“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Abraham Lincoln
Internet Explorer 3, released one day and 29 years ago, was the first browser to (however partially and imperfectly) support the then-new language of CSS.
Who else remembers the CSS showcase Microsoft published that year? For me, it changed everything.
Listen up, designers. Travel the globe across 5,000 years of history via 490,000+ high-res works of art — all of them free for you to use, courtesy of the NY Met.
Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*
It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....
(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)
Hat tip: Dave Martin
“What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.”
Everything old is new.
@npub1yynt...x8va, Friday, July 2, 1937: Hitler honors USA tech co IBM president Thomas J. Watson for helping the Reich hunt down “undesirables.”
