AI fails at freelancer tasks 97% of the time, new 'Remote Labor Index' shows. This is what I see, too, and may give some comfort to coders. Writing good software is not simple and not something that can be done as easy as some of the apps would have you believe. But software is getting better, so one shouldn't relax. AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder is a good way of putting it. But yeah, it'll probably kill a lot of those remote Indian jobs. Simple and often shoddy work now can be done here at home.
And I've had this FOMO feeling sometimes, where you think that everybody's getting on the Clawdbot game and you're not, and you must be so behind. Glad to know that I'm not the only person feeling this way, and that it's essentially hype and delusion.
I agree with this guy that software engineering is on track to get to the next level. I don't call it "vibe-coding". I call it "coding assistance".
Microsoft needs to figure out what it wants to do in the AI world. Google has figured it out. Anthropic, too. Apple is taking action to serve its customer base. But what does Microsoft have to offer that's better than alternatives?
This guy has a clever way of getting around deepfakers who post videos of him saying false stuff. It's not scalable, of course, and it would be a lot easier if he just displayed a hologram containing the date, or something that wouldn't be easy to deepfake. The struggle continues.
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A lot of people seem to oppose ICE, but I am glad that they are extracting these people from American society. You know that if Kamala Harris won, these folks would still be running free.
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China’s ‘artificial photosynthesis’ method could create petrol from carbon dioxide. When life give you lemons, make lemonade.
And from Montreal, comes a new organic molecule, AzoBiPy, that can store electrical energy for months with almost no degradation, offering a promising path toward better large-scale energy storage. It can substitute for lithium in fuel cells. Certainly safer than hydrogen fuel cells.
Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi is predicted to win the recent election in a landslide. I think the Japanese took a look at what's going on in the U.S. and Europe, and have seen enough. None of that diversity crap. Who can blame them?
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Ovarian cancer is indeed somewhat unique in the way it spreads in the abdomen. It spreads like wildfire, taking over the surface structures. Now we know why and it involves TGF-β. Seems that a lot of undesirable conditions in the body are connected to TGF-β.
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Why bitcoin is losing its luster. Gold is better. I think that Trump himself may have hastened its demise. The creation of Trump Coin and Melania Coin revealed to everyone that crypto is just a joke.
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High estrogen levels in brain may increase women's risk of stress-related memory issues. Well, in mice anyway.
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Oregon’s Education Workforce Climbed While Student Enrollment Slid. The state added nearly 12,000 employees since 2020, but school districts face layoffs as budget cuts loom. Lowest rank in the nation. As a commenter said: What's the point of all these articles?
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