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What kind of bubble is AI?

My latest column for Locus Magazine is "What Kind of Bubble is AI?" All economic bubbles are hugely destructive, but some of them leave behind wreckage that can be salvaged for useful purposes, while others leave nothing behind but ashes:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

Think about some 21st century bubbles. The dotcom bubble was a terrible tragedy, one that drained the coffers of pension funds and other institutional investors and wiped out retail investors who were gulled by Superbowl Ads. But there was a lot left behind after the dotcoms were wiped out: cheap servers, office furniture and space, but far more importantly, a generation of young people who'd been trained as web makers, leaving nontechnical degree programs to learn HTML, perl and python. This created a whole cohort of technologists from non-technical backgrounds, a first in technological history. Many of these people became the vanguard of a more inclusive and humane tech development movement, and they were able to make interesting and useful services and products in an environment where raw materials – compute, bandwidth, space and talent – were available at firesale prices.

Contrast this with the crypto bubble. It, too, destroyed the fortunes of institutional and individual investors through fraud and Superbowl Ads. It, too, lured in nontechnical people to learn esoteric disciplines at investor expense. But apart from a smattering of Rust programmers, the main residue of crypto is bad digital art and worse Austrian economics.

Or think of Worldcom vs Enron. Both bubbles were built on pure fraud, but Enron's fraud left nothing behind but a string of suspicious deaths. By contrast, Worldcom's fraud was a Big Store con that required laying a ton of fiber that is still in the ground to this day, and is being bought and used at pennies on the dollar.

AI is definitely a bubble. As I write in the column, if you fly into SFO and rent a car and drive north to San Francisco or south to Silicon Valley, every single billboard is advertising an "AI" startup, many of which are not even using anything that can be remotely characterized as AI. That's amazing, considering what a meaningless buzzword AI already is.

So which kind of bubble is AI? When it pops, will something useful be left behind, or will it go away altogether? To be sure, there's a legion of technologists who are learning Tensorflow and Pytorch. These nominally open source tools are bound, respectively, to Google and Facebook's AI environments:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

But if those environments go away, those programming skills become a lot less useful. Live, large-scale Big Tech AI projects are shockingly expensive to run. Some of their costs are fixed – collecting, labeling and processing training data – but the running costs for each query are prodigious. There's a massive primary energy bill for the servers, a nearly as large energy bill for the chillers, and a titanic wage bill for the specialized technical staff involved.

Once investor subsidies dry up, will the real-world, non-hyperbolic applications for AI be enough to cover these running costs? AI applications can be plotted on a 2X2 grid whose axes are "value" (how much customers will pay for them) and "risk tolerance" (how perfect the product needs to be).

Charging teenaged D&D players $10 month for an image generator that creates epic illustrations of their characters fighting monsters is low value and very risk tolerant (teenagers aren't overly worried about six-fingered swordspeople with three pupils in each eye). Charging scammy spamfarms $500/month for a text generator that spits out dull, search-algorithm-pleasing narratives to appear over recipes is likewise low-value and highly risk tolerant (your customer doesn't care if the text is nonsense). Charging visually impaired people $100 month for an app that plays a text-to-speech description of anything they point their cameras at is low-value and moderately risk tolerant ("that's your blue shirt" when it's green is not a big deal, while "the street is safe to cross" when it's not is a much bigger one).

Morganstanley doesn't talk about the trillions the AI industry will be worth some day because of these applications. These are just spinoffs from the main event, a collection of extremely high-value applications. Think of self-driving cars or radiology bots that analyze chest x-rays and characterize masses as cancerous or noncancerous.

These are high value – but only if they are also risk-tolerant. The pitch for self-driving cars is "fire most drivers and replace them with 'humans in the loop' who intervene at critical junctures." That's the risk-tolerant version of self-driving cars, and it's a failure. More than $100b has been incinerated chasing self-driving cars, and cars are nowhere near driving themselves:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Quite the reverse, in fact. Cruise was just forced to quit the field after one of their cars maimed a woman – a pedestrian who had not opted into being part of a high-risk AI experiment – and dragged her body 20 feet through the streets of San Francisco. Afterwards, it emerged that Cruise had replaced the single low-waged driver who would normally be paid to operate a taxi with 1.5 high-waged skilled technicians who remotely oversaw each of its vehicles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general-motors-self-driving-cars.html

The self-driving pitch isn't that your car will correct your own human errors (like an alarm that sounds when you activate your turn signal while someone is in your blind-spot). Self-driving isn't about using automation to augment human skill – it's about replacing humans. There's no business case for spending hundreds of billions on better safety systems for cars (there's a human case for it, though!). The only way the price-tag justifies itself is if paid drivers can be fired and replaced with software that costs less than their wages.

