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> Why is it allowed to impose its force on the civilians it is protecting?

I don't think co-operation on this type of crime is part of the treaty itself but the treaty doesn't mean much if the two countries don't have a good diplomatic relationship.

> Is it because A/I are "terrorists" and "terrorists" are NATO responsibility?

Wtf are you on about?

If they're willing to go to war for each other, I'd say they're willing to take down a server or two for each other too.

Obviously not a perfect analogy but it shows that US-Dutch relationships very much predate ASML and extend far beyond commercial interests. I have a similar problem with the Taiwan "silicon shield" meme that's been going around, as if the US hasn't supported the republican Chinese forces since the 30's, including with troops on the ground.

Wow, what a bad take.

The EUV lenses are made by Zeiss in Germany AFAIK. But to even suggest that ASML is dictating US-Dutch diplomacy, two NATO members with similar values and goals, is hilariously off.

I prefer the simpler beancount: https://github.com/beancount/beancount

All of these use slightly incompatible formats, the irony of which will not escape the educated reader.

> COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%. Pneumonic plague, without antibiotics, has a case fatality rate of 100%.

a) why are we comparing treated death rates with untreated death rates?

b) COVID got significantly less deadly as it evolved, which is a known phenomenon that should also apply to this plague

c) that link hijacked my back button, I don't appreciate that >:-(

"... make no mistakes" :)

Your theory seems to be that the speed of information significantly increased the power the pope can wield and this is what allowed for the centralization of power.

I don't think the historical record shows that. The speed of information changed little from the time of the Nicean council to the council of Trent, yet the primacy of the pope was very much established by the latter, even if it was only formalized in the 1st Vatican council.

Even to this day church politics plays out over many months and years (just look at the recent SSPX situation which was a slow-mo train wreck), the speed of information doesn't seem very significant.

The Anglican Ordinataries are actually a rather mild example as they're still under the Roman Catholic church.

The eastern Catholic churches are also in communion with Rome but have a far longer history of independence and also allow married men to become priests, even if they weren't married clergy before joining, which the AO doesn't allow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches

> Historically this was the result of the fact the church predates modern communications. It was not possible for a Pope to direct things

That's not really accurate. All bishops were essentially "autocephalus" in antiquity. Whether they could even be removed by a council of other bishops was something that was really not resolved for many centuries. There were many occasions of competing councils declaring each other heretics and shenanigans like that.

The Orthodox still practice this system of governance (although sovereignty has been moved up from diocesan bishops to the patriarch of each autocephalus church).

AGA and EGF are very minor federations in the Go world, all the professionals are in Asia where the game is far bigger.

Nice read but hard to resist the "X but in Japan!" jokes.

Python certainly has some baggage, especially the typing system (which is still not finished, if you're looking at static typing and so is implemented differently by type checkers) and pip's safety, or lack thereof. But comparing it to PHP or Perl is rhetoric leading you one step too far.

Citation needed. And the problem isn't that Europe doesn't have its own wizards, it's that they don't have the mana market to turn those spell ideas into reality.

It's part of the EU's strategy to catch up by investing in future technology instead of building out present capacity.

I think it's a mistaken strategy but it's hard to suggest anything better when you look at the measly amounts they're investing that would get them very little with existing technology. So, they're forced to gamble on vaporwave tech.

Edit: I'm specifically talking about their semiconductor and computing strategy.

a.k.a. VRAM

The difference is that the US didn't start that war.

Basque is not an Indo-European language:)

> In the past, "labor saving technology" has always spawned alternate jobs that people could take with some retraining.

Labor saving technology does not create enough alternative jobs to employ all those that it displaced, otherwise it wouldn't be labor saving.

Instead, the surplus created by these technologies allows that society to deploy labor on less immediately necessary jobs. These jobs weren't created by the technology, they were always there, but society did not have the resources to staff them (think education, research, academia, merchants, etc.)

This dynamic has been true since pre-historic times, so you'll need some extraordinary evidence if you want us to believe this time is different.

He's pointing out that labor has always opposed labor saving technology, despite that being the basis of our modern quality of life.

> I'm not sure how many languages you speak or encountered in the wild before, but some languages are VERY different from each other, some are a bit different and others are basically the same with some differences.

I'm a dual citizen of Portugal and Brazil and I live in the US now, so that's my linguistic background. (Also studied bits of French, Russian, Latin and Greek.)

> Doing what I describe for languages that are similar is easier than languages that are very different, for what I hope are obvious reasons.

Not only are your reasons not obvious, your conclusion is actually wrong.

If the goal is to create an LLM with minimal Brazilian Portuguese bias (which was one of their main goals), it might actually make more sense to train it in any other language BUT Brazilian Portuguese (say, English), then fine-tune it for European Portuguese.

LLM's have shown to be very good at generalizing across languages (the transformer architecture literally comes from work on translators IIRC).

What's your evidence for that?

And if the first 80% doesn't bias the language after post-training (which I think is what you're claiming) why not go for English or a mixture of languages, which is essentially what they did by starting with EuroLLM?

The whole point of this project is to have an LLM that speaks European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese.

> Why would you let America take 2-3% of your transaction volumes?

I don't think VISA/Mastercard takes such a fee? (They'd be some of the biggest companies in the world if they did.)

The fees they charge are actually fractions of a percent, the rest are charged by the card issuer, which is usually your bank.

You could, in theory, use the VISA network and not pay those fees to a card issuer.

Presumably they're making the leap that this printing technology can be leveraged to develop an alternative display technology that would change the structure in real time, kind of like color e-ink displays.

It's quite the leap, but that's science communication for you!

I'd say Skyrim was just around the border where you started to get engines which uncoupled physics from FPS.

This only really matters for competitive games though, so it's not surprising it wasn't prioritized.

Are the quake, goldsource, source, etc engines jank? Because they all did this, to some extent.

It might be harder to find an engine from the early 2010's that didn't tie at least some physics to FPS.

> If you have a diode, then the transistor is only a small step away.

It is not. We've had semiconductor diodes since 1874, but it took many decades to develop the solid state physics to understand how they worked and how to extend them. Crucially, you need some understanding of quantum theory (energy levels, Fermi distributions, etc), which was not developed until the 20s and 30s.

Even after they had the physics down, Shockley still spent over a decade unsuccessfully trying to get a FET to work (due to trapped charges which were not understood until the 50s). This is partially why the experimentalists, Bardeen and Brattain, are quoted alongside Shockley as the inventors of the transistor, even though Shockley had come up with a lot of the theory years before.

Considering two Germans in Paris independently discovered the transistor just a few months after Shockley's team, this seems like a self-serving fantasy: https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/the-european-t...

There's no question in my mind that American industry and capital markets were far better at pivoting to this new industry though.

And the other side would say that if we cut welfare spending we'd have a reasonable debt to GDP ratio.

It's very much political and it's a joke to pretend otherwise.

Nvidia subsidized machine learning research for years (both with CUDA, hardware donations and developing what was a very niche product line just for them) before deep learning became big, much less the advent of LLMs.

Certainly Jensen seemed to have an extremely long view on this burgeoning machine learning market in the early 2010's.