White collar crime might be illegal but most societies would definitely punish a murderer either legally or illegaly. Social stigma is a MUCH more serious thing than legality of action.

Applies to art, fashion, media.

Most practical (including engineering) successes are much less externally attractive but do make decent money for everybody involved.

b) well, it can be the case that, say, certain kinds of computation are either too inefficient or outright impossible within the current model.

Who knows...

And it seems that, given enough input/outputs/compute, it is possible to train the necessary function.

Details of how the building bricks look like (matmul, electromagnetism or quantum effects) are not that relevant in the broader picture.

What is missing right now, is the fact that the function in question changes over time in biomachines, while our LLMs are static at inference time.

Modern KDE is nothing like that, and i cannot see how this is a bad thing.

Personally, i only saw that it works over time because of my journal. Most people dont do records.

The point is that it doesn't work like those Witcher potions. Nothing changes here and now.

It's not like one can move from squating 100kg to squating 150kg without extra 2-3 kgs of meat.

And there is NO WAY of growing meat in a calorie deficit. And running often leads to that.

If you intend to have any benefits of going to the gym then protein (and overall calorie consumption) would have to be monitored.

Running sort of conflicts with working out: it wants you to be light and burns plenty of energy.

Gym wants you to gain mass. No mass gains -> gym us useless.

Creatine is kind of an afterthought in this bigger picture. Might give you an extra rep or two but that's it.

Steroid consumers have al least ten times my leves, and while this is a factor indeed, in is not necessarily decisive.

Even early 90s famous era mass monsters were not all bald.

Baldness is known to be related to a bunch of things: testosterone levels, something to do with blood delivery to the scalp, deeper genetic factors.

Surprsingly, for some of the cases scalp massage is known to help.

Using steroids does have the effect. And a bunch of others, most of them unhealthy.

These things might look correlated as steroid ppl often consume creatine as well as some other things.

Linode definitely had something along those lines.

Amazon won on APIs and overall integration but VMs were around already.

I remember the story really well as this is when i joined the workforce as a young GNU/Linux fan.

There is a very strong connection between periods, of course. But 2500+ years of ancient egypt is a very long damn time. All of our modern history is, say, 3k years, starting with greeks, early chinese , india and all.

But egypt to me is like a star in the vast ocean of nothingness of early history. We know NAMES and DEEDS of people who lived 4500 years ago. We see things they've built, we can read words they wrote.

This is amazing.

The closest analogy might be: modern alebraic notation is compact and clean but this doesnt mean algebra didnt exist much, much earlier.

The point stands still: the writing was not as clean as modern alphabets but was capable of expressing abstract concepts, it is completly orthogonal to concepts expressed in writing.

In middle egyptian (the language you probably assume) "pictures" are just syllables. They are phonetic, not semantic, in the same way letter of modern language correspond to sounds, not meanings.

Egyptians had no problem expressinyg conplex concepts and they also had cursive writing, which is much easier to write.