If you spot any, please write to complaints @ my domain. (And if you want to say nice things, write to compliments @ my domain :).

- I don't buy the game, I pay a cloud rental fee and can play so long as my membership is active? Unlimited hours?

- I buy the game, but don't have to use up hard drive space?

- So long as I have an Xbox streaming account, I could stream on my PC? A tablet?

Can still spin a tale with whatever adjusted sense of self you want without invoking mythical creatures that existed, died off, resurrected, and genetically spliced into humans for space travel.

A long time since I read the book, but I thought the human AIs claimed they could describe a consciousness-optional intelligence, but had not made one. Ergo the meat-puppet controller would have been a conscious AI.

Happy to be corrected on this point because it could partially address what seemed like an oddity to me. There exist super intelligent AIs, but on this incredibly important mission which could define continuing human existence - none of them are in control because AIs make humans uncomfortable. Instead, the AIs secretly operate a meat-puppet predator whose existence makes humans uncomfortable.

All of the characters are weird, super humans with their own problems. At one point, the vampire freaks out and attacks the protagonist. Which leads to some plot ramifications. If you are to maintain that structure, you require a teammate to lose their cool at a pivotal moment when it has been established that the team leader was better and more logical than everyone else.

The in-universe vampire explanation gives a rationale for the scenario. This does not hold if you trivially swap out for a different character, so some kind of hard-wired trigger is required.

  ...According to the advice of February 7, 2019 issued by the Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs (CADA)1, engaged by you, the files in question would constitute communicable administrative documents, insofar as they are developed and held by the Rodin Museum as part of its public service mission. In addition, CADA rejected various arguments in favor of of their non-communicability2. It also indicates that these documents are reusable, including commercially, but that the museum can establish a pricing for the reuse of its three-dimensional scans.

The horror stories I have seen are of the type: some big artifact was getting pulled in a loop, causing TBs of network traffic or access keys were leaked and malware spun up 1000 xxxlarge instances.

The ability to stop the bleeding is the bare minimum people want. Not, "Well, you made a boo-boo so now you lost everything."

I know nothing of hardware, but as far as I know, my keyboard and mouse work everywhere because there is a formal specification on how human interface devices are supposed to operate.

There are probably good (and anti-competitive) reasons for why hardware still needs bespoke drivers, but from the outside, it seems like something we could address. I have no interest in loading your artisanally crafted Wifi driver.

Obviously a real practical bummer, just wondering if there is an obvious escape hatch for the professional ne'er do well who would easily circumvent the intent.

  XGBoost’s search optimized accuracy, and afterwards I also compare by area under the curve. Which means the “fourteen of fourteen on AUC” is against a boosting model that was not tuned for that metric. Tuning it for AUC would probably improve it there; I did not measure that.

I also did not get why Xgboost had to count its training time for the inference. You only train once. I guess in some scenario, where someone says, "I need the best model now, you have five minutes on this singular dataset", but I have never been in that situation.

I would feel better if scripts were released, because I am fairly dubious. I take it as a given that a tabular model has been pre-trained on all of the public benchmark datasets, but that is what it is.

The slop was so meandering, I am not sure what is truth or not.

You otherwise get accustomed to some wishy-washy blobs of data that get passed around and find it normal. Maybe you include some ad hoc guard rails here and there, which catches the egregious errors, but there is always some lingering uncertainty. Some string that should have been an int, missing key here, the object which never had the validation check, etc

It is like unit-testing - more-up front work, but I could never go back to a world where I did not get these automated assurances. Sadly, I am a grug-brain which could only feel the lesson from personal experience.

Regardless, it still comes down to: things are bad and unaffordable. The powers that be keep claiming that AI is about to take our jobs and end the world. Why wouldn't people be mad?