I think you’re making a strawman argument here. He isn’t arguing that it’s a binary switch that has failed to throw, he’s arguing that we don’t have compelling evidence that the ends justify the means:

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they’re working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

And this is completely true! Supposedly “data informed” organizations are trying to find a yardstick that shows actual, meaningful improvement in business outcomes from AI. In my own organization we have people touting LOC yet again because “big number”, but anyone who’s ever worked in software can tell you it’s an asinine metric to use as a KPI.

It’s inherently unscientific to start with the answer and work backwards to a satisfactory question. His point that this push is coming from the least knowledgeable of real processes- and more closely resembles religious fervor than business acumen- seems to at least warrant consideration.

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A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but after watching the US’s disastrous campaign in Iran I’m not as sure. I think there are quite a few European countries that could lock the US into an unwinnable conflict.

Blanche, who is up for confirmation as attorney general, wrote in response to a question posed by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that “the FBI pursued all investigative leads in its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.” To Hirono, Blanche wrote: “Consistent with the long-standing principles of federal prosecution as outlined in the Justice Manual, several experienced prosecutors and investigators have reviewed the materials and determined that additional prosecutions are unavailable at this time.

Yes, as everyone knows, Epstein was the only collaborator and customer in his global trafficking scheme.

Well, it’s becoming crystal clear why Blanche is being pushed through appointment; he’s a bag man.

My company recently acquired another and picked up some interesting legacy infrastructure: on-premises mainframes running COBOL. What I found particularly funny is that this system has deprecated but still in-use legacy components of its own, like a telnet server, and that this legacy component also has legacy components that may or may not still be in use (character mappings for specific teletypes that different remote clients used).

I guess that at some point, everything any of us do will become someone else’s headache.

Are we expected to simply forget that he was in charge during the COVID-19 outbreak and seized medical equipment / PPE for resale, told people to inject bleach and take random drugs, and deliberately allowed the disease to spread in areas that vote blue?

Trump respects science as much as I respect him.

Epstein victim Anya - not her real name - previously told the BBC that Siad had introduced her to Epstein.

“It was a complete set-up,” she said, describing Siad as “essentially a professional trafficker”.

During one email to Epstein released in the files, Siad wrote in badly spelled English: “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish.”

It’s a god damned shame he died in his home instead of an interrogation room.

I cringed so hard that I now require medical attention.

And yet I’m sure these great thinkers don’t want to admit any of these territories as states, and they don’t want to relinquish their claims over them, so… What? They want to create an underclass of people on US soil who aren’t a part of any nation?

Disgusting.

More than 61,000 immigrants held across the U.S. have petitioned federal courts for their release after ICE stopped providing bond hearings, which had been a precedent for decades.

I don’t see how such a case can be anything other than a flagrant violation of a person’s right to due process. Any judge that allows this is a disgrace to law.

My company has been trying a new model when product folks cut through the red tape of “engineering” and just describe what they want to a powerful LLM pipeline and review the app in a beta env. Sounds perfect, right?

Dear reader, in the couple months this has been going on, these people have caused a dozen high profile SEVs due to extremely poor app performance, networking / kubernetes configuration bugs, bad scaling, observability oversights, supply chain attacks, leaking sensitive information, and cost overruns (on practically every resource they provision).

Some very well-paid people are scrambling to figure out the value that was generated by this pilot program; I’m heating up popcorn rather than holding my breath.

With a good weaver stance, proper lean, fingers over fingers grip, and firm isotension, who am I kidding this would suck ass.

If it seems incredibly fucking bizarre for a venue to have facial recognition cameras and a database tracking the sexual orientation of guests,

The surveillance practices implemented by Dolan are also enforced at his company’s other venues: The Sphere in Las Vegas and Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

It’s because the venue is owned by a rich, paranoid weirdo.

Wait, so the DNA found near the rifle they found in the woods was inconclusive until they added someone else’s DNA, and there were previously rumors that the rifle they found in the woods was not a match for the ballistic evidence recovered from the scene?

I’m not saying one way or another about the defendant, but the FBI and state are fucking the dog on this investigation.

This means that his grace period is over and he needs Congress to make a declaration of war, right?

I’d just also like to call out that Republicans are using McConnell’s warm corpse as a campaign billboard and that is weirdly hilarious.

The US attorney general is openly acting in contempt of federal courts. Wild.

Maybe. McConnell is a lot more to the Republicans than a vote, he’s a beacon of soft power. Even the idea that he might return may be more valuable to them than some greenhorn state senator.

Honestly, this whole situation makes me think we need to restructure civil case outcomes to better protect the plaintiff. I’d like it if that $5M also had a nice interest rate of 100% or so, making this strategy a little less enticing.

Less paywall.

Another article discussing this without mincing words:

“Equity investors are one thing, but bond guys are the grown-ups in the room,” Beauchamp told CNBC via email. “SpaceX might find it has its work cut out for it, but I suspect the market can absorb the issuance overall.”

I’m taking that to mean that SpaceX might have a bit of a valuation change as investors decide what they’ll pay to be a part of this grand adventure in creative accounting.