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Windows Common Era? Is that really that much better than Windows Anno Domini?

(When did they stop naming releases after years?)

No? Direct control is harder in a Harvard architecture, but often changing data is the attack you want to do anyway.

> Nobody reads the Quixote, the Mio Cid or the Amadis with the Spanish orthography of their times.

And this is actually a loss. I have a fantastic edition of the Song of Roland with facing pages in Modern English and Medieval French, and there are nuances that would be lost in a straight translation to either Modern English or Modern French.

A couple people missed the smiley...

You can't just give your wife to your child!

It loses the ready access to the relatively deep history available due to spelling being nearly frozen since the rise of early modern English. Shakespeare, from circa 1600 is readable with only slight difficulty. In contrast, Chaucer, circa 1400 while recognizable, is a puzzle to decipher. This deep history also shows in etymological roots.

It's also completely impractical given the wide variety of very differently pronounced English dialects and accents. In other words, it requires massive pronunciation reform too. If that's on the table, why not alter everyone's pronunciation to fit the orthography...

But even the exposed machine ISA for x86 is way different these days than the underlying hardware.

It's partially selection bias, yes.

But that's not the entire story. It's also the fact that not having to deal with the terrible kids helps the remaining kids. Fewer class disruptions. Less slowing down the class to pretend to let the slowest and least motivated keep up. Etc.

This comes at the cost of concentrating the troublemakers in other places, making them far worse for normal kids stuck there.

LLMs aren't world models. They're linguistic models. However, with the right training database, it turns out that a good parsimonious linguistic model will have a (multiple, probably) world model as a subset, as it is so much better at compressing/predicting the textual stream.

Why do you think "biological neuron"s sidestep the halting problem?

People, who happen to run on biological neurons, have a sense of boredom that tries other approaches, and is also willing to eventually "give up", which aren't well captured in the standard algorithmic approaches.

Those aren't part of the model though. The model is just a representation of the world. An abstract representation can be useful, but so can more concrete ones. A representation that is amenable to logical reasoning is also useful, but the reasoning isn't part of the model.

That gets "analogies" rather than "spatial awareness" per-se.

There are still a lot of non-digital works produced, though it is shrinking in proportion.

> most people really, really do not like that Winnie the Pooh is being expanded in the horror direction.

Fascinating. I have not actually seen that reaction in my filter bubble. Much the opposite, actually.

It's certainly plausible, but there's a lot of confounds.

Broad-spectrum vs tanning.

And outside also gets lower CO2 and VOC.

A tire tax would also work, except for the unfortunate safety implications.

> (People won't like the crime that comes with it).

Does crime come with it? I certainly wouldn't expect that.

It looks like the screener was certified as acting under the scope of their duties pursuant to the Westfall act, and thus the TSA was substituted as the defendant.

Barycentric coordinates in a triangle wouldn't be a bad visualization...

In fact there is a PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0394/

[ab] is a character class, not a parenthesized catenation. It's (a|b), not (ab). So [ab]* is {epsilon, a, b, aa, ab, ba, bb, ...}

*geometrically

Well, no, not python's fault -- clearly the distros', and they probably should be blamed. But a PEP saying python2 and python3 should invoke the correct interpreter would help motivate the distributions.

(This is isomorphic to the usual victim-blaming discussion. Fault and blame vs some ability to make a difference; it's a shame that correctly pointing out a better strategy is both used to attack victims and attacked for attacking victims in the cases when that wasn't intended.)

The first "better" approximation, while having a better "max distance" (0.019608% vs 0.027253%), has a _worse_ span between min and max (0.039216% vs 0.027253%), which probably matters for some applications.

_reliably_, as in on the vast majority of machines.

After Guantánamo, that's not a risk I'd like to take.

The only way they're not is by the Nixonian "when the President does it, that means it's not illegal" standard.

Well, anyone that does geometric algebra thinks a bit about formal quantities that mix grades.

This is the orange site, the one you're on right now.