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Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading

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Professional (as in they earn money, not skill level) Xers fuck everything up. (here, X is an arbitrary verb or a brand name)

My anecdotes: Youtube was good before professional youtubers became a thing (systemic problem, people are not the issue but the environment which breeds them), now it's attention economy and or one topic discussed for 50 minutes (a video explaining the same topic with the same intensity from 10 years ago is 2 minutes long)

Gamers were problematic but harmless, professional gamers caused betting pandemic (sponsored content).

Streamers were funny, professional streamers are sexy/deadly-sells-to-children.

I liked it when people were sharing stuff online because they were bored, and not because they were hungry.

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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

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We found a mathematical function which is good enough to be called universal estimator. Even better, our current computation technology is enough to implement these ideas algorithmically and compute in real-enough time. This will allow us to "do first, figure out later" rather than "hard work first, fruits later" approach.

It's just not magic, so yea we have to find where it makes sense to deploy it and where it doesn't.

Anecdote: I wasn't really going for accuracy (we were looking at hidden layers more than the output layer) but the small model I was working with was able to predict cell state (sick with the thing I'm looking for?) from simple RNA assay data with 80-95% accuracy even with all the weird and bizarre regularization functions we were throwing at it.

For some things, it makes sense. For others, we need more research. For the remaining, this is an apple we need oranges.

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Educate the working class, instead of making them ignorant on purpose so they won't revolt, so when they seize the means of production they think greener then?