Mr-Frog

> I actually now disagree that a an algorithm based puzzle solver was ever referred to as AI,

"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" was published in 1995 and included Sokoban as a search-problem example.

> > Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while living with their parents?

Most people in my circle who bought a home in California before the age of 30 did exactly this.

older vision LLMs chopped up images into patches which were projected into the same embedding token space as words. Newer ones use an encoder to more efficiently project an image into token space. Then it runs through the same attention layers as the text component.

> government pretending Polymarket bets are securities

Crypto prediction markets have an interest in being regulated like traditional exchanges since it opens up access to Wall Street market makers for increased liquidity.

> Just use a microcontroller. And for the vast majority of hobby projects I suspect that is good advice.

I recently bought a hobby FPGA kit because I think the Von Neumann model is a beautiful innovation and I want to learn more about doing useful computation tasks from the lowest level logical components. I've always been interested in computers, but when I was in grade school the only useful computers I could afford were discarded PCs that I brought back to life with Linux distros. I now have a fulfilling career as a direct result of access to cheap hardware and open-source software when I had much more time and much less money than I do now. Decisions like AMD's are a long-term negative for the industry.

It's kinda awesome that after decades of software and hardware advancements to prevent computers from arbitrarily executing data as instructions, we've decided to let agents arbitrarily execute data as instructions.

My current strategy for how much total I'll pay for a coffee is FlOOR(price+.50) + 1, which keeps the bill nice and clean and kicks some goodwill towards someone who makes less than 1/5th the average earnings of my coworkers.

I was looking for something like this. I used to use Replit to teach code (even integrated it into discussion sections when I was a TA) but they absolutely destroyed the product with AI vibecoding integrations over the past year.

Interestingly, the three careers you listed are protected by strict professional credentialing systems that do not exists for programmers, and professionals in law and medicine enjoy a social prestige that is certainly attractive to a group of people who might not innately enjoy the work itself.

There used to be a variety of exchanges on the West Coast but it seems like they couldn't compete with the automation and HFT innovation happening in NYC, all the west coast engineers were too busy with the dot-com bubble it seems.

Chinese century incoming.

NYC's homicide rate is lower than that of the USA as a whole. Violence is very avoidable, especially during the daytime.

In other words, drug dealers are privacy-conscious and the Google Pixel is one of the strongest hardware platforms for privacy-aware configurations.

The first IBM PC in 1981 cost $1,565, which is comparable to $5,500 after inflation.

I unironically agree with this. 100 years ago, Skid Row and Bunker Hill in Los Angeles were full of SROs, boarding houses and long-term hotels. The people who lived there didn't disappear, they're just all sleeping in the street now.