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I misread that as the LTS version of the bible

Yeah of course none of this makes sense. And yet it all has real world consequences. It's all incredibly partisan. If one just manages to take a step back and watch this dynamic from outside it all seems so weird: the islamist Iran backs Hamas, Hamas are Palestinians, Palestinians are victimized by Jews, Jews have money, capitalists have money, america is capitalist, america is imperialist, ergo .... Islamist Iran is against capitalist imperialism. The protests are against islamist Iran ergo they are against the fight against capitalist imperialism and thus they don't deserve solidarity, or something like this.

I would really love to hear from somebody who is not supporting the Iran protests to honestly tell me if I misrepresented their position and in which way

Apparently a lot of people in the west too are assuming that these protests are fueled by the west. At least that's the most likely explanation for why so many left leaning youth are not supporting Iranians while supporting Palestine. Apparently the fight is not about freedom but about (perceived) whiteness vs non-whiteness

A charitable interpretation of what GP said is that Brin might not have a specific expertise in AI.

I also think this doesn't make sense, because he certainly stayed on top of things

If you can context switch then you can pipeline

Yes, sometimes that's indeed an opportunity cost. But it's also a catalyst for making things possible or affordable that otherwise wouldn't be.

Many technological progress are first explored in niche and luxury segments and only later fully developed for the masses with mass utility. Space exploration, motor racing sports, military, .... they all can seem like wasteful enterprises and yet a lot of new technologies come from these areas

An expensive model can generate the training dataset

Turns out that a lot of interesting computation can be expressed as a matrix multiplication.

I assume the Russians with whom I have talked to and don't think that forceful annexation was a good thing don't count under your "NONE" description.

Perhaps it's because they are few of them (fair enough mine is just personal experience, not a poll)

Or perhaps it's because you consider everybody who believes that Crimea is now populated mostly by Russians (and thinks that giving it back now will create more trouble than solve) as people who CHEERED the annexation.

I don't think it logically follows.

But I understand your feeling since there are so many people (even outside of Russia) that literally cheer for Russia getting their empire back. Unfortunate their noise surpasses any ability to have a nuanced conversation about this.

I wished humanity headed towards a peaceful resolution of conflicts where people can seek self determination and autonomy (basque, Catalan, Kurds, Palestinians, ...) instead of resolving such issues with invasion and pandering to imperialistic visions

Of course many many Russians think that "Ukrainians are "Little Russians" at best." But they are easily revealed for what they are when you ask them litteraly what they think about Ukrainians and you don't have to bring up the crimean question.

I posit that the crimean question will also unnecessarily put in the same cohort all those people who do recognize the distinct culture of Ukraine and their right of self determination but also consider the past and present situation of crimea to be more nuanced.

EDIT: some Russians may recognize that Ukrainians have right to self determination but they may also recognize that today Crimea is populated by a vast majority of Russians and thus there giving that land back to Ukraine would lead to further bloodshed. And yes I have heard actual Russians having that position (I'm not Russian fwiw)

I don't understand. Of course Crimea was acquired by the Russian empire by force, from other people who had it in turn acquired by force and so on. But none of those were Ukrainians.

Kruschcev transferred the crimean oblast as a symbolic gesture.

Pointing this fact out does not contradict one's desire to not have Russia acquire more territory and behave in an imperialistic manner today

My personal opinion is that the 2014 annexation wasn't ok but the reason wasn't that Crimea is not Russian but because I value the stability and peace produced by the idea that we shouldn't change borders through force.

But that's the reason why using this "who does Crimea _belong to_" framing of the question is misleading. You will find many people who will say Russia and yet not necessarily subscribe to the imperialistic stance that Russia is employing.

Things can be more complicated than that.

Crimea is a special situation. I won't reiterate its complex history here since there is plenty of written here, but I'd like to point out that one could have a view where Crimea is Russian and yet decry the invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate.

If anything for practical reasons: only 7% of its population is Ukrainian. It would be very a source of continuous ethnic tensions.

Hard Russian nationalism is much more than that

Such people claim that the entirety of Ukraine is just Russia and they mock them for otherwise being Polish. This narrative is an explicit outcome of an Imperial mindset

This is the nature of polarization. Of course you will find many Russians that are hard nationalists and you will also find many that prefer open societies and chances are that the likelihood of you encountering one or the other depends on your social bubble

Missed opportunity to call it:

GeneGuesserIt

Ok. So your children get their grandfather's names.

The names of their grandmothers get dropped.

Only a partial improvement over just dropping the mother's name.

If the word you need to redact is also an English verb there is a risk that you accidentally mark the name of person in a context where that redacted word has a clear meaning in that context and can be used as a proof that such a term has been accidentally redacted because a large scale search&mark has taken place.

According to a random dictionary I found:

To trump. Verb. Surpass (something) by saying or doing something better.

Neat! Too bad "nov" is not a canonical abbreviation of nonary ("non" is)

I have a t-shirt with a jack o lantern with a Xmas hat with this text:

31 Oct is 25 Dec

True. But it's not a binary choice. All it takes is to make one sub-optmial choice for the universe to be filled up with von-neuman probes in all star systems

A few times over the past decade I wanted to start with a side project where I design and develop a CPU.

I bought a relatively cheap artic 7 board with 33kLUT and whatnot which I know people have used to implement risc-v implementations on.

But then I always lost my patience on the tooling.

For a side projects these days I need something comfortable. Something that that I can easily switch my context to without having to juggle VMs and installing unfriendly tools and use horrible IDEs

I wonder if it's illogical to think that all civilizations must always pick the most logical of the options

I recently had a broken traffic light in my city, it was daylight and I didn't notice any other lights that should be on during the day to be off.

My approach was to get closer into the intersection slowly and judge whether the perpendicular traffic would slow down and also try to figure out what was going on or if they would just zip through like if they had green.

It required some attention and some judgement. It definitely wasn't the normal day to day driving where you don't quite think consciously what you're doing.

I understand that individual autonomous vehicles cannot be expected to be given the responsibility to make such a call and the safest thing to do for them is to have them stop.

But I assumed there were still many human operators that would oversee the fleet and they could make the call that the traffic lights are all off

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I wonder if generated skills could be useful to codify the outcome of long sessions where the agent has tried a bunch of things and then finally settled on a solution based on a mixture of test failures and user feedback

Of course, parts of the context (as decided by the MCP server, based on the context, no pun intended) are returned to claude which processes them on their servers.

Is there a possible future where the inference usage increases because there will be many many more customers and R&D grows Lower than inference?

Or is it already saturated?

indeed. talking about temperature is incomplete without other aspects such as pressure

There is a large region of the upper atmosphere called the thermosphere where there is still a little bit of air. The pressure is extremely low but the few molecules that are there are bombarded by intense radiation and thus reach pretty high temperatures, even 2000 C!

But since there are so few such molecules in any cubic meter, there isn't much energy in them. So if you put an object in such a rarefied atmosphere. It wouldn't get heated up by it despite such a gas formally having such a temperature.

The gas would be cooled down upon contact with the body and the body would be heated up by a negligible amount

Pressure matters