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They shouldn't though honestly. TVs should go back to basically being dumb monitors and the smart features should just come with a box. They can even sell the box as a bundle

Very cool. Perhaps you've seen OneZoom[0] already which is purely based on phylogenetic data sourced from Open Tree of Life. OTOL has been around for a long time. The project aggregates phylogenetic data from thousands of studies and creates a massive synthetic tree.[1] It's neat because anyone can contribute. If you find a study not represented in there you can contribute the newick tree/annotation for it.

[0] https://www.onezoom.org/

[1] https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/ottol@378964/...

Possibly! It seems more likely that migrants brought rice cultivation. Or maybe a mixture of both. Maybe some "I wonder how we could grow that here. Lemme visit that new community of immigrants"

In Sicily and Spain, rice cultivation began because Islamic expansion brought advanced irrigation and cultivation techniques. It's called the "Arab Agricultural Revolution"

Eastern Europe is the same. I've only been in one house one time in the US where it was shoes off. It just felt wrong even though it wasn't carpeted and there were no rugs

Babylon Galactica

> rice - which would have not been cultivated or traded in West Asia yet

Surprisingly it was still imported in surprising quantities nearly 1000 years before it started to be cultivated. Not significant enough quantities for it to be a common staple, but still an interesting tidbit

This is very true. Not much they can do about that unfortunately. Some people work a job in the meanwhile and they work with those people. But it definitely detracts from the program and they warn against it if avoidable

The program is free to attend. If you do it in person though you ofc have to pay NYC rent for a few months.

I looked through the link again and couldn't find a single one that is a contract and not a subsidy. Most of them look like this:

> Nevada has offered Tesla, an electric car producer, a subsidy package worth estimated $1.3 billion over several years. The package includes 100 percent abatements of sales taxes ($725 million saving over 20 years), real and personal property taxes ($332 million over 10 years), and modified business taxes ($27 million over 10 years). In addition, the subsidy package includes transferable tax credits: a tax credit of $12,500 per job for up to 6,000 jobs ($75 million saving for the company); a tax credit of 5 percent of the first $1 billion investment ($50 million); and a tax credit of 2.8 percent of the next $2.5 billion investment ($70 million). In addition, Tesla will receive cheaper electricity rates for eight years, which will save the company an estimated $8 million. Nevada will spend $43 million to buy the right of way for USA Parkway for the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, where the Tesla facility will be located (the amount is not included in the total). The state will also change its laws to allow Tesla to sell its cars directly to consumers, rather than through car dealers. Jobs are projected full-time permanent jobs at the facility. Investment is total projected investment (the company has committed to invest $5 billion within first 3 to 5 years and another $5 billion during the following 10 years). However, to receive the subsidies, Tesla must invest $3.5 billion.

I didn't flag your original comment. You're clearly very deep into identity-protective cognition and unable to discuss logically. You are taking criticism of a company very personally and getting emotional about it.

It's not good to take info as a personal attack.[0]

The most subsidized companies in human history by how long they've been around. it's worse than the actual military industrial complex (though both his major companies are heavily tied to the MIC as well)

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/space-explor...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cognition

It's mostly a meme https://old.reddit.com/r/PortugalIsEastEurope/

Love this extension. One stop shop and supports any custom alt front-end you want for any website you want. Usually they have all the major ones and are quick to update with mirrors when something goes down but allowing you to do it yourself is a great fallback

Yes there have been several research projects like these that have fully open sourced their training data (mostly coming from Europe). But that's all they amount to. Experiments and projects.

The labs that are actually competing with frontier models are using data would usually be a violation of copyright to release openly.

> Chinese models these days don't even release pre-trained weights anymore; all you get now is the finished post-trained product.

No? That's absolutely not true. Qwen, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, etc all consistently release both the post-trained "Instruct/Chat" versions and the underlying "Base" (pre-trained) weights.

Which specific Chinese models are you thinking about?

One of the more depressing things to me is the "forever chemical" debacle. Even though we've banned PFAS in pizza boxes, food packaging, firefighting foam, and many consumer products, we're stuck in an endless cycle of the industry coming up with new chemicals that only differ slightly in their chemical structure and making all the same safety claims about them that they know will soon be disproven. It's no bother to them as they can continue to play this game indefinitely and advertise that they don't use those forever chemicals

There's no way to fix it until we start punishing white collar crime the way we punish blue collar crime. Bad actors are bad actors

Asbestos too. And glyphosates which have devastated insect populations. Veritasium did great documentaries on both of those crises

glyphosate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ

asbestos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMx139eTxoc

It took decades for the science to finally flow freely since both of these industries heavily targeted the scientific institutions themselves. Who knows what other pesticides and chemical companies are following the same playbook that we won't get to know about for decades.

