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IMO this relates to who the end consumer of websites ends up being. All the arguments for just using MCP ignore the reasoning that agents need based on contextual clues (e.g. if you're booking seats at a movie theaters, you'd want to choose based on personal preferences and taking the movie itself into account) and treat the website itself as the first class product.

Developing MCPs only works if the capabilities for the site don't involve any iterative reasoning and acting for the user, which things like travel and dining do :p

Very much in this spirit is the NSF-funded National Deep Inference Fabric, which lets researchers run remote experiments on foundation models: https://ndif.us. They just announced a pilot program for Llama405b!

> The residents group even stopped a comically ugly post-war Tesco from being demolished, pressuring Westminster City Council to designate the Dean Street store an ‘Asset of Community Value’.

Seems like there's a conflict here between the interests of the residents and the general public. I can't imagine eating out every night is something affordable or desirable for the locals.

It's interesting comparing these against the archetypes in TV Tropes, the language seems to focus on motivations of characters rather than the environment and context.

I go on Quora. I don't really like their digest emails or any of their recent monetization efforts but it's still unparalleled in free high quality writing, especially if you follow the right people. It remains one of the best places to find interesting stories and explanations, and also for exposure to a wide range of human experiences.

I agree with your sentiment but oftentimes small interventions are the only kind possible. And I wouldn't say that something like a pollinator strip is ineffective -- bees and other pollinators are losing habitat, pollinator strips restore them. It may only be one dimension of wildlife but it's a critical one.

But the "true" explanation given above is that the engine pushes the horizontally accelerated air downwards (with respect to its own orientation). Wouldn't that also lead to the conclusion that upside down flight is impossible?

Hello HN! This is a visualization of a paper proving Arrow's Theorem, which states that every electoral system fulfilling a certain set of fairness criteria is susceptible to dictatorship. You can view the original paper here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/4/17...

* allow people to pay millions to go to college; allow this to fund student aid for other students. Explicitly stop using it to build buildings

Most elite colleges (not the UCs though) offer 100% need-based aid to accepted students and are need blind in the admissions process. This comes directly from the endownment or the rich alumni and donors already.

* stop having all of these overfunded and weirdly inappropriate sports institutions as a core part of academia.

I completely agree.

* stop with massively-inflated grades that allow the rich-but-undercapable kids to graduate with the appearance of successful academics. They can buy their way in but they have to do as well as everybody else after that.

They do have to do as well as everyone else. Grade inflation is a school-wide phenomenon, but GPA in general is a poor indicator of academic performance: all of the prospective med school students at my school are being advised to apply to colleges which practice grade inflation. The grading system at colleges is taken into account by graduate and preprofessional programs.

* ensure that the influx of money from rich kids' applications doesn't go to administrators in any way, as that would incentivize them to over-prioritize these people.

The admissions office is somewhat decoupled from the rest of the institution, and receive fixed salaries -- this problem does not exist.

The college admissions process is actually moving away from weighing the SAT or ACT as heavily as it has in the past -- for this year's admissions cycle, most schools are going test-optional. The best correlation for American standardized testing scores isn't study habits, but zip code.

I personally don't believe that moving to a system like China's gaokao would solve any of the issues to do with wealth, because the American university system is more than an academic system. It can't simply test for academics (although GPA is the #1 factor considered in admissions across the board), because the strength of American universities is also in community and intellectual diversity. Most applicants to top schools are academically qualified to attend.

I picked https://nesslabs.com/tiddlywiki-beginner-tutorial which uses https://noteself.org/. NoteSelf has autosync which is helpful.

I would recommend reading How To Take Smart Notes and really internalizing the information there, I started off way too fast and ended up with too many tiny notes. It takes practice but its definitely worth it.