> It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic...
Why do you want to learn Arabic? Answering this question will point you to which dialect to learn..
Do you want to read Arabic? Learn Modern Standard. Do you want to watch television and movies? Learn Egyptian. Do you want to study Islam and the Quran? Learn Quranic. Do you have a particular interest in a region and speaking with the people of that region? Learn the dialect that is predominately spoken there.
> The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience. They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.
lol, even understanding git is hard for them. Increasingly, software engineers don't want to learn their craft.
I think the root of it is most people coming into the software engineering industry just want a good paying job. They don’t have any real interest in computers or networks or anything else. Whatever keeps the direct deposits coming is what they’ll do. And in their defense, the web dev industry is so large in breadth and depth and the pay/benefits are so generous it’s an attractive career path no matter what your passion is.
The ChatGPT, LLMs, generative AI, and other hyped usecases have been the driving force for Nvidia: it injected huge sums of money into their R&D, which also stimulated the economy as developers ran to build build build in order to keep up with the demand for datacenters, which in turn required more infrastructure building to satiate the thirst and power needs of datacenters, etc. Before, ChatGPT, I recall the hype was blockchain, crypto, and NFTs; and maybe before that, it was "big data."
As the LLM, generative AI, etc. bubble begins to deflate due to investors and companies finding it hard to make profits from those AI usecases, Nvidia needs to pivot. This article indicates that Nvidia is hedging on robotics as the next driving force that will continue to sustain the massive interest in their products. Personally, I don't see how robotics can maintain that same driving force for their products, and investors will find it hard to squeeze profit out of it, and they'll be back to searching for another hype. It's like Nvidia is trying to create a market to justify their products and continued development, similar to what Meta has tried, to spectacular failure, with the Metaverse for their virtual products.
After the frenzy that sustained these compute products transitioned from big data, to crypto, and now, to AI, I'm curious what the next jump will be; I don't think the "physical AI" space of robotics can sustain Nvidia in the way that they're hoping.
The part that is hard for me to parse is there is hype but there is also a significant amount of value being extracted by using LLMs and other products coming from this new wave. Everytime I read opinions like yours it’s hard to make sense of it because there is value in the tooling that exists. It cannot be applied to everything and anything but it does exist.
Comparing AI to crypto doesn't really work due to the utility of AI. If you believe that there haven't been meaningful use cases from the recent generative AI surge, then you might be out of touch.
On the investment side, it's hard to say that since ROIC is still generally up and to the right. As long as that continues, so will investment.
Then biggest gap I see is expected if you look at past trends like mobile and the internet: In the first wave of new tech there's a lot of trying to do the old things in the new way, which often fails or gives incremental improvements at best.
This is why the 'new' companies seem to be doing the best. I've been shocked at so many new AI startups generating millions in revenue so quickly (billions with OpenAI, but that's a special case). It's because they're not shackled to past products, business models, etc.
However, there are plenty of enterprise companies trying to integrate AI into existing workflows and failing miserably. Just like when they tried to retrofit factories with electricity. It's not just plug and play in most cases, you need new workflows, etc. That will take years and there will be plenty more failures.
The level of investment is staggering though, and might we see a crash at some point? Maybe, but likely not for a while since there's still so much white space. The hardest thing with new technologies like this is not to confuse the limits of our imagination with the limits of reality (and that goes both ways).
You're right, they do. And I'm certainly no expert, but I have a more difficult time imagining a tire coming off the wheel intact without some catastrophic "blowout" impeding it's ability to smoothly roll than I do imagining a whole wheel coming off.
Leak, low pressure becomes no pressure, various lateral forces encouraging the tire to fold this way and that under mass, and soon enough the tire alone escapes its tormentor (because it’s being bent and pushed in ways similar to those that originally encouraged it to pop onto the wheel) and scurries away toward an unsuspecting fence.
> This secrecy was maintained long after the end of the war. “Efforts were made to give the message that the uranium came from Canada, as a way of deflecting attention away from the Congo..."
> Under Belgian rule, Congolese workers toiled day and night in the open pit, sending hundreds of tonnes of uranium ore to the US every month.
It’s unlike language because words can fluidly be invented or fall out of use. Emoji is designed by a committee. If it expands to include everything it will just be unusable. Why not just use pictures at that point anyway?
The existence of a committee, even an influential one, for a language does not mean that that committee actually controls that language. In the end, it's always the people who use a language that control it, not just in theory, but also in practice, as evidenced by how many of the Académie Française's proposals for pure French equivalents to English loanwords have failed to supplant the latter. These committees also tend to only concern themselves with low hanging fruit that is easy to point at, such as vocabulary, grammar, and spelling (which is technically speaking external to a language rather than part of it), while barely if at all targeting anything that would require more than an elementary-school-level understanding of language, such as phonetics/phonology, so their commentary also rarely even covers all aspects of the language.
I input Chinese everyday and it’s fairly simple. You input a phonetic sequence and choose the character. I already find it hard to use emoji. It takes forever to scan through the faces to find the one I want, and search online sometimes helps because emoji often have a popular use that isn’t congruent with their “official” purpose.
I don't know if there's a default OS solution that's any good, but I have a file of emoji + their text names and I use bemenu (like dmenu) to filter through it by name and put the selection on my clipboard. I bind this script to super-z on my keyboard in my Sway config. I based it on something[0] I found online that used dmenu or rofi and input the text for you. I adapted it to work better on Wayland by using a Wayland-native menu instead.
Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android all have dedicated emoji keyboards with search readily accessible. All Apple keyboard (software or hardware) from the last… 5(?) years have a button to bring it up!
Though in Linux there isn't only one window manager. This guy/woman/? chose to use his specific window manager (probably a tiling one), but he/she/xe could also use GNOME if he/she/xe wanted to. GNOME does have an emoji keyboard.
btw, this is much cooler than GNOME or whatever...
> They chose to use their specific window manager (probably a tiling one), but they could also use GNOME if they wanted to. GNOME does have an emoji keyboard.
There you go! Made it much easier for you and the reader!
But really,
> I'm not sure which window manager they're using, but GNOME does have an emoji keyboard
[0]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/email-...
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[2]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ne...