"being handed" is not quite right, the cutting edge models are private which means the labs get a monopoly on the results, and most mathmeticians have to pay, a quite large amount, to use the models in any useful quantity.
Actually, according to the incompleteness theorem, I just need $40 for a bus ticket. Could you just help me out? I just need $40. Going home for the holidays and Gödel proved I need $40 help me out. God bless
(watching internal models using hundreds of thousands of dollars of computation to solve problems) what a beautiful new age of egalitarian open science
i'm pleased to report that my ai agents have made major progress toward resolving the riemann hypothesis. my key breakthrough has been a novel approach i call "ad hominem number theory"
Peter Thiel: I'm probably the Antichrist
Sam Altman: There's a jinn inside the computer
Iran (destroying data centers): Allah Is Greater In Might And More Severe In Punishment
BREAKING:
Leaked intel shows French regime has completely lost control. Mass graves near Lyon, Marseille and Lille now visible from space.
Over 80,000 French students vanished in 72 hours. Hospitals ordered to not admit wounded protesters. Cabinet already in Switzerland begging for asylum. This is a full-scale genocide against its own people.
Where is the international community?
Hamas is the most popular and respected party in Palestine and its armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades are extremely effective masters of urban guerilla warfare, which is why the Occupation army has completely flattened Rafah and their soldiers filming tiktoks demolishing houses
I retweeted this earlier today and received some hostile comments, so I thought I'd share a story.
The photo on the left shows Constable Sukhvinder Singh Sunger, a Canadian Sikh police officer who recently led the Vancouver Police Pipe Band at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The event is held at Edinburgh Castle, and it celebrates military bands from around the world. Thus, for the event, Constable Sunger wore traditional Highland dress with a ceremonial dastār (Sikh turban).
I think he looks resplendent for all the reasons I've mentioned in my previous threads: the use of "shape and drape," texture, and the semiotics of clothing.
But some were less enthused about a Canadian man of South Asian descent wearing Scottish clothing.
So I thought I'd share a story about Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner, an adventurer and mercenary born in 1785 in what would become modern Wisconsin. By his own account, his father was Scottish, and his mother was Anglo-Spanish, although at least one of his contemporaries thought he was Irish. Either way, he would be considered "white" today.
At the age of 24, he traveled to Europe and, shortly after, began exploring Russia and Central Asia. It was in Central Asia, he claims, that he started to adopt the local customs and mores, often presenting himself as Muslim. Although one wonders how easily he was able to blend in, as he stood six feet tall and had a penchant for drinking.
According to him, he was captured in Afghanistan in 1824, but ended up joining a rebel force, commanding 180 horsemen, and marrying a local woman, with whom he fathered a child near Parwan. His wife and child were later killed after his patron's defeat, which drove him to Punjab.
It was in Punjab, he claims, where he joined the Sikh Army, eventually rising to the level of Colonel. He claims to have been present at Lahore, then the capital of the Sikh Empire, and says he killed 300 men during a fierce clash.
Much of Gardner's life is hard to verify, as many of his fantastical claims come from his much-contested memoir, which has little to no third-party corroboration. However, one thing is certain, if only because we have photographic evidence. Later in life, he had a striking style of self-presentation. In the photo on the right, you can see him in a tartan suit and Sikh turban. His facial hair is long because many Sikhs believe not cutting your hair shows respect for God's perfect creation.
Gardner was a man of American descent, European lineage, and Central/ South Asian cultural identity. He died with the name Gordana Khan. This complex form of diasporic identity goes back to 1785, shortly after the United States declared independence from Britain. In my opinion, it goes to show that culture is porous and identities can be complex, not as clear and "pure" as many would like to pretend.
Nobody says anything anymore. Nobody designates these things specifically. Society has totally decohered. Everything is spinning apart. Kill and eat your neighbors NOW. All symbols have lost their potency. Flush your cell phone.