First time hearing of number of trees as a measue in forestry. In scandinavia we use hectars (100x100m). There’s also several different m3 measurements (with and without bark), that is used along with timber quality.
Finland has trees in billions. Still google should follow the laws and hand in the right permits.
I have a bit of both. Most of my thoughts aren't really originally because I'm not playing around and go wild. This is what LLMs seem to be lacking a bit.
Most of my thoughts are things that other people have come up with as well. Aka it feels like I'm just predicting the next token based on the data that I already have.
It's only when I go to places such as "what if life at the speed of light is possible, what would that look like?" that I get to places I personally find somewhat novel. It's almost a different dimension for these guys of course since a million years can feel like 10 years to them. Yet, they're moving so fast, but time-wise they move so slow, maybe even too slow for us to understand that anything can be alive at that speed (I'm not claiming there's life at light speed by the way, I just think it's fun to imagine that there is).
More seriously, the only time where you’re jolted out of your prediction flow state is when you’re surprised, which means something happened counter to what your brain was predicting.
You did a quick calculation in your head in which getting up to get a glass of water now instead of 1 hour later just made more sense.
You can do chain of thought without verbalizing it. The LLM can't. Now you might broaden the definition of "token" to include whatever nonverbal pre-verbal impulse your brain produces. But then the definition doesn't mean anything. All state machines of any sort are doing "next token prediction".
Same! I do think a vast majority of tasks are essentially next token prediction, but that's why I'm thinking that long, creative thinking periods will be what's actually valuable/rare.
Ahh that’s great - been waiting for something that works with my firmware for my LG TV (a C1). Any idea, once rooted, what commands I can run just to disable all the ads, bloatware and spyware?
No idea unfortunately. I had good success at blocking ads just via DNS (Pi-Hole or equivalent), but I have no idea if it does anything for the spyware.
Probably just never give it internet access and plug in an HTPC with some form of Linux (I've heard KDE's Plasma Bigscreen is better than ever, though I haven't tried it myself)
I do this, but increasingly modern TVs complain about not being connected to the internet in general. Usually once every day or two I get a pop up on my Samsung 90F complaining that network access of required for some feature that seems to run on a timer.
This is the right solution. I would be tempted to go one step further: disassemble the TV and remove the WiFi card, antennas, and other unneeded hardware such as microphones or cameras. Same treatment as modern cars with cellular modems.
Clear and interesting names is extremely good customer experience. Most companies name their products straight from the ERP system, creating incomprehensible codes that sounds like they come from Star Trek.
Ikea has pioneered so much within service design (design beyond the actual product). The in-store journey, the self-assembly, the assembly instructions, clear naming, clear product display, in-store restaurant experience. The list goes on.
After Ingvar Kamprad retired, he continued travelling the world to do store inspections. Full-day walkthroughs that started in the morning at the loading bay and continued throughout the store. Everything was inspected and a list of follow-up actions was created for the store manager.
Reminded me of something not as bad as that, but: another Japanese company (Shimano) also has confusing (to my American brain) product progression.
Currently, their road groupsets rank like this (low to high):
Claris (8-speed)
Sora (9-speed)
Tiagra (10-speed)
105 (12-speed, available in both mechanical and electronic)
Ultegra (12-speed, electronic)
Dura-Ace (12-speed, electronic)
More niche, but Ltwoo (Chinese bicycle parts maker) uses "R9" for its 11-speed groupset offering and "RX" for its 12-speed.
“Journey” is an interesting way to frame purposefully creating an incomprehensible maze to force end users to walk through the entire warehouse. One of the worse “clever” design philosophies I’ve seen, it’s actively user hostile
My guess is just that they are quite serious about user testing the manuals. 3-4 iterations and you're good to go. Many companies would never imagine that you could test manuals.
it could be that coffee acts directly on the endocrine system as they suggest, or coffee allows you to work out longer (or work out at all since you don't want to sit still) which leads to the effects they observed
I'm curious why they don't mention tea actually, are they suggesting it's not the caffeine that's doing it?
granted recent studies showed decaf coffee has some benefits itself, so it could be some of the other compounds present in coffee, but a discussion of this would be useful
consignment to existence as a cloud serf. paying rents to have your data held hostage and exploited by a third party. maybe these aren't problems for you
Finland has trees in billions. Still google should follow the laws and hand in the right permits.
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