I have the impression that using AI for work in tech is quickly converging to requirements engineering in the end.

The icon that Zelensky presented to Pope Leo today, painted on a piece from a munitions crate, is so stunning. Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us.

The great dying

The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between people who think that the way to achieve peace is to let Iran build nuclear weapons and people who aren't retarded.

Stumbled over this question on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Are there reasonable strategies to evaluate the work of an academic (or anyone else) with a relatively small body of work? If the evaluation is not supposed to be objective: talking

All evil is necessary, all good is a choice

The answer is all of the above

Basic principle from Internet of the 90ies: don't feed the trolls. Forgotten wisdom...

Many, many, many difficulties in understanding The Thing disappear if you accept that The Thing is also all The Changes that affect It, in other words, everything is a process.

Ich lese relativ viel Nachrichten über amerikanische Politik und jedes Mal wenn ich lese, wie Leute von ICE terrorisiert werden, muss ich immer denken "seid dankbar ihr seid nicht auf einem deutschen Bahnhof mitten in der Nacht, wartend auf einen der obengenannten..."

Nuclear and rooftop solar for generation, plus magnetically suspended flywheels and pumped hydro for storage. This will be the future.

Just realised that all the talks of universal basic income are bogus. The real UBI is the relentless time price decline of everything.

An illustration of the nature of supply and demand.

This applies to AI, too. The amount of energy needed by LLM to dig through the amount of bullshit generated by other LLMs is an order of magnitude bigger than the amount needed to produce it in the first place.

J.P.A. The problem with Pascal’s wager, as I see it, is this: In the first move, God’s mercy rewards your faith—you go to heaven. In the second, God’s justice condemns your attempt to game Him—you go to hell. In the third, God’s mercy recognizes your attempt to believe—you go to

There is no word in English that means someone is 30% sure something will happen

The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.