Posted on 03/16/2025 6:24:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Max neurons firing daily (weekends?) to massage your grey matter. Has kept you ultra sharp :)
Looks like a fun, quick project.
She had a business degree and then I put her through a new ASU masters program.
One of the courses was AI programming. 1985.
I wrote a terminal program for our Zenith PC so she could log onto their mainframe from home.
Well done on your part. Also on hers.
AI Programming back then was in its infancy. The best they could offer me back in those days was some course on the LISP programming language. LISP never went anywhere.
Nowadays I’m getting my AI education hands-on, and it is quite capturing my attention. I’m embracing AI wholeheartedly, and may even get involved in a Startup Company in this topic.
Sam Altman of OpenAI says, if you aren’t rolling out a startup NOW in AI, you are missing the boat. He states that this period has even more opportunities than the dotcom boom of the late 1990’s.
I agree. I’m hoping to become the next Jeff Bezos. (Although I will get a prettier chick than the one *he* selected... YUCK)
(Just kidding, my current chick is just fine. 😊)
BTW I like this tone of exchange with you a lot more. It is good that we are being amicable with one another. Let’s stay in this place!
Having been enlightened by your citation, I shall endeavor to find a reasonable context to include the use of "firkins" as well. Perhaps as a measure of fuel economy as in "furlongs per firkin". 😊
“(Just kidding, my current chick is just fine.”
That is not your reputation here!
Just kidding!
“He states that this period has even more opportunities than the dotcom boom of the late 1990’s.”
My best buddy back then was living on his sailboat. He invested all of his liquid assets, about $250k, into Israeli tech stocks with a goal of clearing another $250k to buy a boat in Taiwan.
He soon had $1 million. The next time I talked to him he said he had visited a Yacht dealer in New England and was looking at a $1 million yacht.
I asked him what his stocks were worth. He replied, about $7.5 million.
I said SELL. But he didn’t want to pay the taxes.
The last time I talked to him he was closing out his positions worth about $250k.
I recently finished a contract at lockheed. We insisted on 100% code coverage. It was not that hard to do, and improved the code quite a lot.
At our first integration meeting everything worked on the first try
As we discussed, that, of course, depends on how your business use-cases are arranged and implemented.... and also, in our case, the proper use of Mocks for such things as FTP and DB performants. Also, since we have external groups we interface with (such as Enterprise Transport, which sends to external entities) we need them to stand Mocks up too. Lots of moving parts. We're only required by Enterprise to have 80% code coverage on new code, and rightfully so.
In an ideal world, sure, 100% is best, but we've done well at 80%.
My biggest real complaint is the requirement we mitigate all Criticals, Majors, and Mediums in SonarQube. SonarQube sometimes has some pretty stupid code-quality conclusions.
True that. A few Freeper friends were quite surprised to find out I have a long-term live-in girlfriend. 😊
And about that, I don't know how a schlub like me does it, but I always seem to have the prettiest girl in any room. Thank the Good Lord women look past appearances. 😊
Yikes! Point taken. You seem to have some pretty good chops when it comes to trading. I might ask your informal advice along the way.
schlub...... no one pronounces this correctly. Limbaugh was the worst.
sh-club.
IMHO, sub-routines.
The old “factory” image at the upper right . . . appears to be a publishing house. Most of the workers are binders and stitchers.
“Yikes! Point taken. You seem to have some pretty good chops when it comes to trading. I might ask your informal advice along the way.«
Years ago I decided to stop trading. Decided to go long term with solid stocks that also paid dividends with som diversification.
Over the years I have posted some of my holdings.
ETN, JPM, CVX, some regional banks, railroads, some pharmaceuticals, some REITS, some tech.
I should have bought some APPLE back about 2008 when a coworker was showing new iPhone off but I failed to see how the original “gimmicks” would take over. After all, my HP pocket computer with WIFI could do much more. My wife did pick up a few shares earlier in her ROTH IRA.
I built a PC back in 2014. Loved NVIDIA GPUs. Failed to see how the crypto mining would drive the price up even seeing shortages in the market. Same with AI. I saw it but didn’t act. Just enjoying retirement too much to care.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B6%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B1#Russian <<<<< Press the audio button. This is the real way. Now you can impress your friends and enemies.
AI is garbage in and garbage out as it looks at what was created and comes up with something new. A human has to look at the final product to see if it works and to look at the code to see if it is efficient. Once that is done then many people will not be needed until the next product. Boom and bust.
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