I don't think you realize how bad NLP was prior to transformers. Oldschool entity recognition was extremely brittle to the point that it basically didn't work.

CV too for that matter, object recognition before deep learning required a white background and consistent angles. Remember this XKCD from only 2014? https://xkcd.com/1425/

CV is a space where I would 100% agree with you. But - edge cases notwithstanding - there's not so much of a dropoff with NER that I would first go to an LLM.

Ok, sure, it's usually cosmetic. So what?

Certainly it's not impossible to DIY, but it's more difficult than just popping some aligners on your 3d printer.

Manufacturing them requires a resin printer and a vacuforming setup, but that's still the easy part. It's a whole system with a dental 3D scanner, software for rearranging your mouth, and attachment points that have to be epoxied onto (and later removed from) your teeth by a dentist.

They have to have at least 2 different materials as well. The temporary trays were much softer and I had almost ground through them in my sleep by the time I had to switch to the next one but the final set is much more robust.

Yeah it's also not unreasonably expensive. At least when I had them it was only a few thousand pounds. I think they do offers regularly.

>It's also newsworthy when one of the most powerful and expensive weapon platforms in history doesn't have its infosec buttoned down.

Well, peace makes you sloppy. No one is at war with France right now, and no one is realistically going to attack this ship.

If we were fighting WW3, you can bet sailors wouldn't be allowed to carry personal cellphones at all. Back in WW2, even soldier's letters back home had to be approved by the censors.

Yawn. I'm tired of dystopian fiction. We're likely to get something that is neither dystopia nor utopia, but somewhere in between.

No, they have a decentralized crypto-based system where people propose a resolution to the bet, then token holders vote.

https://docs.polymarket.com/concepts/resolution

> but no one can decrypt how much liquidity is on each side until the outcome executes

This would remove the supposed purpose of prediction markets, where you can get information about the probability of an event based on how much people are betting on it.

I mean the real purpose is to make money on intelligence-based bets. And what's great is after the fact when everything decrypts you would still get to see the exact timeline of sentiment as it changes, completely undisturbed by the market's existence. This is extremely good data for designing systems to make the correct prediction next time based on things happening in the real world, instead of following the herd and looking for tea leaves in the odds graph. It's the only way to get pure, dollar-weighted sentiment data without the market skewing itself.

>Nisos estimated that in about a year, Jo, who was likely a newer member of the team, applied to about 5,000 jobs

They're not having an easy time of it either, from the sound of it.

How is this different from what other prepaid carriers like Mint offer?

The big thing keeping me from switching from Google Fi is how easy international roaming is. For every country I've been to, I've just had it automatically work within ten minutes of landing, at my regular price, without buying any addons

Except if you happen to travel for more than 45 days, in which case Google Fi will promptly tell you to get fucked and cut off your service without warning, advanced notice, or spelling out anywhere when you sign up. Not my idea of a carrier I can trust. I deleted my account and service with them to move to a carrier that I can trust and actually respects me as a customer.

tbf, that was because a lot of people abused it by being permanently outside of the US and relying exclusively on the roaming for all their data. I know because I was one of those people for 6 years.

Gee, thanks.

We've exceeded that by months on multiple occasions and fully expected them to cut us off after reading similar dire warnings but they never have.

That said, we keep data usage rather low because we're on the metered plan.

I don't know what the difference is, but the first time I exceeded that they chopped me off immediately.

What service do you use now?

I've switched to US Mobile. I haven't used it on an extended basis internationally yet, but I am about to travel internationally, so will find out soon. That said, the reviews are pretty good by people that use it internationally for an extended period of time.

I got bad speed even with perfect signal in malls and any place that is more crowded than a Costco. Google Fi doesn't have that problem. I blame it on T-mobile but I would rather Google Fi survives.

No, let's not. I really don't want to live in a world where the bad guys have killer AI drones and we don't.

That presumes that “killer AI drones” are a valid way to accomplish some valid goal.

For example, I do in fact want to live in a world where only the bad guys have child soldiers, use human shields, deliberately target civilians, and abuse prisoners of war.

If the other guys have child soldiers, you don't need child soldiers of your own to defeat them.

If the other guys have an army of killer robots and you don't, you are going to die.

Do not succumb to "we have to win the race" reasoning and escalation, when the race is leading off a cliff. It is, in fact, possible to stop things via international cooperation. Treat it the way we do nuclear proliferation. (Efforts to stop nuclear proliferation have not been perfect, but they've been incredibly effective and made it much more difficult to make the problem worse than it already is.)

Nukes are intrinsically complex and require a high degree of skill, time, and resources to pull off.

Attack drones can be as easy as strapping an off the shelf grenade to an off the shelf drone.

What fairyland do you live in?

You should take a hard look at who really is the bad guy.

I suppose in the context of the article you're commenting on you're saying the bad people are the ones defending the women and children from being raped?

"The use of drones in these areas causes more collateral damage among the civilian population than it truly neutralizes gangs."

Only 5% of the deaths seem to be collateral damage. There can be no freedom without order.

A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me.

TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone.

Edit: I get the argument that it was a war zone anyway and people are also afraid of the gangs. But that comes from the fallacy of seeing the drone strikes as the only option. There are better ways to create order than creating even more chaos and hope it hits the right people sometimes.

Haiti has been a shit show for like 200 years now. You don’t think they’ve tried every method they can think of to deal with the criminals? What are the better methods to deal with chaos that they have been ignoring?

> You don’t think they’ve tried every method

No, I don't. Their experimentation is constrained by many forces.