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Protip #2: If you're not sure where a velociraptor is going, you can simply look at its right hand.
Remember: velociraptors have three (primary) claws, typical of vectorraptors, which are skilled in a precise straight-line pursuit. This is unlike the single-clawed speedraptors, which are more nimble but less precise in 3-space.
Protip: always remember to cancel the units on your dromaeosaurids
If you based it on territory you'd shift the timeline of their downturn later, but in terms of their independent power projection ability, the timeline is earlier. Late Sparta was a hollow power, persisting mostly on foreign largess and a past reputation, with a dwindling fighting / citizen class.
TL/DR: Sparta's power had been growing up to the Graeco-Persian Wars, had amassed a massive polis, and had gained (a largely exaggerated) reputation for military prowess. They performed poorly in the 2nd Graeco-Persian War, and for their future successes they increasingly had to rely on Persia.
10) After Leuctra, Epaminondas invaded Messenia and freed its people, a large chunk of Sparta's helots (slaves). Since Sparta was a horrific slaver-society (horrific even by the standards of its day), it (plus the military losses) gutted Sparta's power base.
9) Despite having basically been handed control of Greece by the Persians, just 16 years later, Thebes crushed Sparta and its allies at Leuctra. With inferior numbers, Thebes killed the Spartan forces 20 to 1. Because, again, Sparta utterly sucked at tactics beyond "aim phalanx and march".
8) To settle it, Sparta once again turned to Persia, which threatened an invasion fleet. The major winner was Persia, who took control of large amounts of Greek territories. Sparta basically just became Persia's "enforcer" against the Greeks.
7) By all standards Sparta should have dominated - it was, again, a massive polis. It kept butting up against a wall trying to take Corinth because of - once again - their strategy was nothing more than "aim a phalanx at your enemy and tell them to go forward". Entirely stalemated.
6) After winning thanks to Persian help, they imposed an oligarchy on Athens that was so unpopular that it didn't even last for a single year. And Sparta's refusal to share the spoils of the war led to a rapid falling out with its allies, leading to the Corinthian War, just a decade later.
... divide-and-conquer strategy among the Greeks - that shifted the balance. And the Spartans needed their money desperately, because their economy - despite being massive for an ancient greek polis - was terrible; the society was highly unproductive.
4) Sparta's strategy in the Pelopennesian war wasn't just unsuccessful, it was *physically unworkable*. It basically pretended that Athens had no naval fleet, and yet they spent years pushing this impossible strategy. 5) It was only the involvement of the Persians - who were working on a...
Athens had to talk them out of it. Their performance in that war was frankly awful. 3) Before the Persian involvement, Sparta's performance in the Pelopennisian war was frankly embarrassing. Their logistics were so bad that they couldn't sustain supply lines *a two day march* from friendly Corinth.
1) Thermopylae was a strategic disaster, not an intentional sacrifice. It was not planned. It was not a stalling movement. It was a screwup. 2) Sparta followed it up with an even more braindead idea to try to blockade the Isthmus of Corinth, as if Persia had no idea what a "boat" is.
I'd put it that they were slowly transitioning into a Persian client state past that point. Can't defeat Athens? Ally with Persia (don't worry, they'll stab you in the back). Can't defeat Corinth? Ally with Persia. Etc. They slowly turn into Persia's (decreasingly relevant) Greek client state.
To be fair, Leuctra was a century later. But still, the battle of Thermopylae was the start of the *decline* of the Spartans. And in the subsequent century, the remains of Sparta were annexed with little resistance by Rome and became basically a tourist attraction for wealthy Romans.
This is the most nonbinary image I've ever seen.
Xi must be enjoying this whole situation so much. He doesn't just get to stick it to the west as forming a new power centre, but also gets to present China as being the dominant power over Russia, with the latter merely its resource-extraction colony. The inverse of the USSR's attitude toward China.
Lol, perfect location. "An adversary making a big explosion in the vicinity of Denmark's F-35 fighters" isn't the sort of thing that would likely go unanswered.
Each are 72 years old. And Trump is 79. The past making the present suffer.
Does it actually affect anything?
Imagine how fried your brain has to be in order to uncritically take such a thing at face value.
Seriously, I just can't understand, how is this guy so bad with makeup? Does he do it himself? Does he trust someone who is incompetent? Or does he ask actual competent people to do it poorly?
I'm not going to look up what Bowser they're talking about so that it won't ruin this image in my mind.