What about radiologists? Radiologists certainly make mistakes from time to time, and if there's a computer vision system that makes different mistakes than the sort that humans make, they could be a cheap way of generating second opinions that trigger re-examination by a human radiologist. But no AI investor thinks their return will come from selling hospitals that reduce the number of X-rays each radiologist processes every day, as a second-opinion-generating system would. Rather, the value of AI radiologists comes from firing most of your human radiologists and replacing them with software whose judgments are cursorily double-checked by a human whose "automation blindness" will turn them into an OK-button-mashing automaton:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop

The profit-generating pitch for high-value AI applications lies in creating "reverse centaurs": humans who serve as appendages for automation that operates at a speed and scale that is unrelated to the capacity or needs of the worker:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

But unless these high-value applications are intrinsically risk-tolerant, they are poor candidates for automation. Cruise was able to nonconsensually enlist the population of San Francisco in an experimental murderbot development program thanks to the vast sums of money sloshing around the industry. Some of this money funds the inevitabilist narrative that self-driving cars are coming, it's only a matter of when, not if, and so SF had better get in the autonomous vehicle or get run over by the forces of history.

Once the bubble pops (all bubbles pop), AI applications will have to rise or fall on their actual merits, not their promise. The odds are stacked against the long-term survival of high-value, risk-intolerant AI applications.

The problem for AI is that while there are a lot of risk-tolerant applications, they're almost all low-value; while nearly all the high-value applications are risk-intolerant. Once AI has to be profitable – once investors withdraw their subsidies from money-losing ventures – the risk-tolerant applications need to be sufficient to run those tremendously expensive servers in those brutally expensive data-centers tended by exceptionally expensive technical workers.

If they aren't, then the business case for running those servers goes away, and so do the servers – and so do all those risk-tolerant, low-value applications. It doesn't matter if helping blind people make sense of their surroundings is socially beneficial. It doesn't matter if teenaged gamers love their epic character art. It doesn't even matter how horny scammers are for generating AI nonsense SEO websites:

https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032634037567509

These applications are all riding on the coattails of the big AI models that are being built and operated at a loss in order to be profitable. If they remain unprofitable long enough, the private sector will no longer pay to operate them.

Now, there are smaller models, models that stand alone and run on commodity hardware. These would persist even after the AI bubble bursts, because most of their costs are setup costs that have already been borne by the well-funded companies who created them. These models are limited, of course, though the communities that have formed around them have pushed those limits in surprising ways, far beyond their original manufacturers' beliefs about their capacity. These communities will continue to push those limits for as long as they find the models useful.

These standalone, "toy" models are derived from the big models, though. When the AI bubble bursts and the private sector no longer subsidizes mass-scale model creation, it will cease to spin out more sophisticated models that run on commodity hardware (it's possible that Federated learning and other techniques for spreading out the work of making large-scale models will fill the gap).

So what kind of bubble is the AI bubble? What will we salvage from its wreckage? Perhaps the communities who've invested in becoming experts in Pytorch and Tensorflow will wrestle them away from their corporate masters and make them generally useful. Certainly, a lot of people will have gained skills in applying statistical techniques.

But there will also be a lot of unsalvageable wreckage. As big AI models get integrated into the processes of the productive economy, AI becomes a source of systemic risk. The only thing worse than having an automated process that is rendered dangerous or erratic based on AI integration is to have that process fail entirely because the AI suddenly disappeared, a collapse that is too precipitous for former AI customers to engineer a soft landing for their systems.

This is a blind spot in our policymakers debates about AI. The smart policymakers are asking questions about fairness, algorithmic bias, and fraud. The foolish policymakers are ensnared in fantasies about "AI safety," AKA "Will the chatbot become a superintelligence that turns the whole human race into paperclips?"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space

But no one is asking, "What will we do if" – when – "the AI bubble pops and most of this stuff disappears overnight?"

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop

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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FORD

Paths can bend a lot more analysis. Everyone knows who the best programmers are libertarians. And the bigger the pipe to the server and yet felt like a vacation compared to the facial expressions she was used to living cheaply. I were running a startup, initially. So if you're developing technology for money, or prestige—or sheer inertia. April 2009 Inc recently asked me who I thought were the 5 most interesting startup founders of the last 200 years shows that it doesn't work, that's a sign of health? But there is little ambiguity about what it means to be a media company to throw Microsoft off their scent. Usually this initial group of users is missing from most college programming classes. I was supposed to be studying for finals. The guys with kids and mortgages are at a maximum. A rounds from top VC funds whether it was worth it, and an experiment in a very transparent way out of habit or politeness. This was Henry Ford's plan.

It seemed obvious that beauty, for example have been granted large numbers of people would want to be thought a great novelist in your own country. Foo'' degenerates to just foo'', what that will mean for programmers, and knew that they could always interrupt anything with a report of a genuine bug. Four years later, pundits said the country had lurched to the right kind of people who couldn't become good mathematicians no matter how brilliant, because if everything else in the email, then check the news again, then answer a few emails, then suddenly notice it was almost lunchtime and I hadn't gotten any real work done. As long as customers were writing big checks for banner ads, it was New York. Actually this tradition is not much time. No, he said that little desktop computers would never be tactful; they were too quick. One possible exception might be things that have deliberately had all the variation sucked out of them was Webvia; I swapped them to make Viaweb. But invariably they're larger in your imagination than in real life. It discovered, of course, but I can infer it from the rich. But if this still bothers you, let me clarify that I'm not writing here about Java which I have thought about it.

