Low and middle-income countries in Asia face significant disparities in scientific capacity and ability to influence public policy, which is likely to affect responses to future pandemics, climate change and technological advancements such as Artificial Intelligence, according to the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA).

I originally read the title as “it is more difficult to influence public policy in least-developed countries based on this study” but it appears it’s actually “it is more difficult for scientists to advocate for science-backed policies in least-developed countries.”

I would mostly be confused based on my lack of any programming experience.

Annual earnings? Weekly wages? Hourly wages? Are they taking into account things like voluntary overtime?

The study points to a growing gap up to the 54-59 age group and attribute it to women raising children, but I wonder if there is more of a generational gap there between the salary demands (and perceived self worth) of women who grew up in the 1970’s compared to more recently.

I’m hoping even a junior dev has had more than 60 hours of training.

Good deal. Worst case scenario, I get murdered.

“And we would’ve gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling bloggers.”

Just in time for all the searchable information to be completely drowned out by low quality AI content.

Gonna have to go the Bill and Ted route.

I’ll figure out what I need in the next 50 years and let him know there. Now the time traveler can just tell me whatever I want to have wanted to know.

I understand your frustration. It seems the two answers are “try therapy” and practice controlling your thoughts in the moment. Which can be annoying when you’ve already been doing both. I don’t have any better answers unfortunately.

You listed a lot of things that were foreshadowed largely in the books. I felt that the dialogue just about immediately fell off as soon as they ran out of book. Everyone felt very much on their own “tracks” and did not veer past that starting immediately with how they dealt with Jon just…coming back at the start of the season. Characters started teleporting wherever they needed to be, and episodes started feeling a lot more like a poor combination of big budget action scenes and desperate attempts to connect those by having two characters talk at each other alone in a room.

I feel like Jaime’s failed redemption arc was missing something (maybe a couple books worth of further development and foreshadowing?) and the whole Bran debacle felt like it was really supposed to be something and they just “kind of forgot” to ever actually set it up.

I think there are some good reasons GRRM has had such trouble finishing the series and the show runners just never even noticed and steamrolled straight to the end.

I’d say more than that. I don’t think anyone is that close to AGI…yet

A calculator does most of it too, but this is a LLM that can do lots of other things also, which is a big piece of the “general” part of AGI.

Richard Feynman said “You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

We are close to a point where a computer that can hold all the problems in its “head” can test all of them against all of the tricks. I don’t know what math problems that starts to solve but I bet a few of them would be applicable to cryptology.

But then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about and just making bold guesses based on close to no information.

True. As long as it doesn’t violate any employment law…or administrative law…or relevant contracts…or any other relevant area of law…and you don’t mind weeks of headlines “PRESIDENT FIRES MILITARY, PUTS COUNTRY AT RISK”…

Yes, but capitalism leads to creativity and innovation. Just think of all the ways they’ve managed to avoid increasing minimum wage and convince minimum wage workers that they aren’t worth any more.

A legit ~50% reduction in the government based on a random metric with no thought given to consequence or if the government would even still function.

One might even call it “arbitrary and capricious.”

What would really tie it together is the transition to the next day/murder investigation scene showing it drop down to room temperature.

Now, if I was trying to destroy financial records, I could think of worse ways than for them to “accidentally” be shipped to an employee and “lost.” Even better if the employee actually destroys them for me.

It kind of sounds like the sort of antics a company about to go under and unable to pay debtors/taxes might do…

Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Maybe, but only like 3% of people are using Firefox so, maybe not?

If I ever hired a hacker who failed to announce once they are, in fact, in I would immediately ask to speak to their supervisor.

Yes, I would drink even more until I physically couldn’t anymore. Very quirky.