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Posted in: Airbus acknowledges slow progress on hydrogen plane See in context

Yes, it's currently very in to fight useless fights against science. It's a really big mental problem in all fields, nowadays. Here in this case they think they can tweak physics and chemistry, the AI guys think they can bypass mathematical laws and rules, the many genders theory ones think they can install a new biology, and so on and on. Of course it is clear how that ends in every case, but try to tell them that. lol

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Posted in: Asian shares mixed as DeepSeek lifts Chinese tech stocks See in context

 recruiting newly graduated LLM computer science PhDs with a salary of 5 million RMB per year about $686,000 annual salary

Well, as always, some have all the luck. Very nice income for those overestimated youngsters, who have collected all the qualification papers but not the slightest basic knowledge, working on something that just cannot function and is completely overhyped nonsense.

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Posted in: Honda-Nissan tie-up failure leaves Japanese automakers' future hazy See in context

Nothing is easier than 'to stay competitive against global electric vehicle makers'. They've all had very successful and reliable cars in their past. So, it only lacks the will to become competitive again. Probably, those wokies can't be helped anymore in their total stubbornness.

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Posted in: AI risks 'disaster' without 'cast-iron guarantees': expert See in context

Yes, it's very dangerous in the future, but not because it sufficiently works well, that is impossible, but more because everyone will of course try and try again although it doesn't work.

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Posted in: Google's ad sales rose at robust rate in holiday season, but AI-driven numbers let down investors See in context

offset investors' worries about whether its big bet on artificial intelligence will yield as big a jackpot as once envisioned

LOL Yes, don't worry, it will yield very big, maybe too big, especially or let's better say only in form of newly gained knowledge, that it right from beginning hasn't made sense to invest in such an ultra big hyped nonsense, that just can't and won't work sufficiently correct.

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Posted in: Tourist arrested in Japan for striking convenience store clerk over 3-yen bag altercation See in context

It's not convenient at all, it's a stupid mess when carrying a few things or even something heavy to the 'quick' self-register for scanning, but first have to discuss a minute with the machine if a whatever cheap and what size bag is wanted or not etc. so you have to put down all the heavy items for that time wasting procedure and then again to pick it up for barcode scanning or alternatively searching the hand scanner which is anywhere in the background. I wonder which idiots think such a hell's thing out. In whoever's name, put a yen on all and every prices and give those damned bag or two out unasked and if wanted or needed.

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Posted in: OpenAI chief Altman signs deal with S Korea's Kakao after DeepSeek upset See in context

I don't care, as both will fail, US and China. Under mathematical considerations, it is simply impossible of those models working correctly and sufficiently precise. Regarding all models altogether, the limitation is -ln(0.5), or about 70%. And they know it, or hopefully they know it. So they sell now the most 'promising' type, LLM, or better to say the uppermost outlier ones. But still the currently 'best' reaches only 87.7 % in the GPQA benchmark, if we look very very generous on this topic. No, I beg you, rethink or start thinking and end this ultra big AI nonsense. It's of course temporarily good for some business opportunities and IT jobs, so many depend on this bubble as it is their paycheck, but that's all to it and the lies should stop the earlier the better.

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Posted in: 'Riviera of the Middle East' — Trump says he wants U.S. to take charge of Gaza Strip and redevelop it See in context

It's not the only solution and maybe it's not the best solution, but it's a peaceful, pragmatic and practical solution. And what are those strange accusations of ethnic cleansing? Can't you read attentively?

turn the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East" in which the “world's people”— including Palestinians — would live

They move temporarily out of that devastated nothing, US temporarily keeps economic and military patronage, investors and highly probably we all have to build it up and pay it for them, so they again and as always before get a newly refurbished land for free. And then they move back in, of course only those who are no more terrorism addicted. So I understand the plan and I think it is still one of the more generous and life saving offers. Imagine status quo, or imagine a big newly steadily growing conflict based on Hamas remainders and all the many thousands of people with minds full of eternal revenge. Is that the concept you prefer? I beg you to rethink, because that has then finally a potential of a complete ethnic cleansing.

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Posted in: Men arrested over alleged prostitution for inbound tourists in Tokyo See in context

Good or bad is not the question. It's life essential, because no one of us would exist without in each case any other two people having had sex together.

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Posted in: At least 10 dead in adult education center shooting in Sweden See in context

Why do such things happen? The reason simply is, they nowadays learn nothing or only the wrong things at regular schools and that continues seamlessly at such adult education centers.

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Posted in: SoftBank, OpenAI agree to set up joint venture for AI services See in context

Seems like the new business concept is to squeeze quite an amount of money out of those who have plenty and don't look too much on details, like bigger companies, government, medical sector. Selling this useless and intrinsically not correctly working nonsense in that big dimension to 'AI' outsiders or normal people is already nearly grey zone or semi-criminal.

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Posted in: French luxury billionaire sparks tax debate with threat to leave See in context

That simply balances out over time. Let's assume he really moves to US. That will cause moving costs and require massive new investments , maybe a multiple of the 40%-15% difference. And other things will happen, economy in France down a bit , so they cannot buy his luxury goods anymore and also imports from US down, same reason. That leads to general downward trend in US too, so people there also buy less of his luxury goods and maybe even later the US taxes have to been raised a bit. You see, finally it is about a nearly similar result for his luxury goods conglomerate.

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Posted in: How AI chatbots 'talk people' into committing suicide See in context

The problem is, that they still had some natural human intelligence in the 50's and put it all back to eternal sleep in the farthest corners of their office desk drawers. And now some crazy people digged it all out, think it will work now and brings endlessly quadrillions of money, and the big rest of us follows of course like cursed lemmings. This is not going to happen. It won't work properly and a few results will end up like in the article above or even much worse.

