gcatalfamo

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Comment · 3 days ago
As outlandish as publishing 4.0 Argon, making people sub to Google AI pro/ultra, only to discover that Argon was not included into Antigravity
Comment · 3 days ago
And think that somebody designed it, and somebody else approved it.
Comment · 3 months ago
In no way getting a PhD or doing published research is an act of science or human progress, and it's been like that for probably 20 years.

It's an act of coordinated methodology in showing respect to previous peers by acknowledging that you read what they wrote when they were acknowledging even more previous peers.

Every attempt to do something new is rejected unless you take 99% of something that has been done and try to add your 1% to it.

But the thing is that you don't even want to do that, you need to either have a publishable/defensible thesis, or if you already have a PhD, pursue a tenurable track and grants which never collides to productive human progress.

So yes, AI could very well run tenure track career more efficiently and with better results. It's not AI the problem: it is the checks and performance indicators that are in place that make it very easy for AI to dominate and very exhausting for a human to follow.

A good researcher with good AI knowledge would (and should) dominate their field.

* Medicine is luckily saved from this, with some exceptions.

Comment · 3 months ago
Travel agents are not extinct AT ALL. They pivoted from selling margin-less flights to design more curated travel packages. Different and nichier market for sure, but not extinct.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have a PhD and I completely support AI disrupting the field.

If AI disrupts your field, the culprit is most likely not AI.

Comment · 5 months ago
Sharing them would be interesting. However, it is getting nonsensical that this is needed.
Comment · 5 months ago
Honest question: isn't AI Google better than the Standard Google of the past 2 years? I mean all the privacy concerns are still there, but the current product is just better than the SEO SPAM-ridded result page we used to have.
Comment · 1 year ago
"If they already use it, why should I buy it?"

It sounds like a trivial question to answer, but it just exposes the level of detachment that exists between who makes the purchase decisions and its users in SME context.

Comment · 1 year ago
Can you explain the second part of your automation?
Comment · 2 years ago
I will pay for news when people competent on the different matters will be writing them.
Comment · 2 years ago
I warmly recommend to go see the TV documentary about this guy they made some time ago, when I saw the videogame I immediately recognised him.
Comment · 2 years ago
Servant leaders die very fast when your own reports undermine your efforts at being one.

A bad boss doesn't undermine it, bad reports yes. It would be an otherwise ideal way of working.

Comment · 3 years ago
Fascinating, but I have photo-sensitivity and continuous blinking would give me an headache.

But I used to reproduce a similar behaviour with music (repetitive)

Comment · 3 years ago
If I have muscle or respiratory difficulties, 100% I can't take a cold shower.

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