Spent decades in North Dakota and Alaska.
Yes, 0C was still T-Shirt and Shorts weather until I got over 45 or so.
Went back to college, saw a dude still in shorts and tshirt at ~-20F, which is getting close to -20C.

I've now spent ~4 years in Florida, have worn pants like once.

Yeah, I used to do that too. Decided to stop bothering with the quotation marks a couple months ago.

We're not going to spend the rest of our lives putting quotations around words when talking about models. "Think" and "reason" the words we have in English for what is going on. No need to tiptoe around it. Again: models are not humans. They are not the same as us. But those are the words we have in English for what they're doing.

They are, by definition, Markov chains.

Even in your attempt to be pedantic here (in which the universe and everything within it is a Markov chain), no, it's not. The hardware state is Markovian but the linguistic processing is a Nth order autoregressive process; it depends on the N previous states. Also, your argument is akin to saying "a Boeing 747 is just an arrangement of quarks, so don't get hung up on aerodynamics." it entirely ignores the relevant architectural details, and instead substitutes a model that blows up exponentially explodes in size within a small number of states.

If you tried to build a Markov model to do what LLMs do, and could store one probability in every unit of Planck space across every unit of Planck time, it couldn't handle a prompt longer than about 2/3rds of the first sentence to A Tale of Two Cities.

Some people will certainly buy it at that price. I'm not even saying it's overpriced for what it is today. I'm saying you can't make it highly successful at that price.

If they can cover their costs they get into a product and get a bunch of experience and IP for the future in which it actually is viable to make it cheap enough to be successful, so it might be worth doing. But it's hard enough to sell the kind of game consoles everyone is comfortable with at that price "in this economy" etc etc.

I'm gonna pirate your Pion, by changing it to Prion, (for the ARRRRR). ;-)

What the unions say is that you need protection from your boss in case they go off half-cocked.

Also, people who aren't good at negotiating also deserve fair wages.

His point was stupid because I'm order to get to that point you need to spend years as a lower end worker. Don't try to make stupid into smart, you'll only hurt yourself.

Some people have reading comprehension skills. They are often magical and surprising to people without them

Here in the USA I have seen both types of behavior from unions. That is, I have seen people legitimately protected, and I have seen fuck-offs who literally could not do their job protected from being treated appropriately. I was literally contracted to do parts of his job, doing things I had never done before, read the docs, got them done. He was supposed to retire and I probably would have got his job, but he bought another motorcycle (had two already) and had to keep pretending to work in order to pay for it.

Unions can be good, but unions can also be shit

If you guys understood what made a story worth discussing maybe the comment counts would regularly be over 100 again

Learn to think fucko

Unfortunately a lot of them are NCM still. The BESS at Moss Landing which infamously went up in flames was. It used NCM batteries from LG made out of cells [poorly] designed for EVs.

PGE didn't have any clue how much most of their lines could carry until recently when they hung temperature sensors on them. You can bet there are still a lot of parts of the line which are unmonitored because PGE is a gigantic shitfest. I thought you knew stuff about power distribution, or you thought so anyway, why didn't you know this?

It's complicated. Santa Cruz county needs a BESS bad but they got a shit one made with recycled LG EV batteries and it caught fire and polluted a bunch of wetlands...

Everyone's mad at them because they are fucking monsters.

They are so tightly regulated in what they can charge today because they charged people abusively so many times.

PGE made their own bed and now they can die in it.