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btaf45 , to news in A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy

If you’re 40 or under it isn’t worth saving.

That is precisely the best time to save and invest.

btaf45 , to technology in Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

It sounds awful. The draw of notepad is its simplicity. I wish software companies would stop ruining their good versions of popular software.

btaf45 , to technology in Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?

Steam didn’t refund any of the cost of the games their DRM rendered inoperable on my Windows 7 PC. They happily took my money 1 week before dropping support.

btaf45 , to technology in Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

It is ridiculous that Steam won’t let you play your games you payed for outside of steam. Games that you’ve played for years on Windows 7 suddenly no longer play. Steam is like a DRM system that suddenly stops working and makes all the stuff you bought worthless.

btaf45 , to technology in How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire

You can thank George Bush, the previous terrible choice of most Convicted Rapist Treason Trump voters, for the process that led Hamas to power in Gaza.

btaf45 , to technology in How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem

Each of them is tuned by the input data, which is a long and expensive process.

But surely the history of how this data is tuned/created is kept track of. If you want to know how a specific value is created you ideally should be able to reference the entire history of how it changed over time.

I’m not saying this would be easy, but you could have people whose entire job is to understand this and with unlimited amounts of time to do so if it is important enough. And it seems like it would be important enough and such people would be very valuable.

Now that AI is first taking off is exactly the time to establish the precedent that we do not let it escape the understanding and control of humans.

btaf45 , to technology in How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem

the algorithm chooses itself what feature is relevant when making decisions.

Can’t you determine how and why that choice is made?

The problem is that those features are almost impossible to decript since they are often list of numbers.

What if you had a team of people whose only job was to understand this? After awhile they would get better and better at it.

btaf45 , to technology in How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem

This may be a dumb question, but why can’t you set the debugger on and step thru the program to see why it branches the way it does?

btaf45 , to news in House Speaker Mike Johnson says God will punish “depraved” U.S. because more teens identify as LGBTQ+

Hey Mike, you are the depravity. You outed yourself as an anti-American neofascist when you tried to overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.

btaf45 , to technology in Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act

what I think is the best text editor

ed?

btaf45 , to news in IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride

Maybe he as some assets the South African government can nationalize.

btaf45 , to world in Turkey's Erdogan labels Israel a 'terror state', slams its backers in West

This is just Turkey’s dictator praising Gaza’s dictatorship whose chief victim is that Gazan population.

[We will never shy away from voicing the truth that Hamas members protecting their lands, honour, and lives ]

Hamas is not the the owners of Gaza dipshit. They are the oppressors of Gaza. You could have tried to get Hamas to leave Gaza and let the hostages go, and you could have sent ships to evacuate Gazans. You didn’t do either one.

btaf45 , to world in IDF says it will help evacuate babies from Shifa Hospital tomorrow, Hamas losing control of north Gaza

Instead of telling Gazans to all go south, why don’t they set up some safe zones in Northern areas controlled by the IDF? They could bring in full supplies of everything, let people leave Gaza, and/or allow them to go to the west bank if they choose.

btaf45 OP , to world in Germany to make military 'the backbone' of Europe's defense

Those uniforms remind me of the WWII uniforms. The German military certainly has some historical credibility.

btaf45 OP , to world in Australia offers climate refuge to Tuvalu citizens

Australia has offered refuge to citizens of Tuvalu because of the catastrophic impacts of climate change, in a landmark new pact.

An entire nation will be swallowed up by climate change. And will have to mass evacuate to another country. This looks like the future.

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