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I think this is from Berserk, but it’s been years and I can’t quite tell.

While Finland lost, the difficulty the Soviets encountered during their offensive was noted by the powers at the time. It was another factor convincing the Nazis that invading the Soviet Union wasn’t as terrible and idea as the balance of resources and forces would suggest.

Historians still debate whether the Soviets intended to conquer all of Finland at the onset of the war. While the eventual peace treaty left Finland ceding more territory than the initial Soviet ultimatum demanded, Finland retained its sovereignty, which was incredible given the disparity in military power and the existence of a puppet Finnish communist government.

Yeah, because modern skeletons have the marks of heavy manual labour on them…

Bro have you ever talked to anyone in the trades? They are all limping by 35.

Not everyone gets a do-nothing laptop job.

Victoria 3 was just boring - I say this as a huge fan of Victoria 2.

I played a few weeks after launch, and - for every one of the 4 countries I tried (Russia, Japan, Denmark, Spain), simply building all the things everywhere and ignoring money made everything trivial.

The economic simulation was super barebones, the entire thing could be bootstrapped just by building. An entire population of illiterate farmers would become master architects overnight and send GDP to the double digit billions in a few decades.

paying a peasant to work

Peasants (serfs) were not paid. They were bound to the land they worked, and were given a fraction of the harvest they produced. The rest was property of the Lord who’s title controlled the land.

There was a (very small) artisan class where the concept of payment existed, though often it was payment-in-kind - smith the plow for my oxen and I’ll give you some food after the harvest. Money was rarely encountered for the vast majority of people.

how much VRAM you need to run this model

It will depend on the representation of the parameters. Most models support bfloat16, where each parameters is 16-bits (2 Bytes). For these models, every Billion parameters needs roughly 2 GB of VRAM.

It is possible to reduce the memory footprint by using 8 bits for each param, and some models support this, but they start to get very stupid.

1. Hans has admitted to cheating in the past
2. Hans played a near-perfect game as black against the best player in the world who hadn’t lost as white in years
3. Hans made some suspiciously good moves quickly, without much time passing
4. Magnus played a very rare opening that Hans was somehow able to perfectly respond to without skipping a beat

From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus’ prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.

Haskell isn’t really that hard to learn

A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

The fundamental issue with declining populations - fundamental as in regardless of the economic system of the country - is decreasing standard of living.

The very simple metric is productivity-adjusted hours worked per person. This invariably falls in cases where overall population is declining, because populations age as they decline, and older people work less (retirement) than younger ones.

As this metric falls, the country’s economy basically just produces less stuff per-person than it did in the past. This makes everyone effectively poorer.

In extreme cases, there can also be issues with availability of services. E.g. healthcare: Each doctor/nurse/caregiver can only effectively attend to so many patients and this number is difficult to increase with technology.

In many cases, getting something out quickly is more valuable than having it be clean.

Part of being a senior is knowing when fast is more important than perfect. Not saying your senior did everything right, just that a single example of someone’s code isn’t enough to judge the value of a person to an organization.

The 433.7 million is after paying taxes on the lump sum.

Nominal Jackpot: 1.2B
Lump sum: ~600 M
Taxes on lump sum: ~167M
Post-tax winnings: 433.7M