Hacker News: "Nobody uses Oracle anymore, it's just a legacy database" Oracle:
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Early ML Extraction Story: Manager Unhappy with 95% Accuracy
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Story from the early days of ML in information extraction:
Manager: So how good is your ML-based extractor?
Engineer: 95% accurate.
Manager: How dare you? Don't come back until you've debugged it. -
Computer Science Enrollment: Cyclical Panic About Technology Disruption
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Computer science enrollment trends:
2005: Plummets because all coding will be outsourced to India.
2015: Reaches new peak.
2025: Plummets because all coding will be done by AI.
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CICERO by Meta AI Team Reddit AMA Tomorrow at 10am PT
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Don’t miss it, tomorrow the team will be answering your questions on Reddit — our #CICERObyMetaAI AMA starts at 10am PT. Ask us anything!
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Big Philosophical Questions Resurging in AI Era
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(and the big philosophical questions will have a big resurgence in the coming decades)
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Adaptability and resilience: essential skills for future job markets
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good skills for the future: adaptability and resilience. i think these are learnable! hard to answer the question of ‘what jobs will be safe’, but humans always find new things to do, and the future will likely be amazing. embracing change will be important.
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Climate Model Simulations Cause Global Warming Through Computation
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Climate model simulations are so compute-intensive they cause global warming.
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ChatGPT Appears Smarter Than Reality, Similar to Humans
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ChatGPT looks smarter than it is, just like humans.
