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> The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "England" as a synonym for "the UK".

Pretty sure its a common informal holdover of a correct title from pre-1707 that has also seen at least some use as a subsidiary reference in formal documents of the governments of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and/or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the period after it was no longer the correct formal title (and, particularly, at least, the second of those three, as an example has been provided elsewhere in the thread.)
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Perfect. Let the students submit AI solutions and let the uni assess using AI. Let’s all go on vacation and let the AI sort it out.
there is an underserved audience that wants an engaging way to learn a language and are disillusioned with Duolingo already

Duolingo is for people that will never travel for more than a weekend once every other year, and its fine that its entertaining for them or their last minute crash course to feel less ignorant. Lately I've seen it used by people that want to feel closer to their roots.

But I don't think people actually engaging with other cultures and going abroad to do so are still using this. On the other hand, LLM's are really good at slang and colloquialisms, something neither Duolingo or an in person teacher will reveal to you.
No, obviously it didn't, and obviously LLMs are not "photo cameras."
Which is the problem. Why bother leaving the couch or going to school if you can't be the next Bill Gates without some luck.

Might as well be going into impoverished schools and cancel classes because math and reading or any other measure of capability has been proven to have zero impact on life outcomes.
You mean voting? Maybe.

You mean "second amendment solutions"? If voting fails, your popguns aren't going to do you any good. If the military believes that he was legitimately elected, you won't last ten seconds.

I'd like to think that the military wouldn't follow an illegal order -- the top generals appear to have at least some integrity. But if the election happens, and is no worse than it was in 2024, they will stand by it.
https://xkcd.com/2347/ (which is, in my opinion, highest praise in this line of work)
I've been doing some experiments with the OCR API on macOS lately and wonder how it compares to these LLMs.

Overall, it's very impressive, but makes some mistakes (on easy images - i.e. obviously wrong) that require human intervention.

I would like to compare it to these models, but this benchmark is beyond OCR - extracted structured JSON.
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I hear you and appreciate your point, I just don’t think they’re for me. Maybe when my kids are grown. Scary does t begin to describe what happens, the amount of energy is mind-boggling.
Do public companies disclose hiring consulting companies like McKinsey?
Looks like he didn't measure the temp correctly, who knows what the real temp was inside the crystal.
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There was a 60 year old running last time. She lost by a wide margin.

We have the opportunity to elect younger people. Apparently, we don't want to.
And Dang will basically call you a conspiracy theorist if you even suggest that something untoward is happening despite the mountains of evidence.
It is, but as with many founding principles of the US, they don't always live up to them.

I mean, Thomas Jefferson said it was self-evident that every man was created equal and had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet he kept people as property in slavery. That just about sums up American theory vs practice. Same with the legal system: plenty of innocent people have been executed despite it being pretty clear they were innocent, simply because the legal system didn't allow the case to be reopened to handle the new evidence.
His last name means "star" in Estonian. I was curious if his roots were from Estonia, but could not find any info. In any case, rest in peace Dave.
Depending on your environment, the above printf might print nothing at all, because there is no trailing newline.
Can't see this headline without thinking of my favorite cartoon of all time https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/sqap29/me_irl/
I think Tesla is a special case given Musk's close relationship / enabling of Trump. The chairman of BYD does not appear to have succumbed to billionaire brain yet. Shifting from Tesla to BYD, were it to happen, is fairly different from shifting from, say, Cisco to Huawei, as the CEO of Cisco isn't literally dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the US president's campaigns. And in general, I think we're seeing "less tesla" and "more of all of the alternatives", whether those alternatives are EU-based or elsewhere.

Finally, most of what we're seeing with Tesla sales is _individual_ purchasing decisions, not strategic moves by governments... yet. We'll see, of course.
It was the best of times (WP5.1) and the worst of times (first versions for Windows). I used WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 extensively and it was a joy to use. It was not WYSIWYG, but it was fast, stable, and very capable. A couple of years later I used one of the early versions of WordPerfect for Windows (I don't recall the version number) and it was a complete disaster. It crashed very often. Hence, my love/hate with WordPerfect.
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Yes. Part of why you use a consultant like McKinsey is because they are talking to everybody else. So when they tell you "best practices" they are telling you what everybody else is doing.

In a way that cover's everyone's ass legally* of course. But that's what they're doing.

EDIT: * - by "legally" I mean allow information to be shared in a way that precludes legal repercussions but I do not necessarily mean adherence to the law.
The parable of the fisherman and the banker:

https://travis.vc/mexican-fisherman-parable/

Sometimes the doing is the fun part.
'flunked everyone who claimed they got the supposed "correct" answer to three significant digits because that was impossible.' while I've never seen anyone flunked for this, I certainly have taken off substantial amounts of points, and seen others do the same, for 3 significant figures when 2 is the absolute highest reasonably possible (and realistically, one sig fig was what we actually wanted).

