profsummergig

are these the same workers who pluck vegetables while they're being sprayed with pesticides and herbicides?

They are also the cream of the crop from their respective nations. Diplomats and bankers.

^^^ This is exactly what I meant.

People and groups with unlimited grievances (and, unfortunately, associated revenge fantasies).

Switzerland has less of this. So you can send your 5-year old for a long walk alone, knowing that your neighbors will be looking out.

(PP: even the word "rural" is seen as a dog-whistle, e.g. by the NYTimes.)

Listen: I'm a visible minority where I'm a citizen of, myself. I'm not shilling for racial homogeneity or totalitarian philosophy at all. I'm just sharing my lived experience that when there are lots of groups with lots of grievances against each other, there's less ambient, latent trust.

She was always with him when he did that. Not the same as him doing it alone.

Regardless, there are local laws against this.

It's a high trust homogenous society without lots of different groups with all kinds of grievances about the past, present and the future. And it's probably rural, where everyone knows each other.

When I read the headline, I sided with the mother. But a five-year old having to cross four roads in total to and from (with vehicles going up 25 mph legally, and who knows how fast illegally) is a bit much.

Correct. I implied nothing about visualizing. I was talking about (information) capacity.

The human mind cannot comprehend the capacity of massively multidimensional space.

Just going from 2D to 3D creates massive new positional potential (e.g. surface of the earth, vs. the atmosphere above earth...).

Now imagine 1,000 dimensions.

After recognition of common humanity?

A correction: I meant to write that India had "private" companies making planes before and during WW2. They were nationalized by Nehru into a government owned plane manufacturing entity. This entity is currently struggling to build a plane, Tejas, that was conceived of in 1983. The plane is not yet in volume production, and has one of the highest rates of crashes of any production plane in the world.

While on the subject of alternative colonialism:

This is very controversial among Indians, but there are many among Indians who wish the British never left. The major builder of modern Delhi was a person named Sobha Singh. His son, Khushwant Singh, was a major writer/journalist in post-Independence India. The son has written a book about how when the British were in control, his father would sometimes gift fruit baskets to the British managers/bureaucrats (of the Delhi-building project), and they would accept the gifts, but they never asked for bribes (or fruit baskets). After the British left, and Indians (government bureaucrats/civil servants) took over the project, his father had to always pay them bribes to get movement on projects.

India had airplane factories (multiple) before and during WW2. They were all shut down after Nehru's nationalization of industries project. It took almost another hundred years until India made planes again (I use the word "made" loosely... they mostly assemble...).

Places like Hispaniola (Haiti/DR), Philippines, Cuba would be far, far ahead of where they are today if a benevolent USA still had them in her territories (of course, the "benevolent" is important here, it shouldn't be a vindictive, extractive power).

So does it therefore reduce stress? Anyone?

I forgot to mention another reason earlier: Rape. European colonial powers were also all over the world so that their men could have easy access to rape without consequences. (Read up, e.g., Columbus' diaries.)

When SE's cannot agree on the meaning of a tool, it indicates the tool is a placeholder for desire.

However:

The European colonial powers were not all over the world to enforce "European cultural values". They were there to extract minerals, lumber, labor, and agricultural produce for as little a price they could pay.

Why's there a pricing page?

https://rsync.net/pricing.html

So is the challenge, now, getting the right sort of data?

That sounds like an enormously expensive exercise.

Could someone please share how such open source micro-LLMs might have been created?

Do the creators take something like DeepSeek, and then delete most of the neurons to whittle down the size?

Have read about 50-100 Psychology paper abstracts. This is the first time I've understood a Psychology paper abstract in the first read. Kudos for that.

Obama forced something similar on schools:

https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/race-co...

The policy warned schools that racial disparities in punishments could trigger federal civil rights investigations under a "disparate impact" standard.

Ergo, presumably, if a school had a single purple student. And that purple student was punished for something. Then the entire school had to also be punished for the thing. To not fall afoul of the law. (Or maybe I'm just too autistic to have a nuanced take.)

(Trump rescinded it.)

The heat is driving me crazy too.

Seems like the divide between the voters who vote in the Primaries and the voters who vote in the actual Election. Vocal minority vs. Silent majority.

In case the author is here:

What's the difference between "win probability of win" and "odds", please? The seem the same thing to me.

And also, what are "decimal" vs. "american" odds, please?

Thanks.

I thought Bard was an acceptable name. But I think Gemini is better. The "G" associates better with Google.

What red flags would the name "Bard" have raised for you if you were on that team?

The U.S. Government can only slow-down some AI in some parts of the world... unless it decides to instigate a world war.

Maybe the snakes have been eating the fish eggs / baby fish?

a contrarian take that's been eating away at my mind lately:

- if every autonomous self-driving car is going to need some sort of edge AI data center nearby (for instantaneous exceptional incident handling)

- if every household robot is going to need some sort of edge AI data center nearby (for instantaneous exceptional incident handling)

- if there are going to be millions of self-driving cars and autonomous robots joining us in the next decade

...then we will need lots more semi-conductor chips, and data centers in lots more places, in the next decade.

Eggplant, after being charred on an open flame, is an incredibly versatile and flavorful ingredient to put into other vegetable dishes. Shout out to the Indian baingan bharta of course. Ratatouille made with charred eggplant is simply amazing.

The word "non" used throughout the article is the origin of the term "naan bread" from Indian culture (the Central Asian Turks/Mughals who ruled most of India for centuries developed "naan bread").

> Every stick of DDR5 should come with a share, so future dividends go back to the people who financed this insanity.

This will only lead to hyperscalers getting wealthier.