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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:12:13 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@clacke That's awesome! GD2 recently turned 13. Son_1 usually does something special for her.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:08:34 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@clacke That's awesome! GD2 recently turned 13. Son_1 usually does something special for her.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:39:08 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@hj Birthday greetings from USA.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:22:02 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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Also, I appreciate having their built in interpreter, because it frees me from having to install everything the courses cover.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:13:36 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Less than a month left of the #DataCamp subscription. I need to look at the "professional" tracks and pick something that I can accomplish in that time.

Lots not to like ... in many ways, their courses and especially their practice exercises look like they hired a couple of college kids to build them over a weekend, then posted them without having an editor look them over.

In multiple courses under the subjects of Python, SQL, Julia, and R-Lang, the exercises will mis-spell a language keyword or some library function / method that is widely used in Data Science. In a couple, the answer is already entered into the question ... just select the choice that matches what they've just showed.

In the "real world" projects, they tend to go beyond what the courses have covered. Yet, they're opinionated about which functions / methods are used (and sometimes even the order they're used in). So you do some research, find some functions that produce the exact desired results, and the project is rejected because your research didn't uncover the desired functions to use.

Now, there's lots to like, too. For example, despite having both R-lang and Julia (and Scala) on my to-learn list for years, this was my first hands-on experience with all three.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:41:15 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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I did see an article fairly recently in which retail stores that replaced human cashiers with automated checkout lines found that human customers needed a significant amount of help using the terminals, so that the companies couldn't reduce staff as much as expected. The automated checkout lines were also not significantly faster, on average, than human-staffed checkout lines.

And customers were getting very frustrated over it.

This doesn't even count the claims about massive increases in theft.

(My personal thing has always been that if I'm going to do work myself that you otherwise would have paid someone else to do, you need to split the savings with me. Well, that and you need to pay for employee retraining.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:35:17 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Here's my (partial) take on "AI" regulations.

Now that the genie is out of the bottle, we already know some organization in some country is going to proceed with developing AI. Thus, regulations meant to kill it are wasted effort. Instead, we'll all be better off if we figure out ways to focus where AI development efforts are heading.

And that includes finding ways to spread the benefits more evenly throughout society, while preventing those who develop and deploy AI-based tools from pushing the costs / harms on others.

"But that sounds like socialism!," I hear you saying. Not at all. Think about the places where AI-based tools are likely to be deployed first: "anywhere that paid humans interact with human customers" is going to be high up on the list. So we have to ensure that the costs aren't borne only by the customers and (former) employees and that the benefits don't acrue only to the companies that formerly employeed the customer service staffers.

That includes requiring that there be a way for a human customer to escape the robot and interact with another human instead.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 02:08:46 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

After some medical tests, the doctor advised some dietary changes for Grandson_4 (age 3 1/2). Trying to do most of them family-wide, so they're not a big deal.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:12:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Russian army blows up dam https://gnusocial.jp/url/3468011 [united24media com]
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  Russian Forces Have Blown Up Kurakhove Reservoir Dam. Floodwaters Are Approaching Villages in Donetsk Region
  
  The Kurakhove Dam has been blown up by Russian troops, resulting in flooding near Velykonovosilkivska. Limited access remains for vehicles on affected roads.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:11:49 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> Thinking shortsightedly, suboptimizing and failing to use resources efficiently from a societal perspective are capitalist problems

I disagree. This occurs and has occurred in organizations within different social and economic systems for as long as there have been organizations within societies.

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