Logi

Faithfully projecting a globe onto a flat surface is impossible and all projections have to balance a number of compromises. Mercator retains compass directions and the shapes of land masses but entirely sacrifices relative scale between equatorial regions and polar regions. This makes it great for navigating a 17th century vessel. Other projections strike a different balance, like this one, and sacrifice compass direction and land mass shapes in order to perfectly retain scale. On this map, my little Arctic island looks like someone stepped on it.

IMO a balanced projection will compromise on all the nice properties a projection can have, and if that isn’t acceptable, then get a globe.

Plan9 all the way!

That’s returning a “406 Not Acceptable” response. I’ve never even seen one except in http docs.

I do not.

See my other response to your pre-edit comment.

How about this, this is a real easy one. What type of function is this:

There is a theorem that “all smooth functions are locally linear”. In other words, most “normal” functions are indistinguishable from a straight line on the graph if you zoom in far enough.

So that’s not just not an easy one, it is an impossible one.

Or you can just admit you dont have any data to quantify your assertion that AI advancement is exponential growth.

Ah, that’s a fair argument. LLMs growing exponentially is just an assertion being made and we’re supposed to believe that then the steep growth must be just around the corner.

But all over this post you’ve got heavily downvoted comments that sound like you are misunderstanding exponential functions rather than doubting that they’re the right model for this.

We might be on the steep part of an S function right now.

The Daily Mail is nit an unknown source. They are the most awful British tabloid. I give them negative trust.

What decade are we talking about here?

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I saw her in a place called San Martino.

Ah, crap. I thought I could get away with not looking it up. Leaving original intact for my shame.

And obviously since it’s got Monica Bellucci.

Citation needed wrt France

Same. Until you notice the column of curly braces and semi colons in the right margin.

And if you get it wrong you’ll be forever banned from blahaj.

Should have been Ar$€

The worst effects of climate change haven’t happened yet so I guess that isn’t true either and you’ll go off at anyone who’ll attempt to use the best available information and modelling to predict that.

You really should read the article. The hypothesis is that global emissions peaked last year and so the cumulative emissions graph that you’re focusing on would start to curve downward this year or maybe next. We’ll “see by the end of the year”.

Again, in the article, things are changing wildly fast and you won’t see that yet in a lagging indicator like cumulative CO₂.

Frankly eating in all the time was a net positive, I’m in the best shape of my life

Eating out is a lot better for me after I moved to Italy, so there is that. And living in Italy and having to make do with my own cooking would be Very Sad. But yeah, context matters a lot. The Italians took this stuff very seriously the first time around and vaccination rates were really high when I was neaurotically tracking it. I should look up the annual booster rate.

I don’t know where you are, but I’d be less comfortable in an air conditioned eatery in Texas than outside a restaurant in Rome (where I was at the height). And with the current numbers I should probably start avoiding crowds and recirculated air again.

I’m fine with never eating out again.

Yeah, that would be a severe degradation of life for me, so that’s a no-go unless the probabilities shift back to where they were in 2020-22ish.

Posting from a restaurant in Sardinia.

Are you waiting for something to change or will you do this for the rest of your life?

I stopped when we had as much vaccine protection as we were going to get and the virus wasn’t causing quite as severe disease any more. Forever is a long time.