I don’t like code, that isn’t well documented. In fact, this has been my main source of frustration in the past and required the most time to deal with. Thousands of variables, hundreds of thousands of lines of code, how am I supposed to go through it somewhat fast, if there aren’t any comments or pieces of documentation that are guiding my understanding? I can’t spend half a year to just get a grasp of how the code works.

Comments (as well as docstrings and readmes etc.) provide higher level overviews that can guide you through the code rather quickly, even if it may be longer in terms of words or character count than the lines of code it describes, it may accelerate understanding tremendously. It’s just a lot more effort to trace each variable and see what it does and how it interacts with others. This can quickly become exponentially hard to track.

I don’t think it’s necessary to comment each line of code, except in rare cases or maybe when setting up a class and describing the members and roughly how they’re used, but a few words here and there, at some higher or intermediate level, roughly describing what you want to do, can go a long way for others (and even yourself, when working on a project for several years). It’s also already sufficient to just highlight the most important variables in a piece of code, when explaining it. Given that info, this steers your focus when reading the actual code.

“Speaking” variable/function/… names are also very useful. I don’t care if it’s a long name, as long as it’s sufficiently expressive. E.g. “space_info” instead of “si”. This helps to understand the code more quickly and reduces backtracking lookups, because you already forgot again what a specific variable does that you haven’t seen for a while. My rule of thumb for variable naming: As consice, short and “essence grasping” as possible, but as long as necessary.

We don’t even have a clear definition of what “intelligence” even is. Yet a lot of people art claiming that they themselves are intelligent and AI models are not.

They have adapters. But yeah, would be nice to have a slot directly integrated.

Reading comments of people who (hyper-) organize their games as if it’s a project to get through and they have to work off. And I’m sitting here just playing whatever the fuck I’m in the mood in.

Casually rotating 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses to bypass rate limits.

I am not in IT security, but find it fascinating what clever tricks people use to break (into) stuff.

In a better world, we might use this energy for advancing humanity instead of looking how we can hurt each other. (Not saying the author is doing that, just lamenting that ITS is necessary due to hostile actors in this world. )

Ragebait?

I’m in robotics and find plenty of use for ML methods. Think of image classifiers, how do you want to approach that without oversimplified problem settings?
Or even in control or coordination problems, which can sometimes become NP-hard. Even though not optimal, ML methods are quite solid in learning patterns of highly dimensional NP hard problem settings, often outperforming hand-crafted conventional suboptimal solvers in computation effort vs solution quality analysis, especially outperforming (asymptotically) optimal solvers time-wise, even though not with optimal solutions (but “good enough” nevertheless). (Ok to be fair suboptimal solvers do that as well, but since ML methods can outperform these, I see it as an attractive middle-ground.)

Some AI researchers found it obvious as well, in terms of they’ve suspected it and had some indications. But it’s good to see more data on this to affirm this assessment.

Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.

It’s wise to not give a fuck about downvotes. They can’t hurt you. You can’t make it right for everyone. And that’s okay. Sometimes you say stuff that agrees with a couple of people. Sometimes you don’t. Questions included, as some might see those as a statement. You’re free to do the same. Isn’t democracy beautiful?

Sure, they will. But some sooner than others. Therefore, you can save money by buying the more reliable alternative.

Yes, if you have money to burn, sure. I’ll go with the financially better approach.

I didn’t want to share a recommendation. I saw a post about Seagate and wanted to share my opinion about them.

Do you want a recommendation from me?

Idk, why you’re repeating yourself. If you have the option to choose between two products and you know from experience that one of them is useless earlier than the other, then it would be a waste of money to buy the inferior product as you would have to replace it sooner and therefore loose more money.

Probably. Although such low level interactions can also contribute. Depending on what someone wants to do or needs.

What’s crazy about that?

Haven’t heard of, e.g., Cambridge Analytica?

Sure. But in my experience Seagate drives are significantly worse. So why spend money on a shit company producing shit drives, if I can spend it on products of another company where I get more use and lifetime out of the product?

I don’t have the time right now to addeess all of this, but:
Device interactions can be used to identify users, predict and manipulate their behaviour, contribute to further identification measures etc…

Furthermore my point was that there are many reasons to be cautious about any type of data collection and processing. Saying a specific type would be ridiculous undermines the possible dangers stemming from this. Therefore I wouldn’t plainly discard these concerns.

Even if, in this context, the transmission is not widely noticed, this doesn’t pose a universal guarantee, especially if this can be turned on on demand via backdoors, trojans or whatever. Even worse if the transmission can be hidden. (Less likely for very proficient users with extremely tight network monitoring & control, but that’s rarely the case.)

Ah yes. Seagate. The trash storage device company. If you want to burn your money, just throw it into a fire before buying this e-waste.

Can not recommend.

Of course not, that’s ridiculous.

angry Snowden noises

That’s the difference between North Korea and the western world:

In North Korea the government forces spyware onto your device.

In the western world, people share their data voluntarily and publicly.

Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox and Co. made it possible.

Time to make Space Elevators real.