paying a peasant to work
Peasants (serfs) were not paid. They were bound to the land they worked, and were given a fraction of the harvest they produced. The rest was property of the Lord who’s title controlled the land.
There was a (very small) artisan class where the concept of payment existed, though often it was payment-in-kind - smith the plow for my oxen and I’ll give you some food after the harvest. Money was rarely encountered for the vast majority of people.
Explaining what happens in a neural net is trivial. All they do is approximate (generally) nonlinear functions with a long series of multiplications and some rectification operations.
That isn’t the hard part, you can track all of the math at each step.
The hard part is stating a simple explanation for the semantic meaning of each operation.
When a human solves a problem, we like to think that it occurs in discrete steps with simple goals: “First I will draw a diagram and put in the known information, then I will write the governing equations, then simplify them for the physics of the problem”, and so on.
Neural nets don’t appear to solve problems that way, each atomic operation does not have that semantic meaning. That is the root of all the reporting about how they are such ‘black boxes’ and researchers ‘don’t understand’ how they work.
From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus’ prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.
Haskell isn’t really that hard to learn
A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Context does not matter is exactly what you’re saying
No, what I am saying is you can’t blame every bad thing about the Korean peninsula on the US. Did the US recognize the PRK? Nope, they suppressed it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the Soviets recognize the PRK? Nope, they usurped it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the existence of the PRK change the trajectory of the peninsula towards separation and civil war? No, it was hardly a speed bump to the imperial power of the USSR and US.
The PRK is an interesting historical anecdote, but it is irrelevant when discussing the Korean War.
Interesting how you ignore how the US did not recognize the goverment installed by the people of korea (PRK)
The brief existence of the PRK has essentially no bearing on the civil war. It existed less than a year, and was dismantled in both the South and the North by the actions of the US and Soviet Union.
Neither power cared to entertain what the people of Korea wanted in the Post-War period.
I wonder what half-truth or outright lie y’all will respond with next to paint the US and SK as Satan next to the Angelic Soviet Union and DPRK.
No power were the ‘good guys’. None had the moral high ground. All deserve blame for what happened. The history of the period is one of tragedy and ambition.
None of that changes the fact that North Korea, backed by the Soviets and later China, started the shooting war by invading the South.
The comment I replied to said this:
This was the instigating event behind the civil war.
Dictionary.com says this for the word “instigating”
Causing, initiating, responsible for
Please explain how an event that occured after the invasion was the cause or initiator of the war.
If you cannot, then admit you didn’t read the thread and just came in here to muddy the waters.
If you are too proud to admit that, just ghost.
Japanese occupation –> Separate US and Soviet Occupation Zones –> Two different governments of ‘Korea’.
Not all that complicated.
Well, that’s a refreshing take to see. But that doesn’t make the event mentioned here not problematic or not a further motivator of the war
Did you miss the part where the first such event didn’t take place until after the invasion by the North?
I did not defend any fascists. I pointed out innacuracies in the prior posts.
Ask the other poster why they felt the need to lie to make their points.
If hating tankies means you have to support fascist dictatorships, then I guess I’ll never hate tankies.
Luckily it doesn’t.
It is very possible to dislike more than one thing.
This the was instigating event behind the civil war
No it wasn’t, and it wasn’t even one event.
There were literal years of border skirmishes before the North invaded on the 25th of June, 1950. The Bodo League Massacre is the name for a series of purges of suspected communists that began with an order from the SK President on June 27th, 1950. Two days after the North Invaded.
Try again tankie.
North Korea invaded the South.
Crippling sanctions and the military presence are because the war never officially ended.
Learn history.
Those without respiratory issues don’t have oxygenation issues while wearing masks.
The same air is going into your lungs, the only difference is your diaphragm has to work harder due to the filtering effect of the mask. If it can’t manage that, then you are likely already on oxygen due to low tidal volume and chronic hypoxia.
You can buy a pulse oximeter from CVS for like $20 and test this yourself if you don’t believe me.
The fundamental issue with declining populations - fundamental as in regardless of the economic system of the country - is decreasing standard of living.
The very simple metric is productivity-adjusted hours worked per person. This invariably falls in cases where overall population is declining, because populations age as they decline, and older people work less (retirement) than younger ones.
As this metric falls, the country’s economy basically just produces less stuff per-person than it did in the past. This makes everyone effectively poorer.
In extreme cases, there can also be issues with availability of services. E.g. healthcare: Each doctor/nurse/caregiver can only effectively attend to so many patients and this number is difficult to increase with technology.
In many cases, getting something out quickly is more valuable than having it be clean.
Part of being a senior is knowing when fast is more important than perfect. Not saying your senior did everything right, just that a single example of someone’s code isn’t enough to judge the value of a person to an organization.
I’m not sure how the other poster interpreted this comic to be anything else.
It is an expansion on a Stephen Jay Gould quote:
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”
The 433.7 million is after paying taxes on the lump sum.
Nominal Jackpot: 1.2B
Lump sum: ~600 M
Taxes on lump sum: ~167M
Post-tax winnings: 433.7M
In the language of classical probability theory: the models learn the probability distribution of words in language from their training data, and then approximate this distribution using their parameters and network structure.
When given a prompt, they then calculate the conditional probabilities of the next word, given the words they have already seen, and sample from that space.
It is a rather simple idea, all of the complexity comes from trying to give the high-dimensional vector operations (that it is doing to calculate conditional probabilities) a human meaning.
Role of thumb is an employee costs roughly twice their base salary, as the employee still needs to cover insurance, taxes, sick time, and other benefits.
That leaves an average salary of 190K for the 50 employees. That isn’t much for tech.