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Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, but how else do they plan to announce they have achieved it without 1984 word management/control and polluting the training pool so badly that future trained models agree?
Comment · 2 months ago
Tbf "ai" probably helped him write the guff rather than improve anything.
Comment · 2 months ago
Its like your training an organic llm...
Comment · 2 months ago
No, they're realists.

Plus show me an off the shelf solution to MDM that exists in the Linux space? (Not too mention an easy to buy consumer devices which supports suspend/resume correctly in 2026, not even Windows can do that any more)

Apple is crap and evil about many things, but at least here they know their paying audience...

Comment · 2 months ago
There's also a difference between treatment and cure but we call it all a "vaccine" now (I prefer the transitional OED definition from pre 2019). We've already entered 1984s use of good speak especially around healthcare.
Comment · 2 months ago
And that same problem leading to him is the same reason why we have 3rd world diseases coming back...
Comment · 2 months ago
Given the recent outbreaks of diseases we should have already eliminated here (for other reasons that "we shouldn't discuss")...

I view this as a wonderful "they don't report in and the coroner doesn't check" type of elimination

Comment · 4 months ago
There are extremists who claimed the ocean would be destroyed by acid rain, oil would run out by 2020 and co2 levels would push the temps to 25+C in the UK for most of the year.

None of these things have happened but these people were still let near schools unvetted with these claims in the 90s. If day we've learned to communicate science better but fools in the know all to quickly become political bedfellows with money with agendas attached to it...

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah that article is missing a very major point that immigration in the UK hasn't meant assimilation or a coherent mixing of cultures as people want or may have observed at times.

The problems in the UK are actually focused around sticky blobbyness caused by a) lack of integration, b) left vs right flavor of the moment causing further segregation and c) long term socioeconomic factors leading to govt(councils) fixing the problem in the cheapest way possible which is unfortunately high profile in the British high street by the public.

A lot of British are moving out of the city centers themselves (or already have) and into suburbs which leaves the cities hollowed out. Lack of footfall means lack of investment means decay and cheap housing/buildings.

All of this is a predicable recipe for friction but very short term British politics combined with a "not my problem" attitude prevalent in the nhs and public sectors means people doubled down in short term solutions for over a generation.

That combined with more hardship causes people to look at the biggest broken problem which is our immigration system needed reforming over 20yr+ ago and unfortunately this was locked into place by EU laws and policy (such ironically we pushed for, for other political reasons).

It's less of a grand conspiracy and more of the dominoes we're set to fall this way after dragging us out of the 80s without fixing anything and then the post recession being used to fuel boom and growth vs fixing underlying issues at a national level.

Comment · 5 months ago
No, that's the quality of candidates. I wish I was joking as a PhD holder for only 15yr.

A lot of skill of is getting bled into the private sector because getting the PhD in a lot of regions doesn't mean the step up it used to. A lot of that comes from awarding them to layabouts doing "a gender critical analysis of ...".

Industry doesn't how/what/why they just wanted the 3 letters as a performance barrier to hire competants.

Comment · 5 months ago
Those who can use it better, those who can't out who cheat are (for now) let down by obviously cheap and slightly crappy models.

The worry is in ~5yr time when the generic models catch up to this level (basic undergrad mind) that we need to worry about how to thin the herd. We could always go back to the tried and tested student staff engagement but most unis tried to turn themselves into sausage factories in thirst for the almighty dollar so the student/staff ratios are all off

Comment · 5 months ago
> You pay red hat for compliance reasons

You may, have you heard of docker?

Comment · 5 months ago
So why else do we pay someone to package and certify/verify open source projects? This is absolutely 90++% of what should be RedHats core day job.
Comment · 5 months ago
Again. "AI" for what it is is just basic "ML". And say it with me ML has no form of agency.

This is a human screwing up and blaming their tools. Nothing to see move on.

Unfortunately there will be both the LLM crowd evangelicals and those demanding human jobs not be expunged in terms of progress and efficiency, but, sigh...

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