I've run the exact lab you're describing, and I think we gave full credit for anything between 5m/s^2 and 20 m/s^2 provided there was some acknowledgement that this was at odds with what was expected. We very often would check in halfway through class and either tell the kids what they were doing wrong, or even tell them to write something 'this is at odds with literally all known science and I think I don't trust this'. For this particular lab, I've never seen errors as large as the ones you've described, so your lab was likely very poorly set up.

In other cases, I've made extra time (and allow students to come in) in case their numbers were so weird as to be problematic; just depends on the lab. Any teacher worth their salt will do this. It's a shame the teachers you had were terrible and incentivized bad stuff.

If being in a lab has taught me anything, it's that doing good science is often morally difficult. Sticking by your guns is hard.

But you are right in some sense: there are definitely incentives to... misreport. The best we can do as teachers is to reduce those as much as possible and reward kids/students for being honest.
Ah, seeing that (apparently like-minded amiga386) came here to post the same thing: https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel
> Do you have any idea how hard it is to solder wires to germanium?

Has science gone too far? :D
They should also have enough skill for a fire suppression system
I suppose none of these models can output bounding box coordinates for extracted text? That seems to be a big advantage of traditional OCR over LLMs.

For applications I'm interested in, until we can get to 95+% accuracy, it will require human double-checking / corrections, which seems unfeasible w/o bounding boxes to quickly check for errors.
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Before replying too quickly to the headline, please note that it's another case of "bad headline-itis" that is conflating two things that the article DOESN'T say.

(1) Tesla sales have crashed in Europe.

(2) BYD sales are up globally, with the largest gain in China. Most of those sales are not in the EU; the EU has imposed high tariffs on Chinese autos.

These two statements are operating independently of each other; it is not the case that BYD sales are what have caused Tesla to crash in Europe, and this is not what the article says. However, the headline puts these two facts in close juxtaposition, inviting an incorrect conclusion on quick skim. Grr, headline writer, grr.

Drawing from other sources, BYD sold only about 83,000 cars in the EU in 2024, though they are projecting to double that in 2025. So it may be that BYD will be part of _future_ Tesla sales drops, but these are likely due to price/quality more than politics.

(Re-posting this at the top level because the comment I replied to got flagged)
Musk's policies are just a small part of the problem. The novelty has worn off, reliability metrics have arrived (last place in the EV category), and service horror stories are common. Chinese companies have started a wide campaign, but I still see more Teslas than Chinese no-names. People don't trust that they will remain on the market and believe they will disappear sooner or later. In the case of a company car fleet, it is advised to buy a single Chinese car just to test the waters. Skoda, VW, and Toyotas rule.
It's absurd to think a single word (the comment didn't even say phrase), or even a single phrase, is evidence of AI.

>"If it's interesting and/or you already have a relationship, which their publisher _likely_ does, it's pretty easy to get an article written."

Woah, you must be AI. You used "and/or" and "likely"! (See how absurd that is?)
Absolutely. I had the same problem through most of school until college.
Sorry to be blunt, but if this is not a workaround, then I don't know what is.
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The conclusion the author should have reached isn't 'authors need more support' but rather 'this is how the world tells authors it doesn't need so many books'.
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> Nobody is making this straw man.

Actually I think many are, including a lot of politicians.
> Or when someone says that they're going to "take a rain check" on an activity that doesn't have an entry fee?

Wait, what is a rain check?! Does it involve money?
At this point it’s the track to get a visa to work and live in the US. I’ve met so many graduate researchers who put up with way more bullshit than I would ever deal with. And why most grad programs are mostly immigrants.
Yeah, I'm hoping he will break that record. Not too fond of Strom Thurmond.
How do you know how accurate you are? How do you know when you're wrong?
Sure, it’s a great question.

This is the role of sales managers. They should be ensuring that known bad deals don’t happen. Mostly by auditing every deal. Usually it’s pretty quick and easy to tell if a deal is good or bad if you are trying to be objective.

If a salesperson won’t accept this rule - fire them.
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Europeans are buying not-Tesla, with the reduction in Tesla sales becoming an increase spread across all other EV manufacturers.

EVs are not only produced in the USA and China, but in the EU, UK, Korea and Japan.
The average US household uses about 10,000 kwhr per year. That's roughly equivalent to the gravitational energy of dropping ten tons down a 200 mile hole.
Doesn't work for that site. Archive/Whatever only works if a site lets Google have free access so Google can index it and that one (like most off-brand news blogs) doesn't.
A 10-second load time on a 10G connection??? That’s a peak throughput of 1.25 gigabytes per second. Even if we’re being conservative and assuming you’re only getting a quarter of that speed, that’s still around 3 GB downloaded in 10 seconds.

There’s no legitimate way a dashboard or notes app should be anywhere near that size. That’s not “just a bit of JS bloat” — it’s multiple orders of magnitude beyond what would be reasonable. The claim is not just exaggerated — it’s wildly misleading for anyone unfamiliar.
Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems
The ones in food are often oxygen absorbers instead of dessicants. They contain iron "sand" that is, unfortunately, not reusable. They're usually very flat and have a "do not microwave" warning on them in addition to "do not eat".

