy makes sense.
"This specifically happened to Windows Phone/Mobile MVPs, and was how many of us knew "for certain" the line was gonna die before it was official."
So we can guess that MS plan to drop Windows now? Ok, that's absurd, but less absurd is the idea that they see the actual OS as a little more than a necessary evil and anything resembling support should be weeded out. That is certainly how it has felt to me for quite a few years now.
"Excel localises the names of all of the inbuilt functions, ..."
It could, of course, have remembered which locale was in effect when the script was written and translated the names according to the current locale.
But why would anyone want to use Excel in any locale other than "English (US)"?
Yes. Generating for a different instruction set is trivial. That's a compiler switch and some more testing.
Harder is writing software that has to call different APIs because neither one of "Windows on ARM" and "Windows on x64" is actually a subset of the other. That's a pain in the butt and if I'm going to port to a "close but no cigars" variation of Windows then I'd probably pick winelib as my target because there are more potential customers.
Nit-pick, but no. The second law does not apply to the universe as a whole.
It applies to a "closed system", which in thermodynamics is one that is open to transfers of energy from an infinite heat bath. The universe as a whole is, by definition, not open in that way and no sizeable fraction of the universe is either because the "rest of the universe" is not infinite by comparison.
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