Right, but the trend seems to be towards decreasing the efficiency of software/scripts/prompts execution and increasing the efficient use of human time. Human time may be more valuable (or just have a rapidly decreasing attention span).
Oh, I did not have the foresight to save any of those old IBM 650 manuals. Too busy learning new stuff to think about the day when those might be fond memories. Of course, they are now all online (IBM 650 Manuals [https://piercefuller.com/collect/650man/index.html]) and available for the day I might be feeling nostalgic. Thanks for the reminder! Jim F. James Rohlf Distinguished Professor, Emeritus and Research Professor Depts: Anthropology and Ecology & Evolution Stony Brook University On 3/24/2026 3:10:21 PM, Joe Felsenstein <[email protected]> wrote: This is the first time you received an email from this sender ([email protected]). Exercise caution when clicking links, opening attachments or taking further action, before validating its authenticity. Jim noted that AI was: "Computationally less efficient (so much faster computers are required) but easier for humans to use with even less technical knowledge of how computers actually work." It is computationally less efficient if one has to do the AI interaction for each data set. But if it is just making Python or R code and giving you that, then not computationally much less efficient than just doing your own R or Python. (Reading Jim's list of successive stages, I was reminded of much past pain. I didn't quite start with the IBM 650 (instead iof CDC 1604 in 1961), but I have saved, from Jim Crow's lab, the user manuals for the 650.) Joe ---- Joe Felsenstein, [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]], [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle ---- PS Please do not use [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]. It is an alias and mail systems often recognize that and think it is spam. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/CAE-xHnX1PmsEu3jXXimdmedQT-a5DYz1vMp%2BpwLTv8Lc%2BuGNzQ%40mail.gmail.com [https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/CAE-xHnX1PmsEu3jXXimdmedQT-a5DYz1vMp*2BpwLTv8Lc*2BuGNzQ*40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer___.YzJ1OnN0b255YnJvb2s6YzpnOjg4OGZjYjBiOTA5YzY2N2ZlZjg3NGNkMWFhMGNmYTMyOjc6ZmQwNDozZGRmNmQ1YzBkM2UyMDllZGZhNWI1NzQ2OTkxMDUwZTM5MzYyZDQ1YTA0YjhmYTRhMjE0N2RhOWYxNTE3ODBjOmg6VDpG]. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/Mailbird-10068588-9685-4373-a12c-1ff508791779%40stonybrook.edu.
