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as it’s apparently no longer safe for trans people or C++ developers

Sorry but Rust knowledge is now a hard requirement for visas so you better hit the book

This seems like yet another disconnect between however the fuck science communication has been failing the general public and myself.

Like when you say space I think, fuck yeah, space! Those crisp pictures of Pluto! Pictures of black holes! The amazing JWST data! Gravitational waves detection! Recreating the conditions of the early universe in particle accelerators to unlock the secrets of spacetime! Just most amazing geek shit that makes me as excited as I was when I was 12 looking at the night sky through my cheap-ass telescope.

Who gives a single fuck about sending people up there when we have probes and rovers, true marvels of engineering, feeding us data back here? Did you know Voyager 1, Voyager Fucking ONE, almost 50 years old probe, over 150 AU away from Earth, is STILL SENDING US DATA? We engineered the fuck of that bolt bucket so that even the people that designed it are surprised by how long it lasted. You think a human would last 50 years in the interstellar medium? I don't fucking think so.

We're unlocking the secrets of the universe and confirming theories from decades ago, has there been a more exciting time to be a scientist? Wouldn't you want to run a particle accelerator? Do science on the ISS? Be the engineer behind the next legendary probe that will benefit mankind even after you're gone? If you can't spin this into a narrative of technical progrees and humans being amazing then that's a skill issue, you lack fucking whimsy.

And I don't think there's a person in the world less whimsical than Elon fucking Musk.

The fact that the first thing a new fascist regime does is promise Larry Ellison a bunch of dollaridoos answers a lot of questions asked by my "ORACLE = NAZIS" tshirt

CIDR 2025 is ongoing (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research). It's a very good conference in computer science, specifically database research (an equivalent of a journal for non-CS science). And they have a whole session on LLMs called "LLMs ARE THE NEW NO-SQL"

I didn't have time to read the papers yet, believe me I will, but the abstracts are spicy

We systematically develop benchmarks to study [the problem] and find that standard methods answer no more than 20% of queries correctly, confirming the need for further research in this area.

(Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG, Biswal et al.)

Hey guys and gals, I have a slightly different conclusion, maybe a baseline 20% correctness is a great reason to not invest a second more of research time into this nonsense? Jesus DB Christ.

I'd also like to shoutout CIDR for setting up a separate "DATABASES AND ML" session, which is an actual research direction with interesting results (e.g. query optimizers powered by an ML model achieving better results than conventional query optimizers). At least actual professionals are not conflating ML with LLMs.

What, no, a vocal AfD supporter is a nazi? No waaay

Surprised Pikachu, sarcastically surprised Kirk, etc.

Imagine going on the Pilgrimage and all you bring back is an MBA and some motivational quotes, instant exile

But also, wtf how are they expecting this to stay secret and there being no backlash?

No, they bet on it not mattering and they've been completely right thus far.

That's just the plot of the next Fast&Furious, only they're grilling instead of picnicking

Furious Rex or something

I said "basic management skills", like you might get to run a school board or something.

You're aiming for Secretary of Transportation? Your rail network better be fucking immaculate

Could pain help test AI for sentience?

This question has far too many hypotheticals to even make sense as a question.

You might think that question has far too many hypotheticals to even make sense as a question.

Wow! That's exactly what I was thinking!

But there’s AI hype to propagate.

Ah, alas then

and it looks like a shared account, maybe with his kids or something,

The idea that his kids would like to spend time with him in any capacity, much less sharing an account with a 50 yo dude who has already proven can't build a character for shit is laughable at best

At least PoE builds are a real thing that exists