Readit Newsannodomini2019 commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik
Why is it a top request from India? What does the Indian government get out of letting their kids overpay for education abroad?
India gets a metric fuckload of money back in remittances every year. Debatable if that's actually worth the brain drain, but then there's also the angle of having your young people learn from the rest of the world and return with new skills. I lean more towards the remittances though.
annodomini2019 commented on Why Netflix's $82B Acquisition Makes Sense in the Era of AI twitter.com/Konstantine/s... · Posted by u/gmays
All I can say is that was an incredibly bleak read
annodomini2019 commented on Head of AI at Cline Fired twitter.com/sdrzn/status/... · Posted by u/agentifysh
I saw this tweet and the firestorm it caused when it happened. Being an Indian man myself, I was confused what all the confusion was about... it was so obviously a joke about sweaty young men. I actually resent the CEO and company more for caving to that pressure.
annodomini2019 commented on Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC geacron.com/home-en/... · Posted by u/not_knuth
Yeah it would be nice if Wikipedia would host it, but it would probably require some more serious ground work so the project fits in the wikipedia ecosystem. Could be a pipeline Wikipedia -> Wikidata -> Atlas.
There are many projects that could be done with with wikipedia and LLMs, for instance "equalizing" all languages by translating all pages into all other languages where they are missing. Or, more surgically, finding which facts are reported in some languages of a page but not others, and adding these facts to all languages.
For now, it seems that wikipedia doesn't want to use generative AI to produce wikipedia pages, and that's understandable, but there may be a point where model quality will be too good to ignore.
Understandable for not using it to write net-new content from outside sources, but agreed that at some point the translation becomes good enough to bridge all language gaps, where it's simply an obvious call that a translation of the more fully written English article is better than relying on a local writer.
annodomini2019 commented on Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC geacron.com/home-en/... · Posted by u/not_knuth
Total plug but this year I scraped 400,000 wikipedia pages with Gemini to create landnotes.org, an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923":
https://landnotes.org/?location=xnd284b0-6&date=1923&strictD...
https://github.com/Zulko/landnotes
My plan has been to overlay historical map borders on top of it, like the Geacron one from this post, but they all seem to be protected by copyright - and understandably so, given the amount of work involved.
Wow, this is actually so cool. Fantastic idea, I would LOVE something like this in Wikipedia. Nicely done!
annodomini2019 commented on The kind of company I want to be a part of dvsj.in/my-company... · Posted by u/ctxc
Always thought you kinda have to do this to create a product that can even be translated considering languages like French where plurals take many forms.
If you had invested the 83k in the S&P500, you'd be slightly ahead I think if you include maintenance and property taxes.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/stocks/s-p-500/1997?amount=...
You don't get to live in the S&P500. Also don't really get the point of this response. Both just prove assets are wildly out of reach for young people now compared to then.
I found the following article interesting the other day. A retired couple with a four-bedroom home concerned that they couldn’t sell their home at 1.3 million, so they lowered it to 1.28 and were surprised it still didn’t sell. The owner then considers renting it out instead.
https://apnews.com/article/real-estate-housing-market-home-p...
Out of curiosity I looked for the house that couple is selling. Believe it's this:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30206-Telluride-Ln-Evergr...
Notice the price history. 83k in '97, which is about 170k now. Being sold for a 10x profit. Sigh.
annodomini2019 commented on Every champion needs a rival tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
What I find interesting about American Football is that the QBs are considered rivals, despite never being on the pitch at the same time. Messi and Ronaldo actually appear on many images contesting the same ball, Peyton and Brady you'd struggle to find pictures other than the post-match handshake.
Why isn't the rivalry considered to be between the QB and someone on the defense? There's actually two matchups in an NFL game (plus specials but whatever), the two offense versus defense pairings. It's odd to make the rivalry about two guys who aren't directly tackling each other, when there are people on both teams who really are tackling those guys.
The rivalry is whether one QB is better than the other in taking their team to the promised land, as they both have the most overall contribution to team success. Really all it is.