I'm working in a large enterprise that is leveraging AI aggressively.
Anecdotally, I'd wager that the modest/incremental but real gains from boring, daily application pale in comparison to the wasted cycles on terrible ideas, disrupted roadmaps due to poor business decision making, and the uncritical injection of insane, LLM generated bullshit into official business documents (fake KPIs for unmeasurable outcomes, references to nonsensical or non-existent process, data-driven decisions backed by hallucinated data. etc.).
I'm deeply skeptical that organizations will see real, lasting gains. I think they'll see some acceleration of copy/paste-adjacent workflows and gains in non-work like generating slide templates, but that's about the limit of it.
As prices rise to meet actual cost, I shudder to think about the idiotic, reactionary ripples it will send through corporate leadership, with everyone scrambling to evade responsibility at the same time and blaming their tech teams for failing to deliver on bullshit/impossible AI initiatives.
TL/DR yeah, I'd also like to see some real numbers.
Do you need a study for when a trading firm reports PnL? Likewise when labs report 80x growth?
There are applied AI cos making 100-400M+ in just a few years of incorporation, does that count as financial gain?
Academia is currently 6-12mo behind the frontier of the industry due to secrecy and publication times, so any "long term" study, even for a year, would be out of date on arrival
When we're talking lab revenue, we're taking what companies are spending on AI.
The question is not whether companies are investing in AI, it's whether they're getting anything in return. Or, whether execs are just as anxious and confused about the story being sold as everyone else, taking the ludicrous amount of capital being put behind it as evidence that there's a "there" there, and hopping on the train out of pure FOMO and hedging, whether they're actually getting anything out of it at all.
If we start to see spend go down because projects fail and companies run the ROI calculation and determine it's not worth it, then ill stand corrected and happily admit that
The potential reader? Stuff like "this blog post lists the 37 steps to install Linux on a TI-89". Or "this page contains letters that Orwell wrote to his cat".
Also a +1 for the solitaire! One suggestion: how about an inverted mode where the piles grow up from the bottom? I think it would be much easier to control while playing on phone
Oh that’s an interesting idea! Thanks Dave, had not think about that!
Regarding playing on phone: one improvement I have in mind, is to have the stock (aka reserve) and waste piles be on the right side. That would make them easier to reach for right-handed players, I guess. What do you think? (The foundations piles would inversely go to the left. They are rarely manipulated, given that one can double-tap a card to automatically send it to its foundation pile.)
Thank you again for the feedback, that’s always very appreciated!
The advice for video 8 when I did this was to buy a quality camcorder for the desired format (note, there's Video 8, Hi 8, and Digital 8, all using the same cassette form factor), in good condition, and capture the S-video output. Results were surprisingly good.
VHS-C can be played in a normal VCR, with an adapter cassette, but the process will otherwise be the same. Excellent VCRs in good condition had gotten expensive last time I checked, though.
When I did it, vhsdecode didn't exist and I know nothing about that, but I'm completely satisfied with the results I achieved.
if they're digital 8, then of course ideally you would get a digital capture.
