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It's seriously weird, isn't it? The part about retiring and somehow getting busy again. I don't mind the work, but it irritates me. I'm still working through it.
The hospital and doctor visits just blow. I see you are in the UK. Here on my side of the pond we have the wonderful SSA. That has had no issue taking my money for 50 years, sending me statements the last 5 years and now when I want to retire, someone needs to review my account for at least 30 days. I don't tolerate beauacracy well.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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In the supplemental newsletter, this link The Decline Of Mobile Development - DONN FELKER appeared. Having semi-successfully attempted to write for Android, this guy is only touching the tip of the iceberg on why mobile development sucks. At this point I think any mobile apps I'd write would be pointers to a website that's written to detect screen sizes and adjust.
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Do you think that mobile development sucks because it's not dominated by one company the way Windows development is?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have developed mobile apps for both Android & Apple.
In the past, Android Studio and Kotlin was the best.
Building hte UIs was very nice using the XML (normally I hate XML-anything).
Android apps had the same feeling as developing apps for early windows using MFC & Visual Studio C++.
Really not that bad once you learn some basics — but Android added many things (paths) to creating apps (Jetpack, Materials (UI framework) and it got really confusing to know which path to take.
iPhone apps were terrible when Swift first released — still using InterfaceBuilder (there were things you could only do with your mouse — adding button click events — & it was crazy)
Then iphone released SwiftUI and building the UI became so easy!!!
I couldn’t friggin’ believe it. It is like using the old Visual Studio C++ winform editor but even better. I love it. I can’t believe I love it because Xcode (IDE kind of sucks)
Building apps is like old winforms apps:
1) build UI
2) connect events
3) run the app *
*of course you still break things up into classes (Models) etc, but I’m just saying the basics of building a UI and wiring it up is elegant and beautiful.
The big problem is that you have to have a Mac to even try Xcode and SwiftUI — so you have to go all-in.
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obermd wrote: At this point I think any mobile apps I'd write would be pointers to a website that's written to detect screen sizes and adjust.
Isn't that what most mobile apps are nowadays?
Disclaimer: I've never written a mobile app in my life, except in the days of (yikes!) Windows CE. That was before anything got connected.
I avoid installing apps on my phone if I can help it, and I shudder when I see people showing me their phones and the loads of apps they've installed, which ultimately are just horrible, touch-enabled UIs that just castrate what would be a much better experience on a large monitor using a mouse and keyboard.
And then every app insists on being granted access to your contacts, your call history, your photos, your location, etc. Most apps have zero need for any of that to function, so we know what that's really about.
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One issue with training data is it's often pulled from copyrighted material, whether deliberately or through an automated process.
Another issue, probably overlooked but I mentioned it on the discussion is "model collapse"
You can't get good models if your training data is generated AI content as well. It is essentially incestuous, and leads to model collapse. AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data | Nature[^]
I'm thinking regulations could actually solve both of these problems.
AI could avoid using data marked as NOT training data. Data generated by AI and copyrighted material could be marked that way, and flagged as off limits to automated processes that scrape. AI companies would have incentive, not only because of regulatory statutes, but perhaps more importantly so their own models don't get poisoned.
Thoughts?
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modified 1-Aug-24 11:54am.
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Because robots.txt works so well ...
Regulation is fine, as long as it can be enforced. If there's an enforcement mechanism that has sufficient teeth to discourage abuse of the regulations, the maybe it will encourage ethical behavior on the part of organizations creating and distributing AI.
I feel like we need an equivalent of Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", but for AI.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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There's definitely the problem of enforcement, but what I would say is that
A) It already behooves the AI companies to follow suit as it keeps their models from becoming incestuous and collapsing.
B) As far as people putting invalid tags on things - that's why I suggested tags marked NOT for consumption, because again, it typically incentivizes and otherwise doesn't really burden people to do it. It protects their copyrighted material in the first instance, and in the second, since the content is generated anyway marking it with tags is no bother.
