Oh nooo not my precious daaaata

Case in point.

Not a theist myself, but I can certainly imagine a believer seeing god in all the wonders of nature.

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

Why wouldn't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huwasi_stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetyl

Imagine associating $DEITY with war, slaughter, and destruction. I prefer the mineral $DEITY.

I can get behind a God that just makes cool rocks.

Gabriel: "Hey, God, what's doing?"

God: "Oh, well, I just got a big lump of boron so I'm trying to get it to crystallise out with all this silicon and alumina. If it works I think I'll have the tiny people call it 'tourmaline'. Yeah, look at that stuff, look at it go!"

And yet many early religions associate their local mountain with god(s).

Have you heard about Islam?

I cannot find a single aspect of this file that even remotely hints at 'neurosymbolic' intelligence. And the post by Gary Marcus truly exhibits the type of person he is.

How would you know if a good blog post is from AI?

Try shipping a game and you’ll find out real quick.

The same way text models improved.

Remind me what that was?

More trainable parameters, more data, higher quality data.

Imagine thinking that Scott fucking Hanselman isn't qualified to work on Windows. Jesus dude.

As far as I know, he would be more into application programming, not systems programming (if anything). But I might be wrong.

Mark Russinovich would be a different story, but he seems to be mostly concerned with Azure nowadays.

What is he known for? Glancing at his github he seems very oriented around windows (which supports your point), but I wouldn't even know what to look for beyond that.

He is a evangelist for cloud and .NET. he was one of the 5 public faces who moved .NET to open source in 2011 and beyond.

Anything concrete? Because "corporate evangelist" is very low in the ranking of roles I'd trust, and .NET evangelist even less.

The .NET evangelist of that generation have been more than fine. No bullshit, no false promises, no lies, etc. Focused on communicating the change towards Linux, the performance work and so much more.

Scott is well connected in the dev and azure divisions. He has headlined dev conferences etc. But as an evangelist he only carries information. This change will not happen because of him but maybe with him. But I do not believe so. To much money at risk.

So?

Yeah, correct. There is no reason to believe he can change that for Windows. But he will know where to address it really. But it will not change. Too much money at risk

He is a full time nauseating AI shill. If you happen to listen to his recent appearance on Software Engineering Radio podcast, you may just die of cringe. I had my final straw moment on AI hype during that podcast and my first I wish someone would bully that nerd moment.

Scott Hanselman is awesome, has a good connections in the dev and cloud folks (Scott Guthrie corner). He has some influence but he cannot shape Windows like that. I think what he says is that he advocates for it but I have zero hope.

I have zero hope, but he MIGHT have the ear of the people making the decisions and he might make a good point how if all of the "family tech support" people get pissed off about account requirements and move to Linux ... they'll start suggesting that to their families too which is kinda bad in the long run.

Even though it's been said many times that MS doesn't give a fuck about personal users, their money comes almost 100% from companies using Windows. Gaming computers etc. are a rounding error.

Qualified and can bend the org are 2 different things. Although he can probably bend the org too!

I've literally never heard of this man whom you think is so notable his very name would imply his qualification. He's not that noteworthy, dude.

I dunno ive been reading his material for 20 years, so I guess my perspective is different? His posts even more than a decade ago have more than demonstrated his competency.

My roommates and I literally bought a pizza with our stash of bitcoins. So yes, we fully understand how this feels.

Ive been using AI/LLMs for 3 years non-stop and feel like I've barely scratched the surface of learning how to wield them to their full potential. I can’t imagine the mindset of thinking these tools don’t take extreme dedication and skill to master.

That's what directories of files are for. The file system as a cognitive twitter.