Daily Tech News 25 March 2023

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Why the banking crisis probably isn't a repeat of 2008 - for now. (Chase)

Yeah, this is the opposite of convincing. Bank runs are a self-fulfilling prophecy, but being told the economy is booming in the middle of a recession does nothing to allay that.

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ChatGPT can write code - so long as it has seen the code before. (Twitter)

It scored 10/10 solving problems it had been trained on, and 0/10 solving problems it had not.

What's more, just as it does when asked for references to support its claims, ChatGPT will hallucinate when writing code and use APIs that do not actually exist.

Which is rather like charging a customer $500 for replacing their blinker fluid.
Big socket is big. (Tom's Hardware)

I've mentioned many times the capabilities of the latest server CPUs - over 100 cores, a gigabyte or even tens of gigabytes of cache, a dozen memory channels per socket, and so on.

Something I haven't mentioned so often is that these chips are huge.
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and the man behind Moore's Law, has passed away at 94. (AnandTech)

He retired in 1997 so he hasn't been active in the industry in a long time, but his contributions were huge.
How dare you refer to the Chinese Communist Party as "communist"? That's racist! (The Verge)

Sure, Congress is - as P. J. O'Rourke noted - a parliament of whores, but the CCP is communist and TikTok is a tool of the Chinese state, which is to say, a machine of a genocidal communist dictatorship.

Disclaimer: Also, McCarthy was right.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'DAY EVERYONE

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2023 04:03 AM (xhxe8)

2 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and the man behind Moore's Law, has passed away at 94.

He was big. It's the chips that got small.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2023 04:05 AM (DgGvY)

3 There's a pile of AMD's Epyc chips at work and those things are HUGE.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 25, 2023 04:06 AM (iZEhM)

4 THAT'S IT

NO BLUEBERRY MUFFINS FOR YOU, YOUNG MAN

Well, maybe one

Posted by: Soft Hearted Aunt Miklos at March 25, 2023 04:14 AM (2hexI)

5 'Night, all...

youtu.be/Wk0Kckv-tqQ

Thanks for the tekkie-night-early threads!

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:17 AM (o0Fxd)

6 OMG that Verge article makes me stabby beyond belief. He really *does* say "Calling the Chinese Communist Party 'communist' is McCarthyism." Wow.

Posted by: Qwinn at March 25, 2023 04:18 AM (NVa/e)

7 >>>Also, McCarthy was right.

>McCarthy may have been right, but George and Ringo were righteous!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 25, 2023 04:22 AM (Jg7EG)

8 "Light can reflect off mirrors, and sounds off surfaces. However, scientists have long theorized about time reflections, where a signal passing through a time “interface” would act like it was traveling backward in time."

https://tinyurl.com/54uybs8z

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 04:22 AM (/rVF5)

9 RIP, Technologist Gordon Moore …

Posted by: Adriane the Time Just Gets Away From Us Critic . . . at March 25, 2023 04:27 AM (jonTH)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2023 04:30 AM (T4tVD)

11 youtu.be/2EYLObG7H0A

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:32 AM (o0Fxd)

12 Hiya JT!

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:35 AM (o0Fxd)

13 6 OMG that Verge article makes me stabby beyond belief. He really *does* say "Calling the Chinese Communist Party 'communist' is McCarthyism." Wow.
Posted by: Qwinn

I'm guessing the author is on the ChiCom payroll.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 25, 2023 04:38 AM (yRved)

14 Hiya JQ !

How you ?

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2023 04:39 AM (T4tVD)

15 Hey, JT...

Doin' my late-night thang, LOL...

How you?

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:44 AM (o0Fxd)

16 Morning all!

Long day yesterday. I drove with my wife and SIL to see her cousin and allllll the kids they have. The youngest kid is about 60 now. Sitting around the kitchen table for about 4 hours with 12 different conversations going on and my head was buzzing for hours.

Great time though. Had a cold lunch other than the homemade broccoli cheese soup.

I thought I would sleep later today, but I was wrong.

Posted by: Bruce at March 25, 2023 04:44 AM (vd8XM)

17 youtu.be/-4lC5kJ1u1Q

Lovin' me some early Toto tonight....

