I'm going to NES next! The hardware and software architecture I have (including a split PCB design) allows me to move to NES pretty quick. I have a proof of concept working. Personally I have more nostalgia for NES music (Mega Man 2, Punch Out, Metroid!) than for GB.
Criticism of literature is often itself literary to a fault. In this case though I would say it is a definite fault that it is not clear which is the second sense of untold and which the first.
There's something there, though. This kind of copy error, along with the other criticisms in the article, suggest a kind of first draft quality. Certainly improving it is the role of the editor, but that depends on cooperation with the author.
Personally I've noticed this as well - I think hot authors are given free rein to publish again on as short of a timeline as possible. Publishing is a tough business and when you have a marketable name, you have to move quickly or lose the attention of the reading public. So they rush out the new book, or reissue an old one, in order to keep sales up. The quality suffers - if The Trees (which I have not read) was given a solid, collaborative close edit, these issues would very likely be resolved. Instead you see what is consistent with a superficial edit of a book that perhaps was not really ready to be meet the public just yet.
Last, friendly typo note for yourself: I believe you meant whose, not who's!
Thanks for the typo note — you are of course correct.
And I agree on the timeline being rushed. If the author of the piece had reached conclusions about the state of publishing rather than coining cute terms like “Typo Generation,” I’d be much more sympathetic.
I have a Technivorm Moccamaster KBG-V and they use good plastic for their parts but it's still plastic (except the thermal carafe etc). There's a new copycat version that's all glass and plastic (Simply Good I think?) but not sure how it actually performs.
What I'm surprised at is that no one has made non-plastic drop-in replacement parts for the reservoir, basket, and funnel. The KBG-V is highly modular so it's strange to me that no one has gone this route. It shouldn't change anything significant in the brewing process or quality of the coffee.
You can purchase a kit now that eliminates all plastic from the brew path, including a Hario V60 glass dripper, metal bracket with cork adapter, and a glass carafe with cork lid (all for $120, or buy parts separately). (No affiliation.)
the show that came out recently, The Residence, while obviously fiction, made me think about the white house as a semi-public event venue in near constant use by dozens if not hundreds of people. It made for an interesting setting for a whodunit.
Of course it is. It's "The People's House." Look up the Great Cheese Levy of 1837, Lincoln's Office Hours, Coolidge's reception on New Years 1927 or Jackie Kennedy literally giving an "MTV Cribs" on TV in 1962. Or consider, if you can remember, the outcry when they permanently closed Pennslvania Avenue in 1995. Or when they closed Lafayette Square in 2020.
It's amazing thinking about Teddy Roosevelt following the New Year's Day tradition of shaking every single person's hand who showed up at the White House.
Which in the 1907 case meant 8,513 people's hands.
if you've read Kasparov's book he talks about that. He had Deep Blue dead to rights because he found a line it couldn't predict, at least as he tells it. They patched the system between matches, which he considered unsporting.
FYI, within chess circles, Kasparov is generally not considered a credible narrator, particularly when his reputation and ego are at stake. Everything that he says or does is looking out for number one.
This is not at all to take away from his incredible work ethic, and his position as one of the top players of all time.
I always thought chess was supposed to be between one person against another, and a team effort during a series would be unsporting. If DeepBlue had programmers and other masters helping to make any changes it seems wrong as they are actively helping the actual opponent aka the machine.
It was advertised as a match vs. Deep Blue. In an time before SaaS and automatic online updates, this would be understood to mean a single immutable system like any other software product. If they change it mid-match then it's a match vs. the team of Deep Blue + IBM programmers.
Deep Blue + IBM programmers + team of chess grandmasters they also had assisting. In general I would not give Kasparov's claims that much credit if not for the fact that after the match IBM immediately dismantled the machine which just looked absurdly guilty, especially given the historic value of the machine.
In a normal world this is hardware you should still be able to go play a game against at either at some IBM building, the Smithsonian, or whatever.
The terms of the match said something to the effect of IBM would not have humans assist the computer program. Between games, IBM modified the computer's opening book to go deeper into the lines that Kasparov had played previously in the match. It wasn't clear if the prohibition on human assistance was meant to be for moves within a game or also extended to modifying the computer between games.
That happened in game 6, when the computer sacrificed a knight for a pawn to wreck Black's defense, which Kasparov thought the computer wouldn't do because it wouldn't look deep enough past the material loss, but the computer knew to do it because IBM had added it to the opening book. This controversy was separate from another in game 2 where Kasparov also accused IBM of cheating, where Kasparov expected the computer to grab some material gain but it played more positionally instead and Kasparov thought the computer wouldn't find that line without human intervention.
The extreme end would be hard-coding exact next lines of play during breaks in a match.
There's a point where you stop playing the engine and are just playing the humans behind it through a thinly disguised proxy.
I don't think that line was reached here, but to avoid confusion, it's not unreasonable to expect that the engine remain frozen for the duration of the competition.
if you ever find yourself creating a new profile just to make a comment like you just did, ask if you're the kind of person who is afraid to acknowledge their own thoughts publicly
Thanks, I probably skipped the subsequent paragraphs while browsing and reading due to multiple ads intersperse in between the articles. Anyway great finding of the ancient wheat species, and the mention of this miracle seven grains ears in Quran are more profound with several occurances in different contexts and analogies.
The previous correspondent hinted at it but it seems you didn't pick up on this: the article literally says in the next paragraphs that the farmer read about it in the Bible.
"Did something happen?" you really think nothing that happened in the last two years could lead to anyone changing their opinion about whether LLMs will lead to AGI?
No, I think that nothing happened that should reduce ones belief in llms leading to agi. If you think something like this happened tell me what (so something that was not true 2 years ago and is true now, e.g. „llm architecture is just stochastic parrot so it can’t lead to agi” is not that because it’s not something that happened recently).
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