"AI is going to make us more productive at shipping our software."
"Great! Amazing! That must be several phd theses you got there! Well done! Didn't know you had it in you."
"?!?"
"Well, I mean, you must have figured out how to measure software development productivity reliably, right? What's our baseline at?"
Ron and I independently ended up doing a similar thing recently - spending a few weeks kicking the tires of various current LLM models for coding.
And we both came to basically the same conclusions. His post is so close to my feelings my thoughts on writing one... yeah, no, I'll just link to Ron's post instead.
Today I learned that nearly every modern car has four tire pressure sensors that broadcast a unique ID in clear text, so a basic Raspberry Pi scanner can track when your car is nearby.
https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-used-to-track-you/
Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signals from more than 20,000 vehicles, revealing a hidden privacy risk and highlighting the need for stronger security measures in future vehicle sensor systems. Most...
Doug Gurr (ex head of Amazon UK) has been chair of the Competition & Markets Authority for a year (his interim appointment has just been confirmed).
What has been his record over the last 12 months? Well for the first time in nearly a decade the CMA has waved through *every* merger referred to it & blocked none.
But I'm sure that's a coincidence & nothing to do with his past, or the Govt.'s desire to placate the business community!
#regulation #politics #business
h/t Observer
As a software developer who took an elective in neural networks - when people call LLMs stochastic parrots, that's not criticism of their results.
It's literally a description of how they work.
The so-called training data is used to build a huge database of words and the probability of them fitting together.
Stochastic because the whole thing is statistics.
Parrot because the answer is just repeating the most probable word combinations from its training dataset.
Calling an LLM a stochastic parrot is lile calling a car a motorised vehicle with wheels. It doesn't say anything about cars being good or bad. It does, however, take away the magic. So if you feel a need to defend AI when you hear the term stochastic parrot, consider that you may have elevated them to a god-like status, and that's why you go on the defense when the magic is dispelled.
@tante Here's the corporate vice president of Microsoft Word running #OpenClaw to organize his family tasks and comms: https://www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobster-my-personal-ai-assistant
Don't worry, I'm sure no malicious actors will ever target his setup to compromise #Microsoft network. I mean, they'll only have access to all info and location of his loved ones. Surely there's zero monetary value in that...
The BBC reported yesterday that: A surge in capital gains tax, employers’ National Insurance contributions and a boost in income tax receipts helped buoy the government’s finances last mont. An uptick in tax receipts, which far outstripped spending, created a £30.4bn surplus in January. Technically, this is right. What is wrong with it...
Actions speak louder than words.
I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android.
Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.
A frontal attack to our #privacy.
Stupid, no?
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