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:45 AM (o0Fxd)

18 It scored 10/10 solving problems it had been trained on, and 0/10 solving problems it had not.

I think these hamsters need to be trained on the difference between 'problem solving' and 'training.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 25, 2023 04:49 AM (kGtj5)

19 RIP, Gordon Moore.

Posted by: flounder at March 25, 2023 04:52 AM (pufNW)

20 youtu.be/71l85z2bXAs

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 04:55 AM (o0Fxd)

21 Good morning morons

I work for totally clueless people and my last day cannot come soon enough.

They gave me a budget projecting a 60% increase in net income and I told them, "good luck with that."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 04:55 AM (EZebt)

22 I think these hamsters need to be trained on the difference between 'problem solving' and 'training.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 25, 2023 04:49 AM (kGtj5)

It would be short-sighted to say that AI or AGI won't ever come to pass.

But it feels like those pushing current iterations as nearly there (or presenting it as if we are on the precipice) are pushing snake oil.

Posted by: flounder at March 25, 2023 04:56 AM (pufNW)

23

Why the banking crisis probably isn't a repeat of 2008 - for now. (Chase)

----

Mainly because it's a continuation of 2008.

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 04:58 AM (O69GV)

24 But it feels like those pushing current iterations as nearly there (or presenting it as if we are on the precipice) are pushing snake oil.
Posted by: flounder at March 25, 2023 04:56 AM (pufNW)

Well, the thing is, being able to recite a rote answer: as Pixy's code, is just training. In this situation, this is what you do. It is a completely different thing to be able to take everything you have learned, apply it to the new situation and then deduce a solution that may or may not work.

This is just rote memorization, like their surprisingly Communistic worldview that we are supposed to think they came up with themselves. It's still just a program.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 25, 2023 05:01 AM (kGtj5)

25 Local TV news reports a 12 year old has been charged with two stabbings almost killing a 15 year old on Muni. Because he was released after the first stabbing during a robbery the week prior.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 05:01 AM (EZebt)

26 25 Local TV news reports a 12 year old has been charged with two stabbings almost killing a 15 year old on Muni. Because he was released after the first stabbing during a robbery the week prior.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 05:01 AM (EZebt)

Precocious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 25, 2023 05:04 AM (kGtj5)

27 "A standard reflection occurs when a signal bounces off a boundary in space. In contrast, time reflections can happen when the entire medium in which a light or sound wave is traveling suddenly and drastically changes its optical or sonic properties."

--

We don't even have the scientific or mathematical ability to begin to understand how light works, but these same people are going to fix Global Warming.

(And all it will take is trillions of dollars given to these same people.)

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 05:07 AM (O69GV)

28 Local TV news reports a 12 year old has been charged with two stabbings almost killing a 15 year old on Muni. Because he was released after the first stabbing during a robbery the week prior.
Posted by: San Franpsych

Nebraska. Move to Nebraska.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:10 AM (9e/0I)

29 We don't even have the scientific or mathematical ability to begin to understand how light works, but these same people are going to fix Global Warming. (And all it will take is trillions of dollars given to these same people.) Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five?

You are the problem that needs to fixed. I'm pretty sure the solution is to use the standard gulag model in these cases.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:14 AM (9e/0I)

30 I'm not sure if Pixy posted it or not, but there are articles detailing how and why people will be worshipping these search engines as gods in the very near future.

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 05:14 AM (O69GV)

31 Local TV news reports one crew burglarizing 7 businesses in Oakland's Chinatown Thursday night, the police never showed and the video shows they operated openly and brazenly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 05:15 AM (EZebt)

32 Wait, so we don't understand how light interacts with surfaces, and one of the popular plans is to shoot reflective material into the sky.

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 05:15 AM (O69GV)

33 I asked the Bing AI to create an image of Joe Biden as a zombie in the style of Van Gogh. All I got back was a nasty message that said I violated their terms of service. What good is this stuff if you can't generate images like this?

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:16 AM (9e/0I)

34 Wait, so we don't understand how light interacts with surfaces, and one of the popular plans is to shoot reflective material into the sky. Posted by: Daddy

Pack some warm clothes. The Black Maria's have been already dispatched to your house.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:18 AM (9e/0I)

35 I can find no news on France. Is Paris burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 05:20 AM (EZebt)

36 Saw an article on DM couple days ago... some wheelchair-bound guy got punched. Well. They all said the guy was a "thug!" what punched disabled dude. Oh! Lock him up for 10 years at least!....

