Notices by Jeremy List (jeremy_list@hachyderm.io)

@aral sometimes the difference between bikeshedding and yak-shaving is only apparent in hindsight.

@thomasfuchs @zvavybir even in classical mechanics the differential equations describing how things move have no analytical solution so it's weird that it took quantum mechanics for people to realise the universe isn't clockwork.

@mattly GitLab is the site that does this to me most frequently.

@thomasfuchs @soapdog

@inthehands @deirdresm @lisamelton I started one once but never got to the part where it would have loaded web pages (iirc it ended up just being an incomplete JavaScript parser and an incomplete HTML 5 parser)

@thomasfuchs @CurtAdams I figured even when they were being hyped that if I got one I'd end up printing 5 or 6 things and all of them would be legitimately useful but then I'd have no further use for the 3D printer.

@inthehands even in the hypothetical scenario where someone trains an AI that's actually a net positive when applied to finding candidates: I seriously doubt the training data used would be matching resumés with some group of humans' hiring decisions; which AFAIK is what every existing HR AI was trained on.

@inthehands a few years ago my brother's workplace was training an ML model to distinguish microalgae from microscope slides. The model picked up on the correlation between the water source and which microscope was used to photograph it long before it even noticed any of the algae in its training data.

@thomasfuchs I think in the specific case of self-driving cars it's less "getting this to work will require things that haven't been invented yet" and more "Tesla isn't even using the right set of things which have been invented"

@thomasfuchs of all the things he could have been doing with a VR headset they picked browsing 2D websites!

@thomasfuchs I stopped after my second but only because I'm somewhat capable of learning.

@thomasfuchs it's been about 4 years and most people have had it once or twice, and those who've had it more than that tend to be pretty messed up by it. Extrapolating from that yields pretty ominous conclusions!

@strypey @sheogorath ironically: the Huawei equipment was the only option that the German government didn't find to be riddled with spyware when they did their own audit.