Gee, if only those senators had some sort of mechanism they could use to depose an unfit president. Imagine if such a mechanism existed, they'd had the opportunity to use it TWICE, and instead they'd thrown their full-throated (ahem) support behind this kid-fucker each time. I bet they'd feel pretty silly right about now. 😐

Apologies if I'm reading too much into what you've said here, but it reads to me as if you're implying search engines couldn't keep up with the volume of the internet and AI is the logical next progression.

Search engines actually worked pretty amazingly at one point, but then were kneecapped because Google et al were more interested in advertising money than useful search results. Then when they needed an excuse to justify ludicrous spending on AI, they shoehorned AI into web search where it is very much the wrong tool for the job if you want accurate, high relevance results.

For AI, it's as though the library were just a massive pile of books tossed around haphazardly and the librarian had to make sense of it enough to pull whatever you're looking for out of the chaos. Is it at all surprising, then, that it takes a huge amount of energy and computing resources to make any of this work?

It's more like the librarian has taken it upon themself (for some reason) to write a book that is the mathematical average of every other book in the library. Then when any patron comes looking for a specific book, the librarian just hands them this slag instead hoping they won't notice the difference.

Now that said, I 100% agree that running a good "old-style" search engine does still take a huge amount of computing resources, but I'd be surprised if the requirements were anywhere near what is being thrown at training LLMs.

Real easy fix here: stop giving Amazon money.

I'm getting a kick out of this comment because I just got a ticket from NYC because their 30x20 pixel camera decided someone else's plate looked like mine. I live in a different state and haven't been to NYC since middle school. The car is completely different from mine. /rant

Fuck Fox and its viewers though.

Alternate take: Switch 2 owners are an ideal demographic if you need someone that will pay money for the same game over and over again ad infinitum.

I think this is basically an actual arc from The Ancient Magus' Bride. Pic related.

If this is real, you could put together a guide on how others can most efficiently accomplish the same results. (Or link to such if it's already floating around somewhere)

Question for those of you who have read it:

I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it's essential to read it in physical book form?

Yep. https://github.com/...

I love that even before I looked I knew what this was going to be.

I originally got it to rescue my Pokemon before the battery dies

This is probably the edible talking but... I'm enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.

We haven't figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend's ghost before its shell fails. That's cyberpunk as fuck.

Please stop giving Amazon money.

Know the name of the artist on this?

YouTube recommendations already seem to be 90% opposite to my interests so they seem to be way ahead of you there.

Mass Effect 1: the minute-long unskippable cutscene before the fight with Matriarch Benezia. I can't remember if I was just terrible at that fight or what, but I had to watch that scene SO. MANY. TIMES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resusci_Anne

It's been a loooong time since I watched the original Fullmetal Alchemist, but I seem to remember there being a lot of tension between Hawkeye and Mustang.