If you like red cards, epic GK own goal and Quakes type of defending before this season, please watch this game between Toronto and Colorado.
GNU software is an acronym for GNU’s Not Unix. Confusing because the acronym description contains the acronym itself, which was probably a little geek joke they got a kick out of. But since it’s an acronym there’s certainly legitimacy in pronouncing it gah-noo, and not noo. But then they used a gnu (animal) for their logo to complicate matters.
Once again demonstrating that as a whole, the coding community has the sophisticated sense of humor possessed by the average fifth grader.
I had never heard that’s what GNU stood for. Interesting! Old time programmers were so much more clever than today’s AI slopboys.
I think back in the day programming had some connection to mathematics in that you could design something clever. A clever algorithm is a bit like a clever proof in mathematics. I don't know exactly what clever will mean in the age of AI. It's a whole new ballgame now.
Haha, today’s generation seems to think that clever means finding a meme. Also, my son says that the kids they are interviewing out of college do not know how to program, they only know how to tell the AI what to do.
I've been out of the industry for a while so I don't have a good feel for what's going on, but I think what it means to be a SW Engineer is going to be quite different than what it used to mean. And a pure "programmer" is going to be more or less obsolete.
Entry level Software Engineering is now obsolete. So are "Leet Coders" (people who specialize in optimizing algorithms, usually just to pass interviews for companies like Google). Modern (in the last 6 months) AI models perform better. The only reason Sr. Engineers are valuable now is that the memory context of the AI models is limited and things need to be broken apart into manageable chunks for the AI. But you can process all of those chunks at once, so it's kinda like a manager working with their team to get something done. For now the things that the AI does need to be reviewed so the more experienced the Engineer the better during these reviews. That's gonna change quickly imo. AI is now a super power for Software Architects and Product Managers but memory (the size of the context a model can use) is the great limiter. It's possible that won't get much bigger and progress will level off (you can only build so many data centers so fast). That being said, I suspect that in a few years they won't be needed either and I hope to be retired by then :\
Have not followed MLS closely the last couple of seasons as I have in the past.....turned on the Austin vs Galaxy game today, wasn't aware JT Marcinkowski was still around. Would never cheer for a Galaxy player but while he was with the Quakes he seemed to be a good guy and well liked by his teammates.
Yes, and he also started their game against Toluca last week. I guess he's their #1 keeper right now? They're giving him a shot anyway.
Sounds about what I'd expect. Are people (the SW engineers) freaking out? [Sorry for the tangent folks, this should end soon ]
Someone took me to small claims court over an auto accident my daughter got into. I asked AI for some help in something related to CA auto insurance law and it hallucinated part of the vehicle code, like made-up number and everything. It was kind of directionally correct and in the right general section but that part of the code does not exist. Thankfully I checked before we went to court .
Just saw 17 year old Jude Terry's score his first goal for LAFC in their 2-1 loss to Portland. He scored a beauty! 17-Year Old Jude Terry Scores Top Bins Goal on His Full LAFC Debut vs. Portland FC
The problem is that AI always tries to find an answer, even if there isn't one. It's happy to make up whatever. So it's most effective to put in language directing it not to do that. I'm still learning how to communicate!
So, basically, ask question, and postpend with "And don't make stuff up!"? You'd think they'd build that capability into the model if it has the ability to do it.
The only thing I've used for a non-trivial length of time is Sora, to generate an animation to go with music I'd written. I think OpenAI recently discontinued it. It took a lot of work to get something usable. For example I'd ask it do show a group of people dancing excitedly to salsa music and at first they were jumping 50 feet in the air. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