What to consider when choosing a programming language. I start with finding out what the language was designed for, and also its staying power and support. It's got to have a sufficient installed base and potential for growth and development, which means popularity and wide adoption.
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What is AI washing? I didn't realize that Amazon Go was supported by emplloyees in India. It was supposed to be all AI. Very much like Tesla charging stations being powered by diesel.
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Downtown Seattle is dying. We knew that. But Seattlites keep electing soft-on-crime Dem mayors, who refuse to get tough. Like Portland.
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The brain removes waste products during sleep. Including Alzheimer-related toxins. This is not news, but supports the paradigm. This is why we need sleep.
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The real reason why music has gotten worse. It's sad to see Rick Beato look so resigned about this. Technology should be fostering new creativity. Instead we're seeing people take the lazy way out, and just producing lazy music. We need real creators.
Here's an article that says training AI on music will get a lot more expensive due to risk of lawsuits, as has been seen with Udio and Suno.
How Starbucks devalued its own brand. The comments say it all.
Yeah, that'll do it.I stopped going to StarBucks when all the employees started looking like the carnival freak show was in town. I just don't trust people who look that way to handle buy food and beverages.
Looks like Perplexity.AI is developing cruft. Not a good sign when the article about your company is titled "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Like a lot of generative AI, things will look good, until the world is flooded with generative AI. Then thinks will stink. Perplexity is finding this out.
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Another reason Vega-Pederson should resign. Multnomah County hasn't been monitoring how well their contractors are performing. They just took $1.2 billion (with a "b")
The audit showed that each county branch had at least some standards to make sure the organizations they hired were doing their jobs, but that methods varied by department and individual division. That disjointed practice can make it difficult to keep contractors accountable, the report said.
Oregon Health Authority fires their DEI chief. Naturally, people are unhappy. Of course they are. I guess that's a "white supremacy" move.
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Who actually voted in favor of retaining DA Mike Schmidt? His supporters came from the area between the Willamette River and I-205. People in those regions must like it when criminals escape justice. Avoid these areas.
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Taxpayer money to waste. The city of Portland now wants to provide free e-bikes to low-income people. Who cares about crime and drug abuse? People need free bikes. And not just regular bikes – no, costly electric bikes. Because why not?
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Raising the minimum wage for food delivery workers backfired. Now, Seattle is reversing the law, because people stopped using them.
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SCOTUS votes to let the government tell social media to squelch dissenting voices. For lack of standing, supposedly. The reliable originalists, Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito tried to uphold free speech, but were outvoted. This apparently may help Alex Berenson's case against Pfizer, though.
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Isn't that on the other side of the body? New organ discovered in the human throat that lubricates an area behind the nose is found accidentally by researchers studying prostate cancer. My question is that PSMA PET scans have been used for a while – why was this picked up only now?
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I saw this on one of the local X/Twitter sites:
In truth, Milton Friedman was not in favor of Universal Basic Income. He was in favor of a Negative Income Tax, where those at the bottom of the income tax bracket got some money back. This is no different from Earned Income Credit that the current tax system allows anyway. The difference is that you have to be working. You have to file a tax return, so it's different from just UBI. Friedman thought using the tax framework was better because you can monitor and control it, unlike just doling out cash to any address. This would encourage people to get to work, and work harder, if you don't like the small amount of free money. But you don't get it by just taking up space.
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