I also think Mojo is more focused on being an industrial strength language. I was shocked to see the first iteration of Julia ahead of time compilation did not provide file I/O.

22 LR is no slouch either. The Alaska state record brown bear was killed by a 22 round through the skull.

Um, no. His popularity comes from a willingness to actually do the things that many other politicians said they were going to do, often while campaigning, and never did.

Another one: Is this newly discovered particle stable, or does it only exist for a short time before transforming in some way? I didn’t see any mention of that in the article.

Is it theoretically possible to have atoms with 4x the proton mass, starting with hydrogen at atomic weight 4? Pu-239 could theoretically have an atomic weight of 521 instead of 239… Wild!

One hopes that will be a moot point once the Islamists fall in Iran.

Still, I think overall it’s a good thing.

Our “models of climate change” have regularly been falsified at this point. It is absolutely unknown how much “climate change” is attributable to humans right now.

Nor is it actually known what the net favorability of mild warming might be…including the possibility of mitigating the next Ice Age!

Check your news sources…

We’ll see…

I’ll emphasize my main point further, LLMs have no ability to innovate much beyond the vast data they’ve scraped. They’re almost entirely derivative.

They are a definite improvement over traditional search engines though!

Instead, a subconscious process assembles the words to support my stream of consciousness. I think that LLMs are very similar, if not identical.

Stream of thought is accomplishing something superficially similar to consciousness, but without the ability to be innovative.

At any rate, until there’s an artificial human level stream of consciousness in the mix for each AI, I doubt we’ll see a group of AIs collaborating to produce a significantly improved new generation of AI hardware and software minus human involvement.

Once that does happen, the Singularity is at hand.

It’s the exact same thing as a speculative story in the 1920s discussing supersonic flight, even though the jet engine hadn’t been invented yet.

For instance “Tunnel in the Sky” bypassed the whole issue in the 50’s, later imitated by “Stargate”…

That’s despite spending more per child than any other country in the world.

Eliminating the DOE and most of our current approach to K-12 education seems entirely prudent!

Just compare what students learned circa 1900 before graduating high school to today…