A Hummer in Tokyo?! Honestly that’s impressive, considering the width of most non-main roads there. But still, why would one need such a car in such a place? Tokyo works even better without a car at all, imho.

No mention of which products, and no link to the study…?

Edit: Study is in post; thanks OP!

Personally I find Navi better to use for the purpose of “not having to remember commands”. It also provides a description of the command, fuzzy search, and essentially pastes the command in the current terminal, not having to think about current directory or user.

Just is essentially a collection of aliases, while Navi is a collection of pre-written commands in full length (with optional description).

I first read “why” instead of “what”, and it got me thinking, why do I base so much of my opinion about myself on what others say about me? Must be something about being social creatures and survival through society or some such.

Anyways, I feel like there are few things I haven’t been called. To my face, I’ve been called argumentative, annoying, tiring, blabberbox, masochist, ignorant, dismissive, careless, dysfunctional, autistic, emotionless, ambitionless, indifferent, and even psychopathic, to mention a few. Nevertheless, I keep my chin up and try to do my best, ever improving, as that’s all one can do really. We’re not all compatible, and that’s okay.

However, I’ve also been called a lot of good things, which are important not to forget nor dismiss! Like caring, friendly, honest, hospitable, crazy (the good kind), unique, intelligent, realistic, disciplined, humble, responsible, and proper.

The other day I was told I am both 50 and 15, sometimes even 5.

I moved from a decently sized city (100k inhabitants) to a small city (10k inhabitants) in a different country. I enjoy the more peaceful environment, but I miss being able to casually greet and talk with random strangers, as I don’t know the language here and very few people here know English. It was so much easier to find events and things to do when I knew what everyone around me were talking about, and the posters were easy to read. I oftentimes find myself using a translating app, but it’s a hassle, comparatively.

Despite there not being a lot of activity in the communities mentioned in the comments here, I think posting there might still yield some results. Even if just a single individual engages with you, that single individual may very well turn out to be a great conversation partner.

I’ve personally had some quite deep and dark conversations myself, and one good individual can in many cases be “sufficient”.

I hope that you find some cool people out there, and keep up the hunt for achievements in both games and life!

An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall (…)

Isn’t it “snuck”, and not “sneaked”?

Anyhow, I’d agree with both parties: AI generated art can be considered a form of art, but not in the same league. Just like you have people who perform sports with “artificial enhancers” are separated from the naturals.

BBC has presence and offices in the US, which are held liable for conduct within the US. IANAL, but I imagine legally speaking, you can even hold them liable for content hosted in the US on servers there, perhaps going as far as content that is served to the US. Suing them is just the beginning of the legal process to legally do with that liability as they wish, like removing their servers/access in the US.

I think this is quite different from video games and books from a psychological standpoint. But even reading a book for so many hours straight is impressive, as it does require some mental energy to keep being invested and imagining the scenarios in your head when reading.

A constant feed of short videos with content that is designed to stimulate thought and provoke emotions/reactions however, I’d say it’s almost inhuman to actually invest yourself for this many hours for such. Whence brainrot as a term originates, I suppose; becoming desensitized and unresponsive with no deeper thoughts to impressions.

There are healthier, or, less unhealthy things to do for 7 hours straight. This guy has my sympathies.

I must admit, this is quite cool! I doubt I’ll be buying it, as I have no particular need for this kind of mobility enhancement, but I’m sure there are plenty of people who could greatly benefit from equipment like this. This collaboration has the potential to greatly boost sales, which down the road will mean more money and effort being put into this technology becoming more widely available.

And imagine getting this thing as part of your Collector’s Edition!

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I had the opposite experience the other day. I believe learning a language has plenty of ups and down depending on the people around you.

I surely sounded incredibly like a newbie, but I was asked in English, and I managed to find words that made sense in the other language. I took it simply word by word, skipping grammatical correctness and not caring about how unnaturally the sentence was constructed, added a swear word as a substitute for a noun I didn’t know, and it all worked out! I was understood, and I was even indirectly praised by one present who didn’t speak English! That made me feel encouraged to learn more, so that I can continue to impress!

This is after a lot of demotivating events however, so that made the upswing just even more powerful!

Looks like a game with potential. I like the aesthetic, and the music reminds me a bit of Forever Winter. Mick Gordon is a name that carries with it a lot of respect, considering how he handled being in a drama with Doom Eternal.

To your point about being a police officer, I have a feeling that’s where the title of the game comes into play? A defecting police officer sounds like quite a story!

They’re using Unreal Engine 5 for this one, iirc.

Yupp! I probably should’ve specified that I’ve seen the use in English, but it is indeed still in use in Icelandic! It stems from Old Norse, as a rune, iirc. Icelandic is the closest we have to Old Norse in today’s used languages.

I agree with the personalizing! I have a friend who wasn’t very good in English, so he masked it with leetspeak, and now that has simply become his style. It’s a bit of a hurdle getting used to it, but it’s rather intuitive, fortunately.

Thanks for chiming in!

I’m indeed curious whether it actually has an effect on the training, although my gut tells me that it’s very negligible.

Tbf, I can agree that the use of þ and/or ð could possibly make the written language a bit easier to translate into spoken (clear distinction between voiced and unvoiced). However, there are worse things about the English language that probably could need some addressing first, like thou, tough, though, thought, and thorough.

Ah, in that sense! I think it’s about is inefficient as the other reason honestly. There’s plenty of data out there that has spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for this when training their models.

This is my thought as well: There’s plenty of data out there that have spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for that when training.

Spot on the user I saw it from just now! Must be quite the active user then, as I keep bumping into comments using this character…