Always amazed that a country that can produce such excellent films has such dire TV.

Honourable exception for Hot Spot, which doesn't follow the usual Japanese TV tropes.

Lol.

Absolutely top student moment was being yelled at by David Icke: "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the new age comes!"

And then he switched his talk from being about "Environmentalism" to "People from different vibrational states coming to save us / age of Aquarius".

English doesn't really have counters, but like you say, it has a few group nouns and measurements.

Japanese has those and counters that work like:

"Seven (small animal) dogs"
「7匹の犬」

"Two (thing) wolf packs"
「2つの狼の群れ」

Although like we're we came in pack/herd/flock is the same word 群れ.

I don't know, but I've been told that noun class systems seem start in animate / inanimate classification. At least that's the case for Indo European languages.

Japanese also has an animate / inanimate classification.

Lol. Very good.

This guy really did cost us £300 in replacement carpet after stealing a whole block of butter and then throwing it up an hour later.

Ugh. Didn't look at the packet properly in the shop. What I thought was 1Kg/6 chicken breasts turns out to be 1Kg/3 chicken breasts.

So I have 1Kg of woody chicken that might be suitable for pet food if your pet isn't too fussy.

Is there any way of cooking this crap so it isn't awful?

Pretty big in physics: "if we choose our units so that the speed of light, charge on the electron, and mass of the proton are 1, the answer is 2π/h..."

I think the combination of kanji, making reading hard, and context sensitivity is what I've struggled with the most.

But the differences and similarities between Japanese and English is really interesting linguistically.

I don't think Japanese has a leg to stand on in this respect, given how many counters it has.

OH received some xmas gifts over the can-keep limit so had to give them to Facilities to be raffled.

"Maybe you'll win them back, ha ha."

"I don't know how you enter, I've never heard of it before."

Turns out there hasn't been an actual raffle in years...

It's brilliant, but also perfect accompaniment to the corporate "managing conflicts of interest" training I'm sitting through that's currently playing at a frame a second over a vpn, like some sort of art gallery video installation.

Christ, every few minutes something else starts maxing out the harddrive or the processor or both.

This is an almost clean install.

And I guess this is why I stopped using it.

Just had to boot into windows 11 to use a windows only app for 5 mins.

Machine was unusable for about 25 mins while windows took all the system resources for some unknown purpose.

Why is this OS so shite?

Went for a walk earlier, or at least tried to...

Still, at least the dog got absolutely filthy and glad to have a shower.

I don't see what the problem is. Sure, you can't build them, power them, cool them, service them, protect them from cosmic rays or attach them to sufficiently fat data pipes, but apart from that, only the huge expense is stopping you.

At that point a stiff breeze could have collapsed the CDO market, and the rest of the secondary betting built around it.

But that is definitely funny if true.

Have to say I was so put off by the teen-drama promo shot I didn't even watch the preview, having an especially deep distain for US teen dramas.

Might see what it's like if it's not actual just Teeeen Draaaama Innnn Spaaace.

When I was there age it was much easier. Libraries existed, often in convenient locations, and were open after school hours.

Also, to be fair, there was nothing to do on a wet Sunday afternoon but read, unless you liked watching golf.

Choice of books in years 7 & 8 had a big influence on my kids love of reading. Specifically it completely squashed it.

I don't know who chose them, or the additional reading list the school sent, but they were all very... weepy isn't quite the right word. Heavy on loss and having a difficult time.

An idea you only like it you know nothing about space or data centers.

"I think nought", because somebody has never heard it said properly, or read it, is my favourite thing today.

Thankfully they weren't quick enough to style it out.

If they don't open the doors to this train soon, we're all going to miss it.

I thought May was Maidenhead? Early and Woodley was sliced off Reading and Wokingham.

Any technology that lets us build AI will also be used to build all the other computers we use.

And, in the end, nukes are useful for nations and terrorists. A better than human AI will be useful to everyone that can afford one.

My baseline is that the best non artificial intelligence we have currently fits in a 1.5lt box and runs on 20 watts.

I don't see any reason why a 15lt box using 2kw shouldn't be able to match it's performance in 50 years time.

Regulating enormous uranium processing factories is much easier.

Hmmm. I'm pretty confident in the advance of a lot of leading edge tech, but quantum computers are fairly low on my list of exciting in my lifetime technologies.

There's just not that much you can do with them.

Yeah.

True AI is _obviously_ possible, the question is really about when, and more importantly how we deal with it.

I'm surprised at how effective LLMs are (and I think that surprise is what has caused the... madness), and so I don't feel confident in pushing AI into the far future as I used to.

There surely would be people driven mad by lack of purpose (I live with one). And a lot of addicts.

But innovation might flourish in a world where people can just try stuff to see if it works. Especially in areas currently limited by funding or time or the need to make a profit.

Mainstream beliefs are for normies, who can generally accept differences of opinion. Their major in-groups tend to be healthy, e.g. football teams.

Batched beliefs are for unhealthy groups, e.g. political factions.

I ignored "widely held" on the grounds that it's bad faith arguing technique #43, and in any case has nothing to do with group think.

They are all enormously common though.