Software: Everyone is running Linux?
I often hear that Windows is terrible, everyone is using Linux. Except just 4% of PC users use Linux. Data tells a different story.
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Public health Reminder: 4 years since UCL’s Neil Ferguson made a fool of himself
4 years since the architect of lockdown broke his own lockdown rules, went off and had a fling, while recovering from Covid-19.
Will ChatGPT replace blogs and bloggers?
Is ChatGPT usage resulting in the end of blogs? The data suggests this is happening.
Software: “The Mythical Man Month” – 1970s versus 2024
If you do software or are interested in organizational design, this is a good review of some key concepts: The “10x engineer:” 50 years ago and now – by Gergely…
Software: White House says stop using C/C++
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ | InfoWorld But will this halt climate change and save us from the ClimateCrisis?
AI: Google admits Gemini AI was tuned to produce nonsense
How many other things have they tuned?
AI runs off the rails, threatens users
ChatGPT ‘off the rails’ as AI starts ‘threatening users’ who worry chatbot is ‘sentient’ – Daily Star Beginning spouting nonsense and telling users that “AI is in the room” with…
AI continues to skew results
I repeated my previous experiment of asking Microsoft Copilot to draw images of airline pilots, and then college students. See the results. AI biased much?
Software: “Learn to Code” is so last year, CS degrees might no longer be in demand
AI code generators may replace a lot of software developers. In theory.