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We had Concorde - it was too expensive to operate safely.

We just didn‘t have enough billionaires back then. Today the Thiels and Musks and Bezos will be able to afford this.

Agree that this is a matter of economic viability rather than technology. Presumably somebody could just go back and resurrect the Roles Royce IP

There would be the nice side benefit of maybe having all these guys in one place, upon an experimental aviation platform.


Sounds like bag pipes to me LOL

> we'll never discover the soul

What if it reveals itself to us?


> There is no way to allow each limb to do its own thing

I can pat my head and rub my belly at the same time.


As you’d expect from the staggeringly low (by international, 1st world standards) turnout


You could use PEFT? Operating on only a subset of weights is fairly standard practice nowadays …


Yes I used LoRA and it’s fine but I’m not convinced the model doesn’t end up more stupid and less general


Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools … far more satisfying from the perspective of an educator if they can address the issue.


>>Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools

In my experience - it's the reverse. Expensive private schools were quick to expel students because as much as they liked the money they liked having good academic results they could boast about much more. It's the basic run of the mill public schools that can't expel anyone because the student has to be in education somewhere and they might be the only school in the catchment area, so there are no good alternatives.


The public schools are loathe to expel (unless there's an agreement in the district that one school is a dumping ground) - midrange private schools are quick to expel to protect the rest, but the highest end private schools will figure out a way to not expel, because the money is sooooo good.


If it's a private school, then they expel pupils pretty rapidly.

Of course, none of this addresses why there are behavioural problems in the first place. A shrink alone may not cut it, especially if there is a wider toxic culture in the school which helps create bullying.


This very much depends on where you live, your school, and the commitment of the parent body.

I went to a school decades ago that was both small, and highly effective at explusion. I can't say that this successfully led to improved academic outcomes however.


Like a reverse panopticon - a truly terrifying concept if you tease it out …


I’m interested in hearing your thoughts further on this…


Historically we have used intelligence as a way to distinguish man from animal and human from machine. We rely upon it to determine who has our best interests at heart vs who is trying to do us in. Obviously that all changes if we invent an intelligence (conscious or not) that shares the planet with us. Through this lens the term consciousness (through a few more leaps) becomes the question of “is it capable of love and if so does it love us” and if it doesn’t, then it is a malevolent alien intelligence. If it was capable of love, why would it love us? I make a point of being polite to LLM’s where not completely absurd, overly because I don’t want my clipped imperative style to leak into day to day, but also covertly, you just never know …


> 1 what

Cycles. I suppose you might say it’s a derivative.

How many times per second the measurement returns to the original value.

In engineering school we used to tie this directly to radians using the Euler notation pow(e, j * 2 * pi * f) where 2pif is your angular frequency expressed in radians per second!


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