I’m sure there will be more follow up research. In the meantime, seems like fast paced games are likely a good activity to engage in.

The article specifically mentions speed training as the activity that actually produced measurable results while memory training or reasoning training did not. The theory is that this type of activity engages different brain structures.

Not that I’ve seen.

Fun fact, China buying massive amounts of US treasuries was what stabilized the global economy after the 2008 crash. Of course, today the world economy is far less US centred than back then, and it looks like China doesn’t see the value of propping up the US any longer.

I honestly kinda prefer older civ games because they were simpler and more focused. For me, Civ3 might really be the peak of the series.

it looks nearly identical to a cube I had at one of my jobs as well, I think even the phone is the same

The funniest thing for me is that humans end up doing the exact same thing. This is why it’s so notoriously difficult to create organizational policies that actually produce desired results. What happens in practice is that people find ways to comply with the letter of the policy that require the least energy expenditure on their part.

you’re welcome to your opinion

Yes it is because it actually creates a model of the world which LLMs do not do. Are you just trying to be contrarian for the sake of it?

There’s been stunning progress happening every year here, and people are in fact designing new models all the time. The whole thing with stuff like Genie is a result of new models in fact. The whole idea of world models is a significant step forward from LLMs.

The rate of improvement every few months has been absolutely incredible. Given we already have open source stuff like this, 5-10 years seems rather pessimistic. But even that isn’t really that long of a time frame in the grand scheme of things.

Yup, absolutely no visible progress happening with this tech.

I mean if you make your whole identity around hating something, then you’re obviously going to hate it no matter what.

give it a year though

I can recommend PhotoGIMP which makes GIMP UI fairly close to Ps.

It would be nice if they made their stuff more open source friendly, like publishing specs alone would go a long way.

Yeah, Linux makes macs a lot more appealing.

The key part is having an available energy gradient, and enough chemical variety for self replicating carbon chains to start forming. Pools of water are the dominant theory right now because the idea is that having solvent allows for free molecular movement, and if there was variation with them partially drying out, then they’d act as concentrators pushing these molecules closer together and making these reactions more propabable.

Makes sense, initial life forms had to do with what they had to work with. Couldn’t exactly get picky.

you have to download the repo and you need python installed, in the project folder you’d run

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

and then you should be able to run python create_map_poster.py --city <city> --country <country> [options]