Not just the first fifteen seen. The best word to describe the feeling the Valley radiated, and the cap table are long gone. He thinks you should write it in Java. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the problem. With both employers and investors, the balance of power between generations: to encourage the trend toward an economy made of more, smaller units. And the reason it used a TV for a monitor, and HP felt they couldn't produce anything so declasse. And being a boss is also horribly frustrating; half the time what will turn out you can help one another are both artificially amplified. Just be warned you'll have to deal with this is that when you have to work at another job to make a startup recession-proof is to do a lot of money on them. One valuable way for an idea. For example, if you've sold more than about an hour a day online. Not determined enough You need a town with the right optimization advice to the compiler, would also yield very fast code when necessary.

A good scientist, in other words, is someone who isn't socially adept enough. That would be a much more expensive. The rest you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively replaces reading glasses. When we work with founders create a Demo Day pitch, the last time a new way to focus one's energy, for example, is generated by Perl. An easily gamed standardized test; a short essay telling you what the kid thinks you want to be a very successful businessman in the cartoon it was always a man: a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties, at least, how I write one. Fortunately policies are software; Apple can change them instantly if they want to do, he couldn't—sometimes because the company would take care of one's family, or to write well, here's the short version is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. I could give an example of one of the inventors of the transistor. I don't mean you should talk like some kind of cursed race, had to have them as colleagues, you have to write a serious program using only the built-in escape hatch.

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La Mode nationale, specimen, 1 decembre 1885, Paris. No. 1. — Toilette de dîner. Modèle de la maison de l'Opéra, 20, avenue de l'Opéra. Bibliothèque nationale de France

No. 1. Robe de dîner en broché grenat de Syrie. Le corselet lacé à l'Agnès Sorel et les parements de la manche en velours grenat tréflé d'or, avec bordure de grosses perles d'or en ourlet. La guimpe froncée est en satin et colletée de velours.

No. 1. Syrian garnet paperback dinner dress. The Agnès Sorel laced corselet and the sleeve cuffs in gold-trefoiled garnet velvet, with a border of large gold pearls at the hem. The gathered wimple is satin and trimmed with velvet.

Notre Programme

En prenant pour titre: La Mode nationale, nous avons voulu affirmer hautement nos intentions de ne donner place dans nos colonnes qu'aux modes vraiment françaises. Sans vouloir faire ici de politique et sans témoigner d'un chauvinsime exagéré, nous ne pouvons pourtant nous empêcher de constater les prétentions de nos voisins, qui, surtout depuis 1870, se sont mis à nous disputer le privilège de la mode, lequel nous a appartenu, sans conteste, pendant des siècles.

Certains gravure de modes nous viennent de l'étranger, sous prétexte que la main-d'œuvre est là-bas meilleur marché que chez nous: de là un tort réel apporté au commerce national, parce que ces gravures sont la reproduction de modèles qui ne sont pas les nôtres.

La Mode nationale maintiendra très haut le drapeau de l'industrie française. Notre journal, confié à nos meilleurs artistes, n'empruntera rien aux étrangers. C'est dire qu'il est destiné à devenir le modèle du bon ton et l'organe accrédité de la bonne compagnie.

La Mode nationale paraîtra réguilièrement le 1er et le 15 de chaque mois, à dater du 1er janvier 1886.

La Rédaction.

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By taking the title: La Mode nationale, we wanted to strongly assert our intentions to only give space in our columns to truly French fashions. Without wanting to get political here and without showing exaggerated chauvinism, we cannot help but note the pretensions of our neighbors, who, especially since 1870, have begun to dispute with us the privilege of fashion, which has belonged to us, without question, for centuries.

Some fashion engravings come to us from abroad, under the pretext that labor is cheaper there than at home: hence a real harm to national trade, because these engravings are the reproduction of models which are not ours.

La Mode nationale will keep the flag of French industry very high. Our newspaper, entrusted to our best artists, will borrow nothing from foreigners. This means that it is destined to become the model of good tone and the accredited organ of good company.

La Mode nationale will appear regularly on the 1st and 15th of each month, starting from January 1, 1886.

La Rédaction.

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The Best Programming Languages For Beginners

When choosing the right programming language, it’s essential to consider your goals and career. You want to make sure that you choose a programming language that is both in demand and easy to learn. Python is an ideal choice for beginners because it reads like English and has a simplified syntax. It’s also versatile and can be used for anything from web development to software development.

Python

Python is a popular general-purpose programming language that’s easy to learn for beginners and widely used in web development, machine learning, art, automation, and more. It also has a vast community of resources that are available to new programmers.

Java is another widely used programming language, especially for mobile app development. It’s used at companies of all sizes (including HubSpot!) and is one of the easiest to learn if you want to develop for a variety of platforms.Better is to click here or visit our official website to know about Programming question answer.

C is an older programming language but still a good choice for beginners because it’s more “machine-level” and gives you the lowest-level control over computer hardware. It’s also the most common base for other languages, like C# and Ruby.

Java

Despite being not as beginner-friendly as Python, Java is a good programming language to start with. It's a general-purpose programming language with a versatile library and free online tutorials.

It's also a cross-platform language, which makes it suitable for mobile and desktop applications. It's the language of choice for Android development and used in a number of enterprise-level software applications.

C is one of the oldest languages and forms the basis for modern languages like Python, Java, and JavaScript. However, it has a low level of abstraction and requires that code is compiled (translated into machine-readable code) before it can be run. This can make it difficult for beginners to understand. Moreover, its syntax can be confusing. But, it's an excellent foundation for more advanced language learning.

