Claude is insanely good at grunt-work maintenance coding, which is a fairly formulaic exercise that mostly requires RTFM and simple code changes that look a lot likw the surrounding code. Designing new things from scratch based on human specs is something which Claude still struggles with.

The problem is that it often doesn't get it right the first time. You have to sort of have a conversation and it eventually gets there but if you have no idea what the destination should be like, you can't guide it there.

It's presumably only a matter of time before there's a Wikipedia article for "Brightness war"

The numbers are used as labels or indicators, not for their numerical values, so I think the title is still correct.

The numerical value is a label or indicator for an abstract property of physical sets of things, so I don't see how this is anything different.

AV2's mission is to nip VVC in the bud. They seem to be more or less at parity, and given that, why would anyone want to use a royalty-based codec when they could could use an essentially equivalent free one? There's no massive hurry to implement either - we have existing codecs that are largely good enough for now - this is technology which take 5 to 10 years to fully deploy, as has been seen with other codecs.

This makes the hair rise up on the back of my neck; it reminds me the sub-prime crisis - "they can't all default at once!"

> "they can't all default at once!"

Narrator: As it turns out, they can.

The difference now is instead of banks holding the risk, they are now the safest portion of the loans. The risk is now moved to private credit, so if this bubble bursts, they will panic sell other assets to cover the AI losses, which will crash unrelated sectors as well.

Since the now bad AI loans can't be sold, they need liquidity form elsewhere to cover. AI bursting means other S&P 500 stocks, treasuries, gold, crypto, commercial real estate will all go down with it.

I wonder how much other bad private credit there is. If you want liquid funds, rolling it all over time and time again might stop working... Maybe it is really time to clean it all up.

Yes. And they always start trying to diversify only after they work years forcing everything to be correlated to it...

The .com bubble wasn't like this, but it was a minority between bubbles.

It does look and feel very similar - particularly the risk shedding and assumptions made there

This is really impressive work. I'm not sure how this gets fixed, but it needs to be fixed, and soon.

...or taking them to somewhere where you are legitimately going to use them for a legal purpose, or taking them back from there, or, indeed, doing anything else with them for which there is a legal justification. Provided the knife is securely packaged (in a toolbox, for example) and not available for use as a weapon, it's all good.

Note that all this refers to big knives, not pocket knives with short blades, which are still completely legal to carry on you without needing any justification.

Seems very reasonable to me. As a result, contrary to the myths, and in spite of guns not being available for attacks, we actually have a fairly low rate of actual knife murder; slightly less than that of the US, I believe.

We never see Kyoko speak in the film, which is explained away by Nathan as being because she does not speak English. The implication is that she is an earlier model than Ava, with less intelligence. There is certainly sexism and orientalism in this, but it's Nathan's, and the film is explicitly critiquing it, not endorsing it.

I think this ship has already sailed, with a lot of comments on social media already being AI-generated and posted by bots. Things are only going to get worse as time goes on.

I think the next battleground is going to be over steering the opinions and advice generatd by LLMs and other models by poisoning the training set.

This brings back memories of Adult Swim's "Smart Pipe" spoof infomercial.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ for those who haven't seen it yet.

edit: also, what the hell, YouTube? they've got this new link shorter at https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ that they really want you to use, that forces you to use the browser to watch it instead of the app? so weird.