awisema | 1 year ago | on: Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
“The work is mysterious and important”
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awisema | 2 years ago | on: Texas Instruments Explorer Computer System (1984) [pdf]
There was room full of them at UMass in the late 80s, and a huge bundle of fiber than ran down the hall to the lab that used them.
And, there was a parts spare that I used when I took AI :-)
awisema | 2 years ago | on: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
The claim that somehow LLMs as they stand are somehow the answer is disturbing. ChatGPTs ability to be authoritatively wrong is a serious problem…
Just to see what it would do, I gave it a basic word problem the other day (two people drive towards each other) and it had the steps right, but buried in it was a simple logic error (it claimed that the two parties traveling at different speeds would travel the same distance in a unit of time).
That it was good enough to seem trustworthy, made it worse…
awisema | 3 years ago | on: Was your degree really worth it?
Absolutely! I spent 20+ happy years in academia. I loved research, I loved working with grad students. Were it not for the funding changes and the retirement of my faculty, I hope I would still be there now.
awisema | 3 years ago | on: Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?
If you are interested in approaches to combining programming language and database semantic. There is a bunch of work in this area from the 80s… Look up “Persistent Programming” and “Database Programming Languages” (DBPL).
And yes, get off my lawn :-P
awisema | 4 years ago | on: Facebook/Meta asks: “Wouldn't it be nice to die?”
In 1909 E.M. Forster published “The Machine Stops” a dystopian vision of a world where nobody ever leaves their individual rooms, and instead interacts solely through “the machine.” 1909!
Neuromancer, The Matrix, the list goes on… Plenty of prior art, and somebody still thinks this is a good idea!?
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