> Could there be a benefit to releasing a new model, slowly dumbing it down over a couple months, then releasing a new model that’s marginally if at all better than the original to create a perceived improvement when in reality there isn’t really one?
Not unless your competitors do the same, or else you will only be perceived as falling behind others.
In an industrial society, too many rule followers results in people being reduced to cattle. We need a subset of our society to be ungovernable in order to stave off tyranny, because historically, smart people aren't trying or succeeding at that. As another commenter in this thread stated, though under different context, our bodies wouldn't make the venom if we didn't need it to survive.
On count == 1, the winner gets set to the first element, true. But the function does not return yet! So the value might get overwritten during the remainder of the for-loop.
It's been developed by a cinematographer who specialized in stop-motion animation and other special effects, Melbourne-based Gerald Thompson [0]. In true amateur spirit, the above website is probably 90% stock content that he never bothered to remove (e.g., the "team" is just the generic placeholder garbage that came with the template). That might turn you off, but the product is so niche that I suppose there is no point in making a professional website for a wider audience.
The tool allows you reliably and repeatedly run your camera through predefined motion paths. That way, you could for instance overlay a real-time tracking shot with stop motion tech recorded in the studio - the camera can be positioned in the exact same positions and angles as during the live shot.
I can't agree more strongly with this statement. It is mind-blowing how can it be socially acceptable to treat other people's confidential data so mindlessly
We should have a law which penalizes businesses for leaking other people's private data
Got John's driver license exposed? Write him $1k cheque. Second time this happened? Make it $3k. And another 1% of his assets, since you put them at risk. $10k in the bank? That's extra $100. Guy has property worth 500k? Too bad for you, that's another 5 thou.
And no blaming sub-contractors either. You hired them to do validation and they leaked data? Too bad, must have verified that they are reliable. This is when all of these Hertzies and Targets and Fedexes start thinking twice before storing confidential data. Why do they need to hold on to your driver's license? I know why. They hope to make some extra cash by datamining it. Well, get your checkbook ready then.
You are selling alcohol and wanna make sure I'm older than 21? You don't need to scan ID. You definitely don't need to store it. You CHOOSE to store it, and if you do, be prepared to pay if you expose it.
I wish it worked like that, but yeah, it never will
That's why I say "Our lobbyists have more money than your lobbyists". Every state has sunshine laws to show who the lobbyists are, what they lobbied on, and to whom. Some states separate those lobbyists into legislative & executive branch lobbying.
I suggest you look at who voted for those bills, who lobbied them and who hired those lobbyists.
There's still time for Germany to strip the manufacturing assets from management and shareholders and retool to build EVs and battery storage. The alternative is losing to China, which currently has enough EV manufacturing capacity for global demand, and does not care about such ownership structures. When those VW workers are gone, that experience goes out the door with them. Shareholders and management do not build EVs and batteries, workers do.
Does the economic situation improve for VW if they cut 50k workers and China keeps spooling EV and battery storage manufacturing capacity? Or does it maintain shareholder profits for just a bit longer? The Porsche-Piëch family family, which controls a majority of VW's voting rights through Porsche SE, is pushing for this due to returns and dividend flows coming under pressure while investing in enterprise transformation (electrification, software). Does the state manufacturing capacity and keeping those workers employed matter? Or family wealth and profits? China made their decision, Germany has to make theirs.
It's not just LLMs that influence the otherwise natural development of human language, there's also intentional human efforts to that effect: where I live there is a very loud minority that is pushing very hard for change the spoken and written language to be more gender-inclusive.
While no-one wants to argue against more inclusiveness, it's more than questionable whether these artificial changes actually achieve that.
More importantly, though, according to polls, the vast majority of the population is against this, and yet, the proponents are very successful to establish this new artificial way of speaking and writing at core institutions, such as e.g. universities and news outlets.
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