C) In regards to actual teeth and where the regulatory statute might be leveled - if someone is knowingly producing generated content to poison other people's models and it flies in the face of said regulations it at the very least exposes the actors to civil, if not criminal liability. Civil liability in the states isn't so difficult to prove as a criminal case, relying on the standard of "a preponderance of evidence" rather than "no reasonable doubt". Such a case seems easy enough to make in many instances, although suing Russian actors from the states might be problematic. Still, that's a problem with the internet in general, and the argument that we shouldn't make a law because it can't always be enforced is pretty much a non starter, as that could apply to many laws already on the books.
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I'm not sure how the copyright material stuff should be worked out. I categorically disagree with the idea you just can't/shouldn't be able to train on copyrighted data.
If it is available to people for consumption then it should be available to feed to an algorithm. Piracy notwithstanding. But I'm not sure why you should have to buy all the media over and over again, even as an individual and that's kind of how we've been doing things for a bit.
I'm skeptical that regulation of the wild west would do more than make the natives restless and the cowboys chuckle.
The cost of trying to 'filter' all the content to not scoop that stuff up probably means that something purpose built (RISC?) to test content for model collapse against a model would be really useful.
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jochance wrote: I categorically disagree with the idea you just can't/shouldn't be able to train on copyrighted data.
The danger in that, particularly where it pertains to code, is what if you indirectly rip from IBM's codebase via AI? Do you really want a behemoth like that coming after you with lawyers?
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Recognizing that how things work and how I think they should are two different wildebeasts...
Of course not, but I somewhat object to the idea that IBM (or anyone else) should own trivial bits of code. I can get onboard with a copyright across the whole of a system's code. But we'd never be on board with the idea someone can "own" singular or smaller groupings of lines in isolation and why would we? You and I have almost definitely typed some of the same lines of code before and we'd never even know it.
In my opinion, the ratio of code worthy of the protections of copyright is just super low. If it were a Far Side cartoon it would be a caveman courtroom drama over Thag copying his neighbor's stick figures from their cave drawings.
Most of the value isn't really in the code itself but whatever it is the code is doing. If you can rewrite that in another language or even the same one then you've effectively 'stolen' the value legitimately. Some of the best bits of problem solving code are just going to be the same (or close) no matter who/where they come from, especially if the problem itself can map to code in straightforward ways.
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jochance wrote: If it were a Far Side cartoon it would be a caveman courtroom drama over Thag copying his neighbor's stick figures from their cave drawings.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Apparently there's a software patent for saving the portion of a screen that will be overlaid by something else so that it can be quickly restored later. Utterly deranged.
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Lol wut? I wonder if that dates to really old ASCII based UI. It's the only thing off the top of my head that makes it make sense.
Hasbro bought a bunch of IP from Atari. Amongst it, I think, was Pac-Man.
This led to a short-lived claim and series of suits which were premised on the idea that any game featuring a protagonist in a maze like environment was a derivative work.
Bold move, Cotton.
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And told me I am great to work with a wonderful person besides.
And now I'm all warm and fuzzy. 
Feels better than a paycheck when it happens.
Though I'll take the money
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It crossed my mind.
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One atta-boy whipes out a whole bunch of oh-sh*ts.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And one castigation, especially if heard by others, can damage a relationship beyond repair.
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In other words; Don't step on the toes of the person whose ass you'll have to kiss tomorrow.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It might turn out that way, but it applies just as much between a manager who needn't fear ever having to work for the person being chewed out. The best boss I ever had put it as, "So hard to build [trust], so easily destroyed."
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No doubt, it definitely feels good! That's why I also use this tactic to motivate employees.
Think about it 
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I mean, I don't think it was done with the intent to motivate me, as I'm pretty motivated to begin with - goes with loving the job. I think I just have a great client. 
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Reminds me of when a guy in the support department for our major development environment at that time sent me a Christmas greeting to his favorite customer: The bug reports from us (for all practical purposes: me) were exemplary: Clearly stated, reduced to the minimum required to reproduce the problem, and with lucid descriptions of how to progress to provoke the bug. If all customers had been like that, he would have been a happy man.
That is the single Christmas greeting I don't think I will ever forget.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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