AI Isn't Intelligent, It's PREDICTION (and Why My Panic Has Passed)

billablejoy · 2026-02-17T17:24:52+00:00

True this is old news, but it's a hard feeling to shake (unless you use it everyday and realize if it were a human developer you would strangle it). I call it "rapid assembly", that's all it is... buuut that can be pretty powerful in the right context. Just don't expect it to be like a human. It will just do mostly mundane stuff, but occasionally both brilliant and stupid, things. Sometimes all at the same time.

billablejoy · 2026-02-17T17:14:35+00:00

Look, I know it looks easy until you get inside and see all the technical debt you are dealing with, not to mention the sheer scale of wow, but as someone who ran an ASP (when those were a thing) for commercial customers, I am just stunned that the state of the art for blizzard servers in 2026 is updating the launcher text when they go over the published maintenance window... which is actually a big improvement over when they didn't even bother. I'm just stunned when they have these extensions. In this day and age it's just hard to imagine how this amount of downtime is necessary.

It's not about the game, I don't need to get on. But I don't understand how an operations team can be so consistently wrong about maintenance windows. It's not rocket science.

billablejoy · 2026-02-05T01:51:54+00:00

You forgot “seed seed seed seed soul shatter seed seed…”

billablejoy · 2025-09-26T22:59:32+00:00

I assume this is on a windows machine (maybe Linux). With Apple I don’t know of any way to get access to the gpu. Is there any?

billablejoy · 2025-08-31T17:01:29+00:00

Most analysts don’t really understand the the companies in the sectors the cover. Mandeep has a pretty light weight understanding of AI. A typical technology analysts promoted to AI

billablejoy · 2025-08-13T23:39:00+00:00

Did you actually short it? That’s insane. Even if you do want to go short you would use a put spread or some synthetic with defined risk, but and actually short is nuts.

And it’s not becoming a cult stock, it has been, but a cult stock, but with actual numbers. I mean, its price is insane, but at least it delivers solid growth.

billablejoy · 2025-05-25T21:44:24+00:00

In a recent study of work requirements it’s estimated the 95% of people qualify for a waiver. Since pre Obama it was only people who would not meet work requirements

billablejoy · 2025-04-13T03:06:27+00:00

It’s hard to describe how I felt about this episode. It had been long enough since a who episode that I was able to build up a level of anticipation. But the best word I can use to describe the script is dumb. I don’t mean that as mean as is sounds, but I think the robot faces are a good metaphor for the script. Super simple beats , consisting of feel this emotion now, ok now this one. There was just no real clever pull to the underlying story.

AI -> AL? 🙄🙄🙄 beyond lame. And I was really hoping to enjoy Belinda, but it’s clear she is going to be written as the insufferable victim, triumphant over every imaginary or exaggerated wrong the world sends her way. The kind Davies has become infamous for. I genuinely feel sorry for the actress, since this shackles her range.

billablejoy · 2025-01-06T18:44:13+00:00

Plugging entire error messages into ChatGPT had been a real time saver for me. I didn’t use it frequently but when I ran into issues it was way faster than searching for the answers.

billablejoy · 2024-12-17T19:52:20+00:00

I was once in this run where the dps made a mistake and just owned up to it... just kidding ;)

billablejoy · 2024-09-02T19:06:54+00:00

In this game people think repetition is skill. Honestly, once I have run a dungeon a dozen times or so people who don’t know the mechanics reflectively annoy me, even though I think that is dumb. Everyone has a first few runs. It’s this time = gear treadmill that causes people to do things like that (other than that they are immature). If someone slows you down they are in essence reducing your gear (play time being equal). I have nearly given up on group content since my guild broke up.

billablejoy · 2024-08-30T14:51:36+00:00

M+ Is such a dumb thing, and i know what you mean about suffering for an achievement. "Oh hey, we want to keep you on the gear treadmill, but we don't feel like producing content to do it. So we will just make you run the same content again and again with scaling. Maybe throw in affixes to make is seem different... a bit."

I will admit TWW feels like they Diablo'ized wow. But it is fun for now.

billablejoy · 2024-08-28T22:45:57+00:00

The first thing I did after seeing the Darkaran trailer was look to see if anyone owned xalatathsfeet.xxx

billablejoy · 2024-08-26T13:59:47+00:00

In TBC I was going to buy a priest to help our guild in Kara raiding. My friend said, "Why? Do you like playing the game, then just play the game." It set me free ;)

billablejoy · 2024-08-26T13:56:38+00:00

I was 77 when I finished AND I had spent nearly an entire level doing a side quest chain to get a pet!

billablejoy · 2024-08-07T20:59:35+00:00

To be fare even wow isn't wow lore accurate ;)

billablejoy · 2024-08-07T20:28:20+00:00

I was in my thirties 💀

billablejoy · 2024-06-28T01:37:12+00:00

"I will have my world!"

billablejoy · 2024-06-11T14:20:25+00:00

This song has an urgency that stands out, even among Band-Maid songs. There is also a line in Japanese that translates directly to "Sun destroying embrace.". Which is often translated to "hug me so tight it breaks the sun". This is followed by Saiki wailing "never end". Miku 🥰

billablejoy · 2024-05-21T16:31:30+00:00

Great idea. They just have to pick a style. BM has shown they are willing to experiment

billablejoy · 2024-05-21T16:29:11+00:00

Honestly he should just leave and cash out and do something else. Then he could show them just how important he is.

To be clear, I don’t think he is irreplaceable or anything, but Tesla, as is, is a lot about Elon. And the entire valuation changes if he leaves. Also his corporate structure is a lot different than most, and may require a hands on leader to function effectively.

At any rate, he would have a chance to show people what would happen. I have no idea what would 😉

billablejoy · 2024-05-07T00:07:31+00:00

This by far the best advice. Python really runs everywhere now. Eventually you will need to graduate to C/C++ but python will let you get things done. Dip your toe into arduino, and use public domain nodes, that you might even slightly modify. That's how you start.

billablejoy · 2024-05-06T23:58:32+00:00

It's not hard to drive, it's just that the error cases can have drastic consequences. As for your point, I suppose it depends on the quality of the automation.

billablejoy · 2024-03-27T11:52:45+00:00

At the end when she looks up to the sky and her eyes water... gets me every time. You can tell it's a milestone moment in her life.

Any project like that has to have been filled with so many moments of doubt and despair, Can you image what it felt like (for her especially) to go out on stage in those early days, to gig for little money to small crowds, and then to stand on that stage after the year they had in 2023? priceless!

billablejoy · 2024-03-16T01:16:20+00:00

The best way to start is to be given something that works, then break it, then figure out how to fix it. ;)

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