>in LaTeX I could only accomplish after several days by cargo-culting indecipherable gibberish from years-old forum posts
To learn basic use of LaTeX, takes an afternoon. To understand the language fully takes "effortful learning" like any other programming language.
Long term user of LaTeX. I did try Typst and it has is advantages main one it compiles faster. I am sticking with LaTeX and I don't find it difficult to use, write packages and classes, as I did invest the time to understand it and learn the language. Academic institutions, understand its superiority and also want to protect their archives. Maths has a long shelf-life. LaTeX also has a very good civilized community. LaTeX as it stands now has no comparative competitor.
US needs to diversify and have an industrial policy. It also needs to rethink capitalism. Maybe new capitalism with US characteristics and more humanism thrown in. As to the defense industry it needs to shrink and be part of the industrial policy, not depend on warmongering to exist. You can have peace and a defiance industry without wars.
Thanks. Yes copying Unicode strings is a common practice and I use it for some of the scripts I am writing about. I am busy with a write-up that spans almost all known scripts, for some scripts macros work better for me as I can type \LE{180} and get the glyph No. 180 and \LE[2]{180} to get variant 2 etc., and the star version \LE*{..} can do something else.
Thanks for the links. I found it interesting that the site was programmed using Elm; was there any particular reason for this? Also a comment on the fonts. Although I understand it is easier to combine the fonts to include a Latin script, I prefer the Google fonts approach that they only include the specific Unicode slots for a certain script. This make it easier for publications to have consistent typography, although is a hassle to an extend. What program do researchers in the field normally use for papers? I use LuaLaTeX and easy to map macros to print the right glyph.
I reached 70 this year (still hacking...). I have seen a lot of changes in my life time, technical, economic and geopolitical. Is hard to predict the future. A common underlying pattern of change has been that income disparities will grow, both at a personal level as well as between companies. AI will accelerate this phenomenon. Yes jobs will be lost and unemployment will produce social friction and instability. At the moment, perhaps to most HN readers is a productivity tool (and not very good at it).
I am hoping that applied AI would bring the costs of services and products down, through efficiencies so that people can still survive.
I had a NDE two years ago. I had a lucid experience, saw someone (looking like a pastor) telling me "Do not be afraid, the same way you had to be born to experience this world, we need to die to experience the other world", I then woke up. I am not religious. It did leave a strong impression on me and think about it often.
Yes it is more like a research assistant. The "novel research and interpretation " part is your own synthesis, deserving to be published or awarded a degree and a research assistant can save you a lot of time. As AI companies throw more money into their training data or tools become available for researchers to easily enhance this, by uploading their own data the answers will become more "accurate" and more detailed.
I find them useful in summarizing State of the Art to get me going in a new topic, but then again so is Wikipedia. A useful side angle, if you using LaTeX, you can cut-and-paste references into ChatGPT and can turn them into Bibtex format with >80% success. For a PHD study though starting from textbooks, papers etc. it will be better, but can augment successfully, like any tool use it for what is best.
I think we need to wait and see. So far is speculation by commenters, as per the link you posted. From a technical point of view IMHO just some geofencing is necessary in order not to change the user experience too drastically for RedNote Chinese users.
For the first time in history, US and Chinese can communicate directly with each other using the Red Note app, despite the language barrier. I think this is a great social experiment and if it continuous for sometime it will be interesting to get statistics on perceptions from both sides (perhaps through a detailed academic study). We need more understanding between nations and less war mongering.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting approach. As other commenters mentioned, article could do well with some hypothetical images. Maybe on a follow-up blog post? Also since you mentioning your Company's name you missing an opportunity for marketing by not providing a link.
>I wonder how modern architects would reimagine more traditional closed-in highrises.
They normally set the glass a bit away from the exterior. For a good example see 4-seasons hotel Doha.
LED lighting in any modern air-conditioned building is a must, also from the POV of electrical equipment, transformers cabling etc.
For a developer capital costs are the main factor, as operational and maintenance costs are passed to the tenant. With glass technology improving, the solar radiation component onto the HVAC system is now not much different from a traditional façade. After all there is no roof heat gains, other than on the top floors and maybe partially on some others. For the most part of a floor the heat gains for HVAC is lights, equipment, people and the cost of cooling the fresh air. People also add to that load. On the civil side, glass facades enable thinner floor slabs with the gain normally of some extra floors. I have been involved with many high rise buildings and they are highly complex beasts to get right everything, especially the costs. With flat slabs one can cast a floor on average every 7 days.
Just randomly checked the financials of one publisher of textbooks (Pearson) profits up 30%. So how did the judge assess the $30mil damages and who are the publishers that they would share it with? Assuming of course that they can get dollars from ether.
Absolutely amazing stuff. I am now three scores and ten in my life time, seen a lot of changes from slide rules->very fast to calculators->very fast to pcs, from dot matrix printers to lazer jets and dozens of other things. Wish AI was available when I was doing my PhD. If you know its limitations it can be very useful. At present I occasionally use it to translate references from wikipedia articles to bibtex format. It is very good at this, I only need to fix a few minor errors, letting me focus to the core of what I am doing. But human nature always resists change, especially if it leads to the unknown. I must admit that I think AI will bring negative consequences as it will be misused by politicians and the military, they need to be "regulated" not the AI.