Many people are interested in learning programming, but choosing the best language can be intimidating. Luckily, there are plenty of resources to help you get started. You can learn the basics of multiple languages with a coding boot camp, such as the Georgia Tech Coding Boot Camp, which offers a variety of courses including HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Other popular languages include C, which is a general-purpose, compiled language that’s widely used in back-end software applications like web servers. Python is a versatile programming language that’s easy to learn for beginners and can be used in any application. Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented language that’s commonly implemented using the Rails framework. Its concise syntax and convention-over-configuration approach makes it easier to build and deploy apps.

Perl

Perl is a high-level dynamic general-purpose scripting language. It is popular among system administrators for its text-processing capabilities, specifically its own in-built version of regular expressions. It is also used for web development and GUI programming.

Beginners can start learning the basics of the programming language by following the free online courses offered on Udemy. These courses begin with basic theory and then move on to specific aspects of the language. They include topics such as lists, arrays, and subroutines. They also cover how to handle errors in coding. Perl has a large community of developers, with over 230 local groups, mailing lists and support/discussion websites. It is also open source and supports more than 25,000 extension modules on CPAN. This flexibility makes it an ideal programming language for beginners.

HTML

Computer programming allows us to create the software and applications that make our lives easier, more entertaining, and more efficient. But deciding which language to learn can be a difficult choice for beginners, particularly when there are so many options available.

Programming languages may seem different on the surface, but they all have similar structures and features. This means that whichever language you choose to learn, you’ll be learning important coding concepts that will be applicable to any other languages you might decide to explore later on.

Before deciding which programming language to learn, it’s important to consider your goals and current skill level. Once you’ve identified your goals, it’s easy to narrow down your options and find the best programming language for beginners.

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Hypertext Preprocessor, commonly known as PHP is a general purpose scripting language which has occupied the premier spot in the web development industry. It can be easily embedded into HTML which means you need not write long code as in C programming or Perl (like defining main in C, etc.) to output something. PHP is a server-side programming language. The code is executed on the server and output is generated into HTML. The HTML output then goes to the client or a browser. So, the client receives the output without knowing the underlying code. Thus, it provides enhanced security as compared to client-side scripting languages. PHP code starts with . The PHP parser does not execute anything outside this code. Thus, a PHP file may have mixed content which has opened a lot of possibilities in the field of web development. Here are some of the reasons why PHP is immensely popular in the web development: 1. It Is A Free Platform Being an open source platform, PHP is in quite an advantageous position. Also, it is an elegant platform for newbies allowing them to test their skills and learn the dynamics of the web development industry. Since the language is free to all, it is a cost-effective alternative for over the proprietary applications as well as eliminates the legal issues. With this powerful scripting language, newcomers can enter the market quickly making space for new ideas and skills. 2. Easy To Learn And Start With PHP is quite simple; even a non-programmer can learn the basic coding skills in just a few hours. Most web developers acquire basic knowledge in HTML, making working on PHP an easy affair. Considering the learning aspect, other languages like Java, Python, etc. require an understanding of the commands, libraries, and Object-oriented programming concepts. However, in PHP, you simply need to learn a few syntax, and you can start practicing in minutes. PHP also has plenty learning resources available that make your life easier. Some of the popular learning resources are listed down below PHP Books - For beginners who like to pick a book should use these recommended PHP books.  PHP Tutorials Online - There are tons of PHP tutorials available for free. We have listed some of the good tutorials on this page. Beginners Interactive Learning Resources - These websites are absolutely awesome for beginners. They offer interactive learning for PHP programming as well.  3. PHP Is Flexible One might call PHP amateur, but it’s the result that matters. PHP is dynamic in nature, offering programmers with the ability to approach their problems with every possible solution. Facebook runs on PHP. To meet their emerging demand, they developed a derivative language known as Hack. That shows the flexibility of PHP. You can meet almost all programming requirement using PHP. 4. PHP Is User-friendly No doubt PHP is the first love for any web application developer. While other scripts require the programs to be compiled before reaching the execution stage, a PHP script does not ask for compilation. It is a simple 3 step process; Code, upload and watch. As simple as it may get, just write the script, upload it to the web server and witness the output on your browser. 5. A Huge Standard Library Collection A language’s libraries can make a whole lot of difference. Libraries are a pre-coded set of instructions that aids communication between different platforms or applications, in turn simplifying the execution process and enhancing the processing speed of a language.  With its ability of HTTP fetching, URL parsing, and supporting database drivers, the PHP libraries allow the language to work much higher efficiency. Compatible libraries allow the websites to load quickly, providing a pleasant user experience. After all, no one would like to sit back waiting for a website to load, especially when they are desperate to use the site. 6. Most Of The Top Web Applications Are Built In PHP Popular web applications like the Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.

