@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: How do you execute the project; do you make a plan? What if the project involves a lot of other people?
Rally drivers have navigators who have broken down the course into individual turns.
I'm open to being way off here, but as I said I see this everywhere and don't understand ...
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Yeah, he sucks for that, and it's sad that someone who was a leftist hero for so long has so thoroughly failed himself in that way, but his work in linguistics was influential and I don't know an honest way to not mention him when discussing the idea that human language has induc...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: That's not even considering white collar work, where nearly everyone spends 20% of their time engaging with their taskmaster, the calendar.
Chomsky found induction across so many languages he thought it was universal, a requirement!
Everyone does things "one step at a time." Ri...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I already have "software brain", but is this true?
Farming is one of the oldest jobs, and it involves executing a set of time sensitive tasks consistently, day on day, year on year.
Construction is similar; my father (an electrician) always broke down his jobs as a sequence of ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "We chose such a bad tool for our email backend that it used 100x more CPU and 20x more RAM than it needed."
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've not really listened to Huang talk before.
I chose "nVIDIA" over 3dfx in the late 90s, and I've used their hardware and only-game-in-town linux drivers ever since.
An interview doesn't change that of course, but if he's the guy for skeptical AI optimism, I think you need a ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Like he's learned of Libertarianism 5 minutes before the interview, and is unprepared to defend basic first-order flaws in its simplest version.
Defenses of these flaws do exist, for the well initiated. Maybe they're not good, but they're there!
It's a fractal of his overall po...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: His take on AI lab responsibility is similar. To paraphrase, "CEOs are incentivized to ship safe products, so we don't need any new regulations."
There is an unbroken streak of companies fucking this up since before Upton Sinclair dreamed up The Jungle. We just had a major econo...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: But when Jensen says that basic arithmetic skills might be useless, yeah he's being provocative, but it sounds ridiculous.
We've had tool assisted multiplication and division via technology for centuries, but we know learning those skills yourself has remained useful. Why would ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I think Jensen's techno-optimist view of AI is defensible, but his defenses are terrible.
When they are talking about human skill erosion, Jensen says new skills will fill the gap. Maybe? As I remarked to a friend who is a Maths prof at New Paltz, we never learned to use a slide...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Klein's interview of Jensen Huang was very eye opening, but the takes on here are disappointingly vacuous.
People are mostly dunking on him for saying he doesn't remember his address or his phone number, which is an unremarkable artifact of being a workaholic billionaire CEO.
@jmoiron.bsky.social My feed is full of gaming posts, which is fine, but half of them are pics of handheld emulators like ayn thor, and the other half are people slagging off AI use in the gaming industry, and the cognitive dissonance is giving me brain damage.
@jmoiron.bsky.social My brain has several false "weird but true" spelling facts it seems to have made up and refuses to let go of, e.g. that "caricature" is spelled "cariacature" but we just don't pronounce the extra "a".
Does everyone have these?
@jmoiron.bsky.social My first thought on the 9 games thing was "9 games is a lot, you can really cover a lot of ground with 9." and then I tried to make a list and ended up making 2 and left a bunch of stuff off.
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