(This is not to say dessicant packets aren't used in food, just that not all of those packets are dessicants)
An interesting thing about WordPerfect was that most of the keyboard shortcuts were built around the row of function keys at the top of the keyboard, so they were difficult to remember, compared to modern keyboard shortcuts. For this reason, nearly every WordPerfect user I knew had a little piece of plastic or laminated paper that they placed above the row of function keys that listed all of the keyboard shortcuts on it to help them remember.
This is crazy to me because when I've run labs in the past, there were equipment failures literally all of the time. When you teach lots of people, shit breaks. Quite often if something didn't work, I'd just have one student swap equipment with another student to help diagnose this sort of thing.

Major bummer that others have had differing experiences from me, here.
I would not assume that what people tell pollsters is the same as the way they will vote.

"Work" and "money" are hard problems. Any meaningful solution is going to be difficult to understand, and I think people know it. The economy fluctuates regardless of who is in office, making past experiences murky. A politician is going to have a hard time convincing them that any of their policies will actually work.

It's easier to find a politician who agrees with you on the culture wars, and then assume that their economic policies will also work.

So I take it with a grain of salt when they say that they're picking based on a sound consideration of a politician's economic policy. They can say it, and maybe even believe it, but I bet you'll find that the correlation to culture is even more predictive of their vote.
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Awesome work! Not sure if this is intentional but it looks like the (lack of) contrast on the text vs background color is making it hard to read anything on the landing page.
Why are lithium ion phone and labtop batteries still legal considering their saftey risks? There are safer battery chemestries that aren't quite as energy-dense. But phones and laptops were capable-enough 15 years ago and performance-per watt is constantly improving. Sure, we might not be able to light up all the pixels on our screen and stream gigs of data constantly and won't be able to train AI models when our labtop is not plugged into the wall, but we sufficed just fine on the performance of last-decade's mobile devices.
It is interesting, agreed! Yep, same thoughts.
It's more difficult today, but if you get a chance, try visiting an impoverished rural area and hanging out with the locals during casual sit-down, dinner, outing, etc. People will sing, people will dance. And not just those who are good at it.
It sounds to me like you are thinking something like: if they use XML, they'll have a well defined schema and will follow standardized XML types. But if they use JSON they may not have a well-defined schema at all, and may not follow any sort of standardized formats.

But to my mind, whether they have a well-defined schema and follow proper datatypes really has very little to do with the choice of XML or JSON.
holes in the ground are just wells, and gravity batteries are just dams. don't reinvent the square wheels, please...
I haven't edited a .plist in years, but nor have I fiddled with the Windows registry in years. Honestly think both OSes ship with sane defaults these days.
Are they drone evading though? Because if not, then this is a waste of time and taxpayer money. Literally any idiot can 3D print a drone capable of defeating tens of millions of dollars in military hardware from 15-20 miles away. We're not in Kansas anymore.
It's almost as if their desire for getting paid for their work is unrelated to your awareness of them.
You mean font-size: calc(16.8px + 6.2*(100vw - 320px)/704)
In the book _In the Blink of an Eye_ by Walter Murch (which is generally about film editing), there's a section that speculates that 24 frames per second somehow resonates with some innate constant of how human vision works, which is wild to think about!
I use them in my car against condensation.

The instructions on tge cover say 3 minutes at 700W in the microwave.
Actual overhead when the site is used in reality? How much ovearhead are those 100 different buttons creating? What is the performance of state managing? What is the rendering performance in complex sites? How much size overhead are modular files adding? Is .jsx contributing more than raw HTML for page size? The library runtime bundle size is mostly meaningless, unless you want to provide static website with just text. And then you should not use any of these frameworks.
For those who missed it, this is an interesting and related topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880704
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As with everything, it depends. If you are going to do the same jobs regardless of the amount of time it takes, then yeah, dropping the max power probably just spreads the energy use over time. That doesn't usually help you save money, unless you have a very interesting residential plan.

OTOH, if it's something like realtime game rendering without a frame limiter, throttling would reduce the frame rate, reducing the total amount of work done, and most likely the total energy expended.
Yes. The CLI is important. It's great for running tests and driving development. It also forces me to dog-food my own library to think in the shoes of the users of the library. In fact a number of features were added due to shortcomings exposed while implementing the CLI.
My grandfather was born in 1885, when they did depend on babies for labor in rural Lithuania. He immigrated to Chicago before WWI where his children contributed to the family pot as soon as they were able. My father was born last, in 1929, inculcated into that culture, and very much put me and my brothers to work. I was 13 in 1975 and had been working on construction sites for at least 4 years. It was illegal then too but much more common. Dad would work 7 days a week, and his family time was bringing the kids on the weekend to do the knucklehead stuff.

These were much more common stories a few generations ago.
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