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I dont know if this is just baader-meinhof at work or the fact that AI is so prominent in cultural discourse at the moment, but I feel like I am seeing Diamond Age references everywhere I look

Or maybe it’s that Hackworth hired a ractor instead of getting AGI completed

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I'm unable to edit.

I did though indicate "please correct me if I'm wrong", in my original post.

Which led to this discussion below that I'm sure people then read (like your comment on this sub-post)


This is such a cynical, keyboard-warrior take. Why do you feel the need to drag down someone else's positive and impactful contribution? No one is stopping you from creating a card game with women as the heroes.


It’s the sweatpants-at-work of sports


Either thinking they can build something better internally, thinking the new thing doesn't matter, or realizing that it does matter but not having the ability to move fast and commercialize it.

e.g. Microsoft circa 2000 didn't think they could build a better internet. They just thought that the internet didn't really matter that much. Google in 2022 knew that LLMs mattered, and had spent a ton of money, but OpenAI just got a better product to market faster.


Tips are mandatory in France? This is news to me. I’ll sometimes round up to the nearest 5, but nothing like the US.


With a promotion like "terrible, terrible Jefferson Starship video," I needed to go watch it.

That really was just a completely incoherent mess. But the guys with eyeballs on their heads were there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLnVgR7fLw


Every once in awhile I see an 80s video or movie, and remember: yeah, wow, people really did have giant hair back then.


It's not giant when everyone is doing it: it's just normal.

And what do you have against letting your soul glo? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE


I find Lionel Richie a phenomenon. The hair and moustache look weird now, but his songs stand the test of time.


Richie closing out the 1984 Olympics was most excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj7C3GRj7s

Somewhere in here you can hear Jim McKay explaining the difference between "poppers" and "break dancers" and it is just awesome.


“Lionel Richie's Hello is the Battleship Potemkin of rock music videos...”

~ Humphrey B. Flaubert, TISM, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished - De RigueurMortis (2001)


+1, but then my copy of Rick James' Street Songs has grooves cut into it, so what do I know of music?


A lot of things have always been pretty boring. People wanting to be seen were less likely to look boring though, so there's a selection effect there.


It's true. I knew a person who got stopped by customs on an international flight because they thought no person could conceivably have 12 cans of hair spray in their luggage for innocent purposes (she did- for creating the massive 80s hair).


I wonder how anyone got anything done in those days. It must take hours and tens of dollars in hair spray every day to get your hair that big


as they say about anime characters -- higher the hair, closer to god


I feel like I should be familiar with this song but I'm not, and I have to say, truly one of the great choruses of 80's rock: "we're layin' it on the line (layin' it on the line) ---just layin' it all, right on the line".


I'll see your incoherent mess and raise you:

https://youtu.be/UJ1tBVtYOBc?si=gSho4eXJMV96onaw

Surely this must have been when some new "clip art for video" technology had just appeared?

The song slaps though.


The Quantel Paintbox is the usual suspect for early 1980s video graphics excesses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox

The wireframe 3D graphics in that video must have been rendered in something else, though. Maybe it was made on Amiga with VideoToaster?

The original Amiga with its 8MHz 68000 CPU had just enough horsepower for that kind of 3D.


The song was released in 1986, which is years before the Video Toaster and the LightWave 3D software were released. They might have used an Amiga 1000 for some of it.


"Quantel Paintbox" is generally regarded as the most beautiful phrase in the English language, having taken the reins from "Cellar Door".


"It can't be worse than the Starship video"

o_O


This is pretty uninspiring, but let me be honest. I'd vote for Mick and Slick at this point. :P


What the heck did I just watch?


There's probably a lot of noise in the data. Off the top of my head, climate (whether roads are exposed to freeze-thaw cycles) and population density/clustering (how many miles of road do you need to maintain per person), are probably more strongly correlated with quality than taxation levels.


Did you mean to write LLMs instead of ML? Aren't traditional NLP techniques a subfield of ML?


There's overlap, but many traditional NLP techniques are heuristics based. Here's an example: https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment


Hahaha I’m glad I’m not the only one. I can’t find it now, but I’m sure I’ve seen a snarky PM game here on HN before. Thought it might be the sequel


I was expecting something similar to PhD Simulator: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html


+9000. I never saw this before. Thank you to share. It is the academic version of "Papers, Please"!


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