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Chevalier

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I'm a coldhearted bastard enough to say that Chinese black ops should see about cloud seeding areas away from india to deprive the indians of rainfall and water.
Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia for three days from 15th June.

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I wonder if there are specific commercial reasons why visits to Perth and Adelaide are part of the agenda, as these are only Australia's 4th- and 5th-largest cities respectively. Canberra is smaller again, but as the national capital there is no mystery there.
Most of Australia's mineral resources are in WA, which is Australia's largest state; it's also like half the country territory wise and Western australians tend to be more independant minded comapred to those in the east coast. WA depends on mining and agriculture to keep itself in the green and Chinese students aren't going to australia anymore hence why victoria (a southern state of australia) is in massive deficit since it pulled out of BRI.

And speaking of BRI, that new linkage between China, Kygyrz and Uzbekistan is sure to piss off the Anglos who have lusted after the Heartland for centuries. Now, it is Tang Dynasty revival time,; analysis by former indian ambassador, Bhadrakumar.

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In soviet america, americans are forced to starve and shoplift, if you're lucky you can even re-enact that scene from The Saint as Val Kilmer and find yourself a nice russian prostitute. Sorry, i meant American. Damn, what decade is this?

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When the PLAN eventually gets to Europe via the Northern Sea Route, they should level the Netherlands and lay waste to the Dutch for forcing their guests to pay for the tea and snacks offered to guests.
 

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China already proved it the first time around no?

Vietnam was curbstomped with horrific casualties at minimal losses for China. The goal was never annexation of Vietnam, just the takeover of the disputed border and quite literally to demilitarize an oversized military Vietnam had radicalized after the US-Vietnam war.

The idea was that a military and material loss would undermine Viet confidence in the pro-USSR faction, and at the same time limit the influence of the pro-western southern Vietnamese remnant.

It did succeed in turning Vietnam back to a friendly or at least friendly neutral country, although the southern faction was purged much later and probably not directly due to the war but rather later political plots.

Today, the boat on reintegrating Vietnam has largely sailed. Unless China can purposefully forment a new Vietnamese faction they can drum up as a legit threat, attacking Vietnam today would be tantamount to diplomatic suicide. Vietnam is a nominally friendly communist state with a stance of neutrality in military conflict. China going for them would be like USA attacking Sweden.
I don't get why everyone talks about 1979 like the war just ended between China and Vietnam that year. China literally started attacking Vietnam the next year to pressure it to get out of Cambodia and to punish it for it's arrogance.

In the 1980s China readjusted it's tactics and won every major battle against Vietnam. Most notable was 1984 Laoshan where they spammed artillery until they won. Eventually Vietnam had no choice but to to quit Cambodia and with the USSR weakening, give up it's ambitions. The war didn't last a few weeks like biased wikipedia said. In reality it lasted 10 years.

Why does everyone forget that part? Is it coz they don't want to admit China succeeded where America failed? There's a reason Vietnam doesn't try to start crap with China anymore.

It reminds me when people mocked Russia for the winter war in Finland. They miss the part after it which involved Russia winning and taking a huge chunk of Finnish land.
 

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4 US college instructors stabbed in Jilin:

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Not many details yet but wingnuts on X already calling on State Department to elevate travel advisory for China.

Statistics from China’s National Immigration Bureau revealed that in the first quarter of 2024. Notably, the number of foreign visitor entries surged by 305.2% to 13 million.

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4 US college instructors stabbed in Jilin:

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Not many details yet but wingnuts on X already calling on State Department to elevate travel advisory for China.

Wingnuts on the internet, who knew?

Reminds me of something I saw on the weekend "Mass shooting on the weekend in LA", mentioned so casually
I saw later that it was near a community college
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I guess if at least 3 people don't die, it's not really news.
 

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While large language models (LLMs) like those developed by OpenAI are not sentient and do not emulate the biology of a human brain, they are nonetheless extremely useful from a functional and utility standpoint. It is reductive to dismiss them merely as "next word prediction." The transformer architecture, especially with its attention mechanisms, allows LLMs to achieve a level of complexity that makes them generatively applicable to everyday tasks, significantly enhancing productivity.

These models act as intellectual multipliers. Even though they don't experience qualia or solve the hard problem of consciousness, their economic impact is undeniable. LLMs are capable of performing tasks that were once solely within the realm of human creativity and intellectual labor. Their emergent properties allow them to generate content, analyze data, and automate complex processes, effectively displacing a wide range of tasks previously thought to be exclusive to human expertise.

From a technical performance standpoint, these models are incredibly powerful tools. They can automate and enhance numerous workflows, saving time and resources, and pushing the boundaries of what technology can achieve. This utility is significant and transformative, contributing to advancements across various industries and sectors.

In conclusion, dismissing OpenAI's technology as a glorified search engine overlooks its profound utility and impact. While not sentient, these models provide substantial benefits, driving efficiency and innovation in ways that were previously unimaginable.
It has an impact in the sense that its a very user friendly way to consult search algorithms.

They do have a role in enhancing productivity especially among poorly optimized tasks and/or less tech literate people, but the reason it is not considered a game changer is that anyone can replicate the simple technology behind it, as long as they have access to internet. If something can be had by everyone, it doesn't provide a significant advantage to anyone.

In fact you already have several Openai comparable clones in China, with some having better and worse levels of different parameters. This is because it is fundamentally a cheap and easy technology.
 
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