Recently I asked for my software developer colleage to be bought a 24 GB Macbook Air instead of 16 GB, and boss came back with "not everyone needs a super-big machine like yours Jamie!".
They seriously spent contractor time investigating whether 16 GB was "enough" to get by for our app development, for a price difference on one laptop (second hand) that was negligible compared with cost of my colleage's time.
When I was using 16 GB I regularly had to watch the spinning beachball waiting for tasks due to memory pressure. Between browsers and VMs, it was nowhere near enough for how I worked. So I knew why I was asking, and I knew the price difference was so small for the company, that it was a no-brainer. I gave justifications but it was seen as over-indulgent.
I mean I also feel like 16GB should be more than enough for what I do (web dev). But bottom line is it isn't. I guess the people making these decisions should try building and running their app locally themselves...
As long as the U.S. government does nothing to address outsourcing, this issue will remain permanent. People often blame AI, but it is a much smaller problem compared to the outsourcing of jobs to countries like India or the Philippines.
It has not learned anything. It just looks in its context window for your answer.
For a fresh conversation it will make the same mistake again. Most likely, there is some randomness and also some context is stashed and shared between conversations by most LLM based assistants.
Hypothetically that might ne true. But current systems do not do online learning. Several recent models have cutoff points that are over 6 months ago.
It is unclear to which extent user data is trained on. And it is is not clear whether one can achieve meaningful improvements to correctness based on training on user data. User data might be inadvertently incorrect and it may also be adversarial, trying to out bad things in on purpose.
I’ve lived in many apartments, and the vents just scatter air randomly i.e. they don't suck air and vent it outside. So getting proper ventilation isn’t really feasible unless you’re willing to open the window every time.
Right, but gas vs not gas remains irrelevant. You're poisoning yourself w/ cooking in those apartments.
The only fix is proper ventilation. Which is unfortunate, because as you note many apartments and homes are not built for it... even in new construction.
Which might be a useful action point for regulatory intervention, rather than something which is much more performative than useful.
