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Some independant studio or publishers have their fans base : Amanita Design, Playdead, Zachtronics, Devolver Digital, Annapurna Interractive are for me the folk to watch.
So the iPad devices could handle that too if Apple allowed it...
Once Apple will enforce the European Union requirement to allow 'sideloading' on iPad, maybe we will be able to have nice things also on it.
That could also be a good thing for Apple himself. A lot of people in Europe have a bad opinion of Apple (partly?) because of the closed (walled) garden of iPad/iOS and other technology/IP which make their portable devices apart of the Android ecosystem.
It will take a long time before you can put performant inference on edge device.
Just download one of the various open source large(st) langage model and test it on your desktop...
Compute power and memory and storage requirements are insane if you want decent result... I mean not just Llama gibberish.
Until such requirement are satisfied, distant model are the way to go, at least for conversational model.
Aside llm, AlphaGo would not run on any end user device, by a long shot, even if it is an already 'old' technology.
I think 'neural engine' on end user device is just marketing nonsense at this current state of the art.
Which is equally useless as NZ is aligned with the US and so will not avoid the consequence in case of a conflit with the 'axis of "evil" countries'.
Basically, the US senate legalize spying on foreign users of US company, even if europe (and other countries) forbid these companies to transmit their data on US server...
Unless Europe (and other countries) legalize access by 3 letters American agencies to european servers, american software and social media companies will face an irreconcilable dilemna.
The narative structure is hard to get the first time you watch the movie, but once you get it, it can change the way you see (the/our) nature.
- The Secret of NIMH.
Saw it the first time at 4 or 5 and was in awe, but it tooks several more years to understand it fully.
- The Truman Show.
It's basically my life.
- Akira.
No particular reason, except it's the first Manga which gets international recognition and propulsed the industry in the grown-up domain.
If global oil output had to decrease due to, for example, peak oil, dollar value would collapse very quickly, because all of a sudden, monetary mass would be excessive compared with declining economic activity.
It comes 1 week after ARM IPO.
When Newspapers of record are filled with 'sponsored link' leading to obvious medical scam, you know something is wrong.
Abraham Lincon is still alive ?
She could be surely sued by Google by reporting false events.
So I guess we can trust her reporting.
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-...
Some skeptics says it's maybe an outlier and we need at least 2 years to confirm the start of a new trend...
Quality search is priceless.
Robinhood is intended for very retail investors...
It's has been the case for centuries, if not thousand years.
You give taxe incentive (subside or taxe reduction) for favoured behaviors, and higher taxation level to decourage unfavoured behavior.
Meat taxation could be an interesting subject of study as it cover a large range of greenhouse gaz footprint according to the specie the meat come from and a majority of people considers it as an essential item.
Cow meat is, by far, the worst offender by pound of meat produced. It is also the meat which requires the largest amount of vegetal protein in order to produce animal protein (1/10), which is by itself an obvious downside considering the challenge climate change will bring to crop production.
On the lowest end of the scale, there is chicken, which is around a quarter of cow footprint by pound of meat produced.
Banning meat altogether is a no-go inside any democracy as the party in power would be out of a job at the next election. But suppressing taxes on or subsidising consumption of chicken meat while taxing progressivelly cow meat out of existence could have a larger support from general population.
The same mecanism of tax increase and tax incentive, according to ecological footprint, could be applied to every item category in the economy.
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-2479...
TL;DR: Satoshi Dorian Nakamoto, japonese imigrant in the US, is software engineer, worked both in financial and defense sector...
For the record, TOR network is the work of 2 defense sector contractors.
EDIT: TOR and Bitcoin are 2 technologies which work both in tandem and share some requirement as well as limitations. As for requirement, they both are designed to provide at least of pretense of privacy. And that what they both advertised for. And as for limitations, Bitcoin implentation doesn't make sense for wide adoption because it is extremely costly to operate and is so slow it cannot be adopted for day to day financial operations ; and TOR is also slow as hell and unreliable...
For spy and LE stuffs, creation of an anonymous(?) internet network and pseudo-anonymous payment network make sense. If you are of control of end points (like payment processors or online wallets or [ISP companies?]), they give both a sense of (false) security for bad actors, whoever they are for whatever they do, and allow allied organisations or individuals to funnel information and money to each other provided they have secured the endpoints they use themself.
Also for the record, China has banned both Crypto and TOR as well as Russia (except for 'international operations') at least 1 year ago.
Some might argue that creation of online drugs markets, the crazy rush in crypto space by dubious 'entrepreners' and the rise of private and state hacking actors are the proof that western governments agencies could not be involved in these technologies... But it could be simply they didn't anticipated neither of these devellopments. Let's call that externalities.
Most VPN company advertise they do not keep logs of your browsing...
Which would be in infraction with european and american laws.
So I don't what to think of diskless VPN.
It's a mathematical possibility, not that I think it's probable.