Yeah but Meta torrented the entirety of Z-Library, reportedly.

They won't even pay for one copy, even setting aside the issue of trained networks being a derivative work.

I so rarely need Calc in non-engineering programming but matrix algebra, yeah sometimes.

Yet there are libraries for the crunch so being familiar with the concepts and applications is more important than computation.

We should probably have CS-track math that focuses more on concepts and gets twice as much done than 1950's math classes.

Same, except for being 9 on a C=64 keyboard which was a bit non-standard.

I know some programmers who can do 120 wpm or more and that is impressive. I don't think you can get there without drilling and some people aren't built that way.

The speed helps when fleshing out a new class but that's about it. Prose, of course too.

Normally I can type faster than I can come up with good variable names or remember control flow syntax in whichever of a few dozen languages I have to use at any given hour.

This is supercool(ed) research but it still amazes me that bluesky startups like this can get funding.

Is DARPA backending it?

Or is the hope of a mega acquisition before market just that high?

Doing actual physics engineering mostly stopped after 1971 so the compass is pointing in the right direction, even if this one doesn't produce a usable product.

Radiance Corp too but they have an unspoken advantage.

Oh FFS. Food banks are locally run, staffed, and financed.

I don't believe you.

Who's stopping you from writing a check?

It's not our responsibility.

I'll just have to learn to live with the knowledge that you disapprove.

Except that the cash is drying up anyway, per the article source. And it was inevitable that enrollment would slow down as soon as China ramped up their higher education system enough to provide for their own needs. That's been their M.O. in every other sector of their economy: get Western help until self-sufficient, then kick the West out to protect their own markets. Education is no different from factories in this case.

They should have introduced the list with a colon, but legal writing is /intended/ to be hard to understand. It creates tons of downstream work for lawyers.

The "Plain English Movement" is an effort to stop doing the that. Here's a reasonable description:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fir.lawnet.fordham.edu%2F...

In 1950, most women were married and stay-at-home moms, with the female labor participation rate at just over 30%. Most men did the working. We have a vastly different social situation now. The women's labor rate is now 57%. Men are now under 67%. In the year you citied, 1950, men had an 86% participation rate. The male rate has been steadily dropping since the 60's. So there's definitely been a change in attitudes and work ethic since the 50's.

Such revolutions always end up with the revolutionaries killing the very people they were supposedly fighting for. Ask the French how that turned out for them.

That's not the argument. The argument is that simply giving people money all their lives with no requirements for work in return will make them permanently dependent on others. Worse, they'll come to have a sense of entitlement that their neighbor owes them a living. The West has always prospered with the worth ethic: He who does not work, shall not eat.

So, if AI takes that work away to an extent that will truly leave masses of people permanently unemployed? Then better a Butlerian Jihad than Behavioral Sink.

When work and purpose is taken away from Man, he rots.

Americans would have no problem temporarily helping a nation that had a crop failure one year, or had food supplies destroyed by a hostile force. What they have a problem with is permanently taking responsibility for feeding that nation, when that nation is more than capable of feeding itself. And that became the problem with USAID. It became a permanent burden, often with the expectation that US tax dollars were always going to show up to do the job that the native people and their governments should be doing themselves.

I also suspect that much of USAID wasn't for humanitarian purposes as much as it was for buying influence abroad, under the guise of humanitarianism. One of the primary objections to cutting the USAID budget at places like the Brookings Institution and CSIS is that if the US stops paying foreign food and medicine bills, then China will step in and play sugar daddy. Well, good. Let China drain their coffers then. As far as I'm concerned, that's not a bug, that's a feature.

The people of the United States are exceedingly generous in giving their money to charities, foreign and domestic. Americans sent almost 30 billion dollars abroad to foreign recipients in 2023. Americans pretty much have decency covered. But this isn't about decency. It's about responsibility.

So, I ask again: who is responsible for feeding those children abroad? The implication of the parent post is that the responsibility is squarely on US taxpayers, and not the parents of those children or their own governments.

I'm presuming here that you're speaking of the cutting of USAID's budget.

Why is the United States responsible for feeding the children of other nations? Shouldn't that be the responsibility of those other nations? Don't tell me that they can't do it, because you know that isn't true.

Some people say their internal "Community Guidelines" prohibit promoting other platforms and this is selectively enforced.

Regardless of the veracity of those claims it could easily be added to their ToS for "safety".

>> I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car")

Anybody know what he's referring to? I'm ignorant of that one.