Those who believe a Democrat Congress (or the courts) will be able to significantly derail Trump agenda are naive.
Even more if you think they'll roll back the power grabs and demolishing of democratic institutions. Both parties like having unregulated power, just not in the hands of the other.
https://www.alfiekohn.org/arti...
"You can tell a lot about a teacher's values and personality just by asking how he or she feels about giving grades. Some defend the practice, claiming that grades are necessary to "motivate" students. Many of these teachers actually seem to enjoy keeping intricate records of students' marks. Such teachers periodically warn students that they're "going to have to know this for the test" as a way of compelling them to pay attention or do the assigned readings -- and they may even use surprise quizzes for that purpose, keeping their grade books at the ready. Frankly, we ought to be worried for these teachers' students. In my experience, the most impressive teachers are those who despise the whole process of giving grades. Their aversion, as it turns out, is supported by solid evidence that raises questions about the very idea of traditional grading.
1. Grades tend to reduce students' interest in the learning itself.
2. Grades tend to reduce students' preference for challenging tasks.
3. Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking.
4. Grades aren't valid, reliable, or objective.
5. Grades distort the curriculum.
6. Grades waste a lot of time that could be spent on learning.
7. Grades encourage cheating.
8. Grades spoil teachers' relationships with students.
9. Grades spoil students' relationships with each other.
A friend of mine likes to say that people don't resist change - they resist being changed. Even terrific ideas (like moving a school from a grade orientation to a learning orientation) are guaranteed to self-destruct if they are simply forced down people's throats. The first step for an administrator, therefore, is to open up a conversation - to spend perhaps a full year just encouraging people to think and talk about the effects of (and alternatives to) traditional grades. This can happen in individual classes, as teachers facilitate discussions about how students regard grades, as well as in evening meetings with parents, or on a website -- all with the help of relevant books, articles, speakers, videos, and visits to neighboring schools that are farther along in this journey.
Modern EVs charge in 5 mins or less.
You know that.
So why play troll?
When editing Qwen, Astra actually wrote and used a Python program to do the dirty work and required some trial and error. This is something humans are already doing; it just doesn't receive much publicity. Raw reading and writing was only done in other parts of the paper, for smaller tasks like detecting the purpose of a game-playing network and correcting a simple vehicle control feedback loop. Though the Qwen edit was successful (after some 50 tests), a similar edit on a smaller Gemma network to remove sycophancy wasn't.
See summary on honnibal.dev for a breakdown.
BYD is profitable since 2002.
And does not get (as far as I know never got) any government subsidizes.
Stupid moron.
so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects
Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?
they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged."
So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".
That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.
Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.
No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.
Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.
People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.
Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.
If it would iron, fold and put away, I might think about it. Folding is not the time-consuming part there.
to shooing a cat away when it jumps onto a table
Lol, yeah. 99% of cats will ignore that.
James P. Hogan wrote about some of these concerns in his 1979 sci-fi novel "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Sadly the biggest taken-for-granted idea from his novel that now seems fantastical is that governments and engineers cared about AI safety over profit (i.e. the AI developers did not try to privatize most gains while socializing most costs and most risks). From the Goodreads blurb "Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence.
You raise a deep issue worthy of a lot of discussion when you say: " A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one."
Your points also align with my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
Monkeys are slightly faster than humans at visual processing:
https://monkeys.alloftheanimal...
"The average [monkey] visual reaction time is around 200ms to 300ms, with a median of around 215ms.
But dogs are much faster:
https://humanbenchmark.me/test...
"The table below shows approximate response times to visual or tactile stimuli, drawn from published research:
Dog 60-100 ms Behavioral studies
Human (trained) 150-200 ms Cognitive research
Human (average) 250-300 ms Our test data"
So, if dogs are at least two to three times faster than monkeys, (I had heard elsewhere dogs are about seven times faster than humans), that means maybe dogs are even faster than crows?
I have to wonder about cat reaction time too? The table says cats are like twice as fast as dogs:
"Cat (domestic) 20-70 ms Behavioral studies"
Faster reaction time might help dogs and especially cats catch birds to eat them?
Anyway, so I think the implication in the quote from the article that avian brains are generally faster then mammal brains may not be well-supported given not enough species (both avian and mammalian) were compared?
They are of the order of 60% thermally efficient,
Simply nope. Theoretical limit is 42%
You are mixing up "combined cycle gas plants" which use a combination of gas turbines together with a steam generating boiler
However 30% efficiency, is not considered particularly inefficient.
The inferencing is happening on the satellite.
Only question and result is bound by latency.
No idea where you get your numbers from.
Rice harvest in Thailand is not even 50% of what it used to be 10 years ago.
We have constant switching between super droughts and super flooding.
Perhaps somewhere they started to grow some, and it evens out a bit. Who knows? In North East Thailand - Isaan, the current rice situation is a CATASTROPHE!
Either this year this area has a drought or a floor, or the other area next year.
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
