You have to account for scale with these big banks. If a million depositors have just $10,000 in their account, a reasonable cushion for emergencies, that's $10 billion dollars. Citi has 200 million accounts globally.

Compounding their problems is that banks have been discouraging accounts with high dollar amounts. They don't want to be required to cover the potential large outflow of cash if a billionaire decides they want to pay cash to buy some company, and takes out $20 million all at once. This pushes those accounts to either commercial banks, t-bills, or some sort of alternative finance. Stablecoin is just one of those alternative finance avenues.

We can ask them - far more Europeans migrate to the USA than Americans to Europe. I know, because I was one of them. Don't base your idea of living in Europe on your one-week vacation to Paris or Milan, or on what you read from people with an agenda. Some things back home are better, many things are worse.

IMHO Equally as bad is the sample set. Either you shape your sample set to include, maybe, a few dozen very reliable sources, or you hoover up hundreds of sources, and the wheat and chaff will be separated out statistically.

There seems to be a mishmash of both approaches. You get reviews from Variety, The New York Times and The Miami Herald mixed in with reviews from BuzzFeed NYC Movie Guru.

Great, so when you fail your FDA food safety audit, you can ask your AI agent why it made up a bunch of passed surveillance inspections.

I see smaller versions of this regularly on Wikipedia. There is some term a professor cooked up regarding AI that has it's own entry. It's only been mentioned in their paper, and a couple of journal articles referencing that paper. It's been marked for deletion a handful of times but a few dozen votes causes it to stay. I'll go out on a limb and guess those votes come from the IP addresses where the professor works.

The other place you see it fairly regularly are in pages about movies and books. There will be a handful of popular critical reviews, then a paragraph taken from some random professor's paper or essay about the movie.

What marketing copy did you get that from?

Maybe!

Are you contending that tokenizing and cramming a bunch of words from books, newspapers, and chatlogs into a group of tensors leads to consciousness? Because that isn't anyone's idea of how consciousness works.

Because LLMS do not reason. They regurgitate information in a pleasing way. There are no thought processes or consciousness. It's finding patterns in data and spitting them out. If it does anything, it's because someone asked it to do something. If you don't want someone using it for nefarious purposes, don't let people ask it to do nefarious things.

Being generous and assuming a stride length of 2.5 feet means you are walking another 440 feet per day. That's not a lot.

Spirit is notoriously bad at flying on time. If you don't value your time at all, it might be worth it to save a bit of money, but in my area Delta is the main airline, and I've never been delayed more than half an hour on one of their flights, and that was in a snowstorm. Usually they leave almost exactly on time.

Of the three people I know who have flown Spirit recently, all were delayed significantly, one by almost three hours.

I stopped using Firefox after about the fourth time they shoehorned something in that nobody asked for and nobody used or liked. After two or three pointless UI changes that made it harder to get to the functions I use all the time, they added Pocket, a poorly implemented tab grouping feature, then dropped support for most of the extensions I use while installing extensions I didn't ask for.

Now I use Brave, which is Chrome with all the junk you don't want removed. The only thing I would change is the ability to fix the wonky toolbar. Other than that it's nearly perfect.

Especially in this case, which looks like it was a public domain project. My copypasta answer to any unhinged accusation would be "fork the code and do it yourself."

Somewhat famously, you can take code written for an IBM 360, recompile it on a modern z/system, and it will happily run, interfacing with virtualized card punch machines and tape drives. You pay through the nose for this level of support, of course, but that's why banks and credit card companies do.

Yep, they are allowed to track down illegal/undocumented aliens. They're not supposed to be able to access tax information to do it.

I had an argument with my friend recently, who was annoyed that I wasn't more upset about ICE using various government databases to go after undocumented immigrants. I told him I had just assumed they've always been doing it. They aren't allowed to, there are all kinds of regulations that are supposed to prevent it. However, every few months there's a story about the FBI or IRS or SEC hoovering up private information against regulation and nothing comes of it. Nobody is fired, nobody is sanctioned, nothing is defunded. Congress scolds them and nothing happens.

If there are no consequences for ignoring privacy regulations, why would anyone in government follow them if it makes their life easier not to?