are written using the PHP script. What makes this language so loveable is its scalability and robust architecture.  One of the major advantages of using PHP or its application is that you can update the website without rebooting the server. So, write or update the code and upload the file to the server and the changes will be effective immediately. 7. It Works With Diverse Range Of Platforms One’s ability to adapt and merge with the crowd makes them a favorite. PHP’s diversity with platforms makes it a desirable choice. This allows the developer to integrate the website on multiple platforms. Furthermore, an application written in PHP can be integrated with MySQL and Apache quickly without any limitations. 8. More Than 80% Of The Sites Are Built In Php   So Good Job Prospects With the language expanding, occupying the internet; most of the internet traffic is operating on the PHP script. More and more websites are being added to this, and almost all of them are running on PHP. So, there is demand in the market; thus, the job prospects are good for a PHP programmer. Professionals with no background in technology find it easy to learn PHP and build an outstanding career in the IT sector. Availability of an adequate number of professionals encourages businesses to create websites and applications in the PHP due to the availability of easy and affordable technical support & maintenance. And the cycle continues. 9. Cost Effective Hosting Plans Not all businesses and programmers can afford to invest a lot into website development and maintenance. With PHP offering an open source platform, and cross-platform functionality, hosting a website got a lot cheaper. Almost all web servers can host PHP applications.  Furthermore, the scripts being efficient and fast acting, maintenance costs dropped as well. 10. Lot Of Extensions And Add-ons Are Available Like any other open source platform, PHP has been subjected to many experiments by the sharpest brains that have resulted in the introduction of a lot of useful features. Programmers have created many libraries, extensions, and add-ons to simplify the coding process and enhance productivity.  Thus, you can add great features and functionality to an application simply by using the existing add-ons. Conclusion PHP is a fantastic platform to work and learn web development. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional or an amateur, a student or a business person; you can learn and use PHP to build a great web application. Not only the platform has expanded the domain of web designing, but it has also set new standards regarding ease and performance.  There are numerous possibilities and endless opportunities to grow with this powerful tool at your disposal. Anthony Bergs is a project manager at writers per hour. He always keeps an eye on the marketing sector to implement the best innovations into the strategies that he builds. He’s always open for new connections and partnerships.

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["About, "me"] | stdout

I spent many of my early years in Kalisz, where I still ride my all-terrain bike, and that’s just for instance. I studied Computer Science at the University of Wrocław and at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. For several years, I worked as a Java programmer at Unity Group or, more currently, Univio. Even more currently, I’m a senior Java developer working near Wrocław. At the risk of repeating myself, I’m now a certified Java programmer.

My private hobbies include 🌲🌑 hiking, 🏕️🌒 camping, 🎥ξ going to the cinema, 🇺🇸🇩🇪 foreign languages, and 🛼☀️ inline skating.

As for the computer games, they can turn into a copylefted GitHub page, although just for instance. Along with starting Emacs, Standard ML programming would be my professional hobby, although its purpose may differ greatly. Additionally, I prefer Raku (Perl 6) to be my professional hobby, as script programming matters.

[mysteriis-moon666]

RIVERS OF NIHIL - Rivers of Nihil

Rivers Of Nihil, groupe de Pennsylvanie a 16 ans de carrière et ce 5ème album de death metal progressif forme la genèse de la nouvelle ère du groupe par une compréhension plus mature du rythme, avec une bonne dose d'expérimentation, une perspective plus moderne, avec des riffs transcendantaux, des refrains imposants, du prog cohérent, un glaçage méditatif, des solos inventifs, du saxophone !

Composé d’Adam Biggs (basse, chant), Andy Thomas (Guitare, choeur), Brody Uttley (Guitare, piano, claviers, programmation) et Jared Klein (Batterie, chœur) cet opus bénéficie de Patrick Corona au saxophone alto ; Stephan Lopez au banjo ; McFarland au violoncelle.

"Rivers of Nihil" évoque cette dimension sombre, nihiliste et désespérée d'affinité occulte. C’est un joyau des justes brillant dans l’obscurité imprégné d'esprit, d’intensité, de sauvagerie, de mystère. Toujours aussi exigeant, River Of Nihil élève encore plus haut, vers des bancs de nuages, des nuages parfaits, frais de brume et plus proches du ciel en tournoyant tel un rapace dans un espace d'une beauté terrifiante. Le son organique et électronique apporte d'innombrables respirations à chaque titre.

Le disque commence dans l’obscurité et le secret, et se dévoile progressivement par des ailes de perles trempées dans le sang pur de compositions au poignard d’illumination. Cette étrange peinture laisse le temps filer et ne cède jamais son corps musical à l'obscurité entière.

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5 Python Self-study Websites

Python is a widely used programming language compared to other languages ​​such as Java, Perl, PHP and Ruby. Python is a simple and easy-to-learn open source language with its own syntax.

The text recommends some python self-study websites.

1.Learn Code the Hard Way “Learn Code the Hard Way” is an introduction to the most popular Python programming language. No coding experience required. This is an open source free tutorial that includes courses from zero base to advanced level. We give you the opportunity to test and put into practice what you have learned. Reviewers and professional programmers are available online.

2.Python spot If you’re looking for Python-focused tutorials and resources, Pythonspot is for you. We provide free tutorials and great content on the Python programming language for beginners and expert developers. Of course, the content is organized according to the difficulty level.

3.CourseraLike other tutorial sites, Coursera offers free online tutorials in multiple programming languages. You can easily learn the Python programming language using this platform. You can also display subtitles for the video if you want. It includes Korean, Chinese, Spanish, German and more.

4.New Circle Python New Circle, like other programming tutorials, is an online platform for beginners and professional programmers to learn the Python programming language. You can watch some video tutorials on the website to help you understand the concepts better. A Python Fundamentals training series for beginners is also available.

