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This. They seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill that seems to consist of a couple of normal business meetings.

I wish the video presented had been one with, say, 5x higher bitrate, as it would have sufficed to make the point without presenting a video with very glaring compression artifacts.

I think even as a conjunction it was used more as a counterfactual (similar to "lest"), rather than as an alternative option (akin to "otherwise") the way it is used in programming.

Not after naturalization

If someone cares so much about flying, wouldn't they get much better range out of a helicopter?

Some company (might have been Yahoo or AOL) once released a dataset of searches for researchers to use. Researchers were able to deanonymize one that was searching for, amongst other things, how to kill one's wife. It turned out he was a happily married screenwriter for crime shows.

That's an argument you could make if police had to obtain warrants to access them. But they do not, at least in the US (things might be different in Canada where this happened, but I doubt it). Instead, they rely on rulings that there is no expectation of privacy in public. By the same principle, it's perfectly valid and legal for a civilian (or group of civilians) to set up an equivalent system to track police.

The point is that only someone already working there would have proficiency with all the software they use internally, so by listing those as requirements they can ensure no external candidate is eligible for the job the green card applicant is doing.

This is better

What about applications like distributed computing using volunteer computers, instead of datacenters? You can't really do that with normal backprop approaches. E.g. for LC0 the training data is generated in a distributed manner, but the neural nets themselves are trained centrally.

> The Unicode Standard defines plain text essentially as a sequence of character codes, without the additional formatting information associated with rich text. Fonts, colors, layout, and similar presentation details belong somewhere else.

Nope. Skintones are part of Unicode. It also has 33 control characters from ASCII including one that rings a bell... There are also numerous characters added by Unicode that are literally called "layout controls".

If you want a format that provides purely semantic information, then "plaintext" doesn't fit the bill.

And water is wet

“Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.”

I’d be curious whether the author composed this sentence himself or it was the output of AI. Personally I often find myself “it’s not X it’s Y” and then recoiling in disgust and rephrasing it simply because AI has made it so grating from overuse.