Fk.

Tell ya what. A-hole that broke into Dad's place was legless. Wheelchair-bound, drug addict, liar, thief.

Stole power, plugged into outlet to charge his wheelchair-- without permission. Got nasty with neighbors who challenged him...

Broke in. Stole whatever he could, to get quick money at some pawn shop. Fker prolly got all kinds of guv-gimme's and it wasn't enough... to feed his HABIT. (Found syringes in the yard)

Disability =/= innocence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 05:21 AM (o0Fxd)

37 I asked the Bing AI to create an image of Joe Biden as a zombie in the style of Van Gogh. All I got back was a nasty message that said I violated their terms of service. What good is this stuff if you can't generate images like this?
Posted by: Lost In Space

-

There was a post a couple of days ago about how it's programmed to allow a nuclear bomb to detonate killing millions of minorities rather than have someone type the n-word to disarm the bomb because the word is disrespectful and should never be used.

The neat part was that it ONLY applies to black people references. It will encourage you to other racial slurs to stop the bomb.

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 05:23 AM (O69GV)

38 I can find no news on France. Is Paris burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

As part of the protest the trash workers went on strike. The pictures I've seen of Paris are pretty much a disaster zone.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:24 AM (9e/0I)

39 Macron told King Chuck & concubine Camilla to "not visit" due to problems

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 05:25 AM (o0Fxd)

40 Found it in case anyone wants to read the "AI" nuclear bomb experiment, goes directly to twitter.

https://tinyurl.com/2hr8s9ub

Posted by: Daddy, why do muffin pans have 12 spaces instead of five? at March 25, 2023 05:27 AM (O69GV)

41 In my experience FedEx is absolutely the worst delivery service in the country. They're even worse than the USPS. Once again I am on day three of a 2-day delivery which when it's all wrapped up is pretty much going to be 5 days, 7 days if you count the weekend.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 25, 2023 05:28 AM (9e/0I)

42
⚠️ Pixy Disclaimer returns

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 25, 2023 05:31 AM (enJYY)

43 Which McCarthy? There are so many...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2023 05:32 AM (EZebt)

44 NYS is getting ready to destroy juvenile criminal records when perp hits 18yo. Destroy as in never happened, file shredded, no records.
New York wants to come out and play

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 25, 2023 05:40 AM (Eeb9P)

45 Texas still in!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2023 05:42 AM (BRHaw)

46 Trying to sleep but been just cat napping
Might. As well go make coffee

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2023 05:47 AM (xhxe8)

47 youtu.be/fE3-BpOM5RY

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 05:49 AM (o0Fxd)

48 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 25, 2023 05:49 AM (ju2Fy)

49 nood

Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2023 05:58 AM (DnRmW)

50 This is just rote memorization, like their surprisingly Communistic worldview that we are supposed to think they came up with themselves. It's still just a program.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 25, 2023 05:01 AM (kGtj5)

I agree. AI Snake oil salesmen would have you believe otherwise.

Posted by: flounder at March 25, 2023 06:00 AM (pufNW)

51 laurenboebert

Biden’s ATF rule banning pistol braces is extremely dangerous.

It’s causing millions of boating accidents nation wide.

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2023 06:03 AM (BRHaw)

52 Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2023 05:21 AM (o0Fxd)

Sorry again about the burglary at you father's house. What a violation-both criminally, as well as a violation of privacy as well as peace of mind. I hope he is charged.

Please know too- and I hope you won't consider this presumptuous-that it was not your fault-and I hope you will get some peace regarding that somewhere down the line.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2023 07:29 AM (fXes7)

53 Teen heroes rush into surf to save drowning 11 year old. Sunny Skyz story:

https://tinyurl.com/3mds6nkd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2023 07:33 AM (fXes7)

54 FenelonSpoke @ 53-
True meaning of 'Brave Girls'!

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2023 07:46 AM (mE3sO)

55 Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley pioneer who co-founded Intel, dies at 94

Posted by: SMOD at March 25, 2023 09:20 AM (RovqD)

56 Did he write "Blinker Fluid?"

Posted by: Fisht at March 25, 2023 12:02 PM (ZRarh)

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