The lease that lit a fire under them is probably no longer an issue.

I love when people are wrong about something, then double down, triple down and then cry about it.

The string association between Orwell and the word ministry is only there for people who have only renovated the word ministry in Orwell, which means the ill read and ignorant. For everyone in England it's a daily word with different associations. But again only an American would insist their knowledge of a Britishism is superior to a Brit

I won't return in coin by calling you an idiot, because I don't think you are one. What I think you are is too *ignorant* to realize you're talking about evolution. "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer in 1864 to refer to natural selection, a concept that's in the actual *title* of Darwin's book.

This is completely nonsensical.

The only kind of person who read 1984 once and didn't otherwise know anything about the UK. We hear about ministries all the time because it's the government, same way as you hear "department" all the time, yet somehow don't associate the word with a specific piece of literature.

For literally any British person, Orwell is going to be far down the list of associations with "ministry", far behind the ministers in the news now for some scandal or another, and possibly behind the ministry l ministry of silly walks. Your personal literary obsessions and lack of knowledge do not match with anyone else except perhaps similar internet weirdos.

Only an American world dismiss an entire country's civics as "durr Orwell". Fortunately not any of the Americans I'm actually friends with.

You must be American is all I can say.

Government departments are often called ministries in the UK. It's particularly common to use the term "ministry" in British fiction because it makes it more obvious it's part of the government than the currently popular "department" and now unpopular "office". Ministry as a term was probably at it's height of popularity when Orwell wrote 1984, but was in use in the preceding and succeeding century.

The only people who associate "ministry" with Orwell in particular have (a) not read any other books and (b) not watched it listened to or read the news.

Eh? Wtf are you taking about.

Yes, the bit about making it privately send a little thought policey

Just what I would expect from the kind of muh freedumbs government who keep removing actual freedoms.

No idea what they do themselves, I don't have an iPhone and am not likely to get one any time soon

Talking from the perspective of third party app developers deploying stuff.

I'm a British Jewish atheist. I got married in the local registry office, and the church was not involved in any way and there was nothing in the ceremony or vows about the church.

Religion comes in inasmuch as civil registrars are full time jobs, but various priests can also do it part time, and you can't just found a 1 person religion just so you can perform a ceremony.

Similar in the UK.

you can get married or civil partnered religiously or non religiously at any approved location or the registry office.

The weird state of affairs is because of the homophobic crowd, gay marriage wasn't allowed, so they invented civil partnerships. Then that inequality was rectified. Then a straight couple sued the government because they weren't allowed to get civil partnered and won, so now anyone can do either and there is little practical difference. Marriage has verbal vows in addition to signing a thing and civil partnerships just have signing.

I'm not sure you grasp what the religious whackadoodles want.

They absolutely want that and will happily back whoever they think will do it. Look at them all backig trump, for example. Stay what your want about him, but multiple divorces, affairs, kids all over the place, etc doesn't fit with that they profess to want, but he was able to deliver them an end to roe v Wade.

I mean, without reference to AI, your phone having features you don't use doesn't imply it's missing features you would use.

So far though, I don't keep going back to AI systems.

I left the on device inference area a little over a year ago.

Unless anything has changed, apple are streets ahead of everyone else in this regard.

Basically across the board, in terms of ops/s, FP16 not int8 (or 4 thanks Samsung), buggyness and of course everyone's favourite bugbear, fragmentation.

Now technically you don't neeeeed int8, in practice it's a pain in the arse. Most models trained as FP32 will just work when you chop off half the bits. Training for int8 is a bit of a black art. It's getting better and better understood, but it doesn't always just work and often needs substantial tweaking, raising the barrier to entry somewhat.

As a result it is of course much easier for any rando to deploy a decent performing ml model on an iPhone Vs the competition. With the big players, i.e. Google targeting their own hardware, they have enough manpower to bull through the barriers to get the best performance on their phones.

As a Google branded android distinguishing feature though... Ugh.

Though ai appears to not be on the whole useful because it's dangerous.

A hammer is dangerous because of you can pound nails you can also pound your thumb. Without that dangerous pounding ability, be it would be useless. AI is like a hammer except for putting in screws and it sometimes puts them in upside down or explodes. But mostly they go in within 90 degrees; of the correct angle. Trouble is it's dangerous because you can't tell and only find out all the screws are in badly and sideways when your house falls down.

AIs will do that at random, despite the whac-a-mole process to eliminate such errors. These jailbreaks are just fun, short ways of illustrating the problems are still there and near the surface. I would say though that AI is not useful specifically because of its dangers.

Counter point: conservatives in Israel are sucking really hard right now and that's a PR system.

Unfortunately, building working systems of government is really hard, and most of them have a really hard job fending off sustained attacks by bad faith actors. Almost any crappy system works ok if people are working in good faith.