The Register: Bank of England pours cold water on AI
productivity boom.
In its latest Monetary Policy Report, the central bank found that AI has
increased UK productivity by an estimated 0.5 percent over the past three years. That works
out to just 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points of additional annual productivity growth since
early 2024, hardly the economic revolution Silicon Valley has been promising.
And then there's the caveat that spending on AI is up, and businesses are hiring fewer
workers, which also make the numbers look artificially inflated.
Carina C. Zona
@cczona@hachyderm.ioM notes:
Sunk Cost Fallacy in action: we've spent a fortune on accomplishing absolutely
nothing, so obviously we need to spend bigger on the failed strategy. Go into debt! That's
gotta work.
Fascinating: The Port That
Does Not Exist
Port 0 is the port you are not supposed to use, so nobody looks there. So we put
an IRC network on it. Then I got curious whether anyone else had, and scanned all of IPv4
for port 0. Turns out we weren't alone, and some of our neighbours really shouldn't be
there.
SF Standard: The Great Highway’s neighbors flipped and saved the park they once
hated.
As Marc
Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social noted:
I hope political leaders in #Berkeley and everywhere else read and take the
lesson from this story, which is repeated *all* *the* *time* for changes that remove car
infrastructure: people hate those changes in theory and love them in practice!
Running the profiler, see 600 ms spent in `[NSISO8601DateFormatter dateFromString:…]`
The thing is, I don’t know how to create an NSDate object any faster...
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC
@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party
Me: Hail Satan
Friend: Huh?
Me: Snow Satan
Friend: WTF?
Me: Rain Satan
Friend: What are you babbling on about you loon.
Me: I'm hoping for some precipisatan.