I had a friend at work who would come to my office at lunch time and remind me to stop working and have lunch. I’d be stuck on a problem and want to keep working on it, and he’d insist that I stop. He say that if I took some time away, I’d come back with the solution, and he was usually right.
He would also stop by my office at the end of the day to remind me to go home. I worked with him almost 20 years.
He retired in November of 2023 and passed away in June of 2024. I still miss him.
It had happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.
I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.
He was fucked up. He survived, but it was “learning how to walk and talk again” survival.
I also had a teacher in college who wasn’t wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.
I don’t find this uplifting. My standards haven’t dropped that low yet.
Maybe if the government complies with the order, but I probably need to see real consequences to be uplifted.
“Donald Trump is bombing Iran because he wants to feel powerful”
No. He’s bombing Iran because Obama made a joke about him and everybody laughed.
Suggesting he’s doing it to feel powerful gives him so much more credit than he deserves.
I believe they are referencing the way Trump always chickens out.
In Soviet Russia, it is lovin’ you.
Having a gun probably also gives you a better chance of being shot either by suicide, accident, or making yourself seem like more of a threat.
LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.
Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.
Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.
I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.
My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.
What do you mean when you say AI?
Are you talking about all the different areas of research or just LLMs?
I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.
Also, if you’re a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that’s really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.
A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.
I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.
He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren’t terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.
Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.
Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.
Regarding murdering because of money, I’d recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can’t pay drug dealer, can’t get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like “won the lottery” money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.
The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Not Noah Wyle, although I agree that picture looks like him.
The moon landing was faked, but they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the shoot, and he insisted that they film on location.
I don’t have a flagpole. I want to put one in, but my wife objects.
The reason she objects is because she thinks it will make us a target.
I want to fly a pride flag under the American flag. The point being that the American flag stands for all Americans, not just the Americans who agree with the current regime.
I’d probably change the lower flag from time to time, depending on events, time of year, or my mood.
Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?
Also: left side, but flipped.
For me personally, I wish Latin had been an option for me, as it’s used extensively in biology and it would have been incredibly helpful.
My wife and I studied Latin in middle school and high school.
My kids were also able to take Latin in school.
Rather than list all the benefits of learning Latin, I found this, Top 10 Reasons For Studying Latin, which says it better than I could.
I would struggle to translate anything today (although I still know that all of Gaul is divided into three parts), but I know I have benefited from an improved understanding of English grammar and vocabulary.
Fight for Latin in your schools!
I only have 40 yrs to go - if I’m realistic
Probably far less if society breaks down to the point that libraries cease to exist.
I don’t speak Portuguese, but sometimes I get in a mood to listen to bassa nova. I like the rhythm.
Mas Que Nada - probably my go to. I listen to that enough to annoy people around me.
I also like Águas de Março, particularly Elis Regina’s duet with Jobim.
No.
https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/vladimir-putin-1999-russian-apartment-house-bombings-was-putin-responsible
He’s a terrorist.