South China sea, Tibet, Uyghuria, Taiwan. And definitely dominance over SE Asia even though no direct conquest.

It has been quite good at indebting countries to them, in Africa but also e.g. Montenegro.

Africans are more indebted to Western multilateral organizations and private Western bondholders than to the Chinese. The idea that Africans are being finessed by the Chinese is racist and stems from a "we know what's good for you" imperialistic lens.

Interesting. I'm just relaying what I read in quality newspapers over here. And it's not just Africa. Anyway, you may be right. Do you have numbers?

As the saying goes: you can fool all people some of the time, and some people all of the time.

Actually, depending on what you're doing, it can be totally fine. Just be aware that you're losing some generality.

Off-topic, but I am reminded of Larry's First and Second Laws of Language Redesign (which Larry Wall discovered/stated when he designed Perl 6, which is now Raku):

    1. Everyone wants the colon.
    2. Larry gets the colon.

Do a web search for the parent of your comment, read the Stackoverflow answer. It's a classic. Learn about Zalgo and Tony the pony, he comes.

Unless something changed recently (and things change all the time where LLMs are involved), deepl.com does the best translations. I have a sister who translates professionally; she said it's the only one where she can use the result and make some improvements instead of throwing it away and starting over.

Deepl's professional advantage is not in the translation itself (even though it has always been a notch above the rest), but in the UI. You can literally click any word on the translated text and (a) see a list of alternatives, and (b) pick one and then the following text adapts to your choice.

In technical terms it lets you stop the transformer at any token, sample alternatives from the probability distribution at that point, pick your desired next token and resume the generation.

This UI lets an expert guide and control the output of the tool, instead of having to fight it. I wish there was a frontend for large GPTs that worked like this instead of the ubiquitous-yet-useless chatbot.

I'm not sure if that is what she meant. In any case, it does sound very useful for code. The input becomes messy to represent as text, but prompts don't usually make it into version control, so not much is lost.

I'd bet this is what she meant because I've done professional translation in the past.

The input and output of a GPT it not a sequence of messages in turns: fundamentally the input is the entire context (both from the user and the model), and the output is a probability distribution for 1 single next token.

The chat is only one of many interaction patterns possible with that primitive: one where the "most likely" output token is concatenated to the previous input and this is repeated until a limit is reached or the model produces a special "end of sequence" token.

Representing a more complete interaction pattern as a chat is impossible because the chat abstraction is lossy and could never represent it. Sometimes the abstraction leaks, as with the concept of "temperature", that's not a parameter of the model but of the chat.

Just finding out the truth?

Depends in which country you live. Netflix was the only thing in many places outside the US for a long time.

If carry propagation is so expensive, why are the mathematicians, like Karatsuba, ignoring it? It seems like we need a better complexity measure.

The only way to properly realize human potential is to have no fun when doing your work? Are you really sure you want to live in a world like that?

There are different grades of "fun". You can do silly things at work, name your servers bob and lola, while still serve the functionality and needs of your customers. But hiring an artist to draw the server as ninjas because "they protect our customers"? What kind of value does that bring? And then you write a blog post about it? Seriously?

Knowing when the fun needs to stop is a way to create valuable things in society. I prefer that, compared to living in world where the state of software is so dire because developers are overgrown kids that spend time writing blog posts about how they named their server pikachu because "pikachu is soooooo cute!!!1111"

Have fun on your hill. Or not, if that's what you prefer.