Imagine if we policed white collar crime anywhere near as much as blue collar crime

The marketing budget of OpenAI is out of hand

DeepSeek has released a ton of low-level AI infrastructure code, libraries, and mathematical models on GitHub. Their tools and agent environments are fully open sourced including their harness. They release complete PyTorch and Hugging-face compatible python files detailing their configuration, tokenizers, and layers of the architecture.

The only thing they don't release is their data-filtering pipelines but they detail even that in their public-access papers.

DeepSeek is truly as open source as you can possibly legally get. Besides the data itself, it's completely reproducible by anyone else.

I don't think americans yet acknowledge just how radically transparent Chinese labs are being (and how much even the west benefits from it).

This is absolutely not true. DeepSeek is most famous for publishing really in-depth papers on their training process but the other labs have started to do the same as well.

If by "training corpus" you mean the actual data I already acknowledged that that's currently legally impossible.

In fact everything I just said I said in my original comment. It's like you didn't read it at all.

DeepSeek's GRPO Infrastructure, multi-stage training pipeline, and their "cold start" phase have been massively influential in LLM research.

Yes it's heartening to see the rebound but the population reaching as low as 100k will forever place a genetic hurdle on restoration efforts. Not to mention beavers have been found to be highly cultural animals with local nuances in social interactions and even how they build their dams. There are tons of skills that beavers pass down through culture rather than genetics that have already been lost

Yeah the best policy is to avoid using a "Share" button as much as possible and always just copy the URL bar. I have a browser extension that strips them automatically too but I don't think it always works. I wish my extension, instead of just stripping it, would mangle it randomly just to add some data poisoning to websites that do this

Here's your link without the surveillance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XToPq9lsOM

I'd recommend Leila Philip's Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America. It's a great work of narrative science writing.

I think we deeply underestimate the profound impact beavers had on the landscape in North America. We truly live in a post-beaver geography. The beaver hat fad in Europe was the primary driver of their population going from hundreds of millions to less than 100,000.

https://www.leilaphilip.com/beaverland

I responded to a lazy comment with a higher effort comment. I think I left the conversation better than I found it. Not sure which part you'd like sourced, but here's a paper I think does a good job of covering some of these topics

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108310

Some highlights:

> While data center electricity use has been the subject of much investigation, data center water consumption is a less studied topic that is becoming increasingly important in the context of water scarcity and freshwater conservation, especially at local levels. Many data centers can consume a significant amount of water directly for cooling and space conditioning

> For example, Google's data centers in The Dalles consumed 355 million gallons of water in 2021, representing 29 % of the city's total water consumption

> Additionally, data centers consume water indirectly through the water used for electricity generation. This type of water use can be significant at the local or national level depending on the power generation technologies, power mixes, and electricity usage of the data centers.

In fact, automated a11y checks and tooling is quite advanced nowadays and tragically underutilized by web developers. Now that we have llms to scale all the shitty code of front-end devs at startups, I feel increasingly hopeless about things ever improving

Other than open training data (currently legally impossible), all of this holds for basically every major Chinese-made model. They not only open the weights but publish detailed methodology papers alongside the models in arXiv and even open source the code.

The entire rest of society? Schools, hospitals, homes, businesses, etc

It's not even taxes. It's the fact that municipalities and cities are making deals with these companies to give them, e.g., 10 years of tax breaks to build there. If you live in Texas, you are subsidizing these companies

Despite the lobbying effort, it's still true that over 90% of data centers are not closed loop. Per-acre data centers use much more water.

More important politically, is that your water bill will absolutely go up faster with a new data center in town than with a new golf course. Dc's usually draw from a single pipe while golf courses and farmland spread it out. Also a golf course usually uses primarily greywater or recycled water.

The grievances about water usage are absolutely well-founded. Industry sockpuppets often like to push statistics about closed-loop data centers (which are less than 10% of all data centers) to fight back. Closed-loop data centers have their own drawbacks like drastically increased electricity usage and added pollution concerns due to the toxic sludge that needs to be bled out every month.

The golf course line has never been convincing. Find something new.

Herodotus used the term Palaistine in his work The Histories in the 5th century BCE. The earliest written record of the word "Judea" is from extra-biblical writings from 733 BCE.

The most "official" designation was arguably when the Roman's designated Syria Palaestina in 135 CE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine