if you know who this is this is the funniest fucking headline
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Someone help me; I don't know who this is and don't know what to Google to decide if this is funny or not!
That is Alexander Grothendieck. He's involved with some abstract algebra I'm way to sober to grok rn. My only knowledge of him is that his stuff basically established category theory as a thing, although apparently that was completely unintentional on his end.
He seems to have been an... interesting character in his later years
Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup.
Thank you!
Okay yeah this is funny.
a quick follow-up tying in with our previous post about Kroger planning AI-driven demand pricing for groceries: of course they got caught red handed price gouging
You already know I can't get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share: https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/
LAION reckons it's finally dealt with the CSAM
and I'm sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?
oh, right, they can't, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I'm sure they'll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they're such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim
New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
Our c-suite has announced an “AI workshop” for next Wednesday where we all work towards “increasing productivity in the age of AI”. The email was full of terribad Midjourney too which should’ve flagged it as spam.
Totes looking forward to discussing why I don’t let ChatGPT vomit out production-critical code and instead write it myself like some fucking Luddite with the marketing team next week.