Fish are fishy.

I’ve long since decided that these are probably fake, but that doesn’t make them any less entertaining. Keep them coming!

Welcome to markdown

You woke up and chose violence

Aw, you beat me to it! But I formatted it better. So who wins? :P

Fine, I’ll do the math:

60 seconds in a minute (10 × 6)

60 minutes in an hour (9 × 5 × 4 / 3)

24 hours in a day (8 × 3)

7 days in a week (7)

6 weeks (3 × 2)

The bold 3’s cancel out and become × 1, and then it’s easy to see each integer from 1 to 10 appears exactly once when it’s all multiplied together.

Envy versioning is how a lot of smartphones are named. But most of them settled on current year (YY).

They don’t need to. But they know what an engine is, don’t they? Even if they know nothing else about it? It’s the part of the car that goes vroom and makes everything else possible.

Appears empty to me, apparently you have to enable NSFW content for it to show. Just letting everyone know.

Yeah, of course. I think I was misunderstood, which is probably why I got so many downvotes.

Most tasks are possible (and often trivial, given access to the right library) with traditional programming. If it’s possible to do them this way, this is by far the best approach.

Of the things that are not reasonably doable this way, like determining whether a photo is of a bird as in the comic, quite a lot of them are possible nowadays with machine learning (AKA “AI”), and often trivial given access to the right pre-trained model. And in this realm, I would say success rates are very often higher than that. Image recognition is insanely good.

What I’m asking is, what’s a task that’s virtually impossible both with programming and with machine learning?

“Mission critical” tasks which require very high and provable reliability, such as autonomous driving cars, technically fit this question but I think it’s ignoring the point of the question.

And if you were going to mention counterexamples where specially crafted images get mislabeled by AI: this is akin to attacking vulnerabilities in traditional software, which have always existed. If you’re making a low-stakes app or a game, this doesn’t matter.

It’s more logical than Linux’s version numbering system:

Does the major version number (4.x vs 5.x) mean anything?

No. The major version number is incremented when the number after the dot starts looking “too big.” There is literally no other reason.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

That looks like a Boston Dynamics Spot that’s been through a meat grinder

What would be a “nearly impossible” task in this post-AI world? Short of the provably impossible tasks like the busy beaver problem (and even then, you would be able to make an algorithm that covers a subset of the problem space), I really can’t think of anything.

It’s an expression that basically means “oh dear”, or “oh no”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oy_vey

It would have been a play if it was named in the 1960’s.

IMO that’s a stretch, they aren’t even close to homophones.

The “-holic” suffix is regularly used to mean addict. For example, workaholic. Yes, it originated from “alcoholic”, but it’s commonly used now. So the boat’s name just means “water addict”, there’s nothing punny about it.

They’re all great except the last one. The “Cirrhosis” one went over my head but I looked it up, it’s excellent. The last one, “aqua holic”, isn’t a dad joke unless I’m missing something.

Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated! Also, what the hell, since when can tweets be novels?

I want to see the rest of that quoted tweet. There aren’t a lot of ways to finish that sentence that would make sense.