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The technically obsolete and physically decayed...
...laying bare

Modding, installing CFW, homebrew, accessories, friendcodes, and anything related to the 3DS and its variants such as the 3DSXL/LL, 2DS, 2DSXL/LL, New 3DS, New 3DSXL/LL and iQue 3DSXL can be posted here.
I thought it would be ok to post here since this is isn't only about the games. Feel free to share your advice or experiences.

You can, right?

what's the best laptop

Anything that you can plug in or stuff that can be plugged into.
For any questions about some obscure standards...

I use Arch btw

what's your favorite programming language?

i am scared of ais i dont like how smart they have gottten its creepy as fuck!!!!
its not just me right???

This is a thread for talking about general pattern recognition and pattern extension algorithms!! I'll kick the thread off with a link to a paper about the "tolman-eichenbaum machine", which is a neural network-derived data structure that emulates the behavior of the hippocampus.

Tolman-eichenbaum machine: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31388-X

(In common parlance this might be known as "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence", but I find using broad terms like that leads to conflation, and instead it to be best to focus on specific ways patterns can be modeled, and then using that as a component of a more sophisticated agent worthy of the moniker)

Recently got access to OpenAI's Codex and I played around with it a bit.
Sometimes it generates exactly what I ask, but next day if I ask the same
thing it spits out absolute garbage code like, instead of iterating an
array it literally writes out every single index and does operations
on them one by one. Is it really just copying someone's code from GitHub?
If that's true then it's a huge gamble. I can imagine if I'm working on a
big project I would have to generate and then check every single line
carefully for bugs, at that point I'd rather write the code myself because
it's much easier for me to write code and know exactly how it works
than try to understand what someone else wrote.

Still, I think this is just the beginning. Language models are going
to get better and better. I don't think it will completely replace
programmers until AGI but it will definitely change the field in a major way.
Will this cause decline in demand for programmers? I know the creation of
high level languages did the opposite, which is basically the same thing
with Codex, it's another way of telling a computer what to do
but it's becoming more and more like plain english.

I don't know if this never-ending process of reaching for higher levels of abstraction
will always create more jobs or if it will halt at a certain point.
And this one might as well be that point because it will basically
just require you to know english and that's it. Although there
must be someone who actually understands the code AI generates, you
could see how this significantly reduces the amount of work you have to do.

I guess I'm worried because I'm just entering the field and wondering
if I'll struggle keeping a job in a few years.

What do you think?

What are you working on right now? (or, what do you hope to be working on in the future?)