bentobean

“Prithee, make thy meaning plain, and speak to me as one would teach a child of five summers.”

— Shakespeare. Probably.

Lucky. I’m on the hook for 54 billion (and change).

As we all know, the foundation of Western diatonic music theory is ¹²√2, the ratio between the frequencies of successive semitones.

Nods knowingly. Yes, of course. I definitely know this.

Is this the Star Wars equivalent of dressing up as characters from The Handmaidens Tale and being overly dramatic?

There are four vacuum repair shops on Cape Cod, and I’ve never seen anyone walk into any of them. I bet a big chunk of these funds are funneling through there.

a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can only be a liability, and achieving that realisation is probably the only real contribution of AI to date.

Bingo.

I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.

AI is a force multiplier for whoever is using it. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, AI can be used effectively. In the hands of an idiot… watch out.

Most people are idiots.

Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs.

What a time to be alive.

MacOS does this as well, and it drives me nuts. No, I do not want files on my desktop to be synced to iCloud.

“It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…”

Nice try, ChatGPT.

“Microsoft Tentacle” - Now there’s a name for a new product line.

The streaming service Deezer said earlier this year it is receiving more than 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily…

Wow!

If you haven’t seen that “Everything is a Remix” documentary you should. It’s so good.

This hits hard. I’m getting hit with so much slop at work that I’ve quietly stopped being all that careful with reviews.

The “Cool Tools” catalog.

This is a joke.

Someone has to win. It might as well be me.

I would really like to hear more about these acquaintances who think they are evolving.

We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months.

If true, how much of this is a result of:

1. Genuine technical advancement

or:

2. Shoveling trillions of dollars into compute resources in order to service incoming LLM requests in a way that is completely unrealistic over the long term?

In other words… are we talking about genuine, sustainable innovation that we get to take with us moving forward and benefit from? Or are we talking about an “improvement” that is more akin to a mirage that will eventually disappear when the Ponzi scheme eventually collapses?

Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.

I’m not so sure that equating more laws produced with “greater productivity” is necessarily the right idea.

I can still remember what my fourth grade teacher once told my parents:

Your son could do anything he wants if he’d just sit down and shut up.

Is the US perfect? Of course not. But considering the alternatives, yes - I am glad the US can serve as the arbiter.

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. — Ali Khamenei

Does that sound like someone who should have a nuclear arsenal?

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region.

Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

- Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

Those who defend the Iranian regime or suggest that the Israeli government is the greater threat do so to their disgrace. SMH.

I think it’s a nonstarter that conflicts with 1st amendment principles, but I don’t necessarily disagree with the underlying sentiment that you’re expressing. Things like this are just the price we pay for living in a free / democratic society. But kudos to you for thinking outside the box.

You’re right. New plan: let’s ban all paid advertisements except for those that are approved by a committee of government officials. /s

Sure, and after that let’s ban: potato chips, sugar water, sex outside the hours of 6:00 - 7:00 PM, caffeine, plastic straws, and non-bran-based cereals.

Yes, people need to take care of themselves, but part of that involves a degree of personal responsibility.

“Let’s ban paid advertisement.” This is not a serious discussion.

I don’t feel demoralized.