Due to the recent #Eurovision debate about which nations are "allowed" to participate because of alleged or real crimes against humanity, I repeat my 1000 IQ solution again:

If you dig deep enough, you will find that EVERY nation has skeletons in their closet. Thus, ban ALL nations from Eurovision. Instead, each participant gets to represent an #UTM zone in #Europe.

"12 points to 31T!" 🙃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Transverse_Mercator_zones.svg

#HalfSerious #ESC #music

Thinking about #AI, Paul Ford (@ftrain) proposes a quirky but plausible test to distinguish bubble technologies from normal technologies.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-normal-after-ai-plateaus/
(#paywalled)

"The metric I use is the C/B ratio: conferences to blogging. If people are steadily attending conferences about a subject, it is not normal yet. If they’re mostly blogging about it, it is. I made this up, but I assure you it’s predictive."

By this test, he concludes that AI is a bubble technology.

I bring this up because it seems that this test also makes #OpenAccess a bubble something, even if not a technology. But I'd call OA normal -- here to stay, wanted for good reasons, widely accepted, widely implemented, and growing, though previously novel and still overcoming obstacles.

Now I'm wondering: Is Ford's test bogus? Is it valid in some domains but not for something like OA? If it applies to OA, am I applying it too loosely? Or is OA still not normal?

#HalfSerious

Spent the last few days doing code reviews; and maybe it would not be such a bad idea after all to just do code reviews for LLM-generated code? At least I'd never have to worry whether I'm too nitpicky or how my comments will be received or whether the developer is swamped in comments – the AI just patiently takes all of the comments and improves itself. Tempting.

#halfSerious #softwareDevelopment #AI #LLM #codeReview

"Hey, How do I do [something]? /half serious."

"You do it this way."

"Alright. I was just half serious anyway."

"I have to admit that I don't know how to give half serious answers. /hj"

#ToneIndicators #HalfSerious #HalfJoking #neurodivergent