“If it weren’t for the shootings, I wouldn’t know they had schools.” - YT comment I read today

China: We increased green energy production.

To scale back on fossil fuels, right?

China: …

Right?

I know right! It’s all done to further Antarctica’s hegemony! Just look how huge it seems!

/uj If you want no distortions, get a globe.

“It’s [the Mercator projection] the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”

No matter how we cut it though, all 2D projections will have some kind of distortion. They opted to preserve area, while the Mercator preserves angles. Arguably it is less important today to preserve angles, as we have automatic navigation systems. There are some alternatives that also preserve the area: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/The-Equal-Earth-compared-to-similar-equal-area-pseudocylindrical-projections.png

LLMs generate signal shaped noise.

Transformers were originally made for translation not whatever it’s currently shoehorned into.

As much ignorance and ill will there is behind this process, I’d guess Mexico.