Flight recorders are called black boxes because they originally were black-colored boxes.

"Black box" in the sense that you are describing is an unrelated term.

Wikipedia agrees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology

You sound like you have a problem with that, but I can't fathom what alternative course you'd rather them pursue.

It is just a note. I don't mean it to sound anything other than what Wikipedia itself states. I see a tonne of "Wikipedia agrees" but none of "Wikipedia is a living document" and it isn't its place to be a gospel of truth...

Wikipedia is not and cannot, as per their own policies, be the primary source. 'Wikipedia agrees' is shorthand for 'the sources mentioned by this particular Wikipedia article agree'

I think it's shorthand for "the collective Wikipedia editors agree," which is not exactly the same thing as saying every claim is backed by any particular source.

I think more accurately, "the group of Wikipedia editors that managed to 'win' a debate agree".

You see none of "Wikipedia is a living document"? I think people are pretty aware.

You see a lot more cases of people quoting Wikipedia on a topic than talking about Wikipedia's trustworthiness because it adds a second dimension. It's [Wikipedia, Topic] vs. [Wikipedia].

I might look up 100 different things on Wikipedia. The fact that Wikipedia has all sorts of flaws is something I only needed to learn once.

The phrase "Wikipedia agrees" succinctly encodes the correct degree of confidence, as opposed to "it's true, see Wikipedia".

An argument can be made, I guess, if one leaves out the exclamation... "Wikipedia agrees!"

You're really reaching for nitpicks, there.

Some flight data recorders are still housed in black boxes! Here’s one from the back of a 747 in the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA (sorry for my lousy photography) https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApyfVMR9dcxJnUDadgS2DDI_XUFa

The orange box is the cockpit voice recorder.

https://www.museumofflight.org/

And Valve would sue them if they called it The Orange Box.

Have you had a look at https://nnfs.io/ ? I bought the book and am gearing up to start working through it, I would be interested to know your thoughts. Generally I want to chart a personal curriculum from data engineer to practical application of modern AI to real business problems.

I hadn't seen that book before.

Looks like it's a companion to this YouTube series that looks pretty interesting https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDcjD5BAw2DxE6OF...

I will check it out for sure

I'd be interested to know what you think, it's quite a time investment to study the entire book.

What would you say about someone new to all AI starting by working through the Neural Networks from Scratch book? https://nnfs.io/

I use neo4j in a sideproject, they did a bait and switch with the license model, I was not happy about that.

what about the execution model is not scalable? I've got a side project using neo4j, maybe I can avoid a major mistake here?

You can't shard it. I think you can now maybe, but last time I looked you could only scale veritically, not horizontally

I think sharding graph models are actually difficult problem.

During a period where there is a perceived shortage of new devs, existing dev teams still have to meet deadlines and move the ball, this forces streamlining of processes and thus reduces the immediate need for new team members. If someone on my team leaves and I need to back-fill engineering time on a process or app, and I can't back-fill quickly, what other choice do I have other than to reassess the entire process and change it so that it requires less commitment moving forward?

How does this happen? Were they just stealing funds?

Yes. All banks do this. If everyone went to their bank tomorrow and asked for their money back you’d see the same thing.

Was FTX within their rights to do this?

Shout out to Neo4j.

To get a currency that you can pay taxes with, or buy traditional securities.

Hidden taxes, the debt and inflation are just hidden taxes.

In Argentina is common knowledge considering our inflation as a form of taxation that does not need the creation of a concrete tax law.