Posts by tealeg@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #AtI4TjOrp4I9NCuJUG by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-04-20T18:23:13Z
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@dibi58 I’m guessing this is why the AI fans are on Trump’s side - confidently wrong is the right answer as far as they’re concerned. Never let reality come between you and a lousy, greasy buck, grifted off the back of those who will suffer the long term consequences.
(DIR) Post #Au5wLAIRt1aYfrUuxM by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-14T19:46:28Z
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Hmm 9front.org is down right now. #9front
(DIR) Post #AuFmDkwmYR0CiJaoZk by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-19T13:18:03Z
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@prahou
(DIR) Post #AuXl8odU4i4zhGaIvg by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T05:36:39Z
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If you’re waiting for AI to just go away, history suggests it won’t. Perhaps the money runs out before we get too much further, but well quantised models will be sustainably priced and, where there’s actual value, they’ll continue to be used. There will be companies that continue to invest in AI. Google and others were using AI techniques heavily before “genAI” arrived on the scene, and they’ll use it more. We’ll go through this all again, when investors recover.
(DIR) Post #AuXqgCZiadDFGoYuqu by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T05:58:34Z
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If you’re thinking the current regime in the US will collapse and take the oligarchs with it, well, it might. It’s probably not as easy as just waiting for the next election. American belief in its own mythology doesn’t make them any more resilient to this than Russia. Even if it all collapses, the technology and the idea are “out of the bag”, and Chinese and European investors won’t walk away from the idea completely.Technology changes the world. Often not in the way the inventors envisage.
(DIR) Post #AuXqgDlo9ATeybE5Kq by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T06:08:24Z
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If AI ever succeeds in replacing human labour, the economic model that we live by today will have to change. Mass unemployment means no customers to sustain the market economy. It also means mass unrest.If it doesn’t, we’re already in the era where climate change is starting to bite us. Instead of tackling it, we’re doubling down on damaging the planet. The race is on: find a technological, profitable solution, or die trying. There are other conclusions that don’t bear consideration :-(
(DIR) Post #AuXqgEsE2nCmOnEiye by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T06:24:24Z
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Again, looking to history. The capitalist boom in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, eventually gave rise to communism, and its demonisation - with fascism as its result. Later the watered down form of socialism flourished, but eventually met with the current path through Reagan, Thatcher and Helmut Kohl all the way to MAGA, Reform and the AfD .
(DIR) Post #AuXqgFSjr2PcE2JstE by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T06:26:06Z
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The more “centrist” view today is that universal basic income might be a way to sustain economies in the face of the unsustainable wealth gaps that already exist, and are increasing. I doubt there’s any more desire, from the wealthy, to implement and sustain that model than there was appetite for communism.
(DIR) Post #AuXqgG65Ujt6C4jJDs by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-05-28T06:36:00Z
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Still, I must stress: I don’t think we’re actually there yet. I don’t think AGI is here or even near. But, really, don’t expect a great reset to how things were.
(DIR) Post #AvQw4Vx7IBPbyBc6oC by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-06-23T20:30:06Z
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India playing cricket in England is sort of romantic for me. I'm old enough, just, to remember the wordl cup in 83. Kapil Dev and the rest. One of those transformative moments. Don't get me wrong, I want England to win, I'm English after all. Still there's something there.
(DIR) Post #AvQw4WrptImYo69PDU by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-06-23T20:32:21Z
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.. and I'm not yes sold on T20, but I'm trying. Kent seem to be a better T20 team than a first class cricket team right now, and I guess that's because that's where the money is. So, I guess I have to adapt.
(DIR) Post #AvXtyMtUo4vlKVPo1I by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-06-27T05:24:58Z
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@ricci @shriramk I actually have an exercise, I use in team-lead interviews, where they have to do a review of a perfectly functioning Go program, which has been entirely written in the style of a bash script. I wish I could get positional arguments there, just to complete the job. Sadly adjusting the language is somewhat more involved than in Racket ;-).
(DIR) Post #AvaKYpMdQ4inB30hLk by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-06-28T09:32:25Z
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@dibi58 studying economics would not lead you to the same conclusions as Trump.
(DIR) Post #Awj6ehIif6XaTSWE0e by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-01T12:25:36Z
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@shriramk Lulu delivered it swiftly (from France) and it's of very good quality.Lovely to have hard copy!#PLAI #Programming #programming_languages #Racket
(DIR) Post #AxITDNEWGOwhtX5kdE by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-18T07:10:58Z
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@shmok Mastodon in general has a European bias, I'd say. I wouldn't think that *BSD is any more prevalent in Europe than it is in North America. I couldn't possibly comment about the rest of the world.
(DIR) Post #AxKULuvtLFeazzw7Ie by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-19T11:49:34Z
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@shmok I think that’s a questionable assertion. There are topics that attract undue government and police scrutiny, but that is a global problem. Nor can I link behaviour of individual instance owners to governments. There’s a huge amount of hypocrisy around this very subject - everyone seems to cry that their rights are being curtailed if they’re not allowed to step on the rights of others. (Not an accusation to you, as observation about discourse on this subject in general)
(DIR) Post #AxKbVWc1Jq9c94Abq4 by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-19T14:40:37Z
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@shmok hard to draw comparisons without knowing your frame of reference. In general, American society is more prone to pearl-clutching and claiming injury by offence. Most Mastodon admins want to preserve their spaces for polite discourse and harmony - they likely restrict what they allow, especially with regards to marginalised groups. You can find mastodon instances that allow all out attacks. Run your own, with your rules. Truth social is a mastodon instance. Just not federated usually.
(DIR) Post #AxKe1EmnKd0i27SWwa by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-19T15:28:07Z
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@shmok there is no single rule for mastodon. Every instance sets its own rules and every instance can choose what they federate or not. You're ultimately talking about decisions made by individuals and that has very little to do we prevailing norms in Europe. Sorry.
(DIR) Post #AxaGhr8vp2scmrxgQK by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-08-27T04:33:23Z
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@futurebird not your intent, I’m sure, but you reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/UxXW6tfl2Y0?si=Y-3fGglRqTtP5DOv
(DIR) Post #AzUt3m3V5kpvw43GbY by tealeg@mastodon.online
2025-10-22T20:45:44Z
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I asked an AI for recommendations for novel programming languages to learn in 2025 and it came up with:- Rust (yawn - did that in 2014)- Go (c'mon now, did that in 2009)- Clojure (... 2008)- Elixir (...2018)- Prolog (...1996)All of which underlines, guessing the value of online content by weight is no way to build an intelligence!