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yeah right. A very long time ago, real intelligence came up with managing traffic in Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta and "events" - baseball, football, basketball, music festivals result in some very interesting traffic opportunities. So, some very smart people from GE Tech came up with an algorithm to maximize the outflow... controlling all the traffic lights.
Total gridlock. They neglected to understand that at some point humans will go elephant you and run the lights.
Humans are incorrigible. Beware the AI to change it so...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Not surprisingly, salary is the number one reason tech pros are quitting, but other factors include lack of career advancement and leadership and vision, according to new research from a U.K.-based recruitment firm. Mo' money?
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it surprises me why we in the tech industry are so resilient to organizing. Not that I am advocating that, but most techies seem to be individualists.....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Not that I am advocating that... Extrapolate that out to the rest of the tech industry and there's the answer to why we are so resilient to organizing. Perhaps it isn't as much resilience as apathy, or we're not really as unhappy as a whole as some studies and tech articles would conclude.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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What we need is a global recession, or even better, a global depression, to restore the enthusiasm of "thank God I have a job." That'll fix the whining about lack of career advancement, leadership and vision.
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Most software developers are not enthusiastic about the prospect of having their individual performance metrics monitored. As long as we also measure management usefulness
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As long as we also measure management usefulness Where's my micrometer?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Quote: their individual performance Especially when nowadays the concept of individual performance is total fiction - we work in teams, depend upon each other to get things done, etc. Oh wait, management knows that, which is why bonuses are more and more becoming things associated with how well your team has done. There's quite a few articles on that, I'm just to lazy as an individual to provide a link to one of them for you. But the more interesting articles I've read about that recently point to the psychology of "team bonuses" - and the quite fascinating point that the concept works best when there is transparency regarding who is not performant.
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"We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst." Take me back, baby. I won't do it again.
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When I read about that a few days ago, my first thought was, geez, another company wanting to make a buck off of someone else's work, then when I read the actual arrangements they were proposing, it seemed quite reasonable. My initial reaction changed to, "geez, get a spine. If you're making sh*tloads of money from an awesome free tool, yeah, give something back." That's my 2c, and I freely give 1c back to this amazing site, for the privilege to post my pointless points for free.
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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket of open source training data on GitHub. Were they researching "what happens if you give the hackers a freebie?"
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How do those without intelligence research the artificial kind?
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He's off to surf new surfaces!
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improvement... he's done enough damage....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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In a new paper, researchers from DeepMind propose a new way: Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a method that uses AI large language models (LLM) as optimizers. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate." I don't think we are facing that... yet.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sadly, a different film comes to mind:
Quote: Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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MGM Resorts International was hacked by the same group of attackers that breached Caesars Entertainment weeks earlier, according to four people familiar with the matter. Why try to beat the house when you can hack them instead
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Hey... that could be a new plot for the Ocean's eleven franchise...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Overmanaging software developers can often lead to reduced efficiency and hinder the overall progress of a project. Just in case you know someone that could use this article
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Overmanaging software developers can often lead to reduced efficiency... Since I'm often 100% efficient at not getting anything done, perhaps they should have used the term 'productivity?'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just in case you know someone that could use this article I actually do...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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where do I start...?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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