Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.

I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.

C# allows that. Scala allows that. I imagine a bunch of others do too, it’s just that Python is a scripting language so is simpler in terms of features

That’s one interpretation and implementation of free speech. The EU define it as “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” which would be very easy to argue includes public authorities altering the legality of receiving and/or imparting information via AI.

People of Color Aren’t Invited

Many are of Asian descent—a reflection of the strong presence of Asian talent in global tech

This is something I really have an issue with: they’re trying to paint it as a race thing when it’s a wealth/class thing.

They’re trying to frame it like they hate anyone non-White while I’m willing to bet good money they have nobody, White or otherwise, from places like the Deep South/other poorer places in the US, and it’s just that Latin & Black people are more likely to come from less privileged backgrounds for historical reasons than White/Asian people.

That’s not to say that racism doesn’t exist, it’s just to say that it’s definitely not the biggest factor here. Don’t buy into corporations trying to divide the working class by race, when it’s so obviously a class struggle.

Yeah, it’s a classic of locking you in and hiking up the prices, and the people capable of porting those sheets are probably way too overworked dealing with supporting the vast majority who have no idea how they work to spend time on it (or getting fired by Elon for not doing anything while being the single block that supports the tower)

It sucks, but I wouldn’t give up on trying to get them to convert, just be aware that it’s very possible that this will be one of the biggest technical (as opposed to administrative) blocks.

Most users of word & powerpoint are fairly basic users, but if you’re using excel for work then there’s a surprisingly high likelyhood you’re using a sheet written by a wizard with arcane skills in it with the number of VB macros, pivot tables, and things most people don’t even know exist.

Even if you’re just a user and not creating them, and their functionality would better work in a dedicated program or a database, chances are it’d still break unless you’re very lucky.

That doesn’t sound patient, frankly if you’re buying games and not playing them that sounds distracted and wasteful

Interesting to see they’re using chatbot arena ELO rather than some unrepresentative benchmark designed to make them look good, that actually gives me higher hopes for this

That study is for notetaking though, as you copy verbatim when typing but more concisely when writing, making you process the information and not just the words.

When you’re doing something that requires thought anyway, you’re already processing the information so they’re equally good?

It’s not evil, you’re providing a service by offering the product in a more familar environment to people, but still it’d be good to be transparent about it rather than pretending you’re the seller

There’s a difference between libertarians and republicans looking to make more money. Most of the supposedly anti-taxation anti-regulation billionaires just want less tax for them and fewer regulations for their business; everyone else and especially imported products can be taxed more to give the billionaire’s company more subsidies, and regulations to prevent competitors from growing or starting up is even more welcome. Even when it comes to personal freedoms, they don’t care and will gladly support the government in reducing those freedoms if it earns them some sway.

This all goes directly against the libertarian principles of government non-intervention in the free market and people’s personal lives, both of which are vastly more important than just reducing taxes, which supposedly comes as a side effect later (even if in reality taxes would probably stay the same as you’d need to provide more assistance to low income people)

This isn’t to say that more principled libertarians are necessarily noble or right or whatever compared to people who just want lower taxes, just that saying it’s about reducing taxes and giving power to corporations is buying in to the direction that corporations are trying to move the ideology in

Be generally aligned with the right

It’s gotta be authoritarian right though… I can’t see a pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-tariff, anti-corruption (generally pro-freedom, that thing republicans pretend to like) libertarian getting anywhere with trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if a tankie got along better given they’re into most of the things trump likes

This is Rust not Python

They’re both optimised out by the compiler. If you disable compiler optimisations, they’re identical in machine code anyway, unless you introduce a second loop, in which case the first will be more memory efficient as the memory used in the first loop can be reused in the second loop, whereas if you declare the variable outside the loop it can’t (again, without compiler optimisations, which make the whole comparison pointless).

if any of these startups succeed, my condolences to the engineers who get hired afterwards and are stuck bugfixing

This is any successful startup - you don’t succeed by making a perfect product, you succeed by making a buggy mess that’s enough to convince both investors and more importantly customers that there’s potential… That means you need to rebuild from scratch in years 2-4 anyway, so frankly for the engineers who are coming in then, there’s little to no difference

Product placement is advertising, and as such saying “no ads” while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

nah its not whoever’s putting the bags in, it’s either management deciding it’s too inefficient to deal with two streams, or the people using the bins weren’t capable of separating so just threw it wherever and so it all ended up mixed anyway

spooky month 👻

Are they identical objects?

Not even that, it’s more than likely some PM said “we want to open the camera and be ready to record when someone goes on the story tab”, then it gets implemented as needing permissions first and not considering that some people wouldn’t want to give the permissions and only upload from camera roll

Yeah even gpt4o couldn’t keep track of encounters, run battles etc. in my case…

I think if you wanted to do it mechanically consistently you’d probably need to integrate it into a vtt where you give it context and potentially fine-tune it to give quest related summaries & gming rather than just “stuff”