The richest member countries have a vested interest in seeing ukraine win. And its not that different from directly funding ukraine anyway.

Both countries are too smart to fall for that.

If things have already gone so bad, war isn't happening anyway. Everyone will be too busy dealing with their own problems.

The only realistic way out of this is rich western countries subsidizing the poorer ones to switch to cleaner sources.

They are building those also. I believe they plan to build 220 odd nuclear plants by 2035.

Manufacturing + a billion people will do that.

I mean, there's a couple billion+ people in asia...

Better to live in the future for 10 years than 50 years in the stone age. Developing nations aren't going to give up quality of life improvements.

War ain't going to help the global warming problem. And certainly its not going to happen against a nuclear armed nation.

A lot of knowledge work is simply knowing stuff and knowing what to look for and where. Our current setup doesn't allow for robot lawyers standing in front of a jury maybe but they can absolutely replace the associates doing the grunt work of finding precedents/cases, drafting and proof reading briefs etc.

People have been saying a lot of things for decades, doesn't mean it will never happen. AI is coming for skilled labor as well. You'll have one experienced guy being able to do the work of 5 with the help of ai.

> It would also make the journey to Mars significantly shorter, from six months to just 45 days.

What about a mission to places like Neptune?

There's going to be a "my robot is better than your robot" conflict.

Poland is buying big because they hate russia. As soon as russia acted out, they were going to place a big order. Are countries far removed from the russian threats suddenly increasing their US mil purchases?

This only works for computation that can be easily parallelised. We still build supercomputers that cost 100s of millions of dollars.

When it comes to things like the JWST, a large amount of cost is in the r&d, making sure that it works reliably in space etc. It wouldn't cost the same amount to build another one now though it would still be expensive. For chips, you have high demand to amortise the costs.

Software dev with no ml background here. I'm trying to implement semantic search. User enters a query and I should return the top 3 closest results. Right now, I'm basically splitting all my text into sentences and storing the embedding of each sentence. Is this scalable? Is there a better way? Are there pre-trained models that can generate embeddings for paragraphs and larger bodies of text?

Lol. This is the way.

His arguments sound like problems of tesla. Having multiple teams, dealing with different supply chains, the cost etc are all tesla problems. Elon doesn't want to deal with it so he convinced Karpathy. To be honest, I'm not sure how much he believes it himself. He isn't going to disagree with Elon in public.

I don't know if the europa clipper mission is as exciting as a manned mars mission but I do think that europa should be given as much importance as mars. IMO if there is life to be found, it will be in one of these ocean worlds. Rather than looking at far away exoplanets for signs of life and habitability, we should make europa a priority.

Surely the radiation on the surface of europa would sterilise any instrument.

What if it was a choice between finding life on europa vs manned mars mission.

Its a technology limitation. We can and should make transit times faster. The universe is so large that even speed of light is slow. We'll never be able to do anything outside our immediate neighbours with such slow speeds.