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#91

Off the Record / Re: The Anime Thread

Last post by jimmy olsen - November 25, 2025, 09:51:22 PM

The manga is great.

The producers of this anime should be blacklisted from the industry for ruining such an easy lay up.

#92

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by The Minsky Moment - November 25, 2025, 08:43:57 PM

I don't see how everything you wrote from the second sentence on is connected to your first sentence.  Yes, you accurately described how training and inference of any statistical or machine learning model works, but how is that description offering any insight as to why the bolded is impossible?

Because nothing in the mechanism I described has the capacity for self-evolution.

#93

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Admiral Yi - November 25, 2025, 07:37:26 PM

Yes. Google are "better". But that's no defence.
A monopoly isn't necessarily created by anyrhing devious. The fact that they've been in the game so long that they've established an unassailably deep and wide position is enough.

A quick search shows those in the know do indeed suggest googles monopoly is allowing them to get away with high pricing.

And no. Meta does not have the same share as Google at all. As said Google has around 90%. Meta cut their losses when they couldn't make enough to even break even.

Fair enough.  You're suggesting Google's dominance in ad exchange and publisher ad server are the result of first mover advantage, not the leveraging of their strong position in advertising sales.  That pretty much supports my point: if Google were broken up the now independent ad exchange and publisher ad server would still benefit from first mover advantage.

I've provided a link that says Google has 23.9% of online advertising sales, the same order of magnitude as Meta and Amazon.  What is this 90% you speak of?  90% of what?

#94

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Tonitrus - November 25, 2025, 07:27:10 PM

I think Weiss here provides a pretty good rundown/analysis of this whole clusterfluck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WU0AJDCx5U

#95

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by grumbler - November 25, 2025, 07:14:39 PM

Dangerous for the US and dangerous for the world.

That's not a bug, that's a feature. RFK Jr is an ambulance-chaser and knows the value of discrediting truth.

All of the Trump cabinet appointees were appointed to effectively destroy their respective departments.

#96

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - November 25, 2025, 07:01:12 PM

I am guetting frequent crashes with the beta.

I got my first crash to desktop after the patch 

Hopefully it will not continue.

#97

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Valmy - November 25, 2025, 06:59:51 PM

The world is catering to Trump's ego because he sits at the top of the world's most powerful military, and the world's biggest economy.

If there was any type of cosmic justice someone as morally repugnant as Trump would not be in that position, but the US finds itself in a situation where its levers of powers have been captured by the corrupt, the self-serving, and the straight up evil.

I am talking about the US doing this. I know why the rest of the world plays along. But we are actively allowing him to just fuck up our foreign policy for no other higher goal than satisfying his ego.

Even for a President that is ridiculous.

And we did because our country is full of evil people. Nobody should ever trust us again.

#98

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - November 25, 2025, 06:59:10 PM

bioengineered 3d printed meat.

So is their meat vegan? 

Guess it's that reconstituted pink slime shit that was all over the news a few years ago until people moved on.

#99

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Valmy - November 25, 2025, 06:57:43 PM

bioengineered 3d printed meat.

So is their meat vegan? 

#100

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Valmy - November 25, 2025, 06:56:16 PM

Yep. Almost like putting an incompetent idiot whose main qualifier for his job is nepotism in an important job is a bad idea.

It will take decades to undo the damage they are doing. Sorry world and all the millions of people who will die of infectious disease.