AI is cool but its mainstream appeal right now is an improved search.
All the other forms of generative AI are gimmicks. All classification ai seems to have hit a limit in how useful it can be. Take recognition. It’ll never be 99.999%, and so we can only depend on it so much.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says #AI isn't experimental anymore. She says banks, financial institutions and fintech's are using it everyday in their business.
While i don't want to say completely ignore what she says based on her postion, the fact that she is the Chief "Financial" adviser should atleast raise a few red flags when considering her words on the matter.
[PS:Why does your comment feel like an SEO article? That hastag feels so random?]
That's hardly an objective source. She not only is in the C suite of a genAI company, she's the CFO of OpenAI itself. Everything she has to say is going to be a sales pitch.
I’ve had an unfortunately opposite experience with UEVR. Seems very hard / impossible to get games working correctly without fiddling with the settings for hours. Not sure what I am doing wrong honestly.
>It’s okay to get some sun but just baking under it for hours isn’t great. Shirt off for a run? Great. Swimming for an hour? Great.
That very much depends on your climate and skin type. In many circumstances, that kind of casual exposure can still result in dangerous levels of UV exposure.
I think it depends on your skin tone. Black people can get a lot of sun without burning. White people evolved in a cloudy climate and need less sun for the same health benefit (and also burn very quickly in midday sun in not cloudy climates).
If you maintain a base tan (equivalent to 2 hours in the sun or 10 minutes in a "standard" tanning bed, per week), the melanin is highly photoprotective for any additional UV exposure.
> * Shirt off for a run? Great. Swimming for an hour? Great.*
Tell me you don't live in Australia without telling me.
Doing that in Australia is basically the fast-track path to skin cancer thanks to the hole in the ozone layer.
Going back after ~10 years away I was staggered to experience the feeling of hot chilli peppers being ground into my skin after standing in the sun for ~5 minutes.
Yeah, I'm the same way. I love going outside and getting some exercise, even if it's just a long walk around the neighborhood. I never get anything close to sunburn, because I already have a crude sense of how long I can be out in the sun depending on the season and how exposed it's going to be. Sunscreen is great for those times when sunburn is likely, but under most circumstances, a hat and white long sleeve polyester shirts provide perfectly suitable protection for a few hours outside, even for a pretty light skinned white guy like me.
There's something about exercising outdoors that is incredibly effective at lifting my mood, well beyond the effect of doing the same indoors. For that reason you will find me outside all year round regardless of the weather.
Do not make this about the game. When you talk to him be sure to focus entirely on your concerns about their performance in school and how that will impact their future. But never directly call out the game itself.
In all likelihood he KNOWS that he's not meeting your expectations and knows exactly why, and knows that you know. What good is there to tell them that they're playing too many video games?
Instead, suggest that they spend more time on school and even use funding as a consequence. If they fail, they get X chances, before funding is pulled.
Lastly, I would implore you to figure out why they're more interested in wasting time on roblox. In all likelihood they just haven't found their "thing" yet. It's not your job per se to find it for them, but I would try hard to support whatever path they want to take even if it isn't the one you saw for them.
Does that mean you need to let them waste away on roblox? Of course not. But chances are they're spending so much time on that game because they're unhappy in whatever pursuit they're in now.
I'll chime in and quickly say I played way too much League of Legends for a good decade of my life for some people's taste (sometimes averaging 20-30 hours a week). I'm sure other people will have way outdone me in terms of time commitment, but its still a lot. The thing is, I always got good grades, made a point of being productive, and performed or excelled at my job. Even though from the outside it might have looked like the game was a problem, it really was just a way to fill extra time because I felt like I didn't have other better options to fill that time. All that to say that I agree that the game likely isn't all that important to them, it's more that other things that should feel important don't feel that way either due to the child's lack of perceived consequences or lack of wisdom. But really just my two cents, I'm not going to profess to be an expert or anything.
Echoing CitrusFruits here. I did the same. Lots of LoL (and still do on the mobile version), but I still did extremely well academically and I continue to succeed in my career. I simply choose to fill my extra time with video games because that's what I like.
I don't think video games itself is necessarily the problem, it seems like the kid may be facing some intense external pressures in life that they need to escape to something; the escape just happens to be a specific video game.
I have a sibling (I'm omitting gender to obscure which sibling it could be) that my parents were extremely overprotective over; they had a lot of problems with just life in general. I had them live with me for around four years and covered as much as I could for them while their job was to just graduate from college.
