Pirate them beforehands tbh, don’t take any chances. Also look on instant-gaming for cheaper prices

Also recommending principles of communism though it’s super short and succinct, but it is still information about it. And the ussrs political economy textbook, also available on the MIA

I don’t even know if there’s even SEO to speak of still after they brought an update ~2022 where the top results are dominated by the usual big websites (mainly wikipedia, britannica, and tons of mainstream media). It’s like no matter what I look for it’s the same websites. Video game? Steam page. Movie? IMDB. Current events? Al Jazeera (for some reason lol), BBC, Guardian, etc. What is even the point of a search engine if it’s only going to redirect you to e-commerce products (this is also a big one I forgot about, every image search now is products you can buy) and the top 10 visited websites in the world. I can also do a search on imdb directly.

And if you type a common word that is also the name of a movie good luck finding anything but the movie. It used to be better and it bothers me that younger people will grow up in a world where me saying this will sound like I’m rambling about nostalgia or something because all they will have known is shitty search engines, but no, it used to work perfectly well!!

And we know how Google works internally. Employees have to prove themselves worthy of being promoted by their bosses and to do that they have to submit projects. This is why they do seemingly senseless changes like the YouTube UI that seems to change every 6 months, or completely redoing an experience that worked just fine and making you relearn it. If they didn’t, they’d have nothing to show their bosses and they would get fired - this is documented.

You can do super important maintenance stuff but that’s not what they like to see because it’s not showy enough, so you redo the UI with round instead of square corners and also add a bunch of metrics to the new UI to track how people use it and then they can pull some stats that looks good when they type the report out, and hopefully not get sacked at their next review. Employees are always looking for stuff like that to do because of this system.

Its a bunch of bullshit upon bullshit just to satisfy each other’s need for bullshit.

Im glad that on prolewiki at least we design for the reader and nothing else, and I think it shows.

Even up until 2016 or 2018 search was pretty good. By destroying it, they also teach new generations that we don’t know how to make good search. It’s going to become on of those things we forget how to do. As you said you could find anything in a few minutes at most. Now they even change your query to give you different results.

You’re right :( as a kid I could type ‘vampires’ on Google and get a bunch of cool html 3 websites from random people who also liked vampires and wanted to talk about them on their websites dedicated to the topic. It didn’t even matter if the information was false it was just fun seeing new websites. This was before twilight, fandoms etc. It was just people talking about something they liked. They might even make the website black and red and play some music on it to put you in the mood.

Now type the same word on Google and you get wikipedia, britannica, news media (BBC, Nat Geo etc), IMDB because there’s a movie etc. You know, just in case you’re the one person in the world who knows how to use Google but not Wikipedia.

And that’s when Google doesn’t outright change your query for something else. At least lenmygrad brings back some of this.

We all agree they’re getting shot down right?

a Markov chain predicts the next state based on the current state. If today is sunny, how likely is it that tomorrow will be rainy? Mathematically, this can be reduced to a Markov chain (so we don’t have to take into account the season, weather patterns or anything like that for this example).

But a Markov chain isn’t just saying how likely it is to be rainy on a given day, but how likely it is to be rainy tomorrow based on today. If today is sunny, there’s a let’s say 70% chance that tomorrow will be rainy. If today is rainy, there’s a 40% chance that tomorrow will be rainy (and conversely a 60% chance that tomorrow will be sunny because possible states must always equal 100%).

Autocorrect works similarly. It predicts the next word based on the current word you’ve typed out. LLMs are kinda glorified markov chains because they also predict words (called tokens, which are about 3 to 4 characters) but they do it over a much larger “current state”, which is the chat history, custom instructions if you gave any on chatgpt, etc. The context that is passed on with your prompt consists of several tokens and the AI generates one token at a time until little by little it’s formed a full response that it outputs.

In this way the markov chain of LLM is if I give it the sentence “Hello! My name is” for example, it will predict which token is the most likely to follow and should output it. We can assume this should be a name but truthfully we don’t know the exact probabilities of the next state. If I give it “Hello, my name is” - changing just one character might also change the prediction weighting. I say “might” because AI is a black box and we don’t really see what happens when the data passes through the neurons.

However if you send that sentence to chatGPT it will correctly tell you that your message got cut off and asks you to finish it. They do some post-production fine-tuning to get it to do that. Compare to deepseek without the reasoning model:

What does chatGPT tell you about this

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in a way deepseek answered your question, that’s the trained bias in deepseek x)

they decided to stop it from answering any vaguely political questions (sometimes it still goes through but it’s a chore) which sucks because their online search is really good now that it’s back, but you can’t search for current events or history because it will block most of it.

edit: the official reasoning is they want it to be for science, e.g. math etc. Which is fair (I’m vocal about telling people not to use these word prediction machines for their opinions!), but also blocking searching like this really sucks. Every other engine, whether AI or non-AI, just links you to fucking Wikipedia all the time. In case you’re the one person in the world who knows how to use chatGPT but doesn’t know what Wikipedia is.

At this time I think China requires a Master’s degree to teach English, I don’t know if you looked into the requirements yet!

And as you said, it’s probably not a long-term commitment because with the way things are going in China (going from letting in any english speaker to teach to now requiring masters graduates) it’s very probable Chinese people will move away from learning English, if they aren’t already.

