Digital imagery actually goes to NIST and I would consider it not military-first - https://www.nist.gov/mathematics-statistics/first-digital-image

I would say that NASA/space also brought about a lot of inventions, but space and military have tended to go hand in hand.

That’s fair, but I’m always hesitant for hard limits on things like this. If setting term limits didn’t resolve the issue I would reconsider.

With two term limits to get an 80 year old in the Senate they’d have to be elected for the first time as a 68 year old (I guess technically you could serve non-consecutive terms, but whatever).

You have to be at least 30 to be in the Senate, but because its a much more prestigious office than Congress, most Senators were in Congress or something similar before making it to the Senate. This puts the younger senators being in their mid/late 30s and that’s not even super common. That tied with a Senate seat being 6 years, means you’re looking at the average being in the mid 40s even if people are elected relatively young.

If those senators win one re-election, they’d basically be in their 50s by the end of their second term.

Should we get more churn in the Senate, absolutely. However, I don’t think you’ll get it much lower than the mid 50s even with term limits, just due to the nature of the position. I think term limits would put upward pressure on the youngest voted in, but put more pressure downwards on the oldest voted in. So you would probably shrink the standard deviation, but only get the mean to mod/high 50s.

They should just be requires to use consistent units of measurement.

I wonder if this is going to cause an increase in local networks for these kinds of things. If you have it on network not connected to the internet you solve like 99% of security issues.

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. What job you take, where you decide to live, friends you make all have a risk/reward element to them.

That being said I do believe there is a big difference between polymarket/prediction markets and stocks (or at least some stocks). Prediction markets is either betting on pure chance or against insider knowledge. Technically stocks should be seen as investing in a company (especially ones that pay dividends). Could a company run into hard times and lose you money, sure, but there is at least a bit more freely available information on that available to you.

I mean, the assault on her citizenship is an intimidation tactic, I’m just saying her moving isn’t necessarily her giving into the intimidation. It doesn’t sound like shes backing down from the fight in any meaningful way, so moving seems more about control than anything else.

I would worry they bugged my home if I was her. I’m not sure the move is over intimidation, but lack of trust/security in the current place.

Does the ending make it worth it? I watched it on a plane and bailed after I saw enough abuse at the beach, but could be tempted to give it another try if the ending at least provides some decent closure or meaning to the story.

Robot Dreams is so depressing and unnecessarily cruel that I wouldn’t recommend it. Maybe things pick up by the end, but I couldn’t make it through it.

No its about traditional physics based models vs Machine Learning models (or AI). Google’s model isn’t using LLMs, but still uses deep learning models to predict the weather. Per the article:

At that point, many of the physics-based computer models, which rely on mathematical equations describing how the atmosphere works to simulate future weather conditions, were vacillating between different projections but generally forecasting a weaker storm that would take a different track than the DeepMind and other AI models were showing.

The original commentors point is valid in that we just call everything AI right now. While it’s not a terrible term for ML models, the general public largely associates AI with LLMs which is a misnomer.

I run Kogma alongside AudioBookShelf, but have ended up reading most manga directly from AudioBookShelf. The reader is hit or miss, but syncing works great and you can download comics/books for when youre on the go (and it will also sync progress when you reconnect).

The major downside is AudioBookshelfs opinions on directory structure. Requires a fair amount of work reorganizing content.

Yeah, there are implicit and explicit biases at every stage of these models. The training data they collect, how they clean and use their training data, the actual training methodology, the prompts to literally alter the final output.

That’s not to mention the main things LLM aren’t aware of, which is who are you as a person. An LLM doesn’t know nor can it understand your life experiences and how that shapes your opinions on who is best to represent you. Handing over cognition like this is basically throwing away your vote as you’ve forfeited one of the major methods you have to influence your government.

I would argue they’re pretty dumb when it comes to economics, but they’re good at enriching themselves. None of them see that the long term leads to a destitute America, which means most of them end up being dragged down too. A prosperous America benefits everyone, a destitute one “helps” a very select few, which will not include all of them.

That’s no longer true, but it’s also breaking college sports to a degree - https://thenilstandard.com/guides/how-college-athletes-get-paid

S(preadsheet)aaS does not sound like a good replacement for excel. I’m all for alternatives, but giving up even more control is the wrong direction.

And yes there is a self-hosted option, but that’s not the main pitch on their website.

Its really only Africa that bucks the trend if you Iook region by region.

Hmm, it does seem more similar than I recalled, but it is a bit different.

Well the first one in that reboot trilogy is now 13years old 😐

Edit: I also really liked that design for her, so sad to see they’re moving away from it for the next game.

I got one of the big peanut butter cups made with real peanut butter form a candy store a little while back, they had cut down on the amount of chocolate so much it fell apart when biting it :(