mcphage

> Pelicans are a solved problem at this point. An open-weight model on my own machine gave me this

That feels kinda like when I remember seeing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and thinking “oh my god, this looks just like real life…”.

> Can somebody explain why not just make a die with 5! sides, and roll it once to decide the order?

Hey, that’s a good idea—now we just need to decide who rolls the die. …Well, if we had a set of die that each player could roll one of, and the highest number rolled gets to roll the 120-sided die. Of course, we’d have to ensure that there’s no chance of a tie.

Hmm… this idea has legs…

> Also I said Sometimes the Adults are scared due to truths, and exaggerations.

The "adult scared due to exaggerations" in this situation is you.

Because even beyond this area being safe, your claim that "There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely" is wrong.

Actually it said "Beware of the Leopard".

> There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely

This is very much not true. If there are any urban areas that have too much crime for kids to walk freely, it's a vanishingly small percentage, and certainly does not include gated communities in Williamsburg, VA.

GTFOH with that nonsense.

> How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind?

> Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word?

Yes—I wasn't aware that there was another way.

Video games are profitable as ever, but they take years to produce, and the mass layoffs makes me wonder who’s going to be making the games coming out in 2-5 years. Also it has required a lot of write-offs from closing studios to maintain this profitability, and that’s not a trick you can keep up for long.

> If killing/raping/burning the original inhabitants and stealing the city is good enough for the word to call Constantinople Istambul I don't see why the US which owns part of the lake can't call it something else.

Well, because last time an army marched across that border burning cities, it came from Canada into the US, and they burned all the way to Washington DC. So by your logic, it's entirely up to Canada what it should be called.

He also has “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths”, which is short but perfect.

> today the west doesn't call Constantinople Istambul because it's the correct name but because the Turks are stronger than the Greeks

What country is that city in?

What utter cowards they have running Google. No wonder the US tech industry has gone from the shining forefront of technology, to a bunch of weirdos alienating everybody, over the last decade.

> and some other bad actor with political connections (my money would be on Palantir) will just quietly pick up where they left off while everyone's patting themselves on the back for defeating Flock

At that point, though, there will be a large group of people trained on how to defeat a company like Flock.

Right now AI has trouble maintaining coherence over a few paragraphs of text. How long will it be before it is capable of maintaining coherence over something the size of a GTA game? And how much money will that cost?

Yes.

…if you actually looked at the article, you would have seen that the answer was a resounding “no”.

Reading comprehension isn’t something readers of this site are great at.

Satire doesn’t need to be funny, and sometimes it works best when it’s not.

> and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language … is often erroneously attributed

Would you mind being a little clearer about what it is you’re saying here?

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I really like their city reconstructions, and they add a lot to do, but I could certainly do without the yet-again-rising-through-the-criminal-ranks storyline.

> It should be, but given the billions spent on development

I wonder how much GTA 7 will cost to make, and how long…

So you took a game about building a theme park, and... took out the ability to build the theme park?

She’s one of the few people in the US who was loved across the political spectrum.

> Interesting that Apple quotes performances when playing Cyberpunk 2077 ! Maybe they will want to care more about gaming ?

They include game metrics in their marketing often, because they know their customers care about gaming. But no—for whatever reason, it never translates into Apple caring about gaming. I don't get it, but that's the way it has been for a long time.

My favorite thing about Abulafia was the description of it on the back as “an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all of their entries”. Did the person who wrote that not read the book? Did they not understand it? Were they making a joke, where the “incredible computer” was actually the editors?

> But my memory is that the confabulation they created was real — by accident, yet it was.

The confabulation was picked up by people who, for various reasons, wanted to believe it was true. But there was no truth, there was just people looking to control others, and people willing to be controlled.

He got the meaning entirely backwards, though. Or as Eco put it, Dan Brown was a creature in one of his stories.

Maybe, but that you’ll have to take up with the author of the article.

> in my experience it was only my one friend who had the literary and dramatic talent to explain Shakespeare well to teenagers.

Could she explain Shakespeare to teenagers, or could she explain Shakespeare well to you. If she was in front of your class—explaining to all your classmates how she explained it to you—would your whole class get it? Or would some kids get it, and love it, and some kids bounce off it? In other words, what already happened, just with a different set of kids getting it?

Shakespeare isn't always easy to explain, and I don't think all kids get it the same way. I don't think there's any one way to teach it which will work for everyone. Instead, you're exposed to it a bunch of times, by different teachers in HS, in College, in Life, and ... hopefully everyone will be reached by at least one of those.

Why not? Apple would have you download an updated set of weights with OSX / iOS updates. Nvidia could bundle them with driver updates. I don't think either would struggle to get people to keep their weights up to date.