Not sure if you really want to know, but a Google paper is where transformers (backbone of LLMs) were first mentioned (2016 I believe). Google initially used transformers for translations and eventually search, but OpenAI experimented with them for text generation (gpt 1+) eventually leading to chatgpt.
I feel like a majority of tech has been in this rut for a while. CPUs, GPUs, audio, wifi, 4g VS 5g, screens/tvs, etc. all seem to provide the most incremental upgrades each iteration. For a while phones seemed to be making leaps and bounds, but feel relatively the same generation to generation now.
I think the main area I feel like I’ve seen some movement is battery tech. Some new materials and better/longer batteries are making some movement, but tech hardware feels relatively static the past decade or so.
Surprised no one mentioned the Batman Arkham games or Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (2013-2018). Both are third person action games with simple, but enjoyable upgrade elements.
Arkham Asylum may feel a bit dated, but Arkham City and Knight should still feel pretty fresh. And I think the Tomb Raider games hold up well.
I also suspect you’ve played them, but the Uncharted series is also great.
Other mentions that fit the third person, decent-good story, and fast/fun action:
I feel like that is very much the case, and yet its horrifying that it seems to work. Like, how does the average American hear horror story after horror story and not care. Each incident just makes him look worse and worse to me.
I mean an obvious break in the decades was covid. There has been a fair amount of shift in a lot of different things pre/post covid that maybe doesn’t stick out due to the gradual shift, but will definitely be more apparent to anyone looking back on the 2010-2030 time period.
I would think it would depend on how much of the manufacturers profit stemmed from the name brand company. It’s possible that everyone is charged the same, in which case it may not matter. But if the store brands are getting a discount for using the excess manufacturing, then yeah it’s either higher prices or the factory stops.
That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.
That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.
The point of my post is that it is “a metric”. The original post was showing that knife “crimes” were going down over a period of time while rhetoric about knife crimes were up.
However, knife crimes may not be down based on other metrics. So yes, while it’s good that less people are being hospitalized, that doesn’t mean the argument being made in the OP is valid.
I’m also not trying to take sides, just noticing that the graph on knife attacks wasn’t telling the whole story. It’s very possible that the increased rhetoric on knife attacks leads to more people reporting even though crime is down. Generally there has been a trend in the world to over report crime, typically done to help push legislation or political parties.
I always find it interesting when you’re only provided a portion of the data in a chart, as this shows “hospital Admissions” and not total incidents involving a knife.
If you look at other reports on the issue it seems like incidents involving a knife are still high (and don’t follow the trend from the graph) even though hospital Admissions and deaths are down - Source.
That could mean that reporting is up while crime is down, or could mean that less incidents are ending violently, but it’s not as clear a picture as the initial graph indicates.
Note: the source is for the UK in general, but other London based reports show similar. I chose that article because they seem fairly trustworthy.
I’ve downloaded some 4k content to do side-by-side with 1080p and it’s a struggle to notice the difference.
The issue is more that there aren’t rules. Given there are billions of parameters that define how these models work, there isn’t really a way to ensure that it cant produce unwanted content.
Yeah, it might be like the Wii leading into the WiiU. Twilight Princess was originally going to be for the GameCube, but turned into a wii launch title and was followed by Skyward Sword late into the Wiis lifetime. That resulted in the WiiU never having its own Zelda, instead sharing BOTW with Switch during its release.
So it’s possible with BOTW released with Switch and TOTK late into the switches lifetime that we’ll see the same thing happen on the switch 2 (and it won’t get an exclusive Zelda).
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that Google (and AI research like this) pumps out a lot of work like this that shows amazing new advances. However, that doesn’t mean any of this is near ready.
Here is a 2018 paper about using world models (a concept where a model is developing an understanding of a “world”) that used it to create an interactive Doom AI model - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122 just to show that this stuff has been in the works for a long time.
While I think it’s the right thing to block out the faces of the women in all the Epstein photographs, I think it diminishes the impact they have. Without the victims faces in them it’s a lot easier for people to brush them off as “women” and for the media to push that narrative.
Yeah, I believe there has been a report of at least one completely empty performance. Additionally Philip Glass canceled his Premiere of his “Lincoln” symphony because "the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.” - Source
I think Trump is shutting it down to prevent more stories of how quickly he’s ruined this institution for the arts. Yet another loss for America.
Usually when polling data is released they’ll have info about the political affiliation of voters. I don’t know about this election, but many of the special or off year elections since Trump have shown a mixture of lower republican turnout and a higher percentage of republican voters voting for democrats.
But for exact numbers you’d need to look into the elections. The Virginia state elections would probably be most telling as they do elections on odd years, so it wasn’t a special election and was for the whole state. Virginia is also a “purple” state and ended up flipping republican to Democrat majority.
Yeah, if you look at their menu a lot of the drinks start to look more like caffinated milkshakes than coffee. Especially their specialty drinks.
I feel like this was an obvious move back during the first bond scare Trump caused back in early 2025. It’s been clear that people need to protect themselves against Trumps economic policies given how he handled things during his first term.
What’s hilarious is that all feels like bottom of the barrel stuff, like we should just be doing that stuff by default.