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Posted in: Meta's newest AI model beats some peers, but its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users See in context

It just won't work properly, because it cannot. Why don't they listen and give it up? Unbelievable, such a crazy stubbornness due to only their money interests.

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Posted in: French PM announces crackdown on teen school violence See in context

Much luck with this one. lol There are suburbs not even police has the courage to go into. If a few kids from there even attend any schools, violent or not, that alone is an unexpected and very big success.

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Posted in: Since the new academic year started in Japan this month, social media posts have appeared from parents struggling with young children who don't want to go to school. What advice would you give them? See in context

How is it even possible for kids to set any rules? They have to go to school, to learn there, to do homework, to show knowledge in classroom tests and that's it. If they don't want to school, that is of course already possible too, but in that case they have to wait for the weekends to come or school closings due to longer holidays. During the year they have already a lot and enough days when they don't have the duty to go to school.

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Posted in: Man who killed 6 in Sydney mall stabbing rampage had mental health issues, police say See in context

Where are the geniuses from yesterday on here talking about the perpetrator being from 'a certain religion of peace' and 'this is what you get with multiculturalism'?

The geniuses are of course too fast for you. They know that valid rules have a few unexpected exceptions and I guess they quickly ran to that next and nearby stabbing in an Orthodox church or so. Maybe there they are.

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Posted in: Female home caregiver stabbed in Yokohama See in context

What a dream job it is. They surely get now a lot more of applications when everyone is keen on working in such a highly paid and comfortable job and the very safe environment of generous employers and super friendly and easily to handle customers. irony off

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Posted in: In a future with more ‘mind reading,’ thanks to neurotech, we may need to rethink freedom of thought See in context

That is another attempt of a new technology, which of course may be interesting and be applied in a few cases, but also has not the slightest chance on a bigger scale. Why? Very simple, all the ones who now develop it and know how to run and handle it, will quickly die out in their aging societies, before it is ripe and installed everywhere, and then the big remaining rest or prevailing majority, well, you guess it, they are as same capable of understanding, further developing, permanently handling and keeping it running as a ton of beach sand or an ounce of Moon rock, exactly zero or below.

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Posted in: Race for AI isn't zero-sum, says Amazon cloud boss See in context

It seems you have the contrary obsession, more against my comments and more pro AI. lol OK, that's great and still much better than not thinking about such topics and disputing them. I can't write so much here, maybe we should discuss this in more details over a good beer or two elsewhere. For today only on the examples you named. Chess is not a useful task and 'AI' can only win it because it follows a simple algorithm, of course a completely human programmed one, on a virtually bigger board and then eliminating the draws that are illegal. This is not AI and even many toy chess computers can stand against most players. The same or similar for your 'advancements like deep learning, neural networks, and quantum computing'. I mean, where are they, the advancements and useful practical applications that are not only hyped but really work properly and consistently? There are none, yet, and there only won't be, which I would like to add. Translations, well, that's more an art and also possibly with gifted humans and good dictionaries. No average people and of course also AI can outperform those few human talents who are professionals and artists when producing a good translation. Remains something you haven't named bur other people who contradict with me, new molecular substances, in biomedicine and materials research. And also those have nothing to do with AI, but are simply only reshuffling attempts, based on combinatorics, a partial discipline in numerical mathematics. I guess you understand it too, when making the big and very costly effort of playing all combinations in a lottery then you catch also all possible winning combinations, getting all small prizes and the jackpot, but only at costs of putting more in than getting out. Summed up, AI is a fiction and I bet all-in that it also very highly probable all remains what's it now, a totally overhyped, unrealistic and never properly working fiction.

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Posted in: 2 burnt bodies found on riverside in Tochigi Prefecture See in context

Maybe that 'passerby' fits quite well when he saw those 'mannequins' still on fire. Otherwise he would have seen the killer nearby too or the killer would have seen him and then he couldn't tell us anymore about mannequins now.

