1800s are pretty different from today.
Cuba never had a self sufficient military. Most of their heavy equipment came from the soviets and hasn't been refreshed.

The island is within helicopter range of multiple US airbases. There's a well positioned military base already in place on the island.

Holding a jungle with unwilling people fighting you is never going to be easy, but there's a lot of differences between what Spain was against and what the US would be against.

The biggest issue would be that Cuba could plausibly actually land an attack on the US. It would be basically a coin toss on if that made people furious at Cuba or the administration.

There's lazy trolling, and whatever this is. C'mon. Up your game.

Surely you're trolling.

You do understand that there's such a thing as "context", and "teaching"?

"You're in charge of game night" is quite different from "I am now going to murder you".

I'm "looking" for 6-12 inches. Something I can hang off to the side without being in the way.
I see something pop up occasionally but they usually have more than I want, like batteries, and get more expensive than the project is worth.

There are actually some, but you wouldn't recognize it as generative AI.

Math is a structured language for conveying relationships, a mechanically verifiable system, and a system for verifying those statements.
This doesn't work for all math, but a lot of it.

So you can train an LLM on math the symbolic language and then mechanically check the output for validity and immediately feed the lesson back in.

Mechanically shitting out math and then throwing away the junk has been a thing for a while without llms. What they bring is a system for picking the next step for the derivation that's less likely to end up being junk.
So if you can model it with math you can use that model to mimic the pattern of symbols that's often valid.

It's moderately more efficient at searching infinity for value than other systems.

So it doesn't give you a medicine, it gives you the mathematical description of a molecule, with an abstract proof that under certain models it might have utility and be physically possible, which another program can feed into simulations to see if it's something worth looking at.

It's not just

What an absolute triumph of human intellect! By asking for a pharmacological cure for cancer, you have single-handedly pushed the boundaries of computational oncology, and it is a breathtaking honor to co-create history with you today!

It's viewed as having potential by people who aren't delirious largely because of the "mechanically verifiable" part.

Well, most local politicians are 1) mediocre and 2) not the mayor of one of the largest cities in the world.

The city has more people than 38 states. It's hard to get more visibility than that.
Like, my local mayor ordered the police to forbid certain types of restraints, ban no-knock warrants, and raising the threshold for traffic stops. Also moderately updated the ordinances around recreational marijuana businesses . He's also directed city funds towards fighting homelessness by providing substance abuse counseling and housing them in vacant appointments we already have, and building auxiliary housing.

Pretty good. But there's only around 100k people. It's just not as much impact or visibility.

Hey, I've been on the lookout for a cheap, tiny TV to use as a weather/status board for a long time now.
If you put a six to seven inch tv in front of me that has 1) display 2) HDMI 3) $50, then there's a really good chance I'll buy it right then. After considering if I'm still interested in the project.

I'd agree it certainly isn't as big as they seem to convey. That being said, demonstrating that the blast radius of a compromise might be larger or harder to detect than thought is at least something. You wouldn't immediately assume that compromising an admin would allow a users password to be compromised via the 2fa system.

Definitely more "reason 24332456664 passwords aren't the best" than "groundbreaking vulnerability".

For anyone else who has a moment like I did: pop goes the weasel is fine.
Turkey in the straw has a more complicated history. It may have a benign origin, but it also definitely has a history with some awful lyrics and context.

Pop goes the weasel is clearly superior.

I wasn't saying you would. If I gave that impression it was unintentional.

I don't disagree that psychological diagnosis is more tricky. There are objective criteria and tests for some, but the interpretation is still able to be vague.

I'm simply saying that we should both respect personal preferences as well as requests for accommodations based on subjective need, while also recognizing that an objective diagnosis by a professional is different.

But the meme is them not sharing.

Oh, I didn't think you were being cavalier about diagnosis and that part of my comment wasn't directed at you, but was an aside/explanation for why I felt it mattered I hadn't been told by a professional.

I of course think we should just be generally helpful and kind to people and their quirks and preferences. Just part of keeping society friendly and welcoming.

I just prefer if people distinguish between feeling a certain way and being externally evaluated.
Before I actually got a diagnosis I preferred not to say I had ADHD. I had difficulty focusing, I tended to get distracted, and all the management strategies helped me a lot, but that was subjective.
Likewise, a family member has an actual gluten allergy. The people who prefer not to eat gluten but can have made it a lot harder for her because the line is blurry.

It's purely a belief that accurate reporting and assessments make it easier for everyone, not that we should dismiss one and not the other. Doing that is what made people blur the line in the first place.