mr_toad

We used to just call it globalization.

I don’t know why academics think that uttering the right words will actually change anything, they’re not Gandalf.

Colonialism and terrorism are two words that get so overused they’ve become meaningless.

> In bloated organizations, there is a lot of fat to cut.

The problem is that the bigger and more bloated a company is, the harder it becomes to tell what is fat and what isn’t.

> now they are up to $134B in net income, and they need to let 25% of the company leave?

Tomorrow they’ll announce that they’re going to spend $134b on new data centers.

Buying your own car works out cheaper than taxis - according to the car dealer.

I don’t think that there was much fixed scheduling for water transport prior to the the development of steam engines either, because you were usually at the mercy of the winds and the tides.

They have to transform the world more than whatever the bond rate is right now, (which admittedly is increasing). I'm not sure that that's greater than office software, digital banking etc. But I don't think it's as high a bar as some people think.

In most cases it’s only the object recognition systems that use machine learning. I know that Tesla was talking about using non-deterministic AI for the decision making as well, but it’s a worry if they’re already doing it.

> no way of knowing if the AI is bullshitting them

Back testing, hold-out sets, cross validation.

This has all happened before.

The education industry has been lowering the bar for admission to higher learning for half a century or more, while dumbing down the content of high school and even primary school education. All because we can’t have children feeling bad.

It’s terribly ironic that things like calculus, linear algebra and matrix manipulation were being weeded out of the curriculum, right before machine learning took off.

> I think it's not so surprising that it isn't necessarily immediately radically transforming every industry everywhere.

Computers and the internet didn’t radically change every industry everywhere. But every industry everywhere uses computers and the internet, and more pertinently, they pay good money for it.

AI doesn’t need to transform the world, it just needs to pay off the sizeable investments in data centers.

It gets complicated, because protons and anti-protons are composite particles.

To simplify somewhat, one quark from each will annihilate, leaving four quarks and a lot of energy, which re-arrange into mesons (two quarks each), which then decay into photons, electrons, positrons and neutrinos.

Positrons aren’t useful because they annihilate to produce gamma rays, which can’t be contained. However, anti-proton annihilation produces a bunch of particles, including pions, which could be contained in a magnetic bottle and directed for thrust.

Compression requires prediction, and good music seems to require a balance between predictability (repetition) and novelty. This can be seen in even the simplest (verse/chorus) song structure.

No, but it was created to mitigate these sorts of risks.