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My gosh. The GPU can now recast movies and games with different actors in realtime? It's like... Fotoshop by Adobé v2.0

There's actually a whole lot of implications. To put words to a rather radiative stream of consciousness ... It's almost like the age-old truism of GIGO still holds. Feed a LLM garbage and its trained model is going to be filled with garbage. If you reward it for giving you garbage, it'll get...

This just in! Company with monopoly exploits its market power to maximize profits at the expense of the consumer using grossly unethical and/or outright illegal means.

I was discussing the job market with someone yesterday, and I called it "polluted." I think that's an appropriate word. Polluted by employer-side screening tools, now by applicant-side AI tools, phantom postings just to screen for interest, spambots to respond to everything, already-dead...

A few modest observations about Elon wanting to rebuild SSA's codebase... 1) Should it be done? Absolutely, but done right. 2) Let's look at scope. Tesla's annual revenue is about $100 billion. Amazon's annual revenue is something like $600 billion. Social Security annual benefits given out is...

About the same if we took away a human's internal neurotransmitter and hormonal communication. Not pretty. And we know this. Ant colonies die when that happens. If you consider worker ants as individual organs in a whole organism, and their inter-unit communication to be over air instead of...

Eusocial animals blur the definition of "organism." So do viruses blur the definition of "life." Our cells work together because of chemical (and electrochemical) communication. So ant workers do the same. So what if inter-ant communication chemicals travel through air, where inter-cell...

The killer is going to be entropy of mixing. Having a mixture like seawater and putting water over HERE and salt over THERE takes work. You can't beat it without either spending energy or rewriting the laws of physics. There aren't a lot of omniscient gods walking around on this planet, so we're...

You don't remember every word you've ever read, but every word you ever heard and read did in fact contribute to the training dataset of your own Large Language Model. Your LLM was just built (trained) over the years of your life. Imagine trying to process every input you've ever consumed all in...

Scaling issues do indeed suck vulgar anatomical parts. I do Density Functional Theory (DFT, but not Discrete Fourier Transform) for my grad research. DFT is numerical solution of Schroedinger's Equation (quantum physics), which is largely the basis for a lot of mechanical, electronic, magnetic...

Or wind traps on Arrakis.

And 70% of all code is generated (well, copy-paste-edit) by StackOverflow. That leaves 5% original human-generated content. Shrug. Disclaimer: I made that number up.

Yep. Canceled Netflix. Canceled Hulu, Apple, HBO, Disney, Paramount. We. Even. Canceled. Amazon. Prime. I have better stuff to do.

Advertisers: "Elon is changing the legal landscape within X to favor him in any dispute. I think we won't even START advertising with X just to protect ourselves." Elon: "Censorship!"

Okay, dumb question. Wouldn't aliens, or for that matter any entity trying to transmit across space, want to AVOID the hydrogen band, to keep clear of all the noise that, well, 75% of the mass of the universe can produce ... or absorb?

Yep. Wordstar was sweet pre-Windows. Even had it on our CP/M machine. Then WP was great. I also remember fondly Microsoft Word 2.0c on Windows 3.1 - clean, no bloat, got the job done.

Disney, gone. Hulu, HBO, Netflix, gone. Heck, we even cancelled Amazon Prime, with the premium-plus-premium pricing they wanted to have LESS commercials. Cable used to have the benefit of no commercials, because the consumer was paying up front for the content. That went away and providers went...

Actually not that far off. If you calculate the energy budget of a human, it comes in around 100 watts, and I've heard/read that the brain takes something like 30-40% of that.

Sigh. It takes a grid-scale supercomputer with a grid-scale powerplant to accomplish what a human can do with 40 watts. Forty.

Used 8-inch drives on early 1980s Z80 CP/M machine. One disk had OS, office apps, a game or two, a compiler or two, and pretty much all of my data. Peel away a half-dozen layers of abstraction in the programming languages and APIs (so much of the code bloat is just to make it easier to...