I think there are two reasons. First, with AI, you get see intermediate successes and, in theory, can derive profit from them. ChatGPT may not be profitable right now but in the longer run, users will be paying whatever they have to pay for it because they are addicted to using it. So it makes sense to try and get as many users as you can into your ecosystem as early as possible even if that means losses. With fusion, you won't see profitability for a very very long time.
The second reason is by how much it's going to be better in the end. Fusion has to compete with hydro, nuclear, solar and wind. It makes exactly the same energy, so the upside is already capped unlike with AI which brings something disruptive.
I suspect the time it takes to see a specialist in the UK depends on how urgently the issue needs to be addressed. The real advantage you have is that you can be seen by a specialist within two weeks even for non-urgent stuff. That’s not to dismiss your need though. The definition of medical urgency and comfort don’t align well.
Tangentially, i find it amusing when people say they would be ok to switch to linux but not mac. It’s a valid preference, of course. The amusing part is how they justify it. Most of the time, it’s not the hardware that scares them away. Nope, it’s the software. Specifically, they believe mac has no CLI, no tools, no way to install your own software without paying apple, no open source stuff, none of that! You would think people working in IT should know about the origins of mac os, but i guess apple did too good of a job marketing their mac os devices to “content creators”.
As a Canadian, I really hope Tucows is going to send a particularly nasty response to the FBI. Canada should never collaborate with any US authorities!
> Canada should never collaborate with any US authorities!
Cross-border collaboration is a good thing. Our agencies regularly collaborate to bring people who feel insulted and emboldened to account for their crimes. This works both ways.
As someone who has dealt with media of me as a minor (~around 11/yo) from Omegle being shared across the internet, the role archivers play in keeping illegal content “alive” isn’t well recognized. Thankfully, the Internet Archive has a matured process to purge pages that host illegal content.
We do not know what the investigation is for. All is up to speculation. Not all investigations are bad.
Here is an example on archive.is. I submitted multiple complaints to NCMEC but didn’t get results. Germany, though, was able to get the archives purged.
> In response to a request we received from 'jugendschutz.net' the page is not currently available.
That page held many, many images of minors. It is good that it is gone.
August 12, 2025 - Canadian Man Sentenced to 188 Months for Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor and Possessing Child Pornography [1]
August 21, 2024 - Canadian National Extradited To The United States Pleads Guilty To Production Of Child Sex Abuse Material And Enticement Of Minors
December 20, 2024 - Extradited Canadian National Sentenced To Life In Federal Prison for producing child sexual abuse material and enticement of a minor [3]
IMO it's only a good thing when it's a good thing. There are plenty of reasons it could be a bad thing too. For example, Edward Snowden probably would have been hung by now if russia cross-border collaborated.
> Can anyone who is not a mathematician tell me one thing they learned from this?
I can share my two take-aways.
- in the geometric sense, manifolds are spaces analogous to curved 2d surfaces in 3d that extend to an arbitrary number of dimensions
- manifolds are locally Euclidean
If I were to extrapolate from the above, i'd say that:
- we can map a Euclidean space to every point on a manifold and figure out the general transformation rules that can take us from one point's Euclidean space to another point's.
- manifolds enable us to discuss curved spaces without looking at their higher-dimension parent spaces (e.g. in the case of a sphere surface we can be content with just two dimensions without working in 3d).
Naturally, I may be totally wrong about all this since I have no knowledge on the subject...
It may take only 20 min to charge to 80% but in practice you might have to wait until a charger becomes available or drive around to find one that's available.
That was not my experience on the single road trip I've done since getting this new EV. I charged 7 times in total, and did not have to wait for a charging bay at all.
I'm honestly not that bothered by it. I'm very much a "type B" road tripper. I don't care if it takes me an extra hour or two to get there, as long as I'm having a good time. Heck, I might go down some random road named "Old Priest's Grade" and add an extra hour to the trip just because the descent has beautiful views.
I think teaching beginner linear algebra using matrices representing systems of equations is a pedagogical mistake. It gives the wrong impression that matrices are linear algebra and makes it difficult for students to think about it in an abstract way. A better way is to start by discussing abstract linear combinations and then illustrating what can be done with this using visualizations in various coordinate systems. Once the student understands this intuitively, systems of equations and matrices can be brought up as equivalent ways to represent linear transformations on paper. It’s important to emphasize that matrices are convenient but not the only way to write the language of linear algebra.
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