The AI technofacists building these systems have explicitly said they’ve hit a wall. They’re having to invest in their own power plants just to run these models. They have scores of racks of GPUs, so they’re dependent upon the silicon market. AI isn’t becoming “ever more capable,” it’s merely pushing the limits of what they have left.

While I agree that this paper sounds like a freshman thesis, I think you’re betraying your own lack of knowledge here.

Because no, they havent said they’ve hit a wall, and while there are reasons to be skeptical of the brute force scaling approach that a lot of companies are taking, those companies are doing that because they have massive amounts of capital and scaling is an easy way to spend capital to improve the results of your model while your researchers figure out how to make better models, leaving you in a better market position when the next breakthrough or advancement happens.

The reasoning models of today like o1 and Claude 3.7 are substantially more capable than the faster models that predate them, and while you can make an argument that the resource / speed trade off isn’t worth it, they’re also the very first generation of models that are trying to integrate LLMs into a more logical reasoning framework.

This is on top of the broader usage of AI that is rapidly becoming more capable. The fuzzy pattern matching techniques that LLMs use have literally already revolutionized fields like Protein Structural Analysis, all the result of a single targeted DeepMind project.

The techniques behind AI allow computers to solve whole new classes of problems that werent possible before, dismissing that is just putting your head in the sand.

And yes companies are still dependent on silicon and energy, which is why they’re vertically integrating and starting to try and produce that on their own. That’s not a sign that they see AI as a waste of time.

The fact that they dodged questions of durability and did nothing to reassure says that they’re probably identical and Nintendo just enjoys the revenue it gets from people buying more joycons.

“During a counterterrorism activity in the area of Turmus Aya, IDF soldiers identified three terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving,” the Israeli army said in a statement.

“The soldiers opened fire toward the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.”

How the fuck does anyone defend Israel when they are literally gunning down children for throwing rocks at cars.

What the honest fuck. I honestly cannot fathom how anyone could support Israel after they have committed atrocity after atrocity.

And to make sure that everyone is portrayed by glen powell

Do you have any resources by any chance that explain the difference well?

I work in high level software, so understand the benefit of doing things at ide time vs compile time vs runtime, and I’ve coded in assembly back in the day and understand instruction sets at a very rough level, but I’m not really familiar with specifically what differentiates RISC / ARM / x64, or why RISC’s reductions would be good / bad / what trade-offs come with them.

The answer is no, and has been no for a while.

Oh damn, too late, I would’ve nominated Zeds Dead!

Congrats Rezz!

To be fair, in his 20 YEARS in parliament, his name has been attached to seven bills, one of which have passed, but that was one of Harper’s omnibus bills that crammed a million different things into one, guaranteeing that he did not write it.

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bills?parlsession=all&sponsor=25524&advancedview=true

His earliest ones were during Paul Martin’s tenure, and his latest were during Trudeau’s. A single one of his earliest bills seems halfway reasonable, but it’s also hard to analyze without the context of what else was being introduced at the time. Otherwise, his bills have basically been what I would describe as jerk off motion partisan troll bullshit that had no actual hope of actually passing or influencing anyone.

He’s not a person who’s actually serious about improving the country in a meaningful way, he’s a dipshit high school debate kid who got a job in government and has then spent 20 years doing nothing but whine about government.

Actively sticking a stick in your own spokes feels like more effort and agency than PP’s ever experienced in his life.

I cannot fathom voting for someone who has been in government his LITERAL entire career, and has never once passed legislation. He is the epitome of an empty soundbite in vaguely human shaped form.

I think it might depend what you’re into, I don’t know much, I’ve flown my Mavic mini a few times, and have been watching the Ukraine war at a distance.

But if you’re into photography and videography you might get more enjoyment out of something like a 249g Mavic that has a solid camera and is an overall very solid drone.

If you’re more into sports and piloting, you might have more sustained interest in an FPV drone where you use goggles to see through the stone’s eyes as it flies. In that case I’ve heard good things about the DarwinFPV drones as they’re a pretty dirt cheap entry point and you’re likely to crash them.