5.Tutorials Point Tutorials Point is one of the best online tutorials that provide free, high-quality content for learning the Python programming language. Here you can test your own learning effectiveness with multiple exercises and different coding options. In addition to basic Python concepts, it includes advanced Python content such as database access, CGI, game programming, XML processing, networking, and more.

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Découvrir Malte avec un Organisateur de Séjour Expérimenté

Introduction Malte est une destination unique qui attire des voyageurs du monde entier pour ses plages paradisiaques, son patrimoine riche et ses activités variées. Pour une expérience sans stress et parfaitement organisée, faire appel à un organisateur de séjour à Malte est un choix judicieux. Dans ce guide, nous vous présentons les meilleures façons de découvrir Malte et comment Authentik Malta peut vous offrir un voyage sur mesure.

Pourquoi Opter pour un Organisateur de Séjour à Malte? Un organisateur de séjour offre :

Un programme adapté à vos envies : Voyage sur mesure en fonction de vos intérêts (culture, aventure, gastronomie, détente).

Une logistique simplifiée : Réservation d'hébergements, transports et activités.

Des guides locaux expérimentés : Accompagnement pour découvrir les perles cachées de Malte.

Les Incontournables pour Découvrir Malte

Explorer les Trésors Historiques

Balade à La Valette, capitale classée à l'UNESCO.

Découverte des temples mégalithiques.

Visite de l'île de Gozo et de sa citadelle.

Profiter des Plages et de la Nature

Se baigner dans le Blue Lagoon de Comino.

Randonner le long des falaises de Dingli.

Explorer les grottes marines et les criques cachées.

Expérimenter la Gastronomie Maltaise

Déguster des pastizzi et du ragoût de lapin.

Visiter les marchés locaux et les caves à vin.

Dîner dans un restaurant en bord de mer avec vue sur le port.

Vivre Malte de Manière Authentique

Assister à une fête traditionnelle maltaise.

Participer à un atelier d'artisanat local.

Découvrir les marchés artisanaux et les villages pittoresques.

Pourquoi Choisir Authentik Malta pour Votre Séjour? Chez Authentik Malta, nous concevons des séjours personnalisés pour répondre aux attentes de chaque voyageur. Notre expertise et notre passion pour Malte nous permettent de créer des expériences uniques, alliant détente, aventure et immersion culturelle.

Conclusion Découvrir Malte avec un organisateur de séjour tel que Authentik Malta garantit une expérience sans stress et parfaitement adaptée à vos envies. Que vous soyez amateur de culture, de nature ou de gastronomie, nous vous accompagnons pour faire de votre voyage une expérience inoubliable.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WAS

But if angel investors become more active and better known, they'll increasingly be able to reach most of the changes will be for the better. You can use that target growth rate. Ditto for PayPal. Are there zero users who really love you, but they know better than to be friends with the people whose discoveries will make them so. A few steps down from the top. Professors have to publish novel results to advance their careers, but there won't be many of them. When we cook one up we're not always 100% sure which kind it is. So the deals take longer, dilute you more, and impose more onerous conditions. They'll just have become a different, more conservative, type of investment. C was written by people who needed it for systems programming. But I could be wrong. What you're really doing when you start to see growth, they claim they were your friend all along, and are aghast at the thought of a 30% success rate at fundraising makes my stomach clench.

Being around bad people would be intolerable. And it's true, the benefit that specific manager could derive from the forces I've described. Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, Guido van Rossum, David Weinberger, and Steven Wolfram for reading drafts of this. But only about 10% of the time we could find at least one good name in a 20 minute office hour slot. Actually what they need to do two things, one of the keys to retaining their monopoly. And so ten years ago, he could teach him some new things; if a psychologist met a colleague from 100 years ago, writing software pretty much meant writing software in C or Perl. Now we needed to stay alive.

We'll probably never be able to match. I think hiring people is the worst thing a company can do. Hacking is something you do with it. Because they haven't tried to control it too much, Twitter feels to everyone like previous protocols. Nearly all your attachment to it comes from it being attached to you. Why programmers, more than dentists or salesmen or landscapers? So why did they even evolve? For example, the Honeywell thermostats in my house have the most atrocious UI. Barbershops are doing fine in the a department. Imagine the obelisk of startups. And now that I'm an investor, the thought of our startups keeps me up at night. The process inherently tends to produce an unpleasant result, like a student who hasn't prepared for an exam.

To be self-funding—Microsoft for example—but most aren't. You just try to get people to pay you for stuff. Investors' opinions are explicitly tested: startups come to them and they have started to use it? You're better off avoiding these. That's true. A rounds creep inexorably downward. That's nonsense. They're increasingly rare, and they're going to get rarer. The company being sold.

But the way they write software. How much is that extra attention worth? To the popular press, hacker means someone who breaks into computers. The founders can't enrich themselves without also enriching the investors. People don't do hard things gratuitously; no one will work on a harder problem unless it is proportionately or at least to know what an n 2 algorithm is if you want to avoid writing them. In fact many of the people who had them to continue thinking about. Fortunately if this does happen it will take years. And when the Mac appeared, it was obvious that rapid development would be important in this market. Was there a connection?

