Is it? Could you please enlighten me? I admit, I'm a bit ignorant of the politics over there.

To me, it seems like it's a clear violation of a nation's sovereignty. As a US citizen, I can't imagine Mexico bombing us for private actors for distributing guns to the cartels, for example. Even if the government itself was responsible for distrubuting arms to the cartels (which actually may very well be the case), I still don't see the justification for bombing US apartment complexes.

Definitely not a lie. Could possibly be a case of "parental incompetence," as my parents and grandparents were educated in, what I guess, similarly biased schools (or most likely, even more biased). I don't have a good relationship with my parents, and, perhaps surprisingly, my grandparents are more left-leaning than my parents. I grew up in rural NW Ohio, to be more specific; which used to be a swing state. Most of my peers were racist AF, and most of my past friends are now dead from drug overdoses. I'm, in no means, well traveled, but I'm guessing my life experiences aren't some rare anomaly.

I remember my 4th grade teacher having us read one page about the Daughters of the Confederacy, the teacher briefly discussing the struggles of former slave-owners, and skipping the rest of the chapter on slavery due to "not having enough time." IIRC, even the textbook painted the Daughters of the Confederacy in a positive, or at least neutral light.

I remember my 7th grade health teacher showing us a Christian anti-masturbation video for our sex-ed requirement. This was a rural public school in a northern state. Only other option was a private Catholic school, but my family wasn't Catholic, and my family wouldn't have been able to afford to send me there if they wanted to.

I don't think I even knew about the trail of tears until the middle of high school; and definitely didn't learn about the motivation for hunting Buffalo to extinction.

Lebanon is urging the international community to recognize it as an invasion: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/01/nx-s1-5134606/lebanon-israel-invasion-hezbollah-international-support

Forgot all about Sub-Terrania. Loved that game as a kid.

Code should be self-documenting. That way it is never outdated. Here's an example of this similar to what you can expect to see in practice:

def nabla_descent(X, y, theta, alpha, delta, nabla):
    m = len(y)
    for _ in range(delta):
        h = X.dot(theta)
        nabla = (1/m) * X.T.dot(h - y)
        theta = theta - alpha * nabla
    return theta

I (probably unreasonably) despise using web front-ends for desktop applications.

GTK is OK. QT is very feature rich, but that adds complexity. Both can be cross-compiled to most systems and shipped with all the required libraries pretty easily.

I haven't used it in a long while, but I remember liking Java Swing for some reason. Java should be "write once, run anywhere." But, cross-compiling isn't usually too hard, so not sure how much that matters. There's more modern frameworks for JVM-based languages now, but I haven't tried them.

I've noticed Gradio is popular in the ML community (web-tech based, and mostly used for quick demos/prototypes).

Edit: For web applications, I prefer Angular's more traditional architecture over React's hook architecture.

Don't know why society tolerates these dumbass parasites.

Not sure I agree that there will be less human labor "need." Ideally, we should strive for progress, and not just survive. I think there is infinite use for human labor.

I agree with your second point.

IDK. Rocket Mortgage seems to be experts on being responsible with money, as evidenced by this company meeting: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1alzgv3/work_meeting_at_rocket_mortgage_time_for_puts_yet/

Haven't tried Gemini; may work. But, in my experience with other LLMs, even if text doesn't exceed the token limit, LLMs start making more mistakes and sometimes behave strangely more often as the size of context grows.

No problem. Glad you appreciated it. Namaste.

They indicated that they were wondering how pro-AI people would feel:

I really sat there wondering how do pro AI people feel when they get an email/SMS like that.

This is more complicated than some corporate infrastructures I've worked on, lol.

I usually just use VS Code to do full-text searches, and write down notes in a note taking app. That, and browse the documentation.

Nah, LLMs have severe context window limitations. It starts to get wackier after ~1000 LOC.

I'm pro-AI, but not pro-AI in the sense of, "turn these bullet-points into a verbose email," and not pro-AI for personal communication like this. I hope this kind of stuff doesn't become common. It's like going in the opposite direction of "SMS language" (which I view favorably).

Python is quite slow, so will use more CPU cycles than many other languages. If you're doing data-heavy stuff, it'll probably also use more RAM than, say C, where you can control types and memory layout of structs.

That being said, for services, I typically use FastAPI, because it's just so quick to develop stuff in Python. I don't do heavy stuff in Python; that's done by packages that wrap binaries complied from C, C++, Fortran, or CUDA. If I need tight-loops, I either entirely switch to a different language (Rust, lately), or I write a library and interact with it with ctypes.

I don't think anyone is advocating for a "slap on the wrist." The U.S. criminal justice system is the most draconian in the West, and doesn't do "slaps on the wrist," unless you're in a particular economic or social classes.

IMO, ideally, he would be sentenced for as long as it takes to rehabilitate him. Could be 5 years, 10 years, 30 years, or never, IDK, I'm not a psychologist. But, the U.S. prison system isn't really designed for rehabilitation either.

Production AI is highly tuned by training data selection and human feedback. Every model has its own style that many people helped tune. In the open model world there are thousands of different models targeting various styles. Waifu Diffusion and GPT-4chan, for example.