br3d

@br3d@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d much rather employ a 50-year-old recent graduate than a 21-year-old recent graduate. There are lots of reasons for this, not least all the extra life experience and the hard evidence of being able to make major decisions and follow through with a difficult challenge.

  No employer expects a new graduate employer to stay with them more than a few years anyway, so I can’t see you’d be disadvantaged there either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These language models don’t get the meaning of anything. They predict the next cluster of letters based on the clusters of letters that have come before. Sorry, but if it feels to you like they’re captured the meaning of something, you’re being bamboozled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or an Office 365 Group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These authors (and my work is in there) did not write so that Mark Zuckerberg could steal our work and profit from it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Old man here… The first online bubble was probably the dot.com bubble of the late 90s, when lots of people first went “This internet thing is amazing and we’re all going to make millions!” I remember boo.com being one of the first high-profile crashes, but pretty soon a lot of that first wave of internet retail businesses folded, with notable exceptions like Amazon, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology gets unfairly singled out wrt replication but the same issues are found in a lot of other disciplines, such as biomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro tech: Using the PSION Series 5 in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Psions were amazing. I had a Psion 3 in the 90s. That thing fell out of my pocket when I was cycling and a van drove over it - still worked fine. I’d like to see an iPhone manage that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oil extracted near the UK doesn’t get used in the UK - it goes to the global market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn’t mean we use British oil here, and doesn’t meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they’d be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any vaguely recent car is constantly reporting its location back to its manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning of the End⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that’s Venus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, my family subscription more or less halved a few months ago, which I was NOT expecting, but which was very welcome