Her wife was right there, so he could in fact likely know her orientation.

It depends… If the age difference is hundreds of years, then it’s magical. If it’s 30 years, then it’s just weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONdshkDTTE

But treating cancer might be more straightforward, taking out more than you need to and just let the healing take care of putting correct tissue back.

Yes, major setback for the world, but China’s interests aren’t aligned with the world.

If they can’t have TSMC, second best thing (for them) would be to get rid of it to improve China’s standing in participating in that market.

Yes, it means that everything is set back, massive shortages, all sorts of bad stuff. Stuff that China wants to be sourced more from China, so if the most competitive alternative is out of the picture, then they can do better.

Talking over TSMC may be nice, but I think they would settle for getting rid of it.

With Ukraine, Russia had recent easy incursions to Georgia and getting Crimea. So they legitimately thought that they’d just roll tanks to Kyiv in a few days and get more strongly worded letters and enjoy the loot. So he attacked Ukraine because he thought it would be easy. It’s got valuable resources, and Putin has this goal of restoring Soviet borders.

Easy enough to understand why, at the time, he did it. If there’s one silver lining I wonder if China became more reluctant about Taiwan seeing how thins can go.

I feel like this one would have some staying power…

Yes, the action was more severe, but generally downplayed as “just law enforcement stuff”, not every day musing how they should just take Venezuela over.

Waltzing into Venezuela seems to be like blood in the water. They have a taste for it and are ready to roll over another “easy” target (why would NATO raise a fuss over less than 70K people, I am sure they are thinking)

They don’t see Venezuela as a one off, they see it as momentum…

Would technically have to be a new one, NATO wasn’t designed to handle this sort of scenario. Of course New NATO would be an America-free roughly equivalent, with some different governance to prevent things like a single county impeding something everyone else wants.

Also he probably looks at a Mercator projection map and thinks New Trumpistan would be just YUGE. Trump the great they will call him in his own imagining of history.

Russia is going to invade a NATO nation with an active American military base on it? Seems like that angle is already covered…

Stop saying this is about American security interests in Greenland, you already have that covered, with help from NATO. Conquering Greenland would weaken the defense situation by alternating all the NATO allies.

Trump wants more land, and depending on the projection of the projection of the map he is looking at, he may think he’s conquering something the size of North America.

Oh, and it conveniently completes surrounding Canada with USA, seems like maybe Canada really should just submit to the USA…

Warming may make that a very attractive hub for ships…

Oh and of course some untapped resources in the ground …

If he were a random Internet commenter I would have presumed him a troll or satire…

It’s not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.

If your concern is that cold medicines don’t work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.

If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn’t do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.

A month from now:

I’m working on this horrible Venezuela situation that BIDEN left me with. Such a waste of American resources but I’m going to pull that back to make America great again.

Ok, so you weren’t countering that ML wasn’t AI, just contending that ML wasn’t “the” AI in the AI field, that’s fine. Keep in mind this thread kicked off from an assertion that ML wasn’t AI. Fine, ML wasn’t all of AI, but definitely was AI and in the popular understanding, it was pretty much “the” AI in the same way LLM is “the” AI now.

As I said. It’s an extrapolation of the rules from once upon a time to a totally different approach. It’s marketing and increasingly subjective. Any number can “make sense” in that context. The number isn’t based on anything you could actually measure for a long time now, it’s already a fiction, so it can go wherever.

To be fair, the industry spent decades measuring a distance, so when they started doing features that had equivalent effects, the easiest way for people to understand was to say something akin to equivalent size.

Of course, then we have things like Intel releasing their "10 nm* process, then after TSMC’s 7nm process was doing well and Intel fab hit some bumps, they declared their 10 to be more like a 7 after all… it’s firmly all marketing number…

Problem being no one is suggesting a more objective measure.

For a while now the “nm” has been a bit of a marketing description aiming for what the size would be if you extrapolated the way things used to be to today. The industry spent so long measuring that when the measurement broke down they just kind of had to fudge it to keep the basis of comparison going, for lack of a better idea . If we had some fully volumetric approach building these things equally up in three dimensions, we’d probably have less than “100 pm” process easily, despite it being absurd.

I would say more the opposite, in pop culture, LLM == AI. In the technical world, both in university and industry, AI has covered a lot of areas, and machine vision based on ML was absolutely under the category of AI. If you said you used pytorch to train an AI model no one in the industry or academia would have batted an eye.

Yes. And I took an “AI” class as part of computer science curriculum back around 2000, including implementing “AI” stuff in lisp. We’ve been talking about AI for decades and ML for machine vision was always under that umbrella from the time out started becoming viable.

LLM is the recent popular subset of AI, not all of AI.