Dr. Bob Bobbers

Tuba tuba tuba. Girl dad.

[NDTechGuy @ND_TechGuy]

@butleriano The Linux kernel is like a bulletproof Toyota engine and transmission. The Linux desktop is a chassis built out of old pallets and plumbers strapping. The tires are off a lawn mower. You steer it with your feet.

Linux fans can't understand why people refuse to use it.

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@Lib_Development I thought DFW was explicitly not banked

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@mattbramanti And "invite" and "ask"

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@cath_menarion More seriously, I suspect a major component of it is your workplace

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@cath_menarion Yes, I often curse when playing OpenTTD, you're really missing out

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@cath_menarion can I get your thoughts on this representation of genAI? I'm onboard with saying it's not actually intelligent but this description seems to be a little underdeveloped.

[Blue-Collar Bible Scholar @blucollarbible]

No. It's artificial, but not intelligent. It's just a natural language interface to an amalgam of an elaborate chatbot, predictive text, macros, a calculator, and google searches these things have all existed for more than 20 years. Heck, Google has been showing the search summary for like 10 years now. The compute just exists to deploy this at scale, now. That's all that's changed. It's absurd to think otherwise.

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@blucollarbible @JLLiedl I'm willing to agree that the capability isn't strictly intelligent (even if colloquially said to be), but I think you're underselling what LLMs combined with appropriate infrastructure can potentially do.

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@blucollarbible @JLLiedl What's your familiarity with the technology?

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@blucollarbible @JLLiedl I agree broadly about the models, but I prefer genAI for the overall set of capabilities we're seeing, especially the agentic products. There's clearly more than just the model behind those products.

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@BadTheoloTakes What is your understanding of the Discalced Carmelite situation?

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@AZinCLE I like the idea of the same families sticking together with their bags for the entire trip

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@mattbramanti What was the ballpark cost, all said and done?

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@nickycantaloupe Send them our way, we don't have family in the area

[Joe @not_so_gratian]

“You’re not an AI influencer, no one elected you” is absolutely sending me because
1. If “AI influencer” means anything, then yes he absolutely is, and
2. He was elected! On live television! We all saw it, there was white smoke and that seagull and everything!

[Ecclesiasticus44 @Ecclesiasticu12]

Do I have to start RCIA if I want to join a Crusade against Silicon Valley?

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@headwaysmatter @atlanticesque "He's Coming Back Again"

Did we miss the Second Coming?

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@SeethingPond @senatorshoshana How many during? One every 6 miles should do the trick.

[Fog @LadiesOfReddit]

@woke8yearold Yes. It also weirdly referred to datacenters as "prisons" and asked how I felt about flying to Northern Virginia to help it "do something funny"

[Menarion @cath_menarion]

Dumb rhetorical moves like this are not the way to win hearts and minds, you should do what I do and stream-of-consciousness post while forgetting key details of arguments instead

[Dr. Bob Bobbers @cmn_jcs]

@cath_menarion Still, it doesn't vitiate your point, which I agree with. I graduated with ~$121K in loans. I went to a school/program that was probably worth it... but still not happy about it.