Why? Did you read it? This is not the Trump surrender plan, but a sound peace plan, offering Moscow the occupied territorries and the lifting of sanctions in exchange for accepting Ukrains independence. The only thing I miss are the military and civilian prisoners. It’s actually so sound that there is no risk whatsoever that Putin will accept it.

Traffic flows smoother with a speed limit of 30, so travel times go down, cars run for less time.

So the inhabitants of small towns driving daily to work to the next city get a say? I don’t know about Switzerland, but in my area these are a considerate amount, if not the majority of cars in smaller cities. Most don’t need a car living in the city, but you cannot commute into the city without in most cases.

If you want software that analyses an image and produces tags that describe the image’s content, you want a combination of image recognition, image interpretation, text generation and a promp generator to link these three parts. There is no way that any single of these applications can be “lightweight”, not to speak of the combination.

That’s just a fancy way of commenting on the intended types, no static typing though.

Python will happily execute:

six: int = 6
six = "Hello World!"

It seems to be new in Korea (it’s a Korean study) and perhaps in the US (published in an usian journal).

It is a pretty old and well known treatment. The effect is caused by slowing down the immune systeme The question is more like: if it is so good, why does nobody use it?

Putin just passed a decree that the active reserve can be used for counterterrorist action outside of the federation. This unlocks 5 million reservists. Whether his economy will be able to sustain this army after being stripped of 5 million workers, though?

My main exposure to AI at the moment are our immigrant juniors using ChatGPT and friends to deliver well-sounded texts. pre-LLMs they struggled to deliver intelligible texts, we would give feedback and their language skills would improve. Nowadays they get no feedback and do not improve. Well, they could use ChatGPT to get feedback on texts they produced on their own rather than just to produce texts – but who in their right mind would increase their own workload?

That’s the second problem with AI. At the moment, the industry is highly subsidized by billions of investment money. In the long run, prices will have to cover the cost and revenue expectation of investors.

Germany actually opposed this.

It’s a favorite vegan pastime to invent the most disgustable description of animal based foods possible.

If you ever visitied a country lacking an own car lobby - no, getting rid of your domestic car lobby does not make cities livable. You need politics actually centered on the common good.

He has dark hair = Mexican. It’s easy to spot, if you’re ICE trained.

Tell me more.

TIL, thanks.

Yes, but no. Galicia was and is settled by Ukrainians, that’s true. Politically, it never has been Moscovian until they conquered it in 1945. In the Middle Ages, it was disputed between the local Princes, the Kyivan Great Princes, the Polish kings, the Hungarian kings and the Mongol khans, changing hands every couple of decades. From 1387 until 1772 it was Polish, from 1772 till 1918 it was Austrian, 1918-1921 it was disputed between Poland, Ukraine and the Soviets, and from 1918\21-1945 again Polish.

Following our modern theory of nation states, Galicia has to be Ukrainian, no doubt.

If you start the stupid game of historical claims as these right wingers love to do, Poland has the strongest claim to Galicia. The point I tried to illustrate is the internal inconsistency of demanding reparations from Germany but not from Moscow.

Poland has every right to demand reparations from both Germany and Moscow, and they already got them - sort of - from Germany.

Did they already bill Russia? The Soviets were as happy as the Nazis to invade Poland, it was the Red Army that destroyed most of the infrastructure later during the war, and the Soviets stole Galicia. Should be a solid claim.

And from Germany they already got Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia for compensation - including one of the two main industrial areas in Germany back then. Do they account for that?

Salad is called salad because it’s salted - it’s right there in the name. Salt is basically the only required ingredient, and it’s usually missing from tea. Furthermore, the stuff that is salted (and nowadays dressed) to become salad is usually fresh stuff, not dried and fermented.

That’s a misconception how LLMs work. It is how SF-authors imagined AI would work.

LLMs won’t give you logical solutions to your problems — they’ll give you the essence of the data they were fed with that are statistically likely to be associated with the words you used to prompt them. And since they are usually trained on the enshittified internet, well, you get what you paid for.