Gerard Roche

Software Developer

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Halt and Catch Fire - Gordon tells the coders about Joe.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Only four more years to robot butlers.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

most people aren’t ready for what’s coming
in the next 5 years, home robots won’t just vacuum, they’ll be world-class chefs, teachers, mechanics, plumbers, and butlers all in one

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Time to unplug from social media for a while. I'll be back. Until then, take it easy and catch you on the flip side.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

"I may have been early, but I'm not wrong." — Michael Burry, The Big Short
It really sucks being early. Really really sucks.
"Without the bitter baby, the sweet ain't as sweet." — Brian, Vanilla Sky

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

How long before they ban open-source ai for "security"? It's coming.

[The Register @TheRegister]

Open-source AI is a global security nightmare waiting to happen, say researchers https://t.co/RwwYzhb0FL

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

@DanielLockyer I tried muting. It worked at first, but it kept breaking down. X fails so bad when it comes filtering, algorithm, and timelines. Hardly anything from people I follow makes it into For you and the following tab doesn't even show all posts. 🤷‍♂️

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Watching developers jump from one AI craze to the next like drug addicts.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

@DanielLockyer Funny. I started this recently too. I've almost fully stopped using For you. Checked on it yesterday. It's awful. But I'm mostly skipping filters now. Just unfollowing and using these:

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

On a long enough time horizon, machines will replace all manual labour.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Feckless devs are feckless no matter what tools they use.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Top Gunner. 🤣🤣😂 That's going on the list.

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

"At our company, we make shitty movies."

The upcoming documentary MOCKBUSTER plunges viewers into the fast-and-loose filmmaking world of The Asylum, the infamous B-movie studio behind Sharknado.

Coming soon.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

It's all smoke and mirrors. All of it.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

No: one person wrote a script to invoke the REST API of this site a million times in a one hour span and there’s no rate limiting (yet)

Worth keeping this in mind before jumping to conclusions. Not just for this site: any site / app where you see stats which you cannot validate

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

@disparutoo Yeah. Second screen content is impossible to watch. I'd love to know the kind of movies they have them watching. But still, their answer to students failing is to just dumb everything down. Unreal.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Their answer to students failing basic questions is to dumb everything down. Clips instead of movies. Portions of books instead of the book. Unreal.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professor Says https://t.co/rAukc9ZfEP

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Monkey see, monkey do.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Hysterical! Claude got caught in a classic trap. To make one test pass another broke. To get that test to pass, the first broke. It stashed and checked older versions. It put print statements in. It created and tested a number of different hypotheses. It finally found a deep and hidden contradiction and fixed it. But it worked really really hard on it.

Reading its comments was eerily familiar to listening to any developer debugging a tough problem. I mean it used phrases like "But that should work!", "Wait, that shouldn't happen!"

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

Ubuntu looks and feels like Windows more and more every day.

[Chris Gore @ThatChrisGore]

I have seen the best comedy of the year. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is the most culturally significant sci-fi action comedy ever made. Both hilarious and frightening -- it's like having the entire internet suddenly jacked into your brain. Do not miss it.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

@nikitabier Communities suck the life out the main timeline. Always have, always will. Accounts probably abuse them for revenue too. Exclude them from rev share and watch it hollow out over night. Channels would be better: /tech in a post sends it there and allows you to use it in filters.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

I love Sam Rockwell. Looking forward to this one.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First clip from Gore Verbinski’s new film ‘GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DONT DIE’

The film follows a man who takes patrons of an LA diner hostage, saying that he is from the future and must save them from AI.

In theaters on February 13.

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

The easy to learn part is spot on. The course/tutorial personalities have turned into ai reviewers. Frankly, so have many personalities; oblivious and caught up in the fomo, the euphoria. Many are just patronising about people "who just don't get it". https://t.co/v2y5ZN7P1U

[Gerard Roche @gerardroche_]

I've been thinking about cutting out news *and* social media, for the exact reasons shared in this blog post by Mert Bulan. The AI euphoria in particular. The commentary is almost always worthless and a waste of your time. I've been unfollowing a few people lately.