This paper should cite On Bullshit.

I bet she even ripped the tag off that mattress, too.

The deal with LLMs is that it’s very difficult to say which piece of training material went into which output. Everything gets chopped up and mixed, and it’s computationally difficult to run backwards.

My understanding of the image generators is that they operate one pixel at a time too, looking only at neighboring pixels. So in that sense, it’s not correct to say they understand the context of anything.

Dude, all the work is in the maps, and they generally sell them proportional to the amount of map content. There are two benefits:

1. Studio doesn’t have to staff up to do all the content at once, but they still get paid periodically for what they do produce. This keeps the staff employed longer in a more stable position.

2. You can pick and choose which areas you want to get. If you want a big bundle, those still show up on Steam too at various levels of discount. But you’re not locked into having to deal with Ohio too.

I believe the story is that the original three Lord of The Rings films were licensed under an old film option deal (as in the option predated Peter Jackson working on the project). That deal was made when the Tolkien estate was under different management or something. And the current regime is not doing any film licensing for Silmarillion or anything else.

I think this is also related to the Rings of Power Amazon series. I think they sublicensed the rights to the LOTR appendices from the same movie option that the Peter Jackson films were made from, but they couldn’t get access to a Silmarillion.

The Force should be plural.

Not when you’ve got a grand unified theory.

Unitarians have entered the chat.

With the discrimination stuff it’s usually a pretty long process. Somebody has to sue these school districts in federal court, and win court order with specific instructions in it, regarding the bathrooms, or whatever it is.

Then if that court order is ignored, you usually have to go back to court and petition for sanctions and relief. After maybe several rounds of that, if the defendants are still recalcitrant, the court can order the US marshalls to take specific actions to enforce the order. US marshalls report directly to the federal courts… Their job is to be the muscle for the judges.

If resistance is really stiff, then the President may activate the national guard to assist the marshalls. This actually happened in the 1950s and 1960s to enforce various desegregation orders after Brown v. Board of Education. But based on that experience, national guard is rare–most schools stopped short of the kind of active resistance they required armed soldiers.

On the other hand, sometimes the judges have trouble finding an effective enforcement mechanism. Several years ago one of the Felicianas (a parish in Louisiana, I forget is it was West or East) was accused of failing to provide for public education in general by refusing to collect taxes to fund construction and maintenance of school buildings. The fire marshal closed the only public schools in the parish for code violations. But the voters in this district voted down property tax measures several times. The federal judge in the case threatened to throw the individual school board members in jail, but he had no solution for recalcitrant voters! He was unable or unwilling to impose taxes unilaterally.

Does this guy even understand what Energy is mostly about? What does he want to happen to all of this country’s nuclear infrastructure?

Get under an awning.

Does anyone know where it’s at now?