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Nice analogy! This seems to me the main difference between Google and the other companies you list -- In regards to LLMs Google is the only one mostly acting like an mature, established organization and not rushing to market as soon as possible. For their responsibility they often get labelled as having fumbled some imagined race. Maybe they actually do just lack the talent to make better models but it's not like they aren't making advances in other areas of AI.

Are you able to comment on J-1 visa limitations around duration of international travel?

I'm a postdoc at a US university. My school's international office suggested there was no limit on how long I could travel outside of the US, but most sources online suggest there is a limit of 30 days before the SEVIS record goes inactive. It seems this can be avoided if the university sponsor records the travel in SEVIS. I think I've finally convinced them that this is a real limitation, but some actual expert knowledge would still be very appreciated! I am Canadian, in case that affects the answer.

Thanks for doing this!

To a large degree I think this is more true than not.

Putting style aside, it's ridiculous that we don't have basic common designs that "just work". I want a kettle and toaster that are expected to work for decades and can be easily repaired if something goes wrong. There are some reasons to differentiate (e.g. I want shoes that work well and last but people have different foot support needs) but in my ideal world we have shared product functionality and slap stylistic preferences on top of that.

After the other user mentioned your name I thought it sounded familiar too so I looked you up. I used MASON quite a bit in the past, thanks for all your work on that!

I agree it is a bit weird. I also wasn't able to find a recent press release from the government and some of the articles about this from the past week have been using quotes from 2019 (giving the impression, to me, as though they are recent).

But in the interest of proving to myself that this isn't all some big hoax I did manage to find the government page listing all the schedule 1 toxic substances [0]. Hopefully that helps a bit. The final item on the list when I write this is "Plastic manufactured items"

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...

The unfortunate side effect if this became standard is that there may be far less motivation for wealthier nations to help poorer nations vaccinate everybody.

Maybe a very distorted type of theft but from my perspective the main immoral thing about theft is that it deprives someone of what they used to have, or takes the place of a sale. From the limited research I've seen the evidence is, at best, mixed that corporations are losing sales due to piracy.

If it was a clear choice between buying something or pirating it, equating piracy with theft would be more reasonable (though the owner still has their good so not entirely identical) but that doesn't seem to be the typical scenario. The ads only make that equivalence because it's better for the companies if they convince people it's theft.

From a moral perspective I think whether it is theft really depends on your motivation/what you would do in the absence of piracy.

With the most common North American accent "would've" and "would of" sound very similar. My suspicion is that the error tends to arise in people that have learned language more from speaking than reading.

I was surprised when I read that as well but reading further my impression was that you can confirm the contents of the ballot only while voting and then afterwards you only get access to a message along the lines of "Yes, vote a678b234 was correctly counted" or a message saying otherwise but not the contents of the ballot.

(which, while more secure, is also slightly less useful)

Can anyone explain what happens when I click this?

I'm on the University of Waterloo network and I get sent to [1], rather than what I get when I add the period for: http://ai./

[1] https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-group/

There may be a different video but [1] by Steven Bridges is similar to what you describe. It's not very scientific but he interviews several groups about their preferences between a very similar trick being perform with sponge balls vs with casino chips.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEcPpRqdx8

I expect it's covered in several areas but the field of opinion dynamics often investigates these sorts of situations.

Other than not having enough mass, what would cause a celestial body to not clear its orbit? The only other factor that occurs to me is time, is there anything else? If not, does that mean Ceres may eventually become a planet?

This idea is explored a bit in the Ender's Game universe [1], it definitely seems pretty compelling that non-human intelligence might be so utterly incompatible with our own thoughts that even beginning to communicate might be entirely impossible.

[1] http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness

If you haven't already you might want to look into Sony phones, they've made good smaller phones in the past. I don't know if they've got anything new out but I've got an Xperia Z5 Compact and it has always been quite capable of doing whatever I want it to do.

This is something being explored in a small trial here at the University of Waterloo. A lab has distributed several small fan/heaters that sense your presence and learn your temperature preferences then heat/cool just your local area.

https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/spotstar

Except the potential issue is that while R to T is the worst spot according to the data, there is a route in a poorer neighbourhood, C to F, that is far worse and more deserving of improvement than R to T. And it may be hard to know in practice whether this effect is happening or not.

Any idea what the expected reaction would be if you sold it slowly but everyone knew that you had a massive reserve sitting in a warehouse somewhere ready for sale?

Does anyone know if there are cases of that being enforced? It sounds to me like the sort of thing that is thrown in by some overzealous lawyers just because they can.

Still, definitely not a good thing to sign though.

I'm curious where you're from that Sunday isn't considered the first day of the week? I know Monday is often treated as such since it follows the "week end" but (in my very limited experience) I've never actually seen anything claiming that Monday is actually first.

From jegutman elsewhere in the thread, batteries cost $12000, so even buying two would cut that to 6 years and I bet the batteries usefulness would last longer than that so it would definitely add value to a home and probably be a reasonable investment.

As does mine, sometimes when I just close it rather than suspending first it doesn't wake up and needs a hard reboot. Other times it needs quite some time before letting me enter my password and acts frozen until then. Granted, the problem is likely related to age and failing memory (one of the slots is dead) but I do certainly think about suspend behaviour.