Tar_Alcaran

Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.

Stroopwaffel van Klompmill.

I love this, because a “Hans worst” in dutch is someone incompetent and useless.

But they’re a dbzero user, not an ML

Edit: I guess those aren’t mutually exclusive

I’m pretty sure I used the word “unknowingly” there, meaning that they’re not to blame for the first choice, merely for continuing to do so now.

What did we do?

Well, luckily, you can make an account elsewhere and not have people assume you’re an asshole because you associate (unknowingly) with assholes

Genetic diversity obviously plays a role, and epigenetics matter a lot too. The abundance of food and quality of nutrition that we’ve had since WW2 in the Netherlands, combined with genetics that predispose, combine together.

But there is also a BIG difference between the racial stats the US keeps and the direct descendance stats the Netherlands keeps. If your family came from Ethiopia to the US in 1640 and has raised 12 generations of Americans, you’re “Black or African American”.

If your four grandparents are 30cm tall blue Smurfs, but both your parents were born in the Netherlands, you’re a native Dutch person in every Dutch statistic.

That’s hard to tell, because not everyone tracks data the same way.

The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.

I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It’s even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it’s removable. It’s kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that’s also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

“AI”, referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

we came to the conclusion that while Die Hard had done so much in fresh and interesting ways at the time, it had been so thoroughly copied from by so many other films that it offered little to an uninitiated modern audience, looking back.

This becomes SO obvious when you look at “the great classics”. Citizen Kane is, by all modern standards, a pretty boring and uninspiring movie about a really lame topic.

But at the time, it was absolutely groundbreaking. It basically pioneered half a dozen techniques such as “letting foreground and background be in focus at the same time” and “nonlinear storytelling” (which of course was hugely telegraphed, because it was new) and “using a montage” with “Sound to make transitions”. He also used such amazing techniques such as “long takes” up to several minutes. He moved the camera around, not just taking a stage-view, but low and high angle shots, and then he added lighting to make things stand out.

Stuff like that is now SO basic that they might not even teach it in filmschool, simply because people are inundated with it from modern media. Orson Welles basically invented all of that though, and it was revolutionary. Now it’s just boring a movie about an asshole’s sled.

Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.

Quite a lot of issues the rest of us have would be fixed if more straight white able bodied cis men got the therapy they need.

Chemist here: yep.

Chemistry is just simplified biology.

Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.

The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island