Meanwhile, some places have been trying out 4-day 8 hour days, and have found that they retain competent staff who have fewer accidents and make fewer errors, increasing company productivity while reducing wage spend.
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Fully closing some streets to vehicle traffic also helps. It not only reduces collisions but also increases vehicle throughput.
The change in Vancouver is specifically aimed at minor streets though, where other traffic calming measures are usually already in place. And the reduced speed is a climate measure more than a safety measure.
I’m waiting for the news that most of the fires are out… due to extreme flooding.
Climate change hasn’t been kind to Manitoba.
Hardships not seen in generations. I saw the oil crisis in the 70s and my grandparents were born in the great depression, fought in WWII and went through food rations.
Seems like the boomers just got an unusual reprieve from hardships that have otherwise been seen by pretty much every generation.
Those circumstances include immediate threats to national security and situations where a person is in danger of death or serious injury.
Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.
EFF missed a fun opportunity to call the Rayhunter “DeCSS”.
Supercomputers once required large power plants to operate, and now we carry around computing devices in out pockets that are more powerful than those supercomputers.
There’s plenty of room to further shrink the computers, simplify the training sets, formalize and optimize the training algorithms, and add optimized layers to the AI compute systems and the I/O systems.
But at the end of the day, you can either simplify or throw lots of energy at a system when training.
Just look at how much time and energy goes into training a child… and it’s using a training system that’s been optimized over hundreds of thousands of years (and is still being tweaked).
AI as we see it today (as far as generative AI goes) is much simpler, just setting up and executing probability sieves with a fancy instruction parser to feed it its inputs. But it is using hardware that’s barely optimized at all for the task, and the task is far from the least optimal way to process data to determine an output.
There’s only one way to solve all diseases.
Did they test this on Mars first?
It’s the politicians who are striving for a classroom where not everyone is equal.
Although, teachers probably consider themselves more equal than their students.
“Eventually the world will become uninhabitable and the ceasefire will hold.”
“He had a camera and was shooting everyone in sight! We had to neutralize him as he as dressed like a Vuarnet ad from the 90s!”
If “fears US aggression” is code for “fears reprisals from the US if they try the same thing with Taiwan” then your first sentence is correct.
The US military existing and being ready to respond has historically kept a whole bunch of other players behaving more peacefully than they would otherwise do. The problem is when you get an unpredictable administration in power, which is when other countries start testing the waters and the US military is used unwisely.