How can they be sure that the results are actual words from the scroll and not just hallucinations of the neural network?
If the scrolls are in such bad condition that the data is almost only noise then what stops their high-tech deep learning model from just.. making it all up?
It depends on the park and the activity. For example, Great Basin National Park has no entrance fee, but does have fees for a cave tour, campsites, and RV dumps.
In my experience, the vast majority of public land (forests and BLM land) is free to enter and recreate on if you aren’t using services like a campsite. National parks are more likely to charge entrance or parking fees but you are also more likely to get things like trash service and paved roads.
That being said, it’s still pretty cheap. You can get an annual pass for $80 that covers you and everyone in your car.
BLM land is often entirely free, but doesn’t have “campsites” as many would expect. State and national parks often have campsites with running water, flush toilets, even hot showers, and quite in the middle of nowhere.
BLM campsites are often a flat piece of ground that looks identical to the last seven thousand square miles.
Given that no one is paying for your transportation to or lodging in the park, it's expensive in any case regardless of a typically modest admission fee. That's almost surely true in most places.
The big national parks are basically amusement parks at this point. There are still plenty of free areas to go with less amenities, and many national parks are still free.
There’s a very good chance that many of these people have never used something like GPT-4, at all, or outside of treating it like google. This has been the conclusion of every other claim like that, stated with such certainty, that I’ve seen in the wild.
There’s the academic source, and for my anecdotal one my family’s yard in Connecticut is much quieter on a June afternoon today than it was 20 years ago.
There are responsible ways to keep indoor cats entertained. If someone can’t do that, then it seems to me they’re just as unsuited to having a pet as if they couldn’t keep it fed.
Even if you have a good point people are going to be less likely to listen to you if you start calling them lazy. This comment would be better without the last sentence
fair. projection on my part. i interpret seeing people say indoor cats lives are miserable (and using that idea uncritically to affirm their own choices) are doing so from a holier-than-thou position. to me, it's an uncreative and lazy view on pet ownership, but i getcha: flies, honey, and vinegar and all that.
Mine adores her leash walks. Cats are naturally skittish animals, being both prey and predator. So if they trust you as a source of protection the comfort of walking without worries is a benefit that outweighs the restriction of the harness. Plus it's high quality bonding time.
