In this case Trump is more a symptom than a cause. Local policing is more of a state level, or even city level, affair. But, yeah, it's a related event.

And remember, you should expect people to act in ways that make their job easier. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's what you should expect, no matter what the rules say.

That's possible, but you didn't cite your source for the statistic. And I think it quite unlikely, so, for me, you really need decent evidence rather than just a claim.

What do you mean "disproven"? Are you saying that mirrors don't reflect, that it won't be cost effective, or what?

They've got a lot more components to their system...and the tooling isn't all software. As for software, IIUC, they're using a different multi-processing library. Making the weights compatible doesn't make the entire system compatible.

IIUC, the Chinese strategy is to come up with a cheaper collection of tools, including models, that are incompatible with the standard US tooling, and convince other countries to use their version instead. The US government seems to be actively pushing to make that strategy work. (E.g. abruptly cutting off access to models with no warning or explanation.)

Most FOSS software starts small, and easy to learn, and if it's going to grow, it grows with a community of developers that understand the software. This? Unless it's pretty small and compact, that's unlikely. And those who are going to develop using it probably need a company behind them. (Plausibly one with a good legal staff.)

To be fair, BOTH voices felt off. Both the phone voice and the actress voice. But the actress voice sounded faker than the phone.

I don't think of that a "misogynistic", but definitely a stereotype..and a rather unrealistic one. But, I suppose, if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.

IIUC, Meta sells compute to Anthropic. That's not "not finding a use".

Maybe. But the first company with a working vaccine against COVID said they didn't sign up with that because the paperwork would have slowed them down.

Yes, but it was the Democrats that pushed expansion of copyright law. However the Republicans are more supportive of expansive monopolies. Hard to pick a good side there.

The article I read said (approx)"This mimics part of one of the main theories of human consciousness". It might have been the one put out by Anthropic, as I occasionally read things they put out.

You've always got to remember that things tend to get oversimplified by secondary and tertiary sources. (OTOH, that source looks like "Anthropic posting on Twitter", so perhaps it was Anthropic itself doing the oversimplifying...for that audience.)

Sorry, but as an artifact of the plurality wins voting system, only two parties are viable. And neither the Democrats nor the Republicans really want to control business. It's true they are bribed by different groups, but they both depend on bribes to campaign for office.

Do you understand that experiment well enough to be sure what it says? To me (reading, admittedly, one particular explanation) it sounded as if they were able to construct a special area where the magnetic field was *extremely* low. This wouldn't seem to have any implications for the general volume of the solar system.

OTOH, I will freely admit that this is well out of my area of expertise. It's been multiple decades since I took undergraduate physics, and nearly as long since I've even touched calculus.

Well, OK, sort of, but that's not propulsion. And it wouldn't stop neutral radiation (neutrons, gamma rays, etc.). But it still *might* be worthwhile.

I was thinking of the cargo-robots as delivering supplies for the manned mission.