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gedhrel

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  • Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

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  • Some of the GoF patterns over-emphasise inheritance, but by-and-large, you don't build large systems without either using or rediscovering software patterns, whether they're OO, FP, or what-have-you.

  • Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

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  • No, it didn't.

  • 1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

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  • Spot on, yeah. Although as pointed out just above, this wasn't actually Weizenbaum's position. But in an era of letters to the editor, perhaps using a little rhetorical trickery to preempt a two-month-long back and forth might be excusable. It's a strawman nonetheless; but this letter is a screed.

  • J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

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  • You haven't read it, but that's what you reckon? Okay.

    As to the other point: JKR's stuff is trite and derivative, but I do think that some of its "problematic" aspects are likely just because it's regurgitating European fantasy tropes, which themselves may (originally or later on) encode antisemitism and so on.

    And when it comes to it, subjecting any popular series to close reading with an eye for affront is likely to show up its flaws. Just think of all the janitors who blew up with the death star.

    But Brown's stuff is utter garbage (not to mention just ripping off "the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", which was pretty awful to begin with) - if you have the chance to pick it up second-hand I'd encourage you to see if you can finish it.

  • 1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

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  • Having said that, that this is the kind of thing Altman might say unironically speaks volumes. He really does have a trillion-dollar monorail to sell.

  • 1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

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  • I suspect he got asked it a lot. There was a lot of interesting work going on back then but people basically didn't have any notion that there was a path from there to any kind of AGI. (In that respect they might've been somewhat more clued up than Altman.)

    I think it's a natural thing to preemptively defend against the obvious counterpoint when you're railing against the thesis that current AI work isn't going to deliver on the "I".

  • J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

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  • "If it was "terribly written" it wouldn't have made the success it did"

    Dan Brown's millions beg to differ.

    If people like HP stuff they might want to try Dianna Wynne Jones' stuff: earlier, better, and didn't have the same fortunate exposure.

  • 1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

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  • It's sarcasm. The question asks for unwarranted precision and the response is a joke.

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  • Mind your ankles. The slopes around here are slippery.

  • Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

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  • The point of Java is to be a language for 90% of programmers. The vast majority of software development is not sexy, doesn't require a PhD. Java was intended to be a commoditising language and in that it succeeded wildly.

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  • In the UK, in general, take advice. If you're bang to rights then a guilty plea (in court, not to the police) can affect sentencing.

    Unfortunately, having said that, the UK conviction rate for rape is unbelievably low. "She liked sex ergo she deserved it" is still a line that juries are too willing to buy. It's fucking depressing.

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    Anon eggs her on

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  • (The canonical example of a photo like this is a Matt Cardy* one of a student passed out in Millennium Square.)

    • I have no idea if she signed a release or if it was staged. Quite possibly neither.
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    Anon eggs her on

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  • She's from Bristol.

  • Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists' Consent to Ingest Their Work

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  • Facebook shareholder claims Facebook should be able to steal.

  • Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist.

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  • Heaven's Vault.

  • How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election

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  • Yeah, STV requires macro-wards that return several members. It does preserve candidate locality however.

    You could always season with a pinch of AMS if you wanted to continue the whipping system (which frankly is as much of a mess as FPTP).

  • Gordon Brown: By delaying its child poverty plan, Labour has a chance to reverse 15 years of inequality

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  • Gah, what a fucking irritating paywall.

    In any case: worth listening to this man, he's a thoroughly decent man - his efforts to reduce child poverty as chancellor were pretty effective.

  • How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election

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  • There are ranked choice PR systems, like STV.

    Of course if we did get PR here it'd be the worst version that preserves the power of whips to hand out sinecures.

  • EU is planning a new mass surveillance law that includes mandating data retention, built-in backdoors, sanctioning non-compliant services and is asking you for feedback: Impact assessment on retention

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  • The only wrinkle there is "voluntary compliance," which might be construed as warrantless access.