In this case however, Janelle Shane is actually quite well aware of how different types of AI works. She writes about them, how they work and their various limitations.
Her blog is just focused on cases of them acting oddly, or not how you would expect , or just "funny".
If you have an unutilized asset, there's pressure to get rid of it for the cost savings.
If you sell your asset at a loss, it looks bad for you and the company. Same for paying cancelation fees.
If you legitimately think that you're going to need that space in the future, for example because you think that we'll find an equilibrium between "everyone work from office" and where we are now, and that we're trending towards an organic level of office need/desire higher than we're at now, you might see selling now as the first step to needing to buy again later, likely for higher than you sold for. So you try to "mandate" the equilibrium that you expect so you're not in a position to have to explain why you're holding onto a dead and losing value property.
Executives spend a lot of time talking to people and having meetings. The job selects for people who thrive on and value face to face communication. Naturally, they overestimate how much that social aspect of the job is true for everyone else, so they estimate that the equilibrium will have a lot more office time than other people would.
To make it worse, the more power you have to influence that decision, the more likely you are to have a similar bias.
This isn't an excuse of course, since you can overcome that bias simply by telling teams to discuss what their ideal working arrangement would be, and then running a survey. Now you have data, and you can use it to try to scale offices to what you actually want.
The results were fine, but the work to get there was quite bad quite often.
UX polish is one of those things that just isn't as fun to do, and isn't as rewarding either. So pumping a bunch of money into it is going to go a long way towards making all the other hard work come out better.
Yeah... about that.
This is representative of what I find when I look for anything second hand: https://lansing.craigslist.org/fuo/d/alma-beautiful-barn-wood-accent-table/7646902627.html
Note that this is about an hour drive each way.
This is already a thing we need to deal with, security wise. An application making use of encryption doesn't know the condition of what it views as ram, and it could very well be transferred to a durable medium due to memory pressure. Same thing with hibernation as opposed to suspension.
Depending on your application and how sensitive it is, there are different steps you can take to deal with stuff like that.
With the spiderman games, I almost always swing around instead of using fast travel. I'll do the little tricks and stuff too.
They did such a good job making the basic traversal mechanism satisfying that it's almost weird they included fast travel.
Statistically you're unlikely to have lasting issues as a result of getting them removed. It's a very common outpatient procedure.
When you go in, they'll likely give you nitrous oxide, which will make you relax a little, and they'll let you sit and breathe it for a few minutes. I'd recommend bringing headphones since some nice music will help.
Then they'll give you an IV that will make you not worry and likely barely remember what comes next. Basically a big dose of super valium.
Then they'll give you some pain killers and local anesthetic and remove the teeth.
Your memory and orientation will start to come back in about an hour, by which time hopefully the person who transported you has gotten you home. You will not be able to care for yourself during the intervening time. You will be uncoordinated and of poor judgement.
When you get home it's best to try to sleep until the meds that the dentist gave you wear off, or just watch TV. Take ibuprofen or Tylenol mostly, but an occasional opioid will help since there is some pain that the antiinflammatories don't help with as much, although they take care of most of it.
Soft foods for a few days, and no straws.
All in all, you should be back to normal within two weeks, and you'll get to feel nice and excited to eat something crunchy or chewy.
If you've had pain associated with your wisdom teeth, I'd recommend going forward as scheduled. The pain may have gone away temporarily, but it'll come back.
I let mine go too long, and one of the wisdom teeth cracked open because of pressure on it from another tooth, which also damaged that tooth which was fortunately able to be repaired.
The pain from waiting for outstripped the discomfort of the procedure.
In this case the helicopter came because they blocked a major highway.
A helicopter coordinating police movements during civil unrest is pretty standard anyplace that can afford helicopters. That's definitely not just an American thing.
Do you think France is eschewing using helicopters to coordinate police movements with their current unrest?
Is it? All I saw was a helicopter with decent optics, but nothing particularly special, and cops talking on low bandwidth radios.
Even when we get to actual behavior, we see the cops starting with the assumption that they'll be just telling people to leave and planning routes to do so, before it changes to arresting people for blocking a freeway. They make sure people are notified that they're under arrest early, and the make sure they have adequate transportation before they begin the arrest process.
Like, there's plenty of scary and shitty things cops do, but this wasn't one of them.
To me it's important to ask "what problem is it solving", and "how did we solve that problem in the past", and "what does it cost".
Crypto currency solves the problem of spending being tracked by a third party. We used to handle this by giving each other paper. The new way involves more time, and a stupendous amount of wasted electricity.
Nfts solve the problem of owning a digital asset. We used to solve this by writing down who owned it. The cost is a longer time investment, and a stupendous amount of wasted electricity.
Generative AI is solving the problem of creative content being hard to produce, and expensive. We used to solve this problem by paying people to make things for us, and not making things if you don't have money. The cost is pissing off creatives.
The first two feel like cases where the previous solution wasn't really bad, and so the cost isn't worth it.
The generative AI case feels mixed, because pissing off creatives to make more profit feels shitty, but lowering barriers to entry to creativity doesn't.
I believe their point was that even encrypted messages convey data. So if you have a record of all the encrypted messages, you can still tell who was talking, when they were talking, and approximately how much they said, even if you can't read the messages.
If you wait until someone is gone and then loudly raid their house, you don't need to read their messages to guess the content of what they send to people as soon as they find out. Now you know who else you want to target, despite not being able to read a single message.
This type of metadata analysis is able to reveal a lot about what's being communicated. It's why private communication should be ephemeral, so that only what's directly intercepted can be scrutinized.