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They had ELIZA and then the Emacs doctor, the rest is just scale.

According to `git blame` the oldest surviving code in GNU emacs is:

    lisp/play/studly.el

being unchanged since 1986-09-12.

(It is said the Stallman maybe have kept some of Gosling's older code but I haven't gone back that far.)

Effort (as it's used in the context, how many "thinking" tokens to burn) is still a free variable. It's not always shown to the end user but you can set it independently for any of these models.

After that you just have model "strength" and version number. But of course strength is only comparable at equal version number and the two axes are almost parallel.

Anthropic also does this, perhaps to a lesser extent.

Even the hammer?

Not if you take advantage of open-weight models and make an adaptor or distill its knowledge into the thing you want.

We don't need Dropbox, it's a heap of shit.

With enough marketing you can sell anything. Also a decent way to make a product is to do the hard part for someone else.

I've been training classifiers for ten years, it used to be hard. Now it's hard to do really well but it's trivial to do well enough.

> P.S. I am a human and can make mistakes. The spelling and punctuation in this post were corrected with AI.

There's a challenge for you right there. Learn to spell or learn to live with mistakes.

But they didn't all end up in a backwater like Ireland. Starting DIAS is cool, but presumably he'd have preferred the US.

This isn't a court, I'm just saying that such a thing is rumoured

It's "common knowledge" that that's why he ended up in Dublin

Slop

In order to "help" myself I have taken some of your money.

Feel free to opt out maybe?

You take a class. Do you think coveting is immoral? Retributive justice? Human sacrifice?

Scorpio was cool