No, it’s not. It’s noth of the equator, so the straight line route would look like a curve towards the north. This route is curved south, which means it’s actually because of air traffic control routing them along approved flight paths. That might be for traffic management reasons, or because of terrain on the route, or restricted airspace.
Even that won’t be truly effective. It’s all marketing, at this point.
The problem of hallucination really is fundamental to the technology. If there’s a way to prevent it, it won’t be as simple as training it differently
If that’s their solution, then they have absolutely no understanding of the systems they’re using.
ChatGPT isn’t prone to hallucination because it’s ChatGPT, it’s prone because it’s an LLM. That’s a fundamental problem common to all LLMs
It was pointed out to me a while back that the paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you consider tolerance to be a philosophical position.
In fact, we don’t treat it like that. We treat it as a social contract, in which context it is no paradox at all to say that if you aren’t tolerant then other people aren’t obliged to tolerate you in turn
Making a virus identical to one which existed in the past isn’t particularly worrying, because the original virus is already in the wild (except for the very few which are extinct, because of vaccination efforts).
The real trick is creating a novel virus, which our immune systems aren’t all accustomed to already, and that’s a whole different challenge. I don’t think our genetic engineering technology is at a point where that’s a realistic concern yet
Ironically, cardboard and cardboard derivatives would have safely burned to ash and been scattered in the upper atmosphere. There’s have been no reason to close the airspace if that were the case
Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events
Everyone describes the rebels as “Islamist”, but since Assad’s regime is/was islamic as well it’s a very strange choice of labels.
You wouldn’t call them that unless it was either a useful way to differentiate them, which it doesn’t seem to be, or to manipulate the way people feel about either the rebels or Islam
Thanks. I think I have some history of art to read before I understand much of that, but I know where to start now :)
I’ve been seeing these comics for a while now, but I still feel very out of the loop.
WTF am I reading?
No, I’m arguing that the extra complexity is something to avoid because it creates new attack surfaces, new opportunities for bugs, and is very unlikely to accurately deal with all of the edge cases.
Especially when you consider that the behaviour we have was established way before there even was a unicode standard which could have been applied, and when the alternative you want isn’t unambiguously better than what it does now.
“What is language” is a far more insightful question than you clearly intended, because our collective best answer to that question right now is the unicode standard, and even that’s not perfect. Making the very core of the filesystem have to deal with that is a can of worms which a competent engineer wouldn’t open without very good reason, and at best I’m seeing a weak and subjective reason here.
The reason, I suspect, is fundamentally because there’s no relationship between the uppercase and lowercase characters unless someone goes out of their way to create it. That requires that the filesystem contain knowledge of the alphabet, which might work if all you wanted was to handle ASCII in American English, but isn’t good for a system which needs to support the whole world.
In fact, the UNIX filesystem isn’t ASCII. It’s also not unicode. UNIX uses arbitrary byte strings, with special significance given to a very small number of bytes (just ‘/’ and ‘\0’, I think). That means people are free to label files in whatever way they like, and their terminals or other applications are free to render them in whatever way seems appropriate, without the filesystem having to understand unicode.
Adding case insensitivity would therefore actually be significant and unnecessary complexity to add to the filesystem drivers, and we’d probably take a big step backwards in support for other languages
Surely the main problem with colonialism was mistreatment of the people who were already living there? I don’t see how it’s a problem on barren rock, or in vacuum
That’s misleading. The shortest route would be the “great circular” joining the two points, which lines of latitude definitely are not.
The only line of latitude which is a great circle is the equator.