Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 849Comments 2,447Joined 2 yr. ago

David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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your U Toronto CS degree has been replaced with a colour-in place mat from McDonalds
No, Microsoft did not state ‘strong AI demand’ in Q1 2025 — the FT is wrong
Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’
shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of plagiarism goodness me
Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions
currently reading https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17570
this is PsiQuantum, who are hot prospects to build an actually-quantum computer
no, they have not yet factored 35
but they are seriously planning qubits on a wafer and they think they can make a chip with 1m noisy qubits
anyone know more about this? does that preprint (from last year) pass sniff tests?
(my interest is journalistic, and also the first of these companies to factor 35 gets all the VC money ever)