> where do we buy one?
The usual places: Gartner, McKinsey, etc.
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I wish I had a nickel for every colleague who ever saw me in the office with headphones on and a death stare into the monitor, and rather than interpreting this to mean "fuck off", interpreted it to mean "please come talk to me about college football, cars, your vacation, or another subject in which I have no interest and which does not bear on our work."
Not to mention everyone who ever came up to my desk to tell me they just sent me an email. Thanks, I had no other way of knowing!
Did Schmidt just somehow make it to this point without ever once watching a Terminator movie? And were there no eight-year-olds around him to explain why this is a bad idea? Why are these people obsessed with creating the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus?
If I had to pick an alphabet-soup agency behind Bitcoin, I might guess the IRS sooner than the CIA. "Please, do all your money laundering through this total non-honeypot."
Seriously, though, applying Occam's Razor, I think it's most likely that Nakamoto was a single person acting for ideological (libertarian and/or cypherpunk) reasons, not part of an organized operation. But if you want to spread the story that he was actually Andy Kaufman, I would be very happy about that.
Satoshi Nakamoto (long since proven to be American comedian and provocateur Andy Kaufman) posted the first block of the Bitcoin chain on January 3, 2009. I haven't been able to find out what exact time, at least not within the confines of the amount of work I'm willing to put into this bit. So let's just round to the nearest day and call it 5,760 days even since then.
There are 8,294,400 minutes in 5,760 days. Applying Barnum's Constant (one sucker born/minute), there are likewise 8,294,400 new suckers who came of age in that time. 8.3 million marks might not be a lot compared to the peak of blockchain frenzy, but it's still enough to support a sizeable ecosystem of grifters.
> i dont waste 10 - 20 hours a week in traffic or trains or buses, ... looking at tictoc...
And neither do I. That's one thing you and I have in common. The difference between us is, I can read a sentence written in my native language and understand what it means.
I'm bailing out of this argument now, though, you can tell yourself you won if you want. Gold star for you.
I haven't owned a car since 2000. I do have a Zipcar account, I think I last used that three or four years ago.
I also didn't say that everyone needs to spend their time driving.
But please keep congratulating yourself on how clever you are: you must be, you can read things in posts that people didn't even write.
> A spokesperson for the Hensel for Congress campaign told The Register that the chatbot was "designed to provide straightforward, factual responses based solely on publicly available data from Beyer's official sources."
The question is, did they know this was a lie when they said it or not? Hensel doesn't know how to create an LLM that guarantees "straightforward, factual responses". Nobody does.
> It is up to the company to decide the work rules based on what they think is best OVERALL for the company, and up to employees to decide if they wish to earn money by working under those rules.
Or, if they have a tiny little trace of initiative, they can push back on a policy they don't like, such as say by trying to publicize something the company would rather hush up. You don't actually have to take whatever your employer gives you just because they're your employer.
> Organizations adopting AI need to learn how to manage the emotional and monetary costs the tech creates, while also worrying about capturing productivity benefits, according to analyst firm Gartner.
This has inspired me to come up with the following marketing slogan for Gen AI: "GEN AI: It's expensive and people hate it, but at least you'll get bad results!"