Try “Sun Microsystems”!

(Link: https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/should-you-use-sqlite)

In which the author clearly says:

> About a year ago I fervently advocated against using SQLite for storing research data, but was since proven absolutely wrong. In this article I explain where and why I was wrong, and share the real reasons why I think we shouldn't use SQLite for research: A lack of skills and time.

From the top of this article:

> Update 29 Aug 2022: There is now an update to this article where I acknowledge problems with the arguments I brought forth below. Please read the update here: Should you use SQLite?

Fulfillment has something to do with form to function, and feelings may be how one is self satisfied!

You can feel great about doing nothing, and feel like shoveling shit when doing what must be done.

I would rather shovel shit that is imperative than feel good about myself, though that’s just another form of self service as the arguments go!

Next point, are Trump supporters who criticized Sanders swinging this in positive light?

It sounds gimmicky, and I guess you have to wrap process in a tenable guise for wider consumption, though exercising ranges of perspectives in group problem solving does get the gears productively turning.

Are you fulfilled?

Or are you wasting what calls to you as your natural destiny?

How much better a curated knowledge distillation can you ask for?

There are multiple repositories with relevant materials, though this one is most evident.

https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Skills aren’t just for LLMs!

Haven’t we devs always dreamt of a common interface to query and introspect foreign APIs? Aren’t we lucky we stumbled into an “AI” that is founded upon human language and not some incomprehensible machine code? It seems to me LLMs only made the need for such a universality attractive. Such as so many circumstances where we will do things for our progeny which we would not (yet should have) done for ourselves !

I’ve felt the same thing about skills files, the first things juniors or onboarders should read to explicitly understand their own jobs!

An intelligent system would not “figure out physics” from a picture. There may be some relevance to a video, though in actuality an embodiment with sensors and actuators would be more realistic.

The difficulty with such “thought experiments” also involves dynamics of needs. Life forms need to feed, protect from the environment and predators, etc. Incentive (necessity) after all is the mother of invention!

I was quite shocked at how well the tiny minimal open source (IBM) model responded as a spiritual advisor to the question of a Jehovah’s Witness!

Btw, I think the “Big Bang” is poor science and as likely as creationism!

Edit: I said I was a Jehovah’s Witness and I would like to know how to deal with my many mistakes in life and I really got an earful! No condescension there!

I’ve seen a lot of intentional communities, the best was run as a company town (with for profit and non profit sides.)

Anyone who thinks you can live with other people without conflict and recourse for resolve is high on hippy juice!

Where there are wills there are ways.

From the second link below: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/a-luxury-survivalist-community-i...