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Because, as mentioned several times in this discussion, if you give a python3 file to a python2 interpreter, you will get a SyntaxError even before the first line of the script runs. This is a way o ensuring the correct python version is used and to display a clear error message next to it.

How does it relate to JPEG2000?

I may soon have to recommend a lossy but potentially lossless image format for 3D medical images (with 16 bits channels), would JPEG XL fit this bill?

It is both cute and horrifying to realize that Python has no builtin functionality for this.

> I find it unlikely that my local supermarket is going to sell my purchasing habits to China or Iran.

Oh really? Do you think they run an ethical check on people who propose to buy their data? I a sure China is home to a lot of cheap backend services and their clients don't think twice about it.

> Are you sure you don't mean credit bureaus?

Probably yeah, I am not used to that American thing. People think the CCP invented the reputation score but US' private system predates that.

Ask tloriato that's hi scenario, not mine. I guess he fears the vega-fascist movement

Rural Japan. I am moving out of it, and most rural communities are very aware of the fact that they are dying out. Houses are not only cheap, some are free. I have a friend who is living in a house just in exchange of cutting the grass there regularly (long story). Landlords have to pay for the cost of destruction if one house they own becomes abandoned. They are happy to have a tenant even for free if they fix things there and keep the place in a good shape.

Schools are closing one after the other. The countryside is littered with abandoned schools. People there are despaired to see their cities shrink.

When we arrived from Tokyo with a young kid, we were more than welcomed and locals helped us localize the best houses for us.

French here in the process of buying a house in Isère.

The cheapest regions in France are probably in the center, in Seine et Loire I saw many offers for very cheap houses.

Be careful about buying medieval ruins: they can be cheap but they come with a VERY heavy regulatory framework. You have almost no freedom in how you will rebuild something that is classified as a historical monument and the cost of work and maintenance will be several times the buying cost there.

Uh, you literally have to track people's consumption to ration resources.

During WWII it was done with state-issued ration tickets and a crackdown on the inevitable black market that emerged. That's a good alternative to this.

Krita is a pixel editor. I mostly replaced GIMP with krita, but Inkscape is necessary for vector files.

I would say that the government having the same amount of knowledge that private companies have is not necessarily a bad thing.

Good luck arguing that a government can do good on a mostly American board.

Yeah, fuck the leftist ideology that gave us the PATRIOT act, the legalization of torture, that wages wars on lies with no long term plans, who made the Echelon network a mass surveillance network. Fuck these neocon hippies.

A store can sell its data to authoritarian governments that can jail people, to insurance companies that in some countries can prevent you from getting a credit card, a loan or even a job.

Now another question: what the best a government is likely to do with this data? What is the best a private company is likely to do with it?

If Norway reaches the point where they have to ration meat, I don't see the problem with such a system.

*illegally

Sure, there are illegal ways around all laws. That does not make laws useless.

The goal of a democratic state is not to control the behavior of its population.

Thing is, in Rust, you can't choose not to go through the effort. The borrow checker forces you to do so.

Probably based on a test set from the original dataset.

I recently read about a discovery that may explain that preference.

Psychologists have realized that it is easier for humans to remember a list than a set. That is, memorizing objects AND the order in which they appear is easier than just memorizing the objects.

A lot of our memory is based on sequences. We may think of it as extra information that clutter our memory capacity, but it is actually not the case: have things in a given order, in a given place, in a given color, and it is easier to memorize than if you remove information.

Wait, 12 yo in the US don't know how to do chores or do not understand how a house is set up?

Ok, I'll give you the Maya method, or the French method, or the Japanese method, or the Hacker method, or wherever we figured out parenting from in our household:

make kids feel they are part of the adults group. Share tasks, concerns, information, understanding. My 7 yo is (clumsily) washing his dishes because the rule is that if you don't cook, you wash dishes. That before going back to play, we clean the table. It is the rule for everyone, adults or kids.

We don't fake enjoyment of the chores, we explain its usefulness, we (well, I) do complain a lot about them, and my kid sometimes does it too, but still does it without being told.

Kids learn by imitation and they want to belong to your group. Give them what they want there. Set the example, be fair, be honest.

That's actually pretty straightforward: (Tested with EleutherAI GPT-J-6B because why use a closed model when an open one exists?)

Prompt: "Question: Solve three plus six.

Answer:

a=3

b=6

a+b

Question: Solve twelve times fifteen. Answer: a="

And the model dutifully answered:

"a=12

b=15

a*b"

Which you could feed directly to a python console.

This kind of approach, where you make a long prompt to make the model understand the kind of result you want is named "prompt engineering" and I find it crazy how close we get to robopsychology.

> Ok, so if they can do all that automatically for an "electronic audit" why am I filing a return, just run that thing and send it to me and I can file an exception if there is something on it I disagree with.

That's how it worked for me in France when I was an employee. As a freelancer there is a bit more work, but nothing like the puzzle that tax declaration seems to be in the US.

EleutherAI also started because researchers got bored in sync during lockdown. These projects give an idea of the awesome things creative people would do if they did not have to work

A package has more right to travel than a human. Period.

Well, I will certainly not find the premise absurd if a business plan assumes people will do that.

Micro-blogging is what Twitter-like platforms are typically called: a picture, a move, a small paragraph, do that 4 or 5 times a day, you have something that looks like a blog yes.

So yes, right now I would not see me putting on a VR gear just to inflige myself the pain that is Amazon, but if you tell me that in 10 years 20% of the online shopping is actually done in-game in a VR environment, I would not be too quick to say it is impossible.

You know, I always found it stupid that people thought I would ever use my phone to type messages or worse to write blog posts.

I would not rule out radical change of use patterns.

People will not put on a headset to shop, they will shop as they play, as they watch videos, etc.

Because money is desperate to find sinks to throw itself at.

The fact that Sci-hub is still illegal is an indictment of the legislative process.

When you consider that the opposite to individualism is authoritarianism, there has been a cultural failure in society.

You know what, you mention something that has pissed me off with a recent evolution of American culture by citing two examples I find relevant, so I'll expand.

Star Wars is a 1977 movie. It actually consciously uses the codes (and copies some scenes!) of WWII war movies. What are the heroes doing in it? They are helping a big organization (the rebellion) fight a formidable enemy. Just managing to flee from such an enemy is a heroic endeavor.

Compare it to today. In most, if not all, blockbuster movies, organizations that the heroes belong to are either incompetent, corrupt, are a hindrance when they are not the main antagonist. There is a total loss of the idea that belonging to an organization can make sense and can help a personal journey.

Sheriffs, policemen, journalists, they used to be the heroes of various fictions. Now we seem to refuse to believe that these can be heroes. We refuse to believe that collaboration with a team can be effective. Actually, now it is a trope that if the hero has a trustworthy associate, treason will happen some time in the storyline.

And somehow I understand what it is about: people are disgruntled with their work. They realize the company they are working in is not helping their personal hero's journey and hindering it. But really, the reaction that "therefore I shall do it all alone" is really bad.