As far as I can tell, the NSA data was into a dataset that allowed report software to run against it. It was also largely metadata, and it didn’t assign a person to the metadata.

Meaning it wasn’t an “enter a name” or "enter social security number.

This sounds like a dataset built for each person. Now how that’s going to work is a different question. Cops can already pull you over, and once they have your license plate, they can see if you’ve got warrants or outstanding fines, and various legal history.

Palantir’s data sounds like an efficient way to cause mass amounts of identity theft.

Yeah I made $51k out of college.

My first software job I made $68k? Granted Im at $150k after all that time, but still. Dang yo you know?

My mother won’t answer me what her salary was when she retired. Easily in the industry for 30-40 years, but I know it was under $200k. Granted she was an electrical engineer before getting her masters in computer science, but I also suspect it has to do with the fact that she and I didn’t work for the big tech giants.

And I have no interest in doing so.

So… I actually proposed a use case for NLP and LLMs in 2017. I don’t actually know if it was used.

But the usecase was generating large sets of fake data that looked real enough for performance testing enterprise sized data transformations. That way we could skip a large portion of the risk associated with using actual customer data. We wouldn’t have to generate the data beforehand, we could validate logic with it, and we could just plop it in the replica non-prodiction environment.

At the time we didn’t have any LLMs. So it didn’t go anywhere. But it’s always funny when I see all this “LLMs can do x” because I always think about how my proposal was to use it… For fake data.

If it’s a successor to the Steam Deck, I’m already sold. I don’t know how many hours I’ve put on that thing but it’s a lot. And I’ve had it since it came out.

Wait what? Who is making $165k out of college?

I don’t even make $165k after working for… I don’t know let’s say 12 or 15 I can’t keep track what counts anymore

Oh that’s cool. That’s one of those languages I saw myself working in when I was younger - it’s a powerful language for mathematical stuff, and not terribly difficult.

Felt more like creating circuitry to do software stuff rather than programming.

I would not be a slight bit surprised if all of those guys tried to have a synthol pp.

Well

That’s horrifying. I thought it was way cooler that I could make my own muscles bigger by diet and exercise but maybe cool is different in different parts of the world

Well… Good.

Oooo hot take time: I’d rather work in an office again than be forced to use LLMs.

You have met every team I have ever worked with apparently

Très vrai !

But it still takes me quite a bit of time still. Eventually. I hope. One day. I wish we had like language classes where I live :/

Ok I can do bits and pieces of French but not quickly, but yes I agree.

Also because it’s stupid hard to pronounce with an American accent.

Lmfao

Il y a beaucoup de français ici.

But I’m not French.