done manually with huge sheets of paper and rulers. Scheduling trains is a very hard problem

Just because it is a hard problem, it doesn’t mean it is easier to do with paper and rulers than with algorithms. So the problem being “hard” should be unrelated to Sweden being behind the times.

news cycles unerring focus on Trump’s circus

The problem here is Trump making a circus, you honestly can’t blame the news media for rightfully reporting on it.

It was never really about ownership of the islands as such. The real prize is for Argentine politicians to be able to forment nationalism against an external enemy, to distract and enthuse the voters.

Opposing would be free Malvinas or something like that.

The native population of the Falklands is arguably the British people living there. Who have clearly stated their preference to remain part of Britain. While Argentina’s plan to displace and deport them, and replace them with Argentinians, is literally genocide and colonialism.

Respecting the native inhabitants’ wishes is anti-colonialism.

Shooting at civilian third party ships is not “defending yourself”.

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But what you said was not a logical scientific argument.

shitstirring

The word “trolling” covers exactly this concept. Unlike the misused term Russian “troll farm”, which is more accurately a hostile foreign psy-op.

Marge is an awful creature but at least she stuck to what she said she believed in.

Marge is an opportunistic rat, who is abandoning the sinking ship. She is just positioning herself for the next grift,

This is what a wild cucumber looks like, before domestication changed it through human preference selection (originates from India):

Same with the other (in a botanical sense) fruits, probably.

Background: Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool and Reflecting Pool Contract Has ‘Inflated’ Profit Margin, Government Analysis Finds

So if you think $14 million is too much money for what is basically a paint job, you would be correct. Trump gave his buddy a no-bid contract at way too high a price. And it turns out they were incompetent too. Additionally, I would be surprised if Trump did not get a personal kickback from they $14 million in taxpayer dollars paid to the incompetent firm.

Also 3KB of RAM. That has to be too little.

It’s that it’s only predicting the next token in a string of text.

An LLM has an internal state while predicting text. The “next token” chosen takes that state - a model of the world - into account. So a LLM is predicting the next token based on a world model and the previous text.

Saying that it is “only predicting the next token”, without more context, while technically true is very misleading.

It is vice signalling. Which seems to be a thing Christians(!) in the US do.

Like, maybe, probably? But why are we not allowed to know?

That is one of the most bizarre articles I have ever read. Why in the world are we not allowed to know what the “four letter word” is?

Which they could spend on a vacation to see trees.

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ratQlft_G5c

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

NASA just made a rocket - the Space Launch System. It was ridiculously more expensive than SpaceX’s rocket. And the Space Shuttle before that was also very expensive and suboptimal.

I am not a private sector fundamentalist (fuck privatized healthcare), but rocket launches is one area where the private sector has proven better than the public sector.

This was BH’s giant rocket, the biggest in history

New Glenn is large-ish, but it is not the biggest rocket in history. Starship is much bigger, for example.

So just for some context the shoes in the image appear to be “Asics Gel-Nyc - Graphite Grey/Black”. Which do not cost US$30’000. So I dunno what currency the price is in, if it is not just a fake image.

They’re not mentally handicapped

Trump’s narcissism is arguably a mental handicap. Trump is creating so many problems for himself - much of his behavior is ultimately pointlessly self destructive.