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Yeah, I was completely exhausted after the build. Glad that this confirms my suspicions.

Yes, but it’s like walking. I enjoy walking, but I’d rather drive to get to another town.

I remember showing a similar article to a teammate in a class to warn him about overcomplicating the assignment by using ORM. He said that the idea is beyond contempt and went ahead and used ORM. We didn’t finish the assignment.

Command-line automation feature will be disabled from KNIME 5.6 on. This is a move to force people to use their proprietary Business Hub. Very disappointing news for people who loved KNIME's open-source nature, and a very dangerous move for the company in the age in which people can easily create new application using AI. This is not the way. Users should take note and speak up.

I was hoping to see a glass surface for cats with keyboard and mouse space underneath so a cat can’t sit on backspace and escape key. No luck.

Try using reader mode (rectangle with two lines below). That got over the pictures.

Given that people can remember smell for years, this might be very useful for learning aid. Hook it up to an IDE and let people literally smell bad code as garbage.

Saying pharma companies are just holders of ‘expensive, time-limited IP’ is not only wrong, it’s offensive to those of us who actually do the science. We spend years designing, testing, and validating drugs, not scheming to hike prices. We’re not all Shkrelis out here.

Apple offers recycling service, so that’s an option.

I’ve done both, and I disagree with you. You are always working for someone else, either a client or a boss. Investment is not work.

When we go to grad school, we’re taught how to write a research paper. Each field has a more or less standard format, where different types of data go in specific sections. So if an LLM is trained on enough papers in that field, it can learn to plug in the information you provide according to those conventions.

In that sense, you’d give the LLM the purpose of the paper, the field you’re writing in, and the relevant data from your lab notebook. Personally, I never enjoyed writing manuscripts — most of the time goes into citing every claim and formatting everything correctly, which often feels more like clerical work than communicating discovery.

I don’t mind if LLMs help write these papers. I don’t think learning to mimic this stylistic form necessarily adds to the process of discovery. Scientists should absolutely be rigorous and clear, but I’d welcome offloading the unnecessary tedium of stylized writing to automation.

Stroustrup took out object hierarchy introspection feature that was available before, which turned out to be a pretty handy feature that people kept trying to reimplement.

In my experience, I don’t think hallucinations are a big problem anymore in terms of coding as long as you work within your domain of expertise.

The perception that AI tools make development faster is perhaps due to the part we spend a lot of time with thinking about how to write (like commenting) is solved instantly.

I think a lot of the delay is that it’s a new class of tool, and just like last gen IDE it takes a bit of getting used to and know where their strengths are, and know how to effectively fit it into your workflow.