It won’t help. The piracy is a crime, even if it probably shouldn’t be - but training is transformative use. The model does not serve the same function as any particular book. The model does not contain more than a page or two of any particular book.

Nobody should care that the robot read every book in the library. That’s what libraries are for.

It’s hard not to picture vacuum-tube experts circa 1940 laughing about transistors. Widely desired - theoretically possible - never practically manufactured. Even a decade later, production was halfway to alchemy.

A computer scientist should know it’s about science - not computers. We knew how to use quantum machines long before any existed. When we figure out how to juggle any serious number of qubits, we already know there’s a few weird problems that will become hilariously easy. No shit we’re not there yet. If you had to build a computer using the several transistors which existed by late 1948, of course that device would get walked by any room-sized, crew-serviced, tape-eating series of tubes. (Valves, for our Commonwealth readers.)

The difference here is that quantum computing has no obvious utility beyond these few weird problems.

Seriously. Matrix operations on video cards will prove to have greater impact on consumer and commercial computing than anything quantum. Forever is a long time to bet against, but I expect decades of head-scratching dead ends, after we build these things. Quantum algorithms are like hideous math proofs. If we get some kind of bin-packing decision problem and accidentally fake our way into P=NP, that’ll be awesome, but otherwise - eh.

Sitting backwards in a chair was a lot more impressive in a cassock.

Ah, so there’s a grain of sense in this. Shame about the aggressive irony in whinging about tone while throwing dull insults.

The money to be made on operating systems was power over platforms, back in Windows 98 times. That’s the whole reason the Xbox project emerged. They wanted to PC-ify consoles on the assumption they’d still own PCs. The project succeeded! The assumption, not so much.

I think MS barged its way into browsers because it already owned the desktop, and browsers were the next big thing, and barging was just how they did things. And they only integrated IE in the sense you could not uninstall it. Windows obviously still ran Netscape (and later Firefox), and the OS needing a browser is vastly different from the OS being a browser.

This entire community is automated clickbait.

Why did you obliquely reference a different company doing a completely different thing? Microsoft did do something very similar on desktop - making Windows 8 tablet-centric. Nothing in XP or especially 98 has anything to do with mobile computing.

Fickle moron solves problem he caused

Yeah it’s almost like we were talking about something else entirely.

I’ll thank you not to refer to 2012 as “two decades ago.” Felt like I drank from the wrong grail, before double-checking when Windows 8 came out.

ZX Spectrum demoscene artist takes up painting.

A decade ago this would have been exciting news for mobile computing.

Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh.

“Prudence” was always a lie.

Conservatives make up their own past, and for some reason, we believe them. ‘We’ve always been the party of slow reasonable change… but now we need extreme action, and it’s the outgroup’s fault!’ Gun control versus Black Panthers, violence defending segregation, theocratic indoctrination over imaginary satanism, anti-gay bigotry, anti-Muslim bigotry, anti-trans bigotry-- same as it ever was. They’ve got one speed and this is it.

All that’s changed is, their bullshit is blatant beyond belief, and their figurehead is the dumbest motherfucker who’s ever taken over a country.

One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

Dull mewling.

Good, fuck 'em.

I used to lurch into conservative subreddits routinely. Each one turned into an openly fascist circlejerk and banned all dissent.

The value for conservatives in social media comes almost entirely from being able to antagonize people who don’t want to interact with them.

Once you strip away the “making the libs cry” aspect of conservative social media, they lose all interest in talking to each other. That’s why Parler failed, that’s why Trump’s blog failed, that’s why these people won’t just leave these platforms they hate so much.

And that is the underlying principle behind their hysteria toward “cancel culture” and deplatforming. They aren’t upset at losing the right to speak (nor have they lost it). They’re upset that they’re being deprived of access to a captive audience of non-conservatives to upset.

It’s not advocacy for free speech, it’s advocacy against the freedom of association.

Which could have been the weirdest tangent on a Wikipedia page. Jim Henson, Muppets, Sesame Street, retired characters, Big Bird, oh was that an early version of Abelardo?, Challenger shuttle dis-- what. What? What the fuck?!

When the guy who played Mr. Hooper died, they worked that into the show. The cast, sincerely grieving, had to explain to a seven-foot-tall canary that he wasn’t coming back. That’s not really he same kind of intrusion from reality, as acknowledging the same giant fowl fucking exploded on national television.

The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.

Same. I think that episode was shown in-class, too, so I came alarmingly close to the XKCD.

Again: the app, not the model. Running R1 locally can’t send a damn thing anywhere.

He’s not very smart and he has a visible personality disorder.

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.