The entire series is incredible, if you have the time. It really left an impression on me.

It isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but you may find this interesting, and it’s a bit of an insight into the relationship between pretraining and fine tuning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10965

It would appear so: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dödel

Yeah.

https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html

That basically just sounds like Mixture of Experts

Personally I’m entirely used to reading “propellant” as “the stuff that gets oxidized in the motor” in space communication, and it’s not our of the ordinary for what I’d expect from Ars. Eric Berger there tends to write more layperson-friendly articles.

In any case, they later use the word “fuel” repeatedly. Some clarification may have been nice but it’s just not a big deal IMO.

As for how much, my expectation would be SpaceX didn’t share. They used to be a little more open, but… Well, Elon certainly isn’t any less of a dickhead than he used to be.

For those curious, the “off” means “off premises” (or something like that, they may use a different wording), so a license for a store that can sell alcohol that must be taken elsewhere to be consumed, i.e. a liquor store or package store. The inverse is an “On-License”, a license to sell alcohol that may be consumed on premises, so things like bars, pubs, and restaurants.

Honestly if it works economically, I think this kind of infrastructure project should at least partially count towards NATO targets. Not all of war is moving troops, some of it is logistics, keeping your citizenry relatively happy, and an accumulated history of economic investment. If they can manage to get a lot of that money into workers’ hands, that alone is a huge benefit when combined with the transferrable skills you’re reinforcing in your workforce.

Not that we should have to justify infrastructure as military expenses. But I do think it kinda works.

I don’t know, I feel like the agency you get from it being a game was pretty important to the message and philosophy to me, and so was the length. Having to pick dialogue options really makes you think about what’s going on more, and for me at least I tend to treat the main character as sort of a projection of myself, which ups the emotional stakes.

Perhaps some mindfulness therapy. Remind yourself how glad you are you don’t see Fr*nch people in the mirror.

“We’ve been comfortable for a long time now,” said viewer Leon Yu, 43-year-old semiconductor industry professional, adding Taiwan’s freedom and democracy must be kept.

“There’s still a lot of people out there burying their head in the sand and don’t want to face the dangers of the present.”

Yeah, that about says it, globally.

Ah yes, Shai-Hulud

I’ve been trying to learn German for a while, making slow progress since I’m unfortunately stuck in the US so I can’t be immersed. I just wanted to mention reading this was actually really great for me to help build and reinforce my vocab as a beginner - having the English translation right there is super helpful, and your art style is a great hook to get my brain interested and active. So thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

In 2009, Congress increased it to $7.25 per hour with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007.

Man, I had to stop reading this one partway through. It’s just too depressing and overwhelming.

It’s got that Taskmaster filming location vibe

I think the specific thing they’re pointing out is how they say “recently” even though they’re always in a weird place.

This is the normal way to talk about changes in deficits and surpluses in English, and it’s not ambiguous, although it may look that way initially. In everyday speech, a “deficit” already means a shortfall or a negative amount. When we say a “surging deficit,” we mean the size of that shortfall is increasing. We generally treat deficits as only positive or zero (never negative), and if it flips, we call it a “surplus” instead.

The phrase that’s been rolling around my head is “credible threat of violence”.

There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.