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The unintended consequence of this is well captured in Bainbridge's piece from 1983 'Ironies of Automation'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000510...

- The more tasks you automate the less practice people get in doing those tasks themselves and developing the experience in executing them.

- Yet, experience becomes more important as issues/exceptions occur (which they will)

- Ironically, when people are needed the most they are least prepared to step in because automation has taken over their day-to-day.

Net result might be a reduced supply of 'experience' but demand remains strong thus increasing the price of it.


Getting a Nintendo NES with Super Mario 3, was probably 10 :-p


Reminds me of a running joke with a friend.

His stock picks are so off I told him to create an inverse etf of his picks and I would pile into that, at least one of us would make some money.


After losing my shirt some years earlier I announced to my wife that I was ready to get into the buying shares again. She agreed, but only if I bought good ones this time.

Product Managers really should have a solid grasp of the fundamentals of AI (gen and non-gen) as this will enable them to understand if it can add value to the software products they are envisaging. In the end it's another tool, be it a powerful one that comes with very specific challenges on UX side but it doesn't require a carve out of the PM role.


The classic software dilemma when I see something like this.

It is simple, nice and clean.

I immediatley want things knowing deep down that those things, if delivered, would probably take away the esscence of what's good about it.

Still...i would like alt ways to persist and share ...would be nice to manage 1:1s across multiple teams I run :-p


HA is awesome but I have found that over time entropy kicks in if you don't maintain it properly (which I haven't done for a year) connections fail, switches stop doing what they are supposed to...it's on my Xmas list to spend some time sorting it out!


My friend has lost 15GB of sensor data because of corrupted MariaDB on his HA instance after an upgrade. It's definitely not a hands-off system.


Most people don't need 15GB of sensor data, so I don't think this is the best measure of HA being hands-off or suitable for the average person.


What makes you think that this issue is related to the amount of data? I see many reported MariaDB corruption issues after HA upgrade on the forums.


If you need to store 15GB of sensor data, a MySQL derivate is not what I'd choose


15GB is tiny, db selection doesn't really matter at that small of a scale


Depends.

15GB on an actual server? Peanuts.

15GB MariaDB/Mysql database on a Raspberry Pi SD card? Recipe for disaster.


Why is that?


RDBMS isn't the best place to store time series data. There are better and more efficient options for that.


I'm a noob when it comes to DBs, but stumbled upon using InfluxDB with Home Assistant - would you say that's a solid choice, or are there better alternatives out there?


InfluxDB is pretty much the most popular and widely used time series database.

The difference between just storing every value ever and a time series DB is that the latter one can reduce the data frequency when it gets older.

Like if you're measuring your fridge temperature, you might store it every minute. But do you care about 1 minute accuracy when the data is two years old? Would 5 or 15 minutes be enough?

This is what time series DBs do automatically.

They're also optimised for data that's formatted as <time stamp> - <values>, making inserts and queries fast for data like that.


Timeflux or some such are better alternative to store timeseries data.


I have been using HA for 4 years, no such issues. But even if, restore from backup seems like an easy fix?


I think he also had a problem with backups, but I’m not sure.


Almost 9 years, actually.


100% this. If they can figure out trust through some paradigm where enterprises can use the models but not have to trust OpenAI itself directly then $200 will be less of an issue.


This is great. Simple to get, not too simple to solve. One I will share with my kids, plus now introduced to Julia Robinson festival. Thanks for sharing.


This news seems to be fueling continued spike in Quantum stocks.

As a casual observer I am curious if there been a breakthrough over the last few months that suddenly increases the practicality of this technology?

Edit:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-to-watch-quantum-co...


Pocket is good. I use it across all my devices, simple and works for me but do wonder if they could or should do more with the data they collect from me which is all the things I really care about.


What's the selling point for it though? I don't get it?


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