Part of the reason Amazon works well is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can’t do that if you only have exactly one of each item.

In a socialist country, I would guess that there’s much less incentive to pump out slop. So if you make videos with AI, it’s more likely that you’ve actually put some thought into it and are making something of actual value to someone.

Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.

I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.

Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?

For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.

If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.

The difficulty in training an AI is dependent on data availability. So this is just a question of choosing a language that has the least amount of writing. You can trivially choose any language that doesn’t have a writing system at all and invent a writing system for it. But then you’d also run into the problem of learning the language yourself.

The main difficulty is in how many hyperparameters are involved in training an RL agent, high sensitivity of RL algorithms to those hyperparameters, and not having a good understanding of how to select them based on the properties of your task. This problem is exacerbated by the high sample complexity of RL. If something doesn’t work out, you don’t know if it’s because you chose the wrong set of hyperparameters or if you just haven’t trained for long enough.

I don’t know much about game design, but I do know that it’s a much more mature field than RL, so surely they have better tools than guessing and praying.

It is expensive, but it does work. We’ve already seen things work to a limited extent on StarCraft 2, Dota, and Gran Turismo, and those are all multiplayer games. The article seems to be talking about single player games, which simplified things a lot.

Game playing is not LLM. They’re game-specific reinforcement learning models. It’s not easy, but definitely doable with existing tech. Sony’s GT Sophy is a good demonstration on what they’re capable of.

I don’t know if you can describe it as “can’t be arsed” when their proposed solution is so much harder to implement.

Oh yeah? Then explain how my dog exploded after sniffing out a land mine.

Check. Mate.

Didn’t they already have control of it through NATO?

The only thing in this list that I relate to is the masking, so I’ll address that

Yes, we all conform and hide parts of ourselves in public, doesn’t mean you can’t “be yourself”.

As I understand it, when a neurotypical person is hiding parts of themselves, it’s something like “I don’t want anyone to know I’m into Taylor Swift”. So just don’t talk about it. It’s that simple. For me, I have to think about every word I say because no one interprets things literally. If someone asks me whether or not I like Taylor Swift and I want to answer in the affirmative, can I just say yes? Or do I need to take note of the day of the week and say no while gesturing wildly with my left hand when it’s a Monday or look 15º to the left from Wednesday to Friday? When we talk about masking, it’s that, applied to every single sentence coming out of your mouth. Comparatively, never talking about Taylor Swift is a trivial task.

Pretty much everyone uses these clickbait titles regardless of whether they give good advice or not. I briefly followed a “finance guru” who does similar stuff with his thumbnails/titles and he just repeats variations of the same advice in every video: 1. Time in the market beats timing the market, and 2. diversify your investments. So far, this has worked out very well for me for the past ten years, but who knows if it’s going to continue trending upwards.

Would you like to elaborate for those of us who don’t know anything about the guy?

Can you use that gift card anywhere? If yes, then first convert it to cash. Your parents may be covering all your expenses, but they still need to buy groceries. The next time they do, ask them to use your gift card and give you the equivalent amount in cash. Now you have more flexibility to do whatever you want with that cash. Buy something nice, save/invest, etc. You have plenty of advice from others on this already.

Just so you know, when you click the speed test link, it opens it in the same page as the survey and you lose your progress on the survey.

Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.

There’s high demand for both RAM and GPUs coming from datacenters. Us regular consumers are just a tiny blip on their radar.