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Yes, but if you know the general direction of where it's going that reduces the search area quite a bit.

In this case, for example, the French Government publicly announced where it's going.


"Our next-generation AI uses multi-sensor fusion and live sentiment analysis to track military assets to meter-scale accuracy anywhere in the world"

"Upon closer inspection, the neural network is just scraping public information from the French Ministry of Defense"


> Last year this podcast said that nobody wants to solve this because solving it is going to eliminate (IIRC) hundreds of thousands of jobs. Which is a point to consider.

Yet we're ok with spending trillions on AI to eliminate jobs everywhere, including healthcare.

I don't think that's the reason.

Personally I'm of the opinion the reason it isn't being solved, is because the people whose job it would be to solve it get to keep their jobs due to donations from pharma and insurance companies.


Well right, people lobby not to change anything because they have giant companies that make them money. They need all those people in jobs to help them deny claims, identify fraud, waste, etc.

If Intuit and other tax preparers can protect their tax preparation rents at the expense of all income earners, then it is not difficult to believe that the medical industry is also able to protect its own rents.

Feeling very conflicted right now.

On the other hand, it'd be absolutely hilarious if they succeeded with this argument. VPN vendors would not find that as hilarious I bet.

And on another the hypocrisy is mindboggling. I guess you can't blame the lawyers from going after every angle, but this is quite creative.

But really I do just want to find out if money continues to buy justice.

I sincerely hope Facebook loses and is found to have knowingly infringed on copyright of all the books in the lawsuit. At $150K per violation, I'd almost feel bad for the poor shareholders. Zuck would probably take full responsibility and fire tens of thousand of workers.


It's a win-win situation. Either pirates win or Meta loses.


Ordinary piracy would still be illegal since it's not for AI training.


They will never pay this without a fight.

Good time to specialize in "tariff litigation", if you're a law firm.


Quoting your comment: "You definitely don't want to hire the person who thinks - bizarrely - that using library functions is a sign of weakness."

So true...I've failed interviews, because the interviewee did see using library functions as a sign of weakness.


I just wish that in those cases the interviewee gives feedback and allows you to rewrite instead of just failing you. I mean in practice nobody writes library functions themselves unless absolutely necessary, but I get that for some positions you have to demonstrate that you can write lower-level code if you have to.


Thank you, although I regret the "bizarrely".


I think that it was probably a poorly designed question, but surely you could throw the interviewer a bone by giving a custom answer after they reject the library.


My employer has no formal titles for engineers pretty much for this reason.


> We also don't engage in mass surveillance

What?


It's not extremism. It's plain old American capitalism.

Both parties are being funded by the same people, so both parties play ball with the same set of funders.


Conspiracist nonsense. Like, this could hypothetically explain a few things for a few industries where both parties somewhat align, but in general this is populist slop.


Its very obvious, imo they are going to have a hard time signing young men up to fight for this country when they inevitably make everyone so poor they beg anything, even a war.

But...

They'll use profits and greed to alienate the working class further and further, they'll try to get us to go fight wars to capture resources for the KKKapital owners. My prediction is the only war the American people will be willing to sign up to fight, is against those same KKKapital owners.

Probably explains why they love bunkers so much, for the case where this whole experiment backfires on them.


“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant


You're only one year and change into it. It takes longer than that for most people to become anywhere near proficient at it.


I've found the AI assisted auto-completion to be very valuable. It's definitely sped up my coding and reduced the number of errors I make.

It reduces the context switching between coding and referencing docs quite a bit.


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