Oliver Batchelor

It’s spaghetti and pineapple layers all the way down!

The issue with these is if you implement them exactly as you would in C++.

Builder classes are still very useful for separating configuration from initialisation, just not purely for syntactic reasons like your example. E.g when some parameters are from config files, others dynamically created.

As far as I can tell, half the posts on LinkedIn suggest that this is the only job title that is important anymore. "Don't learn to code..." etc.

You may have missed out on the innovation of the century...

Easy: because someone felt it was inconvenient to their lifestyle.

Seconded- or pretty much any chase scenes. They’re always very contrived and you know what’s going to happen.

That includes things like “The hobbit” with its half an hour of goblin “car chase” - I turned it off and never went back.

Also, if you flick between them, none of the objects are even at the same scale or in the same place... It's just that, as humans, we're kind of bad at comparing images side-by-side.

The aspect ratio of the images is very different too, it's given itself an impossible task by making the image less wide!

Sort of. If you look closely, there are a lot of oddities, too—the shape of the trees is different, and the sign is in a random place.

What AI person is saying.....

Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei: In the next 3 to 6 months, AI is writing 90% of the code, and in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI.

What AI person is doing.....

www.anthropic.com/jobs

We recently released the code for "Efficient Perspective-Correct 3D Gaussian Splatting Using Hybrid Transparency"

Project Page: fhahlbohm.github.io/htgs/
Code: github.com/nerficg-proj...

It's hard to improve on his last spiel, where he argued that kids shouldn't learn to code.

All the juniors at work are onto it, I feel like it is achieving little other than building dependence and failing to learn problem solving.

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Either way it is rare that both parties will be satisfied with the result, unless (but maybe even then) the games are at the highest level, almost always one player comes away feeling cheated!!

I feel your pain! Mostly, at some point, I become paralysed by indecision and let the time run down, then either fail to notice the time and just flag, or crumble under time pressure and blunder badly.

Alternatively, you can be on the winning side of the beautiful mating net yet fail to observe your clock for a second, and it is all for nothing.

Wow what a load of garbage.

My partner earns 3 times my salary, which is great otherwise there’s no way I’m paying the mortgage! My ego still intact…

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It’s nice. Thanks for the pointer. Much simpler and easier to get country specific stuff too.

I'll give it another try; I was not impressed with the search results in its early days.

Has it improved significantly? The issue is that previously it's just not anywhere near as good.

Nice, I'm from Christchurch too (you mention it on your website). Certainly very nice at this time of year.

Is he wearing correct trousers and shoes though?

Perhaps it's also wishful thinking that current economical systems will change any time soon (if anything it seems things are going in the wrong direction).

OR that people will build machines which will benefit society in general. They will build useless novelties or tools for more exploitation!

Much like the idea that everyone MUST have a job. Then you worry that technology will be so productive that people will lose jobs.

How is this a problem? If machines are more productive surely they can both feed all the people AND people can do what they want, surely a win-win. But it's political.

I was born in socialism, but grew up in capitalism. I saw the shift from books of my childhood - idolizing scientists, engineers, doctors, adventurers, martyrs and quiet self-sacrifice, working towards the common good - to pop-culture of money, success, status, being loud, and bling. 3/

I agree however many of these ideas are pretty “obvious” in hindsight, yet they do require significant time to develop — so there’s a significant local minimum to overcome?

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune