Readit Newsbezout commented on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft twitter.com/satyanadella/... · Posted by u/JimDabell
“Microsoft always lands on top”
bezout commented on Worst Examples of Meta's Dystopian AI Influencers gizmodo.com/12-worst-exam... · Posted by u/rntn
The reels looks too realistic though. I’m guessing they made the actual celebrities record them and left the AI to take care of the pictures and convo.
bezout commented on Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 cbsnews.com/news/costco-v... · Posted by u/lxm
If US insists on keeping healthcare private I’d expect soon or later for these money-sucking “health” insurance companies to be replaced by VC-money-sucking tech companies offering a fairly priced subscription for accessing drugs and treatments.
The only obstacle is - and it’s a big one - drugs and health insurance companies crying out to the gov about how tech companies are stealing their lunch and they should broke down.
bezout commented on An algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system algorithmwatch.org/en/alg... · Posted by u/throwaway751
I don’t see what “Java 8 or an even older version of C#” has to to with the correctness of the algorithm or its implementation.
It doesn’t. It’s not an attack on the programming languages. It’s just that they have a sweet spot for using old ass versions which might or might not have known vulnerabilities and they don’t care about updating it.
bezout commented on An algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system algorithmwatch.org/en/alg... · Posted by u/throwaway751
What I don't get is why it would be outsourced at all. Run a team that manages the entire SDLC. If they mess it up, they are maintaining it and have a reason to solve the problem.
How did people manage to convince government that software is this one-time thing you just pay for and then it works forever?
To be fair some nations do have their software development teams. Italy has Sogei which is fully controlled by the Ministry of Economics. They had a reputation for developing crappy software but I heard they are getting better
PS: they were not involved in the development of this algorithm
bezout commented on An algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system algorithmwatch.org/en/alg... · Posted by u/throwaway751
The way it works in Italy: the design and implementation of the algorithm in Java 8 or an even older version of C# was probably outsourced to one of the Big 4 consultancy companies.
A group of underpaid graduates was put together to crack the problem. All of them crammed for their algo & ds exam since that’s what the Italian university system incentivises so none of them did actually remember a thing about algorithm design. They googled a bunch of words and forked the first PoC they found on GitHub.
Everything was wrapped into a nice PowerPoint full of corporate BS and delivered to the government.
Edit: As expected, the algorithm was developed by a company owned by Dxc Technology [1] and Leonardo which is the Italian defence company. The contract was worth 5 million of euros.
[1]: https://www.wired.it/article/algoritmo-scuola-supplenze-mini...