Isn’t the purpose of self attention exactly to recognize the relevance of some tokens over others?

That may help with tokens being "ignored" while still being in the context window, but not context window size costs and limitations in the first place.

Germany and especially Austria produce some rather poor reds but have carved out a niche for Riesling and Gewürtztraminer. Is there a similar niche for Georgian wine?

I'm not who you asked, but the niche for Georgian wine is orange wine, which is white wine left to sit on the grape skins for a couple days, so it pulls more tannins. It's not exclusive to them alone, but the more distinct niche is orange wine aged in clay pots that gives it a distinct earthiness. If you appreciate understanding food anthropology, this is more similar to how wine was produced in ancient times, as opposed to a cabernet or modern varieties aged in oak or stainless steel.

You can usually find maybe one variety of orange wine in the US at larger wine stores with a substantial international selection.

You can also find orange (or skin contact) wine in the US at smaller boutique natural wine shops, which are becoming more common. Orange wines are cultivated in Sonoma and other wine regions in the US as well.

Totally off-topic but there are also white wines made with red grapes with white flesh by quickly separating the skins which is kind of the opposite.

Georgia makes wine in its traditional style or 'european' style. Traditional style is where the crushed grapes including branches is stored in clay pots (called Qvevri) for fermentation and aging. This means Georgian wines often have a different colour and can be cloudy.

European is the style of how most wine is made in Europe

The most famous style is Saperavi which is a Red wine.

“Rather poor reds”. Um what? Germany and Austria produce a lot of excellent wine, red and white.

Austrian reds are some of my favourites.

In London, Georgian orange wines are very popular and that seems to be what most people who are cursorily into wine would know them for here.

Sorry, I have to heartily disagree. There may be a few examples of good Austrian and German reds out there, but your chances of getting thin, acidic swill from a random bottle is way higher than with French or Californian reds.

(See also: East Coast US wines.)

I mean I can equally throw out the anecdotal evidence that I've found Californian wines in general intolerably sweet compared to their high ABV.

Without some more to back it up though we're both just being opinionated. The difference is that I'm admitting it.

It might also come down to to where you're based. If you're in the US, you might be getting worse German wines, in the same way that I'm probably getting worse California wines because I'm in the EU.

> Germany and especially Austria produce some rather poor reds but have carved out a niche for Riesling and Gewürtztraminer.

You're missing out on some rather nice German reds. You can definitely find some excellent Spätburgunders out there.

I suspect the expensive part of owning a COBOL code base is not transpiling to new architectures or languages; it’s paying the few remaining COBOL programmers to make modifications your business needs.

Putting your point another way, in order to replicate an average human driver’s competence you would need to make several strong advancements in the state of the art in computer vision _and_ digital optics.

It’s everything leading up to the MessageBox() call that VB makes trivial.

This does not match my memory of using Windows 3.1. Excel would likely not have been cached in RAM from a previous run because a typical Windows 3.1 machine only had 4 megabytes of RAM.

It shares the same ugly design language as much of Toyota’s lineup.

There’s an email address on the About page which is a first name at macsourceports.com.

And a GitHub that’s not hard to figure who is contributing.

Each port is also tagged with the exact project they're coming from and the source.

It's not exactly a secret, they just don't have a vanity page.

Surely you’re familiar with the stereotype of the trust-fund socialist.

This is kind of an absurd rule. The kids of the people who are seen as so good at their jobs to be appointed to public office are all the more likely to follow in their parents’ footsteps.

So? Is there nobody who would be good at the job who wouldn't have a gigantic conflict of interest due to family? What's so absurd about saying you can't have massive conflicts of interest if you're going to be an important government official?