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During the communist regime in Romania there was a ban on abortion and the state encouraged people to have lots of kids (sound familiar?). This lead to A LOT of kids in orphanages and not enough resources to properly care for them. Conditions were atrocious, to say the least.

But, that lead to a lot of research data by following the lives of kids who got adopted from those orphanages. It was determined that 4 month old was the cut-off point from where kids can still recover from traumatic experiences. Kids adopted younger than that did fine, but kids adopted after that age were affected for the rest of their lives. The fact that they didn’t actually remember things consciously did not matter.

But B is true

But quickly banging out a concept, to me, is the big win for python.

For me the best language for quickly banging out a concept has always been the one I’m most familiar with at the moment.

4U2PN2 - “for you to pee into”

The serial number is on a urinal.

What happened to her dress?

I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.

Wouldn’t not ok be at the bottom and very ok at the top?

I never owned a 486 either. My first upgrade after the 286 was a Pentium.

Same in my company. Acknowledging that you’ve seen the message and are looking into it.

They don’t care. Obama deported more people than Trump. Trump cannot have that. At this point it’s just a matter of beating that number for him. If people intentionally come to the country just to pad that number for him, it’s a win in his book.

Machine learning, renamed “AI” with the LLM boom, does not simulate intelligence. It integrates feedback loops, which is kind of like learning and it uses a network of nodes which kind of look like neurons if you squint from a distance. These networks have been around for many decades, I’ve built a bunch myself in college, and they’re at their core just polynomial functions with a lot of parameters. Current technology allows very large networks and networks of networks, but it’s still not in any way similar to brains.

There is separate research into simulating neurons and brains, but that is separate from machine learning.

Also we don’t actually understand how our brains work at the level where we could copy them. We understand some things and have some educated guesses on others, but overall it’s pretty much a mistery still.

There’s no technical reason to think we won’t in the next ~20-50 years

Other than that nobody has any idea how to go about it? The things called “AI” today are not precursors to AGI. The search for strong AI is still nowhere close to any breakthroughs.

Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn’t really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I’m too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.

Never understood why, but it’s called “thick milk” in mine.

Like all Romance languages, number “one” has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you’re counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number “two” is also gendered.

Have they stopped airing Zeffirelli’s one on TV? I remember it was always on the schedule during Easter.

Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn’t recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.

Which is what that Microsoft employee protested against and got fired for.

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