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Posted in: Nissan says it will make next-generation EV batteries by 2028 See in context

Ones say so

They will also be so convenient. For one, you won’t ever have to go to a gas stand.

Others say so

to set a standard battery shape and functionality for solid state batteries so that they are easily swapable at "energy stations."

I say, feel free to go ahead but more important, be prepared for this whole thing to fail.

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Posted in: How immigrant workers in U.S. have helped boost job growth and stave off a recession See in context

Illegal immigrants commit less crime than nationals.

That's not the important point. Whatever high or low their crime rate is, it is in every case additional to the basic crime rate.

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Posted in: What do you think about diplomatic immunity? See in context

The very first thing to abolish, because it's the wide open and main gate for criminal activities, illegal drugs and of course espionage.

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Posted in: Race for AI isn't zero-sum, says Amazon cloud boss See in context

A race would have a clear and known course to go and a goal. What all those wannabe nano-Einsteins do is a blind random walk in a dark forest. You don't even need an AI to easily know that they cannot succeed and present something that's near AI and working properly, because that is mathematically impossible right from beginning. And that beginning was btw in the late 40's and 50's of last century, hopefully giving you a clue why that 'technology' has slept widely unattended for a bunch of good reasons.

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Posted in: Philippine president says he won't give U.S. access to more local military bases See in context

Bathe me but don't make me wet. lol

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Posted in: Kishida cabinet's support rate rises to 23.8%: poll See in context

Statistics is involved here, and when we have a look at the poll parameters we just cannot make such a statement like such an exact comma value for the support rate rising to 23.8%. At maximum we could say that likely an upward trend was detected for that specific poll and then we coud make a very wide range and raw estimate, something like: the support rate is highly probable about 21 - 26% within a 95% confidence interval or so.

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Posted in: Japan says 'all options' on table to counter excessive yen moves See in context

Can't they just simply make it a very rare item, for example by less printing or not letting a single Yen leaving outside, at least temporarily? That takes a few hours or a day to push the value massively up, because everyone wanting something from Japan or a company having to pay for goods, machines or services explicitly in Yen will then have to grab deep into own pocket to buy or somehow get a few ones then.

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Posted in: Italy to invite African, South American leaders to G7 summit See in context

They are still out of mind there, giving generously the next invitations. It surely will be misinterpreted and after those few elite leaders have visited also the whole rest will board their boats to have a look at the paradise which sends invitations to everyone.

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Posted in: Police practice of stopping and questioning comes under media scrutiny See in context

The problem is not checking suspicious people now, the problem is not having any people left for checking suspicious people in a few years ahead.

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Posted in: Local governments hope new ride-hailing services will give economy a lift See in context

How can that have any significant impact on economy? By logic one can spend the few own money only once. If someone for example always made online orders due to lacking transportation means e.g. taxi services, then the selling platforms and transportation companies made the deal, and now they will have less orders if it succeeds and a big part of the money goes into the high rideshare prices and the city store. That money spending shift may be welcome though, but the amount of money spent remains the same low as before.

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Posted in: South Korea to invest $7 billion in AI by 2027 See in context

The higher the bet the higher the loss. AI is very much overhyped and lures most people into much too high expectations. Finally the very most of the attempts will of course fail, because it just intrinsically cannot work properly, first due to the mathematical backbone algorithms behind and second because those digital world theoretical attempts are incompatible with our analog world, but anyway, it is of course not forbidden to develop an own learning curve and learn to see it failing the hard way in practice.

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Posted in: People used to dress up when they traveled on planes. What do you think about the way passengers dress today? See in context

That's of no relevance, because it only counts that the flight is successful from start to landing, leaving no one injured or dead.

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Posted in: Japan to sign deal with NASA on cooperation for moon exploration plan See in context

Better quickly study here on Earth, for example some biology and social issues for leading to a higher birth rate. Otherwise the day will come when no one is left for going to Moon or its exploration.