In terms of usefulness for civil defense, I’m guessing that the most useful skillsets are probably FPV flying and drone building and repair, but I’m not sure. In Ukraine it seems like they use some off the shelf quadcopters like mavic minis for basic reconnaissance and observation, and then use FPV drones for carrying munitions and striking targets, and those are a mix of quadcopter style and more plane style.

Another option for civil defense preparedness is to do first aid training.

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No! You’re not allowed to have any new boyfriends either!!

Lmfao what a fat fucking turd of a country, go fuck yourself America, forever.

Enjoy being leader of the world of 1 country. See how far that gets you.

America has 1/10th the natural resource per capita as Canada, and most of Canada’s mineral deposits are still unexplored. You want a trade war, you can have one you dumb fucks.

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But let’s take your example. I’m willing to accept the premise that movie prices have kept pace with wages (they haven’t, due to the varying pay standards you pointed out, but I’ll assume for the sake of argument).

Yes, but the point is that movies are primarily made in California, so if California raises its minimum wages, then the cost of making movies goes up, and so the cost the consumer would experience at the end is increased. If you live in California and your government increased minimum wage that’s not a big deal, but the issue is arising because some states haven’t raised minimum wage to keep up with inflation, so consumers there see a real cost increase that California consumers don’t.

But at a fundamental level, the problem there is not with California raising their minimum wage to try and keep up with inflation / cost of living, but with the other states for not raising theirs. Those states are effectively artificially lowering labour costs, which makes their consumers pay effectively more for imported goods, so that businesses in the state can be more profitable.

If a state does that to support home grown businesses that keep profits in the hands of workers, that can be a path for establishing an industry that will sustain itself and enrich the state, but in most US states, the companies that benefit are big corporations that funnel the profits to the executives and investors (often out of state) rather than average people, so the average worker is just poorer for no reason and sees inflated costs everywhere.

But yes, overall I generally agree with you that the increased costs people are complaining about are real, just that those costs aren’t the result of the movie industry being greedy, so much as they’re the result of the state level governments and corporations that campaign against minimum wage increases.

I don’t have historical pricing on movies theatre snacks available off hand, but I would be willing to bet money their pricing is 100% consistent with what it was 15-20 years ago as well.

Movie theatre popcorn and drinks have always been over priced (at least in my lifetime) and have always been where theatres recoup a ton of costs.

If anything, these days theatres shouldn’t have to charge quite as much for popcorn now that they can make money selling alcohol and food and such as well (at least where I’m at, you can now buy beers and cocktails at the theatres).

The outdated social stuff comes up occasionally but like maybe there’s an issue once a season or so, it’s not going to be distracting episode to episode.

The bigger problem with Friends imho, is the laugh track. It’s just weird watching a show with a laugh track these days, especially when modern comedies have learned to use that time to cram in way more jokes. It just makes friends feel somewhat archaic and out of time, even compared to Seinfeld which objectively looks much older from a cinematography standpoint.

I think that’s an issue with whatever State / jurisdiction you’re in.

When I was a teenager it was ~$12 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage was $9.50 / hr.

Nowadays it’s $20 to get a normal (non-VIP ticket) at the big multiplex and minimum wage is $17.50.

Literally almost identical, if anything it’s actually slightly more affordable now. I think what you’re describing is entirely an issue with your state government not making sure its citizens are paid fairly, not an issue with the movie theatre industry and their pricing.

Fair point, but in that case it means they’re not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.

Sounds like the author has a skill issue with Stealth.

Mobs are leashed? Cool, that doesn’t matter cause I play the game like a high fantasy battle mage, and don’t run from fights.

Also, mobs are leashed in most games to some extent or another. Avowed is well written, well voice acted, tells an interesting story, and is fun to play through.

Really just feels like people were expecting Skyrim and are upset they got something more focused.

He still shouldnt call himself an Engineer when he’s not a licensed Engineer, but to be slightly fair, with his experience, in say Alberta, he would likely be a Professional Technician and would be allowed to stamp engineering drawings.

In Ontario there is no path to stamping drawings from being technologist, and again, he still shouldnt call himself an engineer, but i also don’t necessarily agree that it inherently means he doesn’t actually know engineering. Lots of PEngs I worked with were garbage engineers and lots of Techs I worked with were great at engineering.