They couldn't do it, and I ramped down my support for them over time and had them eventually move out. They said it was the best thing I ever did for them because it forced them to face life and they eventually got a job, found a place to live on their own, and also get therapy. They were diagnosed with ADHD. After getting appropriate medication, they were able to complete schooling successfully.
Sometimes you have to let the chicks leave the nest; let them fail and fight. Sometimes medication might be required to live a normal life. There's only so much one can do as a parent or a sibling, but in the end, it's their life and you need to let them live it out.
So true. I still play videogames quite a lot, and I have been fortunate to have a successful marriage, family, and carreer (so far). Videogames are my hobby and way to relax. I rarely watch TV, movies, or sports or, honestly, read books. It's mostly video games. That's just what interests me.
May or may not have found their thing, but excessive gaming can be a coping mechanism which doesn’t necessarily have much to do if they found their ”thing” or not.
Depression, anxiety, etc. can be sort of pushed aside by gaming all day. Did that for years. Finding their ”thing” might help with it, but not finding it isn’t probably the direct cause imo.
Yeah but no but yeah but... (to echo "Little Britain").
Love can be tough sometimes. A child (even when they are 20-30-40) and addicted to heroin, a parent doesn't love them by giving them money to score again. Or if your kid (again is 20-30-40 and alcoholic) you do them no good if you give them beer-money daily.
Love is the intention. The means/medium/manner in which the Love is materialized/expressed is a whole other ballgame.
I don't think there's a right or wrong here... I just think that at some point they need to know that you will always love them, will try very hard to support them, but there is a limit to how far you will go.
Not sure where the OP mentioned that, but yes, there should be No conditions on the support and love for one's child. It's part of an unwritten contract one sign's into when one decides to have children.
There should be no conditions on your love for your child, but support? Yes actually. You can actually hurt your child in the long run by supporting them too much. My brother was an absolute fuck up who couldn't get his shit together until my parents were like no more. And then magically he knew how to hold a job and support himself. I have countless stories like this. Sometimes not giving your kid the space to fail is hurting them. Fact is that parents don't live forever and when my aunt died my cousins fell into horrible poverty not knowing how to dp anything on their own. They burned through all the money she left them. That's what fate you leave a child you always have to support.
This is exactly the difference between being "nice" and being "kind". Nice is giving someone what they think they want. Kind is giving them what they actually need. I would frame it as: your parents saying "no more" was a genuine act of support.
You're right, I think I mixed up which comment I was responding to. I stand by my point but will add nuance that I get the sense you already know, that unconditional support doesn't mean unconditional coddling.
Unconditional support doesn't mean protecting your son from failure or consequences in life. It just means you always offer an empathetic ear to help them process their struggles. It may even mean helping the face hard truths, so long as it's being done from a place of love and not disappointment.
I really do get the sense you know this, I'm saying it mostly because others seem to have misunderstood what I meant.
My philosophy is that it is my job to support my child's growth into an adult and that my sole responsibility is to prepare them to survive and thrive in the world they're going to live in after they're an adult. I'm not sure this translates into unconditionally handing them money for school.
Please for the love of god, do not impose conditions on your support and love.
Everything I ever wanted as a teenager was always on a condition I would get good grades. Not 8 out of 10 but perfect 10's. Even then it was never met with any compliments or recognition. It was my job and I was expected to just do it.
I'll be honest here, I don't speak with my mom anymore and barely with my father. If this isn't the relationship you want to have with your kids in the future, please evaluate the impact your demands and expectations could have on them today.
I see your point, and I agree. Maybe I should have said “web development” because while it’s true that the WEB can still be simple, it’s the world of professional development that has gone off the rails.
So much tooling. So many packages. It seems like the essence of web development that we once had is gone, replaced by this enormous tool chain and 3rd party developer hellscape.
When does this stop? I have seen the same problem solved 50 times.
This is seriously depressing. The endless frameworks and endless tooling that is supposed to make things easier is actually adding a whole new layer of learning and difficultly that was never necessary.
> When does this stop? I have seen the same problem solved 50 times.
I don't think it does or will. I think we're all seeing it.
> This is seriously depressing.
Absolutely. I enjoyed those threads/the SSH chat(devzat?) discussions about how all we needed are just SSH and a terminal and a few langs to code with and things have just been perpetually just re-inventing the same stuff over and over and over and making solutions to new problems that arise created from those solutions.
It is seriously depressing.
Now it's just a mountain with AI labels slapped on it.
