I was always taught that relativity, evolution, an old universe and even a not too literal interpretation of the bible (some caveats to that last one) are perfectly compatible with Catholicism. My dad was taught by Jesuits and I was taught at a former convent school. The Vatican has an observatory and the pontifical academy of sciences is far from an "answers in genesis" type organisation.
Some British right wing journalist/politician made a splash complaining about health and safety announcements and signs on the underground recently. I think the issue they have is that it's a tacit admission that we have a responsibility to other people, individually and collectively. And not just to those who pay us or who we can benefit from, but to humanity as a whole.
Question for users of such tools: can't you ask the LLM at the end of the session to choose the most important parts of the context, compress it using your favourite tool, then decompress at the beginning of the next session?
Hm, the problem is that a little over half of all politicians are ideologically opposed to the government running anything (the reason your comment felt "controversial", I suspect). Id hate to come to depend on it and always be one election away from it falling apart.
I can't say I have a good alternative. The co-op model works for supermarkets on an international scale, and for banks on a national scale (I am unaware of any international co-op banks). I wonder if it could work for payments.
Does anyone with a brain think ads inform? I'm not sure they ever did. The real issue here is that there's never going to be political will for this. Advertising and propaganda are the same yes. Lobbying is closely related. Banning anything for the good of the people or society is anathema to the current crop of politicians. Even if that wasn't the case, anyone putting this forward as a policy would find themselves running against an extremely well funded opponent with the backing of a lot of the media.
Mine's about 13. I just upgraded from Ubuntu 22 to 24 and I'm regretting it a bit. on 22 I could watch downloaded films on an external monitor but not stream video. I could live with that. But now it seems 24 uses just a little more memory and watching a downloaded video on the monitor makes it shudder... :(
But you have no idea of the prompt. The money will ultimately go to people who are almost certainly invested in real estate. I make no allegations, but I would not ask any landlord for advice on which terms of my contract to negotiate/flag as illegal.
No information about who owns this company. Given that it is very likely run by, in effect, landlords, I would be extremely suspicious of any advice it would give me as a tenant.
I think you're wrong about that last part. For ads to make sense as a revenue stream you have to basically auction them, for example at different times and different countries etc. So there has to be some automation, you can't just manually include each ad. This will have to be done programmatically, and there will always be traces (e.g. in div classes). You can try to randomise these or what have you, but it's basically a cat and mouse game with ad blockers.
Brain drain happens when the quality of life in a particular country dips below some standard. It's relative to other countries only up to a point. I strongly doubt it is possible to increase quality of life (albeit for a minority) in one country so high to outweigh the utility of staying put in other countries. You certainly can't do it in a democracy: who would vote to increase the quality of life specifically for a small group of immigrants? I'm pro immigration btw but people are not going to vote against their own interests to such an extent.
Just a word on 2, I think that the axioms have to be finite right? (Given that they exist at all) Nothing in the physical universe can require an infinite description.
I think you're right and I have a few systems I've implemented that work with me not against me. For example I organise my kitchen drawers by putting things in higher drawers if I use them a lot and lower if I don't. If I "mess up" it doesn't matter: things I use more will naturally rise to the top. Similarly spices, I return the spices to the cupboard at the front of the shelf and a natural ordering by usage develops over time.
In software terms the closest is that I switched to kiss launcher on my phone. It just shows you the apps in the order you used them, plus one horizontal line of faves and one vertical line of widgets. It can also learn what you do but I prefer the basic ordering. I use zoxide in the terminal for navigation and on the desktop I just press Super and search for everything.
How are spelling rules anything other than a cultural artefact? They are invented by a person or group of people and then agreed upon and implemented by a larger group. Then the rules are obeyed or not on a case by case basis by an even larger group of people. Arguably language itself is not a cultural artefact. But distinctions between languages and all attempts to describe or prescribe their use are.
I think you should have some "about us" section on your webpage if you want people to give their email addresses. I already get loads of spam that knows my email address belongs to someone with a PhD (though they are often shaky on the details). I looked at your site and there's no information about who is doing it and why.
Er what?? You're so far off base. I've lived in the Czech republic for 6 years, Finland for 3 years before that. I'm catholic and my family are Spanish on one side. On the other, well let's say if I was American I would call myself Irish American but I'm not Irish in fact. Ireland has its own culture and of course there's not the continuity with other EU states (Bavarian culture bleeds into Bohemian, the Nordic countries have their shared history, etc). You might argue that they have some cultural similarities with the Brits (but Irish people I know don't think much of that idea). The phenomenon you mention, US corporations using/abusing Irish tax law, is an assault on Irish people and culture not caused by them.
To point to a specific example, Spain and Ireland recognised Palestine in a joint statement.
The keyword not mentioned here is one-way function. Cryptography is for the most part based on candidates for one-way functions: functions that are easy to perform on any input but difficult to undo on average. The existence of such a function would imply that P is not NP but the converse doesn't hold.
We already have a term for this: false economy. And "cutting the brakes to increase mileage" is a terrible analogy for the examples given. There are instances of that: rolling your own encryption comes to mind. But here the better analogy would be buying cheap shoes that you have to replace much more often.