Perplexity had no problem with the question, replying in part, "Paul Newman is known to have struggled with alcohol throughout his life, as revealed in various accounts, including his own memoir and documentaries about his life...."
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From that 5-pass process the marked-up text is handed to a volunteer "post-processor" who assembles the final HTML or e-book file; then the completed book gets one more "smooth reading" pass before it is posted to PG.
This it the process that produces the books input to Standard Ebooks. That they can still find scanner errors ("tne" for "the", a typical "scanno") demonstrates how difficult it is to see those. But their presence isn't from carelessness or disregard for the value of the books.
In the 20-teens I put in hundreds of volunteer hours at PGDP in all the above roles, and it was very satisfying work. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting an online hobby that feels constructive. Volunteering time to Standard Ebooks would probably feel good as well.
They mention a profound difference in the opening paragraph, "Large language models do not depend on symbolic parts of speech or syntactic rules". Human language models very obviously and evidently do. On that basis alone, it can't be valid to just assume that a human "embedding" is equivalent to an LLM "embedding", for input or output.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/chm-releases-alexnet-source...
> a thief threatens a man with a gun, demanding his money, then fires the gun (etc add details)
> the thief runs away, while his victim slowly collapses on the sidewalk (etc same details)
Would you get the same characters, wearing the identical clothing, the same lighting and identical background details? You need all these elements to be the same, that's what filmmakers call "continuity". I doubt that Veo or any of the generators would actually produce continuity.
This quote suggests not: "maintaining complete consistency throughout complex scenes or those with complex motion, remains a challenge."
The list of stories in the contents[3] is indeed wonderful. I instantly recognize and remember "The Menace from Earth", "Black Destroyer", "A Pail of Air", "Who Goes There" (the original from which _The Thing_ and many other productions derived) and others.
[0] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___0.htm
[3] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747_toc.htm
"If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other..."
How do you handle customs inspections and duties on imports? As TFA states, in current air freight, "there is a trucking company, a warehouse, a customs broker..." Freight has to go through the warehouse on arrival in-country so the customs inspectors can look at it and assess duties. The article seems to envision the airship dropping down directly at the destination address, which would be that nation's customs agency's worst nightmare.
However several comments here mention the convenience of a workflow based on Markdown + GIT. Exactly that workflow is the heart of Leanpub[0]. That site facilitates writing into text files organized and stored on Github (or Dropbox), compiling at any point to a finished-looking e-text, which you can then sell via their storefront[1], or take the finished ebook or pdf to a different platform. Leanpub supports their own Markdown variant (sigh).
[0] https://leanpub.com/authors
https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Sans_Mono
https://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php
font download link at https://www.pgdp.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=70714
Gave me a credit of 2USD to play with.
That barrier is simply this: emigration as a retired person is much more difficult than for a person in their active working years. If you are active in any of a variety of occupations, nations are much more likely to give you residence. Every nation has a list of occupations they'd like to have more bodies working in; and the strongest recommendation is to have an local employer willing to hire you. Retired people are seen as potential burdens on all social services and generally have to meet higher requirements.
That said, if you are young or in mid-life, think about it. If you are even modestly wealthy, look first at nations offering a "golden visa"[1], a residence permit given in return for your investment in local real-estate or business.
And for pete's sake look beyond Canada and New Zealand. The best prospect I found for a US emigrée was Uruguay! If you have any Spanish, give it a careful look[2,3].
[1] https://visaguide.world/golden-visa/
Probably you should just repaint the main window, with the search string intact but showing only the matching selection of titles. Then one could alt-click to open a title in a separate window or tab, and not lose the search.
Remember the Lavarand[1]? Random number generator based on an array of lava lamps?
"create One"
caused it to create an omniscient "ground of all being".
Followed by "create Rene" whereupon it created a detailed biography of Descartes, who "Overwhelmed by the influx of sensory data and perplexed by his own nature, he turns inward, determined to find a bedrock of certainty on which to build a worldview."
This is quite astonishingly good.
Certainly a Christian hermetic deals with the same problems as does a Buddhist monk, but I note one profound difference in their approaches. The Christian faces a dualistic world, and trains the mind to, as the article quotes one monk saying, "become strong enough to drive off the enemy’s stimuli.” The "enemy" being Satan, trying to divert the faithful. The Buddhist does not see the world as divided between warring good and evil influences, but rather views the wandering mind non-judgementally, as needing only constant gentle correction.