Instant gratification culture. Got to have things faster and faster.

Current AI/LLMs are just very complex probability matching with some frills to make it work. Our brains may be something like that too, as chemical and electrical signals can be reduced to math. It’s all math.

What you described before is pathing, and that can be a simple routine or very complicated and breakable, depending on the needs of the game. The really sophisticated ones would even chart the player’s behavior and react or plan a path based on past actions (even on some C-64 games, which is impressive). There was one karate game where (subjectively and not well tested) if you let it run the opening demo or played it a while, the game’s character got better. And it wasn’t just a higher level thing, you could tell (again, just a feeling) that it started to anticipate your usual moves.

That’s on a different spreadsheet. We’re looking at the positives.

steady government funding

Until next year. Education, along with everything else, is going to take a hit.

Working-class voters, facing inflation and economic concerns, are shifting toward Republicans, with many bypassing college for well-paying blue-collar jobs.

Seems it’s correct that the Democrats have not given the working class what they want to hear. The sad thing is that the Republicans are the last place they should be looking for help. There’s of course third party…which after an election still results in two parties actually in in the seats (not) doing stuff.

Good news though, there’s no gridlock this time around, so I’m sure Republicans will now shine as they get all sorts of helpful things passed to improve…I’m sorry, to make America GREAT again.

I was going to run, but I had to stay for the epic solo…

I believe there’s some thinking now that dinosaurs weren’t doing all that well, stagnating, so without a meteor and volcanic activity they still would have changed in some manner eventually. But perhaps not enough to let the mammals fill any niches.

What gets me is how long life was on Earth just as single cell forms, and then suddenly, recently, it took off to bigger things.

Inconceivable.

One day: “Honey, where’s the dog?”

Correction in your summary, they date back to 280 million years, before the dinosaurs. Not 280M more years. That would be very old.

All the posts are about combat between some guy with a short sword vs. a spear. No one has considered Paul’s ability to predict future actions and using that to determine the best outcome. Much like fighting a Jedi (who presumably could anticipate the immediate future), how can you fight someone who already knows how you’ll move and the best counter?

(just like Black Mirror)

Technology’s red flag.

Leopards…leopards everywhere.

Sure, he was looking for solutions and allowed smarter people to steer the research. He also allowed the smarter man to take his place in office.

It could be that simple. He didn’t realize the potential the first time around and so many things got in the way, including a disaster that tried to force a leadership role on him. This time enough was changed and built up to prevent the obstacles, and he not only can avoid justice for his past, but he can, in his own words, “do anything and they’ll let you.”

As an American, I think you’re spot on. I keep thinking how America is portrayed in the series “Years and Years” might happen this time around.

I was told in posts from the last disaster that Spain has floods all the time and this isn’t a big deal. I’m beginning to think they might have been not telling the truth.

Permanent materials that won’t degrade quickly would be far more beneficial for the goal, as it truly captures and removes the carbon from the cycle that feeds warming. Fuels, not so much, as the only good part is it supposedly replaces fossil fuels from the ground (i.e. new carbon), so less of a true impact on carbon in the environment. But will it be at a competitive cost to even make a large difference?

I enjoyed the first movie. In retrospect they could have expanded better within the movie instead of the outside novelettes to explain each character more in depth. I don’t think she’s a Mary Sue any more than Anakin is, even less so, but again I read the backstories and get why it feels that way without them. The other two movies stumbled for a lot of reasons, ruining what I think could have been a good story. Honestly from the very start, when Luke tosses the sabre away, I was like “oh no…” Not what I wanted or needed from that.

Something about pigs and lipstick…

When I first saw one pass by me in reality, my first reaction was “jesus”. And the colors I’ve seen on display (a Tesla store is nearby), wtf? Not that a good color would help a lot, it still looks very wrong.