Ediacarium

I remember having recurring dreams in which I would fall into the gap in the elevator or between the subways/trains and the plattform, etc. and then jolt away with a whole-body flinch.

The dreams went away as I got older, but I still grip stuff (e.g. my phone) as tightly as I can if I have to carry it across those gaps ^^

Been a while since I read this paper, but:

The main criticism in this paper is, that the problems are asked and preprocessed in a way that makes them almost trivial. Basically, CPU manufacturers could boast about 10000% faster prime number factorization, if all they were doing was prime number factorization of 2^n^

They even suggest, that instead of solving known and borderline trivial problems, quantum computers should instead be evaluated using random problems.

^Also, they should thank their dog in the acknowledgement section^

Sounds great! Can I invest now, but pay in 4 easy rates?

Canada also doesn't include VAT in their prices, which - as a tourist - was quite nice, because the total price in euro was roughly the displayed price in canadian dollar. (VAT roughly cancelled the gain in conversion)

In Germany at least, the trucks are cheaper to operate than standard diesel trucks.

Diesel is more expensive and electric trucks require less maintenance. And they have enough range to drive them at the allowed top speed for trucks on highways (80kph) between the mandatory breaks, where they can then be charged and carry on.

The big complaint, last time I read about electric trucks being used, was about the charging infrastructure for trucks.

Well, the original comic did need all 4 panels:

One could even say it's a PogChamp

My video game experience tells me: That is one of the highest level armor she can wear.

Obligatory:

People who died in the shower:

In case someone else wasn't sure: Bashkortostan is part of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan

Oh, I do think that romance is logical. After all its purpose is to ensure the survival of the genes. It's just that the romance algorithms and the hardware they're running on have been hotfixed for millions of years so there are insane amounts of technical debt, that make the algorithm hard to figure out.

And in romance movies there is always a pursuer and a pursued party. And, as audience, we can clearly identify the correct behavior for the pursuer. But, if you identify with the pursued party, then these romance movies will feel like it's all chance, because the pursued often has very little agency.

A scoring system just formalizes this behaviour. And in video games, you as a main character have all the in-game agency. A romance, that would move the agency to an NPC will feel like the "OMG it's you, the grand champion" guy from Oblivion, or like a courier desperately trying to talk to you no matter where you are.

And I generally don't have an issue with local LLMs in video games, but I really don't think there is a way to make them work. Dialog trees are a really good way to give a player some control, while not overwhelming them with choice.

LLMs might work by allowing characters to acknowledge things you have done outside their own little storylines.

And, sure, I can type in my question. But this will be clunky and imo break the flow of the game. And I really don't want to sit infront of a computer and be talking out loud to some NPCs.