My favorite uranium-bearing mineral is U-substituted muromontite, which is a natural plutonium breeder :)
We have some great zeolite-bearing road cuts in Iceland :) I'm a big fan of Mindat for finding known sites, but also randomly stop at random road cuts on my own. :)
Whatcha collecting? Fluorapatite from Yates or Laurentide? Phlogopite from Laurentide? Amethyst & blue quartz from Cantley? Molybdenite or brucite from the Wakefield / Highway 5 road cut? Blue kalkite from Wakefield? Hmm, I'm betting it's the latter ;)
Yes, though Russia's are more far-reaching (for example, massive debt forgiveness), and target particularly poor people in the far-east for whom it's a much more significant amount of money. Ukrainian contracts are also one-year, but Russian contracts are effectively indefinite for now.
They also never show the left graph (which makes the - perfectly normal - spike trend clear), but rather, prefer to truncate it to the right graph.
The idiots can't understand the concept of the difference between "an account-creation surge" and the percentage of account-creators that end up staying on a given platform post-surge. Twitter, by contrast, is not experiencing the afteraffects of a signup spike. It's just declining.
OpenAI continues to be epicly awful at model naming.
The nice thing is that it's so easy to block bullies.
Seems like a hazardous thing to say. * If you're a Russian considering joining the army for a big payday, "The War Will End Soon!" will encourage you. * If you're a Ukrainian considering joining the army but apprehensive about getting enough training, "Wait Until The War Ends" will seem smarter.
I consistently find that people in eastern Europe who were forced to be taught about "the great Russian culture" greatly overestimate how much people in the west (who weren't forced to) appreciate it.
"Willingness To Take Him Seriously"? ๐
It gets especially bad if one of Donald's spawn competes to become Heir Apparent of the movement. But the oligarchs prefer Vance.
The best thing about Vance ending up as president would be the inevitable MAGA civil war and the loss of power to cow effectively 100% of Republicans in congress on every issue.
you monster ๐
What did you do to that poor (arabidopsis???)
"Not enough people is the number one threat to the West, followed closely by too many people." (Or are there some adjectives missing?)
A fascist is a leftist's second-worst enemy, right after "another leftist who shares 93% of the same views as them".
Iceland, baby! :) We're zeolite central (and zeolite-associated minerals).
I can't tell you how confused I was when I first started rock collecting (Iceland) and kept finding these fluffy white things with my zeolites...
It got my vote because it's a local. :)
His argument for a high human population is that humans are the ones who create and innovate, so the more th better - but that's directly undercut by his OTHER view about AI. In an "AI Does It All" scenario, the *lower* the population, the more of AI's production each person can receive per-capita.
It's also entirely illogical coming from one Elon Musk - the world's most prominent advocate of the concept that AI is going to rapidly surpass humans, and that future innovation and production will be driven by AI, not humans. If you believe that, then your goal should be a *low* human population.
This is a universal issue that IMHO isn't widely recognized enough among peer reviewers. When evaluating AI vs. non-AI responses, it is utterly critical to assess whether the subject believes the responses to be AI or not.
44 and 2?
I'm not looking forward to Babiลก joining Orbรกn and Fico's little EU Axis of Evil. :ร
Such is capitalism.
Yeah, they're also still trying to sell me drone-dropped smart munitions.
Why, just today I was thinking, "man, I sure could do with another halal slaughterhouse..."
Me waiting for the EU to wean itself off of Russian exports.
Huh, that's actually kind of clever.
And since we employ dot products in our architectures - for example, QKV attention - we basically *force* them to use a simple geometric-style directional vector embedding to store concepts. But if we instead used a DNN that could parse latent logic, then that would not be the case.
It feels that the real bottleneck is the dot product operator, that this is too naive. An autoencoder can surely learn to store any complexity of logic in its latent pinch, encoding the logic on the left and decoding/implementing it on the right. But a simple dot product cannot.
Note that he doesn't have a BS in Physics - he has a BA in Physics. But then again, so did Stephen Hawking. ๐คทโโ๏ธ Doesn't really mean much.
The TL/DR is that he had some remaining coursework which he planned to complete at Stanford, but he didn't attend Stanford (rendering him as having overstayed his educational visa), but 2 years later UPenn changed the degree requirements and the additional courses were no longer needed.
He did; it's been confirmed with the university (including by staunch Musk opponent Aaron Greenspan, during a lawsuit against Musk). We don't need to go chasing conspiracy theories; there's enough real awful stuff going on. Also, you mean University of Pennsylvania. www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...
I can't stop thinking about that new paper showing that concepts beyond a certain complexity become difficult to store in vector space, and wondering what sort of architecture we can use to get past this...
