A sign that civilization is in decline.

The only question I would say for that in Alberta is the snowfall but I imagine almost every datacentre getting built will be plastered with solar panels because it's just good business. Your highest operating cost will always be energy so having a giant flat pizzabox that could generate you some of that, well with the price of solar panels today I don't think you have to be an MBA to figure out the ROI on that makes a ton of sense.

Really the only reason for a datacentre to not cover itself in solar panels is purely to make a political statement, which is the kindof stupidity we have made the choice to make the modus operandi of this country.

I mean case in point, the thing he actually did negotiate (over 3 years) in his first term they are now abandoning. It's just absolute delusion to think he has any real exeutive skills.

US opts to not renew current USMCA deal, triggering annual review

What I expect the proverbial first grader to do is go through each letter of the word and count on their fingers how many times the magic letter appears.

I don't expect a grown adult to be able to tell you the number of specific characters in any word without counting.

Most modern LLMs now get these questions right because their post training tells them to first burn tokens working to get the answer in an analogous way to a person first rather than attempting to blurt shit out by rote or whatever analogous hidden layer thinking bullshit they can do alone.

Well, yes. But I would expect designs to get tweaked to avoid this type of detector. Longer viability in space requires a redesign of major components anyways.

I have never seen Doritos here. Pringles, yes, but the ones here are not US made, I believe. (Do not have one handy to check...) There are several local brands with similar but better products though. The only reason I know what a Twinkie is was watching Wall-E.

Well sure, those people are far more difficult to sway if at all but I am speaking to the "ehh, every bodies corrupt, voting doesn't matter" crowd when like, the difference in outcomes from voting has never been more apparent than the last 20 years.

"All the government is corrupt!" Ok why do you say that? "Because we've been hearing that repeated our entire lives!"

And the alternative to say, the FDA, is letting the supposedly evil corporations who corrupt the FDA to just regulate themselves with no oversight.

This is akin to altering the English alphabet such that quantity and shape of symbols in the alphabet is different before teaching students English. They still learn the same underlying knowledge and think in the same way as everyone else. The altered symbology is irrelevant to them. Only when communicating with others outside of the class does the altered alphabet become relevant.

Whatever symbology is used internally to represent words LLMs are trained using and operate on words. A dictionary is simply a lossless translation layer between the machine and the outside world irrelevant to the operation of the model.

Why would they need to? Why do you think any of this is even relevant? It is interesting you didn't address my hypothetical where an LLMs token dictionary was comprised only of single characters. Would the fact there is no difference between HELLO and 8,5,12,12,15 have been too obvious?

This isn't inevitable or a constant fact, this is a choice made by the voters. We all had the choice between boring public servants who are yes bureaucrats and as much as bureaucrats has become a pejorative sometimes that's what you want in a role.

Instead we get RFK Jr in HHS, we get Bhattacharya an anti-vaxxer at NIH and Makary at FDA who defends the both of them fairly shamelessly.

Is the EPA corrupt by nature or is electing someone like Lee Zeldin to direct it who then staffs the agency with industry lobbyists is maybe more the issue than some intractable "government bad" standpoint.

If we want things to improve we have to make a responsible choice sometimes and not choose our base desires to blow everything up and then throw our hands up and question why we're surrounded by ashes.

I mean sure, if you want to compare copyright law to say, the sitting US President conspiring to subvert the election and delaying the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in US history. The fact you have to go back 30 years to Sonny Bono to make a "both sides" makes me pretty confident my assertion is correct. Never mind that 1998 bill was approved unanimously and while the internet was nascent.

I think it's quite easy to make a "good side" choice if one is aware of reality of the past 26 years. It's not that one side is "objectively good" because that is unreasonable but one side is clearly, clearly better in my estimation.

Iran’s regime is now stronger than before Trump’s war

Meanwhile the Trump admin is the most anti 1st amendment admin in my lifetime.

Keep crying about leftists but Republicans abandoned their values so the Democrats pick them up. Stay mad.

In Wyoming, a contractor working to build Meta's data center, discharged untreated water into the municipal water system which led to the introduction of Cupriavidus gilardii into the water system.

The Alpha-Radiation from Plutonium is already undetectable on the other side of a piece of paper. And, incidentally, Plutonium based nuclear weapons are lighter than Uranium based ones. Such a coincidence. Sounds to me like this person is full of crap.

True. Except for some wines, peanuts and almonds, I cannot think of a single US food product I could easily get here.