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Like others have said I am a bit concerned by the privacy implications, but I like how nice the model is. Defintiely wouldn't consider it as an alternative to therapy or even real conversations (the sentences it generates look very fake at times, plus I wouldn't want to trust a machine's advice anyway), but it's pleasant to talk to and that's probably all that matters.

Great if you have some time to kill or maybe need someone to take your head off something you've been thinking too much about, just gotta be careful on what you reveal to him.

EDIT: as I was chatting I got a prompt asking me to log in to continue the conversation. I logged in with my Google account, then kept going for a bit, then singned off and closed the conversation. After I told him I was going to close the tab he greeted me with my real name without me ever have mentioned it in the convo (of course, he took it from Google), but it still weirded the heck out of me. Be careful with what you share lol.

I am no expert either, but I once trained and ran an AI chat bot of my own. With a decently powerful Nvidia GPU it could output a message every 20-ish seconds (which is still too slow if you want to keep the conversation at a decent pace). I also tried it without a GPU, just running on my CPU (on a PC that had an AMD GPU which is about the same as not having one for ML applications) and it was of course noticeably slower. About 3 minutes per message, give or take.

And bear in mind, this was with an old and comparatively tiny model, something like Pi would be much more demanding, the replies my model produced hardly made any sense most of the times.

No, non è LA soluzione. E' una soluzione. Assolutamente d'accordo sulle politiche sociali, ma tali provvedimenti richiedono tempo e denaro (non che strade sicure sia gratis, lo so). I cittadini di Torino nord hanno bisogno di sicurezza adesso.

E' facile gridare "più case popolari", ma la verità è che Torino in generale ha un problema di crisi immobiliare, in particolare per quanto concerne gli affitti. Capita che anche persone ben sistemate e con situazioni stabili facciano fatica a trovare una sistemazione. Probabilmente non ai livelli di altre città come Milano, ma la situazione è comunque problematica. E sebbene il trasporto pubblico sia tutto sommato soddisfacente all'interno della città, la qualità dello stesso cala notevolmente muovendosi verso la periferia, quindi allontanarsi dalla città spesso non è un'opzione (a differenza di Milano).

Quindi sì, recuperare i "quartieri ghetto" sarebbe preferibile, ma per arrivarci servirebbero investimenti pubblici nell'immobiliare, investimenti nel sociale, investimenti nel trasporto pubblico... E se queste cose non le fa un'amministrazione "di sinistra", non so proprio chi possa arrivare a farle.

Not familiar, but from what I just read online it looks pretty similar yeah. I believe the idea behind DCC was recreating exactly that simpler old school fantasy.

Da qualche settimana il governo, per soddisfare le richieste della VI circoscrizione e dell’assessore regionale alle politiche sociali, ha deciso di destinare in Barriera una parte delle truppe destinate a Torino per l’operazione “strade sicure”. Il quartiere è stato pesantemente militarizzato, con controlli ossessivi in ogni angolo, per spingere un po’ più in là il babau di questa periferia: i pusher neri che stazionano agli angoli in attesa dei clienti.

Bene così, assolutamente necessario. Ho vissuto vicino a Barriera per qualche anno e trovo inaccettabile che in una città come Torino ci siano simili livelli di degrado.

E' sufficiente? Assolutamente no, come suggerito dall'articolo devono avvenire anche dei cambiamenti sociali, quali accesso a cure mediche e dimore dignitose per tutti, ma la sicurezza rimane imprescindibile.

My dad used to play red box D&D (which I believe was the first edition ever released). Still has some manuals, which I got the chance to read.

Not only it was encouraged to play humans, it was assumed! You didn't get to pick a race, only a class. And while the classes of "elf" (think like 5e's ranger) and "dwarf" (5e's barbarian, sort of) were a thing, all of the other classes assumed for the player to be a human. You couldn't play an elf wizard: you either are an elf OR a wizard. Wild stuff, compared to some of the crazy stuff we get to do in modern D&D.

Correct, but that review process won't have any votes on it, meaning it also won't be possible for Hungary (or anyone else) to veto it. Doesn't seem like that great of an accomplishment on Hungary's side.

Possible. I'd love it if they actually went through with the article 7 threats, but until then using said threat to have Orban sit down is the next best thing.

News outlet are being extremely vague about Orban's motives, but it's clear that no funds have been unfrozen. By the looks of it, it seems Hungary received no grants at all and just changed its mind out of the goodness of her heart, which is weird.

From DW

"From what we are hearing from our sources, they made it very clear to Viktor Orban that he is standing all alone in the EU, blocking this essential aid for Ukraine," she said, adding that following the message it became clear Orban would finally say yes and so the EU leaders sat together to finalize the deal.

This makes me wonder if anything went on behind those closed doors. We know that yesterday Orban met with Meloni, who according to euronews

[Meloni] has fashioned herself as the most dexterous mediator between Budapest and Brussels. Meloni and Orbán held bilateral talks on Wednesday evening in anticipation of the high-stakes meeting.

All that's left to hope is that Meloni and other EU leaders succesfully managed to scare off Hungary and that no backroom deals went on.

I can agree with that. Something that looked particularly bad was von der Leyen openly supporting Israel, in contrast with what had been decided by the rest of the EU institutions. Basically she took initiative and used her position to support her own agenda rather than the one agreed upon by the institution she was representing. (source, albeit soft paywalled)

A more direct approach in foreign policy is sorely needed for our continent, but I think we are still going to have to wait a few years before we can see it.

Quickly? By EU standards, I suppose, but this is the furthest thing from "quick" in the real world. We are about a month late compared to the UK and the USA.

but they can’t do the minimum decent thing and say “we condemn Israel’s atrocities” in the UN

The EU is a permanent observer in the UN and as such doesn't have any voting rights. The common foreign policy is decided by the Council and requires unanimity so every member state has veto power. As such it's practically impossible to come to a conclusive decision on divisive matters such as the current Gaza conflict.

So apparently in Germany both the far left and the far right simp for Russia? I guess they could make a coalition of extremists, they seem like they would get along nicely together.