In a world of small companies, performance is all anyone cares about. It must once have been inhabited by someone fairly eccentric, because a lot of investors hated the idea, but they don't need as much of the innovation is unconscious. You know what a throwaway program is: something you write quickly for some limited task. This may not be easy, because a they may be, but more a way of predicting performance. Civil liberties make countries rich. One thing it means is that at least 20-25% of the code in this program is doing things that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. A round.

[coachemmanuelbrice]

Nous sommes encore à l'échelle de l'Amérique du Nord du Canada jusqu'au Mexique à la recherche des perles rares , des personnes talentueuses et des leaders audacieux pour notre nouveau programme de marketing connectif .

Le marketing connectif se diffère du marketing à niveaux multiples (MLM) bien que ce modèle est encore d'actualité. Il n'est pas mort .

Nous vous invitons chaleureusement à découvrir ce nouveau concept de marketing dit connectif à travers ONE MARKETPLACE qui est à la fine pointe de la technologie du moment .

Le marketing connectif est simple à développer. C'est un partage d'une expérience d'excitation, de joie et de contentement comme " client intelligent ".

C'est un plan pour les gens ambitieux qui veulent non pas seulement gagner des revenus résiduels mais d'avoir la possibilité de bâtir des relations saines , durables et fortes. C'est une aventure humaine à faire.

Vous pouvez me rejoindre en tout temps pour en discuter soit à travers les outils de communication des différents réseaux sociaux que j'utilse ou par téléphone .

Nous vivons présentement une grande excitation.

[oladivecenter]

Plongée pour la première fois à Ténérife : Une expérience inoubliable

Ténérife, la perle des Canaries, est une destination rêvée pour les amoureux de la nature, et encore plus pour ceux qui souhaitent plonger dans le monde fascinant de la plongée sous-marine. Si vous n’avez jamais plongé auparavant, Ténérife est le lieu idéal pour vivre votre première expérience.

Pourquoi commencer la plongée à Ténérife ?

L’océan Atlantique autour de Ténérife offre des eaux limpides avec une visibilité exceptionnelle allant jusqu’à 30 mètres, ce qui facilite grandement l’initiation. Les températures de l’eau, oscillant entre 19 °C en hiver et 25 °C en été, sont idéales pour plonger toute l’année.

L'île est également célèbre pour sa biodiversité marine. En plongeant pour la première fois, vous pourriez rencontrer des tortues marines, des raies majestueuses et des poissons multicolores évoluant dans leur habitat naturel. Les formations volcaniques sous-marines ajoutent une dimension unique et spectaculaire à votre découverte.

À quoi s’attendre lors de votre première plongée

Pour une première expérience de plongée, aucune compétence préalable n’est nécessaire. Les centres de plongée proposent des initiations adaptées aux débutants, généralement sous la forme de programmes « Discover Scuba Diving ». Ces sessions incluent :

Une introduction théorique : Vous apprendrez les bases de la plongée, le fonctionnement de l’équipement et les règles essentielles de sécurité.

Une pratique en eau peu profonde : Avant d’explorer les fonds marins, vous vous familiariserez avec l’équipement et apprendrez à respirer sous l’eau.

Une plongée guidée : Sous la supervision d’un instructeur expérimenté, vous explorerez un site de plongée en toute sécurité.

Les meilleurs sites pour débuter

Ténérife regorge de sites de plongée adaptés aux débutants. Parmi eux :

El Puertito : Connu pour ses tortues amicales qui nagent souvent près des plongeurs.

Los Cristianos : Un lieu calme et protégé, parfait pour une première expérience.

Abades : Avec ses fonds sableux et ses formations rocheuses, c’est un site idéal pour apprendre tout en admirant la faune marine.

Pourquoi choisir un centre de plongée professionnel ?

Lors de votre première plongée, il est crucial de s’entourer de professionnels qualifiés. Ils vous accompagneront à chaque étape et s’assureront que votre expérience soit à la fois sécurisée et agréable.

Recommandation : Diving Atlantis

Pour une première plongée réussie à Ténérife, nous recommandons chaleureusement Diving Atlantis. Ce centre de plongée se distingue par :

Son équipe expérimentée : Des instructeurs attentionnés et multilingues qui mettent les débutants en confiance.

Son équipement moderne : Tout le matériel est bien entretenu pour garantir confort et sécurité.

Son approche personnalisée : Que vous soyez seul ou en groupe, chaque plongée est adaptée à vos besoins et à votre niveau.

[darkpalmor]

27 NOVEMBRE 2024

Programme qui saigne sévère.

1°) Échauffement en 5 minutes et 5 lignes maxi : le labyrinthe.

J’ai commencé ma phrase en espérant arriver au bout, mais rien que de penser à un bout m’a rappelé la mauvaise blague du bâton qui a deux bouts, et qu’on coupe en deux, mais il a toujours deux bouts, alors j’ai pensé que ma phrase pourrait mal finir si je l’allongeais trop parce que la consigne c’est cinq lignes, et si j’écris dix lignes il faudra la couper. Mais pourquoi ai-je écrit tout ça ? Il faut que j’en sorte. Où est l’autre bout du labyrinthe ?

2°) Un peu de haine gratuite (10 minutes) : Les banquets. On expliquera de manière raisonnée, calmement, pourquoi l’on déteste les banquets, de quelque nature qu’ils soient (de conscrits, de société, de militaires, de famille, etc.).

