Knowing Google’s tendency to kill things they try and fail to revamp, I’ll take this stagnation as long as they keep updating it with new imagery. Street View is the greatest project in human historiography; there’s too much to lose to silly Google management.

Absolutely. Imagine being able to look at 100 years of street view history, or several hundred, at some point in the future.

I think about this so often. Google Street View and YouTube are full of irreplaceable information. At least it's not Meta, but apart from them it could hardly be in less reliable hands.

re: consistency

https://xkcd.com/927/

I don't think that xkcd applies. I mean if I am on a clothing seller's website, and they show me a pair of pants and I add 4 colors to the cart of the same size of the same design/model number/style pants, I feel like they should all fit the same.

They usually do, never found that issue on medium to high quality clothing (!= luxury brands).

I have. So I don't buy that it's not a problem just because you haven't had it..

Sometimes they also use different fabric for different colors. Maybe a color is internally consistent, but if you buy one of each they're very different.

Au contraire, in a rather realistic way

What about this policy has anything to do with English language skills? And how is this “good policy” if it penalizes important next-generation researchers even when they speak English well? I am not denying your observation re: English language skills among Chinese graduate students—it’s just unclear what this solves that checking for English language skills during the live video interview stage does not.

This is possible but you'd have to deploy it right by a black hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere

i wonder how sensitive your equipment would need to be to read it from the back scatter off the interstellar medium.

Not to mention you would need an order of magnitude improvement in on-device inference speed to make this feasible at current smartphone costs. Or they could offload it and sell an insecure overpriced-subscription laggy texting device that bricks when you don’t have cell service…

It isn't going to happen soon. Maybe 4-6 years from now.

But it is clearly the direction. Apple will try to stave off this move by turning iOS more into an LLM as well.

The U.S. is ranked #17 in that list at 101,900 tonnes, not #55.

Honestly, even getting through 1/3 of it in a night is pretty impressive. Certainly took me several weeks freshman year of college.

Looks to me like initialisms get periods unless they are acronyms or trademarks. So "ICE" is fine because it is read as "ice" and not I.C.E. (eye-see-ee). REI is not an initialism though, but presumably they have kept it as-is because it's their trademark/"doing business as" style.

That is correct and also how everyone else should be using the English language.

The “REI” initialism, is the official d.b.a. for the Recreational Equipment, Inc. company.

Erratum: I meant to say that REI is an initialism but not an acronym

Matter of time until markets reckon with AI investment crowding out non-AI investment (cf. the massive oversubscription of Meta's latest bond offering). Must suck to be a small-cap firm squeezed by tariffs raising costs, unemployment lowering demand, and AI investment raising your own non-AI cost of borrowing.