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Posted in: Australia downplays Japan's role in AUKUS; says no plans to add members to defense pact See in context

Only the official membership is denied, generously paying for their projects and picking up a few worthless crumbs is of course allowed. And the same will repeat with that five eyes membership. lol

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Posted in: Russia says U.S. military presence in Japan impedes any peace treaty with Tokyo See in context

Well, so be it. Because what would the alternative look like? Exactly, a 'peace' treaty but then including Russian military occupation. lol

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Posted in: Shake hands or bow? How do you usually greet Japanese business acquaintances? See in context

Shaking hands by foreigners of course might be accepted or tolerated nowadays, especially by younger counterparts, but anyway, it's a violation of the person's physical privacy zone in every single case, like other similar issues, coming too near, touching, knocking shoulders, whispering into ear, hugging, kissing and all such. Better reduce your body interactions to zero if possible, which means only bowing. And with an angle of about 30 to 45 degrees you won't make too much errors in usual situations. Lower or no bowing is also considered a bit rude, while a deep 90 degree bow is only needed for very high ranked persons or if you made a very big error and want to excuse. So if you bow too deep, the other person might again feel bad, because not being in higher rank or your 'excuse' attempt for a smaller or no issue is kind of disturbing. Finally, if in rare case a handshake is offered, then ensure to do it, otherwise ignoring or bowing only would again be kind of a rude mistake.

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Posted in: Japan's February household spending falls 0.5%, down for 12th month See in context

So they know it all and even have the indicator representing more than half of the GDP, but still don't act in any fitting way? Well, once more a little generous hint. Capitalism means people are all small or big capitalists and the precondition for the system to work is growth. That means, it's not shrinking and also not ignoring more than the GDP's half when it's about availability of capital. What is needed seems to be still unclear? Well, the other more practical hint would be, consider the households as capitalists and equip them with a significant amount of capital, so that an ignition occurs which will lead to a vivid flourishing economy, with growth and healthy inflation and interest rates. So something like helicopter money is the tool of choice, not the champagne glass tower strategies which all have proven to be wrong during the last decades. And I mean many big helicopters that reach every square meter, not a little empty chopper flying only patrol over the TSE and BOJ building.

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Posted in: Top Europe rights court to issue landmark climate verdicts See in context

That's bare of any logic when they force B before having A. No need to agree with me, but practice will just show, that we first need a big economical growth , a flourishing industry, rising birth rates and bringing the youngsters all up in best education levels, a stable social security for everyone and all such, otherwise there won't be the financial bases, the many needed educated people with their research and inventions, the energy and industrial base for producing the all the new transition tools and processes, and generally people that can also financially afford or stand the probable downturns in the transition process and so on. In short words, first it really costs something you don't want to spend into, before you get any little chance of getting what you wanted.

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Posted in: If a job applicant is not sure how to dress for an interview, what should he or she wear? See in context

What interview? Make it a decisive monolog or announcement, that you insist in getting the job contract signed and this near at your working time and wage conditions. Additionally you can of course underline your future engagement when working hard with your new employer with a fitting fashion statement like dressing in a camouflaged uniform and unique accessories like a machine gun a front tools filled backpack, filled ammonition pouches or molles and the like. Sounds too strange, weired and to hard? Well, it's not stranger, weirder or harder than being tortured with interview questions, tests, offers of lowest possible wages and even leaving you without an immediate decision so that you probably dressed up fine and went there for nothing and finally also without the job contract you wanted so much. lol

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Posted in: Boeing's CEO got compensation worth nearly $33 million last year but lost a $3 million bonus See in context

Poor guy, I will shed a tear or two if I find some time for crying. lol

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Posted in: Criminal gangs in Europe infiltrating legal world, Europol says See in context

I have no words for that coming such suddenly and unexpected. lol

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Posted in: Cats tend to cause fires by jumping on products that are high up. See in context

Nonsense, cats are just only cats. People store or put burnable substances and things all around and without thinking, that's what is causing inflammations and fires.

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