Covid boosted the sale of canned food, but people avoid the sugary syrup of canned fruits in non emergency situations.

Did they? How long have they been around?

Stockpiling uranium ore, or lowly enriched uranium is much simpler than stockpiling natural gas.

OG actionscript was very similar to Javascript. It only started to diverge when type hints were introduced.

AS2 was mostly following the direction of ES4 — so it wouldn’t have diverged if it hadn’t been abandoned.

Sounds like a less efficient version of the mixture of experts approach.

How does mixture of experts architecture work? Are they debating, or merely delegating?

From what I've read, for each token or input patch, the gate computes a set of probabilities (or scores) over the experts, then selects a small subset (often the top‑[k]) and routes that input only to those.

Ie each expert computes its own transformation on the same original input (or a shared intermediate representation), and then their outputs are combined at the next layer via the gate’s weights.

That’s post hoc combination, not B reasoning over A’s reasoning.

A MoE model is one model with expert parts which use less tokens. Which makes it easier for an expert to diverge to a better optimum state. Its easier to only need to know medicin instead of everything and being able to separate everything away from medicin even if certain names, concepts etc. are the same.

AI agents discussing things with each others would be more like one thinking model thinking throught the problem with different personas.

With different underlying models, you can leverage the best model for one persona. Like people said before (6 month ago, no clue if this is still valid) that they prefer GPT for planning and Claude for executing / coding.

Why are you doing meaningless microbenchmarks?

Are you claiming that this does not show the speed difference between socket vs in process communication?

Since OpenJDK was released there isn't much point maintaining GCJ.

American cities lack medium density mixed commercial-residential areas.

The problems you mentioned are policing and welfare problems, both things that America sucks at.

Or it becomes too expensive like in germany. Then it will suck too.

€58 a month for all local/regional public transport is very cheap.

Where I am, in another part of western Europe, a single-region ticket is normally ~30-50% more expensive than the all-of-Germany ticket.

It is subsidized. Through taxes you pay the full prize anyways. Just that someone else than you who decides, what do with your money, like subsidized public transport.

Nothing is more subsidised than cars and their infrastructure.

> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.

The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.