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I certainly don't do any punching. My weak floppy little arms were made for operating a keyboard.

Yes that's what I'm thinking, some modernised physical data storage technique.

Punch cards? Stored correctly there's no reason they couldn't last many human lifetimes. But... Yeah it'll take a while to encode everything.

I would have thought that with modern technology we could come up with something like punch cards but more space/time efficient. Physical storage of data - only one write cycle of course, but extremely durable. Even just the same system as punch cards but using tiny, tiny holes very close together on a roll of paper. Could be punched or read by a machine at high speed (compared to a regular punch card, presumably still Ber slow compared to flash media).

MBAs should be renamed Master's in Bullshit Administration.

Check the other comment thread from the parent, there's a discussion which goes into it.

It's an interesting point. If I need to confirm that I'm right about something I will usually go to the internet, but I'm still at the behest of my reading comprehension skills. These are perfectly good, but the more arcane the topic, and the more obtuse the language used in whatever resource I consult, the more likely I am to make a mistake. The resource I choose also has a dramatic impact - e.g. if it's the Daily Mail vs the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I might be able to identify bias, but I also might not, especially if it conforms to my own. We expect a lot of LLMs that we cannot reliably do ourselves.

LLMs are just that - Ms, that is to say, models. And trite as it is to say - "all models are wrong, some models are useful". We certainly shouldn't expect LLMs to do things that they cannot do (i.e. possess knowledge), but it's clear that they can do other things surprisingly effectively, particularly providing coding support to developers. Whether they do enough to warrant their energy/other costs remains to be seen.

My model has 100% recall and 50% precision, not bad eh?

But - that model would not have 99.9% accuracy.

Yeah I really can't imagine any scenario where I want my mouse to... Help me prompt AI??

No gambling, one of the rules.

Takes a long time to close sales like that... Although I suspect paying above market rate for things would help grease the wheels.

Recycle the garbage that comes out... Still more garbage out.