We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code.
Haven’t seen a single Star War so forgive me if this is obvious, but is there an in-universe explanation for why Andor is just one letter off from Endor?
Anyone who points out that the emperor has no clothes is simply told that they don’t understand the technology, and every year that goes by that human life is not seriously disrupted by this technology is just a minor delay.
They got it down to just a single diabete
It is, of course, entirely possible that the advances in a rapid developing field have been so extreme that it turns out that skepticism was correct six months ago, but is now incorrect. But then why did people sound exactly the same six months ago?
Based on his recent track record if you told me Elon Musk has only ever been just a figurehead who inexplicably became a billionaire and never made any of the actual business accomplishments he’s purported to I’d absolutely believe you.
We’re so back.
As for why, it should be enough to justify Liquid Glass simply for the sake of looking cool.
So when Galinda sings “It’s really, uh, sharp, don’t you think? You know black is this year’s pink” — what is the year she’s referring to?
Always funny to hear the dead giveaways that airline safety announcements are now AI generated (totally unnatural stress patterns virtually every sentence) because the systems don’t have any actual understanding of natural language syntax or how it interacts with prosody the way we subconsciously do
It’s so funny to me that in the React world an “app” is something that like, shows a drop-down menu and then updates the text on the page based on what the user selected. Buddy that’s a Web site!
But what if every letter in the word was used? What if we could have a dense network of interlocking squares, where every letter was part of exactly two words? Well, we can, and it’s called an American-style crossword.
The thing will feed you trash. It’ll feed you fake wisdom from fake people and beg you to trust it. But if you want to make a fast, beautiful system — to sculpt the kind of software that gets embedded in pacemakers and missile guidance systems — you better throw that bot out the airlock and learn.
In this case, Rodriguez spoke in the language of anti-Zionism, but he acted with the logic of antisemitism, which has as its foundational myth that all Jews are collectively to blame for the policies of the Israeli government and, often enough, for the ills of the world.
I don’t know with what tools Claude 5 will build itself, but Claude 6 will be built with sticks and stones.
You look around the world and you see lots of places that have mass transit practices that American cities can learn from. But when you look at these cities — Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, Munich, Zurich, you name it — there is no major global city that is making the bus free.
Many countries have bad supply-side housing policy, which can create a zero-sum dynamic around immigration that has destructive downstream consequences for both politics and economics.
Admittedly I haven’t heard a single second of his music, but is there really no possibility that, like his most recent offering, none of Kanye West’s discography has any sort of artistic merit or critical worth whatsoever, and it’s somehow taken until this release to finally collectively admit that?
Vuong told an interviewer, “It took me a long time to reply, ‘I’m not going to translate that.’” But there is a world of difference between being accosted on the street for not speaking English and being asked at a reading to explain something that you, a very famous poet, have just read aloud.
At this point I’d believe you if you told me OpenAI somehow influenced the choice of Pope so that people who up until now have sworn off AI are instead furiously getting ChatGPT to show him holding up a shot glass of Malört or whatever
Where Eastwood’s depiction of the aviation system distorts it to his own ends, Fielder’s analysis of it is vastly more insightful and no less dramatically powerful.