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If there had been a technological civilization before ours we would notice the depletion of natural resources, especially metal ore and fossil fuels.

The sad truth is we only have this one shot. If we collapse, there is no way another civilization reaches our technological level. All the easy to access fuel and resources have been pumped and used, so they wouldn’t have the energy and materials required to start industrializing. They’d be stuck on a depleted planet with no realistic way to escape it.

I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3

Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.

Chatgpt definitely does that. It can write small python programs and execute them, but it doesn’t do it systematically, you have to prompt for it. It can even use chart libs to display data.

Not GP but thanks for this great resource!

I think what’s important is to understand that these things work because they are at a certain scale. Algorithms are notoriously bad at predicting individual behaviour, hence why recommendation engines are a specialization that is far from solved. But when you have large amounts of traffic, the law of large numbers allows you to predict group behaviour with some accuracy.

So you can’t follow a user around and predict their next move and show them the right ad at the right time. But you can take 50 000 middle-aged males, and bet that at least 10 of them will buy a motorbike if you randomly show them a picture of a guy riding in the sunset. Once you have a good volume of this kind of data you can do some casino math to tilt all your bets slightly in your favour, and start betting 24/7.

It’s really cold reading, like they do in those mentalist shows. It’s a lot dumber than it looks, but it’s way more effective than you think.

That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.

They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.

For me that’s badly played hardcore punk with an extremely loud drummer :/

He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

Hokuto No Ken, not because it’s particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc… it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.

It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore…

I think that’s too general and doesn’t take into account the reality of one’s situation.

Should depressed people feel their depression? To a certain extent, yes, but after a certain point it does not bring any more processing and just trains the brain to continue being depressed. At that point it becomes legitimate to repress those feelings with mind altering substances such as anti depressants.

I don’t know the specifics of OPs situation but imagine you were in a war torn country. Would it be better to be paralyzed by anxiety and grief, or to smoke a joint and be able to function? Would the response be different if it was anxiety meds rather than weed?

My only reservation would be that weed is often a poor anxiolytic and can even become anxiogenous in certain usage patterns. But if it works for OP, all the power to them, as weaning from weed is generally easier and less risky than weaning from benzos.

Vendors do exist but they are not required to do so. My last job was at a software vendor, GDPR compliant, ISO & SOC 2 certified, controlling personal data (including salary information) of EU citizens who were not opted in (their employer is the one on the contract). Not healthcare levels of sensitive but still pretty icky in terms of EU law and we had tons of German friends who are real sticklers for the rules. We stored everything on AWS infrastructure and it has never caused any issue during certification or security assessment by clients.

Appropriate means running a risk assessment and deciding accordingly

The risk assessment doesn’t require the company to assess the reliability of international diplomatic relationships. Having your data on EU soil (even under the care of a US company) is enough for compliance.

There is no requirement for the company to think about that. The majority of GDPR-compliant companies still store on AWS/GCP, just on EU servers.

Nah, as long as the actual servers are hosted in Europe, you’re compliant with GDPR and European law. The European company is not liable if the US government violates the EU-US framework.

I think a company in Europe doesn’t give a shit that the US government can peek at their data. Their users might care but they certainly don’t.

What’s new is that they no longer trust the stability of the services long term. What if trump slaps a tariff, or asks Amazon to shut down access, or whatever bullshit passes through his head daily? You wouldn’t store your business on Russian servers, and they’re starting to realize the same applies to the US.

Same, I’ve been looking for something like that for quite some time

Never heard it used. Maybe it’s regional or a family tradition? A common idiom is “mon chou” but I’d guess it comes from the pastry and not the vegetable.

No it’s not even sexy, and it’s the only idiom I can think of that uses shovel in this context. It makes absolutely no sense

snogging

In French the slang term for that is “rouler des pelles” , which means literally “to roll shovels” and… I mean what the fuck is up with that?