Interesting, my experience has been quite different but then it has been more with executives of relatively small (<500) and private companies. I’ve also seen some cases of companies closer to dictatorships, but they have (at least from my external perspective) seemed like dictators with at least clear visions. A small minority have been loudmouthed assholes.

Beyond Need has indeed had sausages for quite awhile now.

Have you worked with very many CEOs at SMEs? Based on my experience it seems to match the description, by and large.

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AlphaFold’s success seems to be largely linked to its use of attention-based architecture, similar to GPT, i.e. the architecture used by LLMs. Beyond that, they are both building on work in machine learning and statistics, so I don’t think they are nearly as independent as you are making out.

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Lol dude I am also not arguing about the main point, my contention is that you’re being uppity with phrasing when you are in fact entirely wrong. If you’re gonna be a grammar Nazi you have to at least be correct.

edit: ah nevermind I understand from your most recent comment that you’re just trolling

That’s a great expectation, and simultaneously provides no backing whatsoever to the poor logical reasoning that you.applked earlier.

What do you mean? Harvard has excellent international ranking for math, specifically. How is this “being completely out of their field”?

To be honest I don’t have a case to make, I just found it a bit glaring that you mentioned it was “easy to fix” but then referenced an article which didn’t really provide any clear evidence for that. I’m entirely open to the idea of IR35 (though to be honest I haven’t considered it closely), and I can easily believe there are lots of hit pieces, but if it is as easily effective as you claim then there should be academic articles providing evidence even despite the confounding factors.

Online rankings seem to put Harvard pretty high for mathematics! So I wouldn’t disregard their opinion just because their degree is from Harvard. I would disregard their opinion because of how faulty the logic is though.

Lol okay, so you expect others to do work for minimum wage which you would totally in theory do as well just not in reality. Gotcha.

And from that very same article:

It is hard to judge the effectiveness of the legislation since as of 2010 HMRC has not published any figures. On 6 January 2004 Dawn Primarolo was asked in Parliament how many investigations under the IR35 regulation have (a) been initiated, (b) resulted in additional revenue, and © been concluded without securing additional revenue. In a written answer she replied that it was not possible with any accuracy to isolate data relating solely to this legislation.[23]

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The July 2009 issue of IT Now, the British Computer Society magazine, reported that between April 2002 and March 2008 the Government had raised £9.2 million under IR35 legislation compared to the £220 million that was initially expected.[25]

This amongst many other criticisms!

You are currently working as a politiian or running for office then, I presume?

Damn bro I need to know what school you got a math degree from if your logical reasoning is that faulty!

No, we are taking about violence in a region, which can have many causes and origins. Violence in the region has stemmed from a combination of religion and foreign interference (and presumably many other things). If this isn’t what your claim addresses, then your claim is irrelevant to this conversation.

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Cool that’s great. Can you tell me that none of the software you use has been developed by software engineers making use of machine learning methods?

Lol what are you talking about? Many things can have a stem, such as a plant, which is not the same as the stem itself. According to all major dictionaries, stem can mean the main trunk of a plant, but it can also mean other certain plant part providing support. So your claim doesn’t hold.

Some definitions include the word “main”… and many definitions don’t. So actually I don’t see anything necessarily indicating that there can only be one stem.