The Aubrey/Maturín books are awesome. Too bad they only made a single movie from them (Master and commander) but what a movie it was!

You’re dad would have liked Killing Floor 1/2. They are very gory coop shooters where you kill mutant demon things.

The CEO would agree as he’s Christian which explains why sadly the soundtrack is made of lame Christian metal. But that’s OK, when I used to play it, would cut the game music off and blast albums like Behemoth’s “The Satanist”. It fits the game and completes the atmosphere.

It was because it showed Nazi symbols. This was applied for a long time for games sold in Germany and Austria and even accidentally for Switzerland (it sometimes gets convoluted in there because of the German-speaking part).

Post-WWII put propaganda/advertising to the next level. Social media turned that to 11.

Same for Google Inbox.

Tom Wheeler. Sorry, I had to look up the name. He succeeded the professional ass clown that was Ajit Pai, seemed like another Republican Telecom shill coming from the industry to further errode the regulatory agency.

Turns out he had made his start in Telecom and the big players ate up his small company. He seemed to have joined them but he secretly had an ax to grind or at least the public’s best interest in mind.

Top notch guy. Greatest anime betrayals right there.

That FTC guy who went “ha ha! I actually hate the Telecom industry and I will restore net neutrality!”. Except he needed only 2 panels.

James Wan needs to drop the smelly fish superhero and come back to direct bonkers horror movies. I want more ridiculous pseudo-Gallio that suddenly turns into a wire-fu action flick.

M’three’gan hit some of the notes at times but took itself a bit too seriously at times.

It was fun but not quite Malignant fun. Hopefully they got full camp on the next one.

Edit: wait, erotic thriller? Curious where they take this creepy doll movie. Creepy sex doll? Could be fun.

They have trouble grabbing a next-door land neighbor. They aren’t going to do well in a fully amphibious operation squeezed between Finland and Sweden.

Self-driving cars are AI. And they are butting against the Pareto Principle.

Oh and for those thinking this is too much, some even throw in an egg into the cauldron once the melted cheese is gone.

Fat is the most calorie-dense food available. So that’s one big piece of butter mixed with sugar, some flour, aromas, and cacao fat.

Adamant is putting it lightly. The co-founder apparently told his CEO successor:

“If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.”

Fondue, with a starter plate of cured meats and a desert of meringue covered in double cream.

Breakthroughs are so interesting and the reason predicting the future of tech is so hard. Text embedding and “Internet scale” training are likely the things that allowed this AI boom and the amazing initial results.

I think many people see AI (and other tech) moving linearly from the current point forward but any software developer knows this is rarely the case. And no one can predict the next breakthrough.

It doesn’t help the hype and confusion around ML/LLM/AGI. And because on the surface LLMs seem intelligent people misunderstand their capabilities (much like politicians). They certainly have fantastic uses just as they are now but a lot of people are overly optimistic (or pessimistic depending on your point of view) of our new “AI overlords”.

Personally, LLMs are absolutely amazing at supporting me in my professional writing. I don’t let it do my work but it helps me play around to find a better way to express some things like if I had a sparing writing partner.

I guess he… dug his own hole on that one.

And he certainly wasn’t anti-crypto when it came to pushing his own lazy NFTs.

ATMs have tackled both issues for decades.

There is no certainty that LLMs can overcome the current limitations they are stumbling on.

I think developments in AI will come but there is no guarantee they will. They seem to be suffering from the Pareto Principle just like self-driving car ML models and this despite huge investments.