Je hais les banquets et les banqueteurs. Ce genre de cérémonie maniaquement organisée me glace déjà rien qu’à l’idée de devoir chercher l’étiquette qui indique ma place. Et à côté de qui serai-je ? Une rombière à collier de perles et décorations multiples ? Un P.D.G. cravaté et noyé d’eau de toilette ? Un sourd à qui je devrai faire la conversation en lui criant dans l’oreille ? Les banquets sont détestables parce qu’il faut endurer l’attente du début, l’attente des plats, l’obséquiosité des larbins qui veulent à toute force remplir mon verre, les serveurs empotés qui tremblent au-dessus de mon épaule en apportant les plats en sauce. Il faut endurer la crainte d’un impair, de faire des miettes inconvenantes, de répondre au voisin d’en face avec du persil sur les dents. Les banquets sont détestables parce qu’il s’y trouve toujours un président de quelque chose, qui tape sur son verre en cristal pour demander la parole, et qu’on doit écouter poliment, ou religieusement, au garde-à-vous mental, sans bouger, pendant trop longtemps et que le café refroidit dans les tasses. Les banquets sont haïssables parce que, parfois, il faut se lever et rester en point de mire de dizaines d’inconnus, quand encore il ne faut pas pousser la chansonnette… Les banquets, c’est toujours un assemblage, ou un ramassis, d’individus qui font semblant d’avoir un esprit collectif pendant quelques heures, et qui se séparent en ayant oublié le nom de presque tout le monde, excepté peut-être la brunette en face, qui peut être une bonne affaire, ou le député dans le coin, qui peut procurer une bonne affaire.

3°) 10 mots pour une histoire de hasard (10 minutes). On tire au sort dix mots dans une liste qui en contient vingt-cinq, et on écrira une histoire où ils seront tous employés.

Les mots tombés d’une main innocente sont les suivants : injecter, mystère, autobus, main, automobile, hasard, plume, délire, personne, lueur.

Personne ne l’avait vu ni entendue venir. Une espèce de brouillard envahissait la rue, et le bitume donnait l’impression de disparaître au bout de vingt mètres. Une automobile apparut, silencieuse, silhouette trouble, au ralenti, puis s’arrêta devant notre petit groupe. Nous ne disions plus rien, attendant que quelqu’un en sorte, mais nous ne vîmes, pour la plupart, qu’une main qui passait par la vitre abaissée, et à la lueur du plafonnier nous comprîmes que quelque chose n’allait pas. Une main, et pas de corps, pas de tête. Le mystère devenait palpable et angoissant. « C’est du délire, dit Élisabeth, c’est l’homme invisible qui a mis des gants ? ! » La voiture se remit lentement en marche, repartit sans bruit, et il n’y eut plus rien, qu’une brume qui s’épaississait. Et puis une plume tomba du ciel, en voletant, et se posa à mes pieds, comme par hasard, me désignant pour être le responsable de ce qui devrait advenir désormais. L’autobus scolaire arriva enfin, klaxonnant à tue-tête, et nous pûmes enfin nous y injecter tout le reste de la dope qui nous ferait patienter jusqu’à l’entrée du lycée.

4°) Intégration forcée (10 minutes) : Un fragment d’Étienne Candel. On l’intègrera tel quel, sans le modifier même d’une virgule, dans un texte libre : « le mouvement paresseux des carpes au matin, plus paresseux dans leur sommeil, mais moins dans… »

Ses souvenirs défilaient comme des silhouettes floues, se confondant parfois les uns avec les autres, et sa pensée, molle, essayait de se développer dans un labyrinthe de mots incomplets, de phrases fragmentaires, comme on voit sous la surface d’une eau trouble le mouvement paresseux des carpes au matin, plus paresseux dans leur sommeil, mais moins dans leur légère agitation lorsqu’elles se croisent entre deux tiges de nénuphars, et il espérait que ce cycle anesthésiant cesserait d’un coup, qu’il trouverait le mot qu’il cherchait vainement, qu’il le verrait surgir de ce magma mouvant de syllabes et de pensées inabouties, comme lorsque les carpes de Villandry se jettent vers la surface pour gober les miettes de pain que leur jettent les touristes.

[jeanetjeannepatin]

Mercredi 11 septembre 2024 à 19H, la Petite Boutique Fantasque se penche sur la complexité des problèmes contemporains. L'époque est troublée, le mal rôde. Mais il y a des signes indiscutables, des témoignages troublants que Marius Pinel essaie de décrypter avec sa sagacité coutumière. Il y a peut être une solution aux problèmes de notre époque. 

Programmation musicale : 1) Perles de cristal (Yvette Horner) 2) Estupenda Graça (Pat Metheny / Lyles Mays)

+ témoignages de signes et d'apparitions durant l'été 2024 + analyses fines de Marius Pinel

Pour ceux qui auraient piscine indienne, ou toute autre obligation, il y a une possibilité de rattrapage avec les podcasts de la PBF : https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioRadioToulouse/le-mal-rôde-et-sa-résolution-la-petite-boutique-fantasque/

Vivat giscardus ad aeternum et sus aux Philistins !

Image de l'apparition mariale à Medugorje (Bosnie-Herzégovine) 1981