One of Java's the ecosystem fundamental platforms is that it's multi-threading. It's gone through too many models.
And since Java has a metric ton of blog posts from the 2000s and 2010s, a lot of search engines lead you to older models.java itself has gone from green threads to OS threads and back to green threads now.
Maybe within the strict confines of these cases made by Microsoft, which also have inherent monopoly designs behind them.
Office documents are still fundamentally opaque to data extraction and generation. The user interfaces of the components are still heavily restricted to dedicated applications as opposed to providing some sort of means of embedding them in other contexts such as gasp a web page that might have an actually good Excel interface.
And I would say in general llm should be a massive boon to closing the compatibility gap between free office applications and the barriers put up by proprietary ones, particularly format. Parsing and saving
If we can have an office document foundation similar to what Labor office does to provide generalized libraries and code for parsing office document formats saving them across many platforms, something that just piecemeal across most programming languages and environments, it could be a huge boon to open days formats represented by these relatively important file formats:
The spreadsheet
The word document
The presentation
The flowchart/chart
Well, Microsoft with things like OLE kind of pushed some of these capabilities across the Microsoft ecosystem. That sucks and it failed because it was within the Monopoly.
End state of capitalism is Egyptian pharaohs, a few pyramid architects, and a lot of slaves and whips.
The only thing to counter this would be some sort of geopolitical Darwinism, where societies that invest more in their populations would have healthier and stronger societies and militaries.
But nuclear Armageddon prevents that from being any sort of slim hope.
The current American political climate of extreme service to the ultra rich, vast degradation of the democratic institutions, and infrastructure for a complete surveillance state is bleak.
The only hope I have for some sort of human structure in this technological wasteland that might win out is the fact that AI and the tech algorithms in general have taken the demographic collapse associated with urbanization and vastly magnified it.
We're already seeing this in places like China. If you have too much centralized control and too much limitation of freedom, The population will simply refuse to procreate, and your country dies a slow death over 50 years.
Ive done a couple exploratory learning with AIs and wow could it help with learning.
Imo we may be messing up the economy with AIs. They should be engineering better workers, not being employed to make one person do the work of three poorly.
The power of AIs to smooth learning and raise expertise, rather than replace it, should be the adaptation goal. Obviously AIs as work assistants are powerful, but all the AI bullshitting CEOs overselling AIs is really damaging on the whole economic level
Particularly because the current marketing leads to the next generation abandoning roles that AI bullshitters claim are perfectly replaced.
It's like the urbanization demographic bomb on steroids.
I find myself worrying the AI bubble will pop and we'll lose this aspect of AI's without it ever being properly explored. Instead of doomscrolling now I find myself firing up claude and saying 'explain ... to me' and it proceeds to tell me all about it. I can ask it questions and it seems fairly right - at least right enough for me to proceed, it's way better at this than building code, in my experience anyway.
When people say the "bubble will pop" it's meant in analogy to the dotcom era - businesses and investers lost money, but the internet (and its opportunities) didn't vanish.
Even open-weight local models are becoming good enough for teaching yourself quite a range of stuff, especially the beginner aspects. LLMs are not going to simply disappear because of a financial reallignment. The worst thing might be not being able to access a super-duper frontier model for free?
No, there is one award each year, and this year it is shared equally between two people: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard. This happens more often, and it has even been shared between three people (in 2002, 2007 and 2018).
And since Java has a metric ton of blog posts from the 2000s and 2010s, a lot of search engines lead you to older models.java itself has gone from green threads to OS threads and back to green threads now.
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