BUT, if it works out for you, it’s also a way for long-term residency there and learning Mandarin! One of our editors on PW made a guide for it some time back https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Essay:A_Statesian_Marxists’_Guide_to_Learning_Mandarin

I’m not gonna lie I feel like a lot of people who say they “get” some piece of art actually don’t and are just saying that to fit in. And like I don’t think haikus are some sort of genius format, in fact they are very easy to make (even more so in English). The simplicity is part of the beauty because it forces you to talk about simple things and be evocative, but it’s not some exercise in genius.

And some people are on a whole other level from you or I, absolutely. Personally I kinda experience art the same way you do. My brain is too analytical to get lost in the experience. And a lot of art is made to be consumed. I was reading the Count of Monte Cristo and it doesn’t have any pretense that it’s trying to be transformative or revolutionary; back in those days (same with Les Mis), writers were published in newspapers one chapter at a time, so they had an incentive to write long stories and popular stories, i.e. stories that the people would read as they would drive newspaper sales. Monte Cristo is good and I really should get back into it, but I was actually surprised at how easy it was to follow. It doesn’t try to win any points for style, it just tells a story. You could absolutely transpose it to another media form, it doesn’t “have” to be a novel.

But I don’t think the way you experience art is wrong per se or needs fixing. It’s an elitist point of view to say “well this went over your head, but not mine!” like some people do (whether they say it flat out or not). I’ve always had trouble connecting with the deeper themes of a story exactly because for the life of me I can’t really connect deeper than what the novel/game/etc. is showing me. One game that kinda broke that away from me was Paranormasight, it’s mostly a VN but it’s on the shorter side, I binged it over 3 days after having it sitting on my computer for over a year, it was that good. After that I downloaded a bunch of classics (the When they Cry series, Raging Loop, The House at Fata Morgana if you want the recs). My next read is probably going to be Romance of the Three Kingdoms after I (surprise surprise) played the new Dynasty Warriors; the dialogue is basically lifted from the novel.

Also some stuff truly is just slop that gets passed for some sort of genius because it’s big in scale. Like Skyrim’s story is nothing to write home about. I remember getting to the Forlorn in whatever city they’re in, and they’re a popular Indigenous resistance movement to the Nords, which they consider to be invaders in their land. Lots of parallels, lots of interesting things to explore. But then the game explores none of that, and you kinda have to make up your own headcannon for what you want the Forlorn to be. It’s good that they included this faction but that’s about it. There’s nothing special about it and it’s okay to say so and not fawn over a piece of media just because it’s a big name.

I think maybe we need the right piece of art to connect with to start exploring that side of ourselves. Ultimately for me what’s interesting is the process of getting there, it makes me think about how the author/s must have gone about it. RoTK has genius writing because of the stakes at play. You follow the best commanders of the time and get a glimpse into their actual stratagems, way of thinking, etc. And of course there’s a ton of characters in that book. Everyone in that book is a strong character and a genius in their own way, and they are pitted against each other, each standing on their own, and I’m just here thinking… how did the author even go about writing that? Like damn. Compare the strategy writing to Romancing Saga 2 (a mission I played recently lol the strategy made no sense and it was hailed by the characters as being a genius thing), or the Napoleon movie from not long ago - I remember critics didn’t really like that Napoleon was just talking about strategy but you didn’t actually see any of it on screen.

But I digress lol.

But as with everything, you must struggle with it if you want to deeply understand it, and you’ll understand it in your own way. The story in Paranormasight stayed with me past playing the game and I started thinking about how they integrated video game mechanics into a VN, the themes that the game explored, etc. It led me to a discussion and I realized that good horror is centered around family drama, and beyond the “oooh scary monster” it tells a story of family drama. With that, I deepened my understanding of horror a little bit more, and it was the perfect story to get me thinking about the deeper themes of their story.

With all of that said, I have been exploring my artistic side more recently. I think a lot of it is simply age. With age, I started understanding some art better. As a kid I didn’t like poetry at all, and now I might enjoy a verse or so if I come across it. But again there’s a lot of slop out there too!

PS: a haiku I wrote a long time ago :)

Snow-capped firs at night
    Grandfather in the cabin.
Inside, crackling heat.

I don’t see the contradiction; you’re the guest here. Or to put it in reddit terms: you want us to prove a negative so get off your high horse 🤓

Proof?

I have to remark that your instance is literally called reddit but with another article qualifier

Where are the bombs in Xinjiang? Where is the famine? Where are the gofundmes for people BEGGING to be released from this hell? Where are the livestreams? The updated Google maps showing the destruction?

All of this is happening on the daily in Gaza. Not so in China.

Not beating the reddit country accusations…

Lol yeah, I don’t want to cope or anything but for months the news were pretty much just “trust us there’s DPR koreans in the war!”, “this guy from yakutsk kinda looks like a korean, right? There’s definitely DPR koreans in the war!”, “oh we killed all koreans btw dw ukraine best”, “wdym there’s koreans in ukraine? no we killed them all in fact here we killed 10,000 more.”

All in all it provides them experience though I didn’t expect DPRK would actually send soldiers and not just aides, putting them in danger. I guess they wanted them to get the field experience, I wonder if we’ll ever get a word on the number of casualties sustained. I think it also means that the DPRK is expecting war to happen to them sooner rather than later…

Shows that this is nothing new and not even that long ago either

You’re not contradicting my previous comment so I would just be repeating myself. Moreover, I find it strange that you recognize that he was convicted but feel the need to preface that with “it wasn’t an actual child” as if that’s a defense or somehow makes it better.

And he not only did it once, but twice.

2001: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather

2009: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386

But sure yeah let’s listen to the ex-marine who pulls shit out of his ass and pretends to be an anti-imperialist when it suits him.