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Interesting, I wasn't aware; thanks for that. I will say, Polars' implementation is much more centered on out-of-core processing, and bypasses some of DuckDB's limitations ("DuckDB cannot yet offload some complex intermediate aggregate states to disk"). Both incredible pieces of software.

To expand on this, Polars' `LazyFrame` implementation allows for simple addition of new backends like GPU, streaming, and now distributed computing (though it's currently locked to a vendor). The DuckDB codebase just doesn't have this flexibility, though there are ways to get it to run on GPU using external software.

Polars also has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets. Also has GPU backend, distributed backend, etc. Polars is heavily underrated, even with the recent hype.

Polars has all of the benefits of DuckDB (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.

Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.

Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.

Does the food carry bacteria in reality? Why are we talking about bizarre hypotheticals?

Being against genocide isn’t a western standard.

Withholding food from children results in children starving. It’s not semantics.

Israel is a country of white Eastern Europeans who claim to own part of the Middle East. THEY invaded Palestine less than 100 years ago - a region inhabited for tens of thousands of years.

There are 25,000 members of Hamas by the highest estimate, and 66,000 people have been murdered in Gaza. Is Israel just inept?

If Hamas is the issue, why is Israel invading the West Bank?

I could go on, but the propaganda doesn't work anymore; it's patently obvious that Israel is committing a genocide; there's no logical alternative.

They will get away with it if we believe we are powerless to change it. Russia has been proven to be pushing defeatist propaganda similar to your sentiment, and I'm sure Israel has been as well.

Are Gazans receiving adequate nutrition? If not, why are we discussing semantics?

Starving infants is justifiable sometimes? When?

Starving infants is morally justifiable if it's possible to make a rocket from their food?

A Pew poll in 2022 found that about half (48%) of Israeli Jews agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel. Horrifying statistic.

I thought the opposite - they set a precedent indicating that reproduction of a copyrighted text by an LLM is infringement. If authors refuse to sell to them (via legal terms indicating LLMs aren't allowed), it's infringement. No?

I'd be curious to hear from a legal professional...

Essential context. So many variables here with very naive experimental procedure. Also "Cognitive Decline" is never mentioned in the paper.

An equally valid conclusion is "People are Lazier at Writing Essays When Provided with LLMs".

Who did Tesla have to pay off to sell a product called Full Self Driving, that is not actually fully self-driving?

I don't understand why developers of PyTorch and similar don't use OpenCL. Open standard, runs everywhere, similar performance - what's the downside??

Is there any reason OpenCL is not the standard in implementations like PyTorch? Similar performance, open standard, runs everywhere - what's the downside?

Is the explicit threat of nuclear war by Russia a possible factor here? Ie. Developing nuclear energy would feed into developing nuclear weapons. From what I understand, the anti-war / anti-extinction angle was a primary motivation for at least early Green activists.

Pretty likely this is associated with the huge increase in mental illness associated with isolation during the pandemic. The depression rate tripled from pre-pandemic levels, leading to a 20% increase in suicide rates. Obviously drug use and all the associated risks would increase due to that, but there are also a few studies showing a strong correlation between mental health and life expectancy, even after accounting for drug use.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/10/depression-increased-during-...

As mentioned elsewhere, self-reported happiness is notoriously inaccurate, and is not correlated with objective statistics like suicide rate. The suicide rate in 2021 is at an all-time high [1][2]. I think it's more likely that after months of forced self-isolation, people are less willing to show vulnerability and express unhappiness.

Sources: 2021: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/suicide-rat... since 1999: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide