farialima

Thank you for this article. What a refreshment from so many articles about AI…

What’s important and complex in Shakespeare plays, is not what it’s written, but what’s left to the interpretation of the director, or even of the public — the ambiguities, the imperfections, that let us imagine the motivations of the characters (as the article points - the motives are clear but not the motivations), and let us perceive their emotions, feel their reactions, mixed with ours.

Exactly what generative AI doesn't let you do.

In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes)

Really feels like 1928

It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them

Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something

I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s.

The previous generation – the one that reached adulthood before and during WW 2 – had upward mobility in the 40s, 50s, and wanted its children to have too

- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening)

- the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess online

> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII.

that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence, but the Germans did not exercise any power. In fact, there was a "palace coup" that switch alliances in 1944.

These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life:

L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe

The future torments us, the past holds us back -- that’s why the present escapes us.

I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS instance, LOL).

From my experience, they are clumsy, complex to set up, to manage, you can't easily have CI/CD (I still don't know how you get the code of a lambda from and to git ?!?!), etc, etc...

Is it just me ? Am I alone ?

:)

> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible

It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :)

Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you I've never seen a country where people would say good things about their own education systems

Not sure why... probably simply because everybody has (good !) ideas on how it could be better, but they are not easy to implement ! :). Probably also because that's really something people care about