Some interesting GPT-3 quotes. 1- Economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions. 2-The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 3- When in doubt, try using a bigger hammer.
4-Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. 5-Awe is the sense of wonder you feel when you see something that looks like it’s too big to be true. 6- To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
7- If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 8-The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. 9-The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
10- The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship. 11-The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
12-Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.13- What happens if you get scared half to death twice? 14- To make a mistake is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
15-Time is that quality of nature that keeps everything from happening at once. 16-What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there is nothing to compare it with. 17- Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
18-Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 19-Intuition is a combination of experience and the ability to forget the experience.20-The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
It's interesting that many of these are quotes from elsewhere. Except for #16 and #19, based on a Google search.
Revised applying a style filter so that it is unique: Life can only be lived forwards, but it can be understood backwards. Intuition is experience with the ability to forget the experience. The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
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Is it not strange that for some, the significant events of history occurred in a virtual world? I actually wasn't aware of this posting, rather, I was aware when Linux was announced by Torvalds (which came 15 days later).
Social networking was primarily on Gopher at that time. Perhaps the only reason I was interested in Linus announcement was that I was taking an OS course at that time and we were playing around with Minix. I never was an OS aficionado though.
I left university shortly after and the corporate world. There I was actually cut off from the goings-on in the internet for about a year. It was only when I joined IBM did I got exposed to the WWW.
More GPT-3 jokes. (1) Why did the Anarchist cross the road? To get to the chicken side of the free-range anarchist commune. (2) Why did the Atheist cross the road? There was no chicken, so he didn't. (3) Why did the Catholic cross the road? To get to the other confession.
(4) Why did the Evangelist cross the road? To witness to the chicken. (5) Why did the Hindu cross the road?
To get around the chicken. (6) Why did the Agnostic cross the road? To see whether the chicken was on the other side.
(7) Why did the Jihadist cross the road? To increase the body count on the other side. (8) Why did the physicist cross the road? To see what would happen. (9) Why did the theoretical physicist cross the road?
Because it was his field.
It is indeed strange that so many people in the US ignore the advice of experts. I suspect is that because they've never encountered experts in real life or they aren't aware that other people can be experts.
It is as if they live a life where everyone else seems as intelligent as they believe themselves to be. The Dunning–Kruger effect.
But this of course cannot be true, because they spend their Sundays listening to a pastor for hours. Surely that pastor is an expert at something.
I do recommend that you go through the talk before proceeding in this tweet storm.
The conclusion comes out at the very end. It is the same observation that Christopher Alexander employs in this multiple volume series 'The Nature of Order': amazon.com/Nature-Order-P…
In IT you can be employed for life because the technical debt keeps piling up. The garbage collector analogy is an apt analogy. Nobody wants to do it, so they'll pay people to do it.
The most predictable path to profitability is to create a business collecting other people's garbage. The riskiest business model is to do only the cool things that everyone else wants to do.
Too many startups are fixated only on doing the next cool thing. There's a survival bias that big companies are doing all the cool things. Doing the cool thing is profitable only when you are first to pick the low-hanging fruit.
Here's a map of the US and the delta-variant as of Aug 5. Is there a firewall that can contain the rapid rise of infections coming from the south?
Here's the covid vaccination rate as of July 1. The northeast is bordered by well-vaccinated states (i.e. IL, KY, VA). It will be problematic if there is an outbreak in IN, OH and WV. Reminds me of playing the game of Risk.
So what's going on in FL? It's in the middle of a battle. There's no firewall protecting it from lowvax states like AL. If you look at the map, the intensity of the outbreak in AL is at the border with FL.