Must be easy to get confused when you can only have one thought in your head at a time, and barely even that.
Mexico's murder rate per 100 000 is 24.9, meaning you're on average safer in Mexico than in Newark, Memphis, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore or St. Louis.
Never mind that murders in Mexico are generally committed using American firearms, and for American money over drugs that are to be sold in America. Mexico's problem is America. So while we wait for America to selfdestruct, I guess they might as well get to work on public health issues.
Obviously not saying that cartels are not a huge fucking problem. It's hard to get good politicians when they murder anyone who resists them. But the cartels are in large part a product of America's failures. Europeans are not innocent either - fuck every coke snorting upper class brat who is having their pathetic highs at the expense of a whole fucking continent.
/rant
American government: Builds concentration camps
Mexican government: Develops brand new chocolate bars
I'm happy to see there are still some governments out there who rule in the interest of the people.
Large language models and "generative AI" such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all just machine learning models. We do not currently have a real "AI branch" of computer science, we have a branch of machine learning that poses as AI.
No matter how good a machine gets at recognizing and predicting patterns, it will not constitute AI, as intelligence is different from pattern recognition and prediction. Even if LLMs can sometimes appear to be reasoning, they importantly are not.
five minutes later
Grok: "Heil hitler!"
I guess this depends on things like location, soil type, and environmentally disruptive neighbours.
I grew up in a Scandinavian forest with a well, no filtering needed. Sure, after heavy rainfall the water could end up containing a few more minerals than usual, but it would never require filtering, and the house has been standing for almost 40 years now without sediments building up.
If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.
What's the biggest thing you ever made? Which work are you the most proud of?
And how are you received as a Canadian in Scotland? Do they treat you alright?
Do you have midges in Canada?
Usually when I see this it's using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.
There's huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.
If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that's awesome, but that's very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.
Gigantic hater of all things LLM or "AI" here.
The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with "multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages" could be potentially useful.
And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that's also a good thing.
Could I find something to hate about it? Oh yeah, most certainly! :)
A Cypriot cargo ship ran ashore immediately next to a Norwegian household today, and they are currently doing there best to get the ship unstuck. It's a surprisingly sootehning live stream.
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Trump has cut budgets, laid off employees, and pressured universities. Now Norway wants to attract researchers who have poor conditions abroad.
The Research Council prioritizes and allocates funds on behalf of the state.
Now they are allocating 100 million kroner to attract foreign researchers to Norway.
The Managing Director of the Research Council, Mari Sundli Tveit, is clear about the backdrop.
– It is particularly related to the situation in the USA. Academic freedom is under pressure and funding is being cut, says Tveit.
The new scheme allows Norwegian institutions to apply for support to bring in international researchers.
The work around the new scheme was both expanded and expedited when the Trump administration introduced significant cuts to American research in March.
Tveit emphasizes that the arrangement will not be reserved for researchers from the USA.
According to Tveit, many of those who have been laid off in the USA are researching areas such as climate, health, and the Arctic.
– These are areas where it is extremely important for us to ensure that the activity continues. And connecting the researchers to us is a very, very good idea, says Tveit.
She is concerned about what she sees as an attack on research in the USA. Among other things, in the form of restrictions on specific research topics.
– There are lists of forbidden words, that is, prohibited words that cannot be included in research applications, says Tveit.
She points to words like "woman," "black," and "climate change."
In addition, the Research Council is concerned about a lot of important research data that is stored in the USA. This includes important research data and results on climate change and health.
– If there is a breach in that data, it will cause irreparable damage. And we are very concerned about that. Right now, we are looking for ways to move data to store it safely elsewhere, says Tveit.
Research and Education Minister Sigrun Aasland (Ap) has been a driving force behind the new scheme.
– In Norway, we have a great need for expertise in the coming years, including in research, Aasland explains.
She makes it clear, like Tveit, that the scheme should not be limited to researchers from the USA.
As the situation stands now, Aasland believes there is an increased need for such schemes.
– But is it wise to launch this scheme in the same week that Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg are set to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House?
– This is not an American scheme, but a global one. Also, an important reason why we are so focused on collaboration with the USA in research is that they are an outstanding research nation. They account for a significant amount of the world's knowledge about health, climate, and energy, Aasland responds and adds:
– We have extensive collaboration with American researchers, and we want to continue that.
The Research Council estimates that the funds can cover 30 to 50 research positions. The researchers will be recruited to both colleges and universities in Norway.
The rector of UiO, Svein Stølen, is positive about the new arrangement.
– This is very interesting. It can bring us truly top researchers from other countries, says Stølen.
The rector believes this could have a significant impact on Norwegian and European research.
– We see that there are challenges in the USA, where China is advancing. The fact that Europe is stepping up is important, continues Stølen.
The rector of the University of Bergen, Margareth Hagen, is also positive about the new arrangement.
– The consequences for us are significant. It concerns the fact that about 22 percent of the research at UiB is conducted in collaboration with American researchers. So it is clear that what is happening in the USA affects us quite immediately, says Hagen.
She points out that the collaboration with American research environments spans the entire breadth of UiB's academic fields.
– UiB is particularly known for strong climate research and also for a lot of research on global health, where Americans are at the forefront.
(Translated by Kagi)
Mexico is not one place, it is many places. Yucatán has lower homicide rates than Wyoming.
I wonder where you think the cartels gets their weapons from. Mexico has strict gun laws. Or their money - it doesn't just spawn out of nowhere. Parts of Mexico are dangerous because they are part of an illegal trade route to the US, fuelled by American weapons and American money, and that is that.