No problem. Hope your financial independence efforts succeed.

I guess if it is something most people don’t carry with them, like a knife or a gun, it suggests intent to kill, while if he hit someone with an umbrella and they died he could argue self-defence.

I think that was me. I’m Indian, but I was talking based on what I knew about the US banking system and assuming it would be similar for Canada.

But this only works if the shop accepts cards, right? Smaller shops in India have almost all dropped card readers for UPI QR codes.

it seems the intent is for the peer review to happen there

That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works! You submit to some journal, who sends your work to 2-3 other scientists in the field (often anonymously, to reduce bias). There are cases of scientists ignoring journals and just posting their results to repositaries like arXiv, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. Anyway, GitHub is not an acceptable place to publish your findings, since it allows you to make changes later on.

the harm in forcing people to publish before they are ready by stealing their work.

That, again, is an issue that existed long before LLMs.

One of the ideological inspirations of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the party that leads the government coalition) is a man called Vinayak Savarkar, who collaborated with the British occupation.

No, they published them on GitHub. Meaning they aren’t peer-reviewed. In the current scientific system, peer review is almost always necessary for your work to be taken seriously. If the original authors can get their work published first, they still get precedence. Plus, there have been a number of cases where X discovers and publishes something, Y rediscovers and publishes it a few years later, and Y gets the credit for whatever reason (usually racism or money).

The scientists were naive to hand over their ideas to a shady closed-source model. I don’t think what OpenAI did is acceptable, but it is something that already happens without any LLM involvement, so I’m just not as shocked as you are.

It’s the richest country in the world. Also, this is anecdotal, but I felt freer and safer in China than in the handful of other countries I’ve been to, and even certain parts of my own country. If there is dictatorial control, it must be very subtle.

China seems to have found a solution to the oligarchy problem, but our politicians are too weak to follow it. Agreed about it being time to settle our differences and plan a joint invasion of England, though.

I was asking about this on another thread. Guess the EU works in mysterious ways.

• Tunnels and missiles are currently OP against military bases, ships and planes.
• Saudi military is well funded, but not necessarily well trained.
• Iran and Russia actually have to hold back from certain actions for diplomatic reasons.

The minerals aren’t the bottleneck; the refining technology is. And that is in China, not Latin America.

Do you mean descendants? Also the British Empire still exists.

I don’t think ion channels are small enough for quantum interactions to be significant. Do you have any source for quantum interactions in neurons?

Land the British promised to both of us. To be fair, it has been around 80 years since and at this point we should be settling our differences and planning a joint invasion of England.

Hey, what do you have against Iranian children having a little fun?

The heated inflatable bouncy castle some Chinese businesswoman was advertising on Twitter.

Right, so Europe went from buying Russian oil at market rates to buying it at a premium. I’m Indian, so I’m not exactly complaining about some companies here getting a little surprise profit, but I just don’t understand the logic.

Ukraine already tried that and got their entire coastline blockaded. (Also Russia would probably use the Pacific route for transport to the US.)

Russia is a very big country with very limited transport infrastructure. There are diesel shortages in Russia, mostly in areas where Ukrainian missiles can reach, but for example the Northern and Siberian districts would be mostly unaffected.