Wednesday, May 28
Daily News Stuff 28 May 2025
Millipfennig Edition
Millipfennig Edition
Top Story
- CEO of smartphone company Nothing, Carl Pei, says that we will soon see the operating system and AI take over from traditional applications because large phone makers are clueless and cannot innovate. (9to5 Google)
That... Makes no sense.
Tech News
- Panasonic is ending support for VGA port in its laptops. (Tom's Hardware)
You'll only get USB4 and HDMI.
VGA ports are getting scarce enough that this isn't much of a problem. If you have a projector or something that takes VGA, attach an HDMI adaptor to it and just leave it there.
- Why the original Macintosh screen had a resolution of 512x342 pixels. (512pixels)
Because.
- Asus is planning to market laptops with either free AI or no AI at all because nobody is prepared to pay for it. (The Register)
Someone finally noticed.
- AI may have already peaked. (The Register)
AI needs non-AI data to learn from. If you feed it data generated by AI, it focuses on specific facts to the exclusion of reality - patterns in the learning algorithm reinforce patterns in the previous generation of output - leading to a state called model collapse where it goes insane.
And the internet is flooded with AI slop, so filtering it out at this point is prohibitively expensive.
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Given that you can't copyright AI generated slop, there's a definite motivation to diguise the fact, so these companies don't even realise they're already feeding their models with AI-genreated slop. To say nothing of the other myriad of assumptions underlying the dumpster fire.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 28 2025 08:16 PM (bg2DR)
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@Pixy: I'm sorry to bug you in your comments, but did you ever get any of my E-mails regarding the posting issue?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thursday, May 29 2025 04:41 AM (3NtfN)
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Guys,
What if it is a bad idea to hire a bunch of corporate executives who happen to maybe have family or intelligence contacts in the PRC, at the same time that the PRC is possibly melting down internally because of late states of communist regime failures.
Totalitarian regimes going extra nuts are going to tend to drive the people under the thumb og the regimes a bit nuts from the consequent stress.
And, not only the PRC is in possible trouble from Trump, there is also the EU.
Anyway there is a sensible grand unified theory of industries in the past several years, which is that they are fucked, because they hired a bunch of people who are communists and who are afraid of Trump, and have trouble psychologically adjusting to someone so far outside of their expecations.
Simple, makes sense, fits the data, and since it involves human behavior it is a theory that is probably also wrong.
What if it is a bad idea to hire a bunch of corporate executives who happen to maybe have family or intelligence contacts in the PRC, at the same time that the PRC is possibly melting down internally because of late states of communist regime failures.
Totalitarian regimes going extra nuts are going to tend to drive the people under the thumb og the regimes a bit nuts from the consequent stress.
And, not only the PRC is in possible trouble from Trump, there is also the EU.
Anyway there is a sensible grand unified theory of industries in the past several years, which is that they are fucked, because they hired a bunch of people who are communists and who are afraid of Trump, and have trouble psychologically adjusting to someone so far outside of their expecations.
Simple, makes sense, fits the data, and since it involves human behavior it is a theory that is probably also wrong.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, May 29 2025 10:51 AM (rcPLc)
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Brickmuppet - no, sorry, I can't see anything recent from you.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 29 2025 06:02 PM (PiXy!)
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