People who are smart in one or two domains often overestimate how smart they are in other domains. They develop a mental model, confirm it quickly, and never re-asses it.

The issue with AI, is we’re probably hitting our first real S curve with the current technology’s performance but a lot of people who bet big are only see the exponential part and assuming there won’t be a level off, or that the level of is far away.

There is no Moore’s law for AI.

I always set a timer when I do stuff like that because I will forget.

1. Machine code is less portable, as new CPU optimizations and instructions are released, its easier to update a compiler to integrate those in its optimizations than regenerate and retest all of your code. Also, if you need to target different OSs, like windows vs MacOs vs Linux its easier to make portable code in something higher level like python or java.

2. Static analysis to check for things like memory leaks or security vulnerabilities like sql injections are likely easier to do on human readable code rather than assembly.

3. Its easier for a human to go in an tweak code that is written in human readable language rather than assembly.

Some folks are born, silver fork in hand. But when the wait staff comes with the bill, lord the purse looking like a rummage sale.

Damn, ate something so bad it couldn’t wait to come out the other end?

Had 2 weeks of those in january. Not super fun, but my sleep was way better after I stopped.

Still there. It acts up if I don’t keep on top of my oral hygiene for a while, I just brush twice a day, floss once, and get a cleaning done periodically, nothing crazy. And it hasn’t been a problem for a long time.

I got my other wisdom teeth removed like 10 years ago, so this one has his been chilling in my jaw for a decade without issue.

For me, they said my wisdom tooth was too impacted, so unless it was causing pain O should just leave it because removing it could damage a nerve and leave part of my face numb.

And I’m in the US, and dentists are constantly trying to upcharge you for whitening and other stuff, so I took that warning seriously.

I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they’re talking about say I’m wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.