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Posted in: Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message See in context

fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message

And this is different in which other country? Lol Ok, we could discuss the word billionairess, but the rest is the same everywhere, the rich in government and the rest of people gets working-class messages, from US to North Korea.

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Posted in: Do you think restaurant menus should list the calorie content for each item? See in context

Of course not, when I go to a restaurant I want to eat a delicious meal and not being indoctrinated, advised or educated like at a nutrition seminar or such. BTW it's even impossible, because they would beforehand have to burn it all and measure to determine the exact calories values. Does anyone here like to eat ash or coal-like remainders? lol

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Posted in: Japan to outline steps for AI development after DeepSeek rise See in context

It's impossible to use in practice, because the AI output results are often wrong , random or even hallucinated. The currently best model has for example a GPQA of 87.7%. That means one has to check and verify every single output. So even if somehow trusted and used in practice, the next factor strikes, shrinking and aging population cannot handle it anymore. You see, it doesn't work at all, but if you use it anyway stubbornly, you don't have the human resources to check every single AI output. It's finally a completely useless technology.

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Posted in: Japan's jobless rate in 2024 falls to 2.5% See in context

That surely will not happen. But even if it theoretically would happen, people still cannot afford to save significantly.

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Posted in: Microsoft profit rises but cloud business misses mark See in context

Right, but it also doesn't work that big, or better to say it works similarly bad, but now at lower costs. lol

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Posted in: EU vows 'action plan' for beleaguered auto sector See in context

Look around on the streets and inner cities anywhere there. The future of transportation is clearly in breeding camels, dromedars and donkeys.

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Posted in: Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT? Trump adviser thinks so See in context

Is Japan even trying to do AI?

Why should it? Is it a written law or duty to follow big players US and China on their wrong and misleading path? Some even call it an AI race. But a race would require a track and a goal line, of which both are not applicable here. There's no path to a sufficiently correct AI and such a goal is also impossible and not existing. No, let those two big ones run into nothing for another few months or so, just for fun. Everyone needs an own learning curve until recognizing that it is impossible, and their learning curve, maybe due to too big self-confidence and systemic rivalry, is a bit longer and flatter.

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Posted in: Child suicides in Japan hit record high of 527 in 2024 See in context

Not much to celebrate with the sinking rate among adults. Of course the adult suicide rate decreases when they already increasingly commit suicide at schools, or does anyone think they can do it twice, in childhood and again as an adult?

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Posted in: Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT? Trump adviser thinks so See in context

After a first testing I would strongly tend to agree with those accusations. It's far from being impressive or significantly better, in contrary. And the parallels to ChatGPT are becoming quickly obvious.

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Posted in: Patient in hospital in Tokushima strangled to death See in context

What can happen, when 2 nurses and 30 psychos are there overnight... IMO the still dangerous minimum would be 60 strong well-trained bodybuilders in such a scenario. Imagine the patients revolt, then for each two strong men maybe can fix them all and calm down the situation a little bit. But only two nurses, probably women? Impossible to handle that there right from the beginning.

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Posted in: Putin ally Lukashenko declared winner of Belarus vote that West calls a charade See in context

Whatever criticism, much of it is right and much is wrong, but this guy finally seems to have strong support from population. They are more skilled there on average than in Russia and are the technological and sophisticated military workbench for Putin. Btw, Lukashenko even managed complete security for his country by always getting the newest arms, including nuclear ones, for nearly FREE from his much bigger neighbor and ally. Which other smaller countries' leader can show up such a success? Not even any of the strongest US allies would get such confidential and nuclear warfare things nearly unasked and free into their own hands. And in the other bloc, not even Kim Jong-Un, too, who has to deliver something in return or gets only second class support and more outdated technologies.

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Posted in: Japan looks to cash in on matcha boom to boost green tea exports See in context

Tencha, sencha, matcha? No chance, they finally drink only kocha there. lol

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Posted in: Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair See in context

Agreed, with intonation of inefficient models in either case. No one gets it running correctly, not with all combined energy of the planet or universe, and also not in a cheaper cost version. This is mathematically impossible, although US and China still think the rules and laws of mathematics and science are not anymore valid in their big influence zone or could be tweaked a little bit to their favor. This is not going to happen. In this sense yes, pop the bubble, the earlier the better.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

Who really cares, better worry about that the AI models cannot work properly in any case. It's no decisive difference if they are from US or China, produced at highest or lowest possible costs.

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Posted in: Osaka bans street smoking ahead of World Expo See in context

As a smoker I would like to say, you are very fine democrats, freedom lovers and have an extraordinary tolerance for one of the most discriminated minority. Congratulations and thanks from heart. rofl

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Posted in: Ishiba cabinet support rate flat at 35%; 84% concerned over U.S. tariffs See in context

The easiest and most effective way to react would be a similar Japan first and Make Japan great again policy. Well, I know, for historical reasons it is a little bit more complicated and requires more backbone to install here, than it is in many other countries. But there's indeed no other possibility, of course except of one, further trusting and relying on US merciful continued support, although in this case the outcome is still fuzzy and unknown.

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Posted in: Climate change cooks up Japanese 'cabbage shock' See in context

Yes of course, those are the four enemies of whatever industry, agriculture, economy in general: spring, summer, autumn and winter. An old common joke already for decades in communist countries behind the former Iron curtain. And now these little copycats here come up with the same pattern, slightly changed to cabbage and other vegetables and with an added climate change or let's say a four-season long enemy. Better bring some newer and more innovative complaints. lol

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