I get that a company the size of Apple or Microsoft are going to want to have syndication deals. It should not be integrated so directly with the OS though, and should absolutely be removable (really, out of principle it shouldn't be installed by default).

If you know the core concepts of one, you are probably 80% good to go with the other.

The least creative work will disappear first: stock photos, for example. The "grunt work" of taking generic photos of attractive everyday people can be automated, but any steps after that still require manual art direction. Even in a world where you can automate the entire process from concept to post, there will still be ad campaigns that require a public figure or truly original work.

"Create a 30 second TV ad for a local car dealership in the style of every local car dealership add from the past 20 years" vs. "Coke's Wassup Commercial". These are very different budgets, most local car dealerships aren't looking for originality, they just want something cheap and effective.

What does this mean for people who make their living from making local TV ads? I'm not sure, but at least one of those people involved in setting the tone and direction on the local commercial could be "keyword engineering" to get good results. The rest are probably working in a very competitive market that only has jobs available for the most talented in the field.

How would auto manufacturers manage their cars' fuel systems if every station could potentially have a different octane booster? How do all those cars switch over to an entirely different formula when a bunch of those octane boosters are found to have issues?

Personally, I think the industry needs an R&D consortium to look into better technologies that all shareholders can use. Federal input and regulation, but the companies are free to work together to find better solutions for the environment and our health.

It’s just really hard to get behind an employer that pays their contractors more than their employees, and has such a strict raise policy. I’m not looking to make a ton of money, just a fair/average compensation and recognition for going the extra mile.

I don’t know what it takes to get a department to drop the GS scale (or at the very least match raises with inflation), but if it were to ever happen, I’m sure they would be flooded with talented and ambitious applications.

Every talented person I know working in government with a GS scale has left their employer because they were not being compensated fairly.

Laravel is a great way for a small team to get an application up and running quickly and really shouldn't be overlooked.

"Clippy, create a table called "users" with the fields: first name, last name, bio."

Edit: From the article:

  > To train the AI system, Ma inserted simulated signals into actual data, allowing the autoencoder to learn what to look for. Then the researchers fed the AI more than 150 terabytes of data from 480 observing hours at the Green Bank Telescope.