This was older, Elon probably wasn't on ketamine yet. His brother was (and surely still is) a pothead, though.
To be fair, Bjรถrk is like 10% of the Icelandic population.
"Any mention of Bjรถrk and I recall the video of her whaling on a journalist" Ah yes, I remember that video!
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It's been fairly easy to arrive at rough estimates for AI (though won't be as easy going forward) by looking at production rates of NVidia servers and making reasonable estimates for the #s in use and their mean capacity factors. If anything, Google's 15% seems high. AI has grown fast, tho.
"Data centres and cloud computing" != "AI". Crypto for example dwarfs AI.
Corbyn alienated the electorate by presenting an image of a granola hippie / reactionary 1960s communist agitator. Starmer alienated the electorate by presenting an image of "UKIP Lite". The Tories alienate the public by pushing awful, unpopular policies. Labour does it by terrible messaging.
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** illegal immigrant His brother openly admits that the two of them were illegal immigrants, though Elon tries to wave it off. He legally came to the US on an edu visa, finished his undergrad degree, was supposed to go to grad school, but instead started his company & wasn't regularized for years.
Christofascist MAGA may want a Tucker. Woo-MAGA may want a RFK. "Freeze Peach" MAGA might want a Rogan. Tankie-MAGA might want a Tulsi. And which entity will have the authority to command the loyalty of all Republicans in congress? I just don't see the needed unity without Trump.
Honestly, I expect there to be "MAGA Civil War" after his death. Vance will take control, which will thrill the techno-oligarch MAGA backers, but not the base. If any of the Trump clan stake a claim as Donald's successor, a lot of the MAGA base will flock to them. Class-War MAGA may want a Bannon.
Gotta give it to Big Axe ๐
It's downplaying it, because the actual number is a 8 zillion gazillion dollars.
I've often been tempted to try to build a real working light saber (TL/DR: backpack battery-powered plasma cutter's nozzle, with the arc sculpted by magnetic fields to travel along the outside and back inside of a telescoping pole). But I know the only outcome would be serious bodily injury.
Fur coat futures are up in Russia.
Who wore it better, Tina or Icelandic horses?
That is an owl.
"Remigration is the only way" says the South African illegal immigrant.
interface has changed often over the years, and also it's a task that involves visualizing positionings of elements. Light models do terribly, heavier models do well. It *sounds* like a trivial task to a router. But I, as a user, know it isn't. So I have to yell at the router to get a better model.
I fully get what OpenAI was thinking, but it's just.. not good. The user needs to be the one deciding how much compute they need, not the model. The other day for example, I was facing a Blender UI issue - how to get the drag-axes back. But there's tons of ways they can go away, and the Blender...
GPT-5 is frustrating because of the router.
You can also have techno while on the march. youtu.be/NMefxohehPQ?...
Birefringence always makes me feel like I'm tipsy.
Localized constraints often lead to innovation unrelated to the constraint. For example, JIT production took off in Japan due to its high cost of warehousing, but it led to a faster rate of development iteration (less inventory to burn through) & fewer components affected by a given defect.
American City Simulator
Just make sure it's disassembleable :)
Why? Just practice? if so? I copper-plated a wrench the other day, so I get it ;)
The US was *WAY* earlier than us. :รพ
I swear this man only decided to become president because this universe doesn't have a Superman for him to torment.
"about monsters and milking" Well, I guess we've found this book's target audience ;)
Hitting all the right targets :)
Yes. They just need to follow the same independent Relay (a PDSs, Labelers, AppViews and Feed Gens can talk to as many Relays as they want). The network can bifurcate just in the same way as Mastodon.
Maduro isn't very popular among his people, but what's even less popular among Venezuelans is being treated like a US colony.
(Not just wolves - 10-60% of a coyote's diet is plants: pestpointers.com/plants-that-...)
It's always surprising to see canids eat plants, but it is natural :) In northern Minnesota, during berry season, plants can make up to 83% of a wolf's diet. twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/... Normally it's of course a much lower percentage, but eating plants is perfectly normal for canids.
I picked some jaboticaba yesterday! :)
"Here a quack, there a quack,everywhere, a quack, quack..."
This argument from you would argue that the car should have started collapsing at an *even lower temperature* than the already comparably-low temperature of stainless steel.
And furthermore, most of the energy in a vehicle fire *isn't even from the powertrain*. It's the hundreds of kilograms of plastics in the car that give off most of the energy (and fumes). It's all just so much ignorant bullshit.