But… you have to create criteria for what qualifies as success vs failure, and it’s a scale, not a boolean true/false. That’s where the statistics come in, especially if you have multiple criteria with different weights etc.

But it is, and it always has been. Absurdly complexly layered statistics, calculated faster than a human could.

This whole “we can’t explain how it works” is bullshit from software engineers too lazy to unwind the emergent behavior caused by their code.

Have to say that I love how this idea congealed into “popular fact” as soon as peoples paychecks started relying on massive investor buy in to LLMs.

I have a hard time believing that anyone truly convinced that humans operate as stochastic parrots or statistical analysis engines has any significant experience interacting with others human beings.

Less dismissively, are there any studies that actually support this concept?

Man, I’d hate to see an IT department you were in charge of.

I may be completely off the mark, but I’m pretty sure that Intune device management doesn’t allow you to push arbitrary APKs out to managed Android devices. There would still also be the issue of getting the device managed to start with.

Microsoft isn’t about to roll out their own version of the Play Store just to serve APKs to their Chinese employees.

They also are not going to try and manage rolling out updates to whatever cluster mess of different android devices those employees use, tracking update compliance, etc

Any other solution to this involves considerable extra work for their internal IT team(s). Easier to just force everyone needing access to corporate devices to use a single standard (and buy company phones for the few who raise a stink).

“Grown ass adult finally learns about engaging with a creation as separate from its creator, more at 11”

Then why half ass it in the first place? If you’re double his age then I would expect you to have enough life experience to fake your enthusiasm, or to have enough perspective that an awkward 30 minutes with someone you supposedly care about wouldn’t be worth complaining about online to strangers.

You’re being dismissive and kind of a dick to someone wishing you good luck.

They’re not a bot, just a very zealous mod trying to keep traffic and posts happening in some smaller communities.

Most lemmy apps and front ends also identify bot accounts with a bot icon next to the username.

There are mutual aid communities on lemmy where you might be able to find someone willing to send you some cash through an app. Good luck.

I can definitely think of worse ways to spend my final moments