you get to find out all the steps!

meaning you learn more

Yeah, agreed. If you think artificial intelligence is going to be an important technology in the coming years, and you want to get a better understanding of how it works, it's useful to be able to run something that you have full control over. Especially since you become very aware what the shortcomings are, and you appreciate the efforts that go into running the big online models.

I don't know. You don't have to do much bootstrapping to get from lambda calculus primitives all the way up to if-elses, pattern matching, higher-order functions, etc.

royal blood is one of them ideas even worse than the notion of race

I used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more.

Bad turn of phrase, I guess.

Is classism not more real than race?

I mean, classism is about as real as racism but I don't know why one would ask about classism vs race. Class is about as not real as race; they're both things that people made up to justify their disrespectful behavior towards others.

In what way is race not real? Race is determined by DNA.

race as an idea is a societywide royalty of blood, which is why its so widespread in failed democracies with despots."We are all zhar/oligarch/king" and those not from here are the serfs.its the very same idea just bastardized.

Yeah...Declare one person special by birth, and suddenly everyone remotely related claims they're elite too, spreading hierarchy through society...:-)

I recognize only one sovereign:...The Burger King

Long may he reign

My heart aches for you. As does, no doubt, your stomach.

We all serve someone...I just prefer mine flame-grilled...

plot twist. it is the black hole in the center of the galaxy

so we are inside an object that we can observe looking outwards to the stars

Oh sure everyones a "citizen" but you're not a SuperPremiumPlus++ Citizen so you don't have access to that feature. /s

I think most of these symptoms are due to the death of "us". Civics and government, "We The People" refers to a collective "us" that share things. All powers, privileges and norms flow from a brain worm that my neighbor and I are alike, that you stranger are like me, and what is good for you is good for me.

That auto-chisel of isolationism marketing uses to sell us things, the death of third spaces, and a reality where you don't know if this comment was generated by a machine owned by a corporation, has the side effect of greatly weakening the concept of "us." Now its all a fight of demographics.

In this case the code bodies, inspectors, builders and municipalities are the concerned party and "us" citizens are as forgotten as powder wigs.

we can only hope that he will succeed where old Mr Kellog did not

there’s only and opposing secret court mandating the opposite: publicly available encryption must be weakened on release

software algorithms need to be written once to be used by anyone (digital copies and all that)

systems side doesn’t have this problematic quality

> letting the money decide the outcome

some people call that data driven decision making and they like it

others call it “skynet” and they fear it

what I am amazed by is how of the primes congruent 1 mod 4 can be factored into complex numbers

but what puzzles me is that 11,13,17,19 are primes just like 101,103,107,109

but the real punchline is that 23 is the next prime after 19 AND 113 is the next prime after 109. WHY!?

this must be connected to 2*5

but I only have questions and confusion