I couldn't get Bluetooth to work on a car ride recently, wasn't able to listen to Spotify from my phone, and had to listen to FM radio. NPR was by far the best option. Everything else was just ads and annoying disk jockeys.
The Federal government making funding to a university contingent on them "reforming" specifically named departments whose foreign policy views the executive branch disagrees with (Israel/Palestine policy) seems like a clear violation of the First Amendment.
They are deporting permanent residents for op-eds.
One permanent resident was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvator without due process, none over speech yet that I know of but his was for being spuriously labeled a terrorist.
Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software application has become so difficult that most people just use a progressive web app which is 100x slower than is possible. Are the best options for GUI applications in 2025 really Java Swing and Qt?
Putting pixels on the screen isn't difficult. Putting them on a screen across hardware in a performant manner is the difficult part because it is difficult.
Copyright law needs major reform. We need to figure out a way to let authors monetize their work while not making complying with the law so burdensome. We've created a system where people who (understandably) ignore the law benefit at the expense of people trying to do the right thing.
It's hard to tell if they're telling the truth about the number of GPUs they have. They open sourced the model and the inference is much more efficient than the best American models so it's not implausible that the training was also much more efficient.
It absolutely is. If security is standing in front of the door to the stage are they going to push past? How is security supposed to remove them from the stage without using force? It's force that's designed to make the protesters look like they're the victim if anyone tries to get in their way.
A peaceful protest would be standing outside on the sidewalk with signs.
Disrupting a talk isn't really "peaceful". You're physically obstructing the talk and daring the conference organizers who rented the room and other participants who want to hear the talk to use force to remove you.
> This is "never-cracked-a-history-book" levels of incorrect. Severe depressions recurred about every other decade, and practically every decade had some sort of Global Financial Crisis-esque financial meltdown. Back then, most of these were called "Panic of <year>" instead of "depression" or "recession", until you got to the Long Depression, which was called the Great Depression before the Great Depression itself actually existed.
This is all true. However, average economic growth rates for the American economy were dramatically higher in the 1800s than they have been in the last 50 years.
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