Agree, and to add: That the Finch West LRT doesn’t have signal priority is criminal. I live in K-W, and the iON is good because it has signal priority, and it still gets stopped by traffic signals relatively frequently.

Alas that I have but one upvote to give.

I work primarily in “classical” AI and have been working with it on-and-off for just under 30 years now. Programmed my first GAs and ANNs in the 90s. I survived Prolog. I’ve had prolonged battles getting entire corporate departments to use the terms “Machine Learning” and “Artificial Intelligence” correctly, understand what they mean, and how to start thinking about them to incorporate them correctly into their work.

Thus why I chose the word “LLM” in my response, not “AI”.

I will admit that I assumed that by “AI” Jimmy Carr was referring to LLMs, as that’s what most people mean these days. I read the TL;DW by @masterspace@lemmy.ca but didn’t watch the original content. If I’m wrong in that assumption and he’s referring to classical AI, not LLMs, I’ll edit my original post.

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Jasmeet Singh is charged in California with threatening someone in Canada for the Bishnoi gang

I misread that as Jagmeet Singh. My mind was blown for about 0.38s.

Ugh, I’m tired of point 2. Yes, LLMs have found a few patterns in large-scale study analyses that humans hadn’t, but they weren’t deep insights and there had been buried hypotheses around them from existing authors, IIRC (too lazy to source).

I don’t think they generally think that deeply. I think they really do want less illegal immigration (and less legal immigration, and the expulsion of all non-white, non-fundamentalist-Christian people) because that will create the “unified, blessed” nation they believe that they need to have.

That said, they aren’t concerned about dealing with either of those issues rationally or efficiently. It’s moral, not policy. “Impure” people who enter our “pure” nation are evil and must be thown out so we continue to have the favour of our deity (I refuse to write capital-g god here out of respsect for actual, loving Christian doctrine, as rare as it is). You deal with moral violations with exile and shame, not with compassion, wisdom, and welcoming.

Trump doesn’t even get that deep. “How does this play in the ratings? (and secondarily, how do I look?)” That’s it. It’s why he likes Mamdani in person—he gets ratings.

No, they don’t want any immigration, except from white South Africa apparently.

Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.

And there you go. “The other stuff” is more important than their own business. I’m willing to forgive a certain amount of being on the wrong side of history once they’ve seen the consequences of their actions, decided that they were wrong, and started the work to repair. But double down? Now you’re saying you actually want this.

Nebula link (if you have Nebula and would like to watch on a service that supports the creators more)

Generally agree. I don’t know enough of the data to say whether or not they should be motorcycles or a new category of vehicle that can be regulated separately, but I’m in favour of increased regulation and licensing as they get more powerful.

↑Motor Power ∝ ↑Frequency of going at high speeds ∝ ↑% of time when a severe accident is possible.

I understand the argument that any given rider doesn’t have to use the power. It’s the same argument as “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. While technically true, it ignores all of the evidence that shows that having the thing accessible increases its use in aggregate. I’m okay with people choosing to put themselves at risk, but a user of a more powerful eBike increases the danger for those around them as well. That kinetic energy works both ways when you hit someone else, and it’s way easier to get up to that energy on a powerful eBike.

I hope we can agree that unlimited eBike power without a license is the incorrect policy. If my bike has as much power as a motorcycle (and electric motorcycles do exist), then I should need to be appropriately licensed. At some insane power, it should probably not be street legal. If you imagine a “smooth morph” between the most powerful electric motorcycle and the least powerful eBike on the market, there is some line where we need to transition categories. I’m willing to argue over where the various categorical lines around vehicle regulation and driver licensing should be, but I hope we can agree that they need to exist.

That said, I’m not sure that the ~25km/h limit in NY is the right limit, I might choose something more like 30-35km/h (~18.5-22 mph). But that’s without any data and I’m not an expert, so 🤷

The main argument here is “if you can go as fast as traffic then you are more like traffic”. Not Just Bikes did a 1.5 hour treatment on how US/Canadian bike infrastructure got the way it did, and the one man responsible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

Point is, this article falls into the trap of accepting the whole “real cyclist” framing of the argument. If there’s separate bike infrastructure, then the idea of needing speed to integrate with car traffic goes away, and the whole article is moot.

I… did not notice the community…

🤓

(Recent Aurora convert here. Always preferred KDE to GNOME, but no shade. All in the family, amiright?)

There needs to be some subset/common theme for the Universal Blue distro family: Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin. I am not aesthetically talented enough to come up with such a collection.

I hate that in a sense you’re right. The problem is that in a practical sense it’s become so much more than that, too. So due to the law of unintended consequences, the psychiatrists that wrote the manual have built their own prison (if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphors).

To me, it seems that psychiatrists/psychologists need one manual for GPs, another manual amongst themselves, and a third written to placate US insurance companies. Right now they all use the DSM because it’s the only thing.

Do I spy a Bluefin user?

The problem is that “ADHD” is not defined as a dopamine processing deficiency. It’s defined as a cluster of symptoms that exceed a certain level. Those symptoms could be related to dopamine processing, or something else! So you’re not wrong, in any real sense, but you are wrong by the definition set out by those who say what ADHD is.

I hate the DSM.

SOLID often comes up against YAGNI (you ain’t gonna need it).

What makes software so great to develop (as opposed to hardware) is that you can (on the small scale) do design after implementation (i.e. refactoring). That lets you decide after seeing how your new bit fits in whether you need an abstraction or not.

It depends on what your goals are with the transit.

If you’re trying to connect existing, dense areas, then buses are potentially fine.

If you’re trying to guide future growth, buses are useless. Bus routes can change, train tracks can’t. Developers will build around train stations because of this immovability.

That said, if what this poster says is true, then LRT might have been the right choice not just for the UBC extension, but the entire Millenium Line extension from Commercial-Broadway all the way to UBC. But try convincing the car-brained of that… Doug Ford is a good example of someone who thinks it’s a good idea to spend 10s of billions on subway instead of 100s of millions on LRT.