The average age for first childbirth is 29.6 years old. It's absolutely the norm to have kids at an older age.
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Just because code is open source doesn't mean shit code can't be called out. Shit code is shit code.
Don't worry, cult membership is flexible.
That's how it works. It has a fairly profound psychological effect on people where they can easily be convinced that it's beneficial, when the actual reality is that we have absolutely no evidence of that being the case. On the contrary, we have a growing body of evidence that it has a great deal of negative effects, like decreasing productivity, cognitive decline, widespread social issues arising from their use, and more.
As to your point, they haven't actually fundamentally changed at all since the original transformer model paper was written in 2017. The only thing that has changed over time is the number of parameters and the datasets (that is, vacuuming up and stealing all content on the internet). But it does the same thing as it's always done, which is simply generate the next token by taking the token with the greatest probability across a probability distribution created from the combination of the tokens it's seen before. Note that this is simply a maximum, so if all of the tokens in the distribution have a low probability, it will still take the max, resulting in hallucinations, fabrications, illogical conclusions, and so forth. That has not, and quite simply cannot, change. You would need a fundamentally different technology for that, and quite frankly, one that exists purely in the realm of science fiction.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying this is a good thing?
Because people want to be free from being bombarded by AI slop.
What are you talking about? What citations?
I certainly wouldn't call that "well-traveled" and bragging is kinda dumb in general, but it is worth pointing out that the US does have a huge diversity of different cultures, demographics, and environs in different states (so much so that they can often feel like different countries), so it's perhaps not as quaint as it sounds. It's not like traveling within a European country. Much closer to traveling within the EU.
Still would never call that being "well-traveled", though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
Some reading material for you. Sum types allow for proper, compiler-enforced error handling and optionality rather than the unprincipled free for all that is exceptions and nullability.
Tony Hoare, the person that originally introduced nulls to the programming world, is oft-quoted as calling nulls the "billion dollar mistake". Here's the talk: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/.
Nulls are absolutely pervasive in Java and NPEs are not avoidable. At minimum, most of the ecosystem uses nulls, so most any library will have nulls as part of its interface. Null is an inhabitant of every type in Java (even Optional, ironically). You cannot escape it. It's a fundamental flaw in the design of the language.
Btw, you also can't escape it in Typescript, either, due to unsoundness of the type system and the fact that many types for libraries are bolted on to the original JS implementation and may possibly be inaccurate. But still, it's a lot less likely than Java.
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It certainly doesn't devalue real art by real people, but it clearly is doing serious harm to humanity as a whole. Even for those of us that refuse to use it, it's becoming harder and harder to navigate the world. The internet is absolutely overflowing with slop to the point at which you have no idea what's real or not anymore. Open source maintainers are being overrun with slop "contributions", leading to tons of churn and burnout. We are, at this very moment, existing in the shattered remains of the internet. And people that do use these things are experiencing marked detrimental effects, from delusional behavior to cognitive and neurological impacts.
The intersection of this technology and human psychology is something insidious and devasting. We are like a people exposed to a brand new virus for the first time, with no natural defense against the infection.