jacobriers

If your reverse the roles and Robin Williams as an actor is ChatGPT pretending to have experienced life, you could argue his performance has value to us even though it's fake.

It's like you assigning to humans divine capabilities :) . Hyperbolizing a little, humans also only copy and mix - where do you think originality comes from? Granted, AI isn't at the level of humans yet, but they improve here.

I reckon we copy God - who is a creator - which means we're creators too - and our creations will copy us. But the created won't ever match the creator.

The graphs that this article uses as sources for app store releases are just stock images from Statistica and not the real numbers - looks like that's hidden behind a paywall.

The reason I think so is because I wanted to write a follow-up post, and checked the numbers - for instance, the graph for the Play Store peaks at 140000 app released per month, but all the references I found on the internet were much lower.

I then hunted around for other sources of app store data and found appfigures, which had a free trail. I did a bit of querying and I am seeing a noticeable uptick in number of apps released since around March 2025 (from around 20000 to 35000 for Google and 17000 to 30000 for iOS).

In terms of new GITHUB public repositories, the numbers look correct - so I agree with them there - no uptick in new open source repos in the AI era so far.

I am a software engineer that works full time (and have a family:), and have just handed in my masters thesis. What made it easier for me was picking a problem I was already very familiar with (and passionate about) to do my thesis on. After that it was just putting in consistent hours in the evening after everyone went to sleep.

That's true. We usually combo the wheel with a palette picker to overcome that problem. Something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/jacobriers/hhsfj4tf/1/

I like mine better :) http://codepen.io/JacoBriers/pen/EjKgJQ

We went on the hunt for a time-series data-store a while ago and ended up picking OpenTSDB. It seems they are planning on supporting Cassandra (which sounds like it will be easier to maintain than HBase): http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/backends/cass... Another worthy contender was KairosDB: https://kairosdb.github.io/

According to the title it was inside of him ;)

I concede that it's hard to stay positive, but I think SA will bounce back. Sometimes a hard fall gives you a reality check.

The article mentions that many people have left SA, but just as many stay. SA offers an amazing quality of life : I'm writing this from my office looking out across the Stellenbosch mountains. Later today I'll drive home through the countryside and spend the evening with my family. This weekend I may choose to go running at a wine-farm (for free), or take a short drive to Melkbos beach. This lifestyle is available to anyone with an "average" job.

I'm not denying that we have our problems, but we do have a lot going for us as well. My hope is that good will triumph over evil.

Did he die when it hit him?

Any bets on how long it will take for them to fix this?