What are the best deals I need to consider? Looking to treat myself to a couple of games that can sit unplayed next to the others I picked up last year.

I am super excited for Ferrari but know that the race strategy will somehow fumble this fantastic qualifying for the team. I’ve been hurt too many times.

Congratulations to Gukesh! Anand’s enduring legacy is all of the super strong GMs whose careers are just coming into focus that were inspired by his championship reign. I’m sure Anand is super proud of him and all of the others close behind. My hope is that Ding has a similar effect on China in a few years.

I feel safe in my assessment that this situation won’t improve matters.

It was pretty entertaining. Q1 and Q2 had just enough dampness to cause issues for everyone. Albon was P1 in Q1 which as it turned out was not really a fluke as he ended up P4. There were 2 red flags throughout, Hamilton under-performing, and then Max doing what he does best at the end of Q3 in front of the home crowd.

I applaud lichess for shining a light on this important issue. Chess should be a welcoming game for everyone. There should be no place for sexist assholes.

The answer is a lot. Over 17 seconds a lap on this circuit.

Growing up I really enjoyed the Riddler episodes of the animated Batman series.

That looks not so accidental to me. I have just seen this clip and based on what I know of their relationship it would be surprising to say the least, but it looks like he just hulk smashed the bottle right into it as a fuck you.

I don’t think just because there’s more passing automatically means more crashes. If anything the faster cars would take it easy on the first lap (when most incidents occur) knowing they have the speed to overtake once all the craziness is over.

I know everyone likes to shit on sprints, but I’m ok with the FIA experimenting if only to avoid things getting stale. My suggestion would be to run the sprint in reverse qualifying order so even back markers get to fight for some points and you could have a ton of overtakes.

It might in replying generic answers to well known question.

That’s kind of the point of using the LLM to replace the person reading from the script right? Moreover, generic answers to well known questions could make up the bulk of the calls and you train the LLM to hand off to a real person if it gets stuck. The reality is the people doing that job were not adding a lot of value over what an LLM can do. So if the people are more expensive and the output is exactly the same as the LLM (or the LLM is even better as this CEO claims) the business will have to lay off the people to stay competitive.

We should be looking to retool folks that are impacted by technological advancements like this, but for some reason there is little appetite for that.

I hear you, but I can’t help but feel like blockchain is a solution looking for a problem most of the time. Is it super helpful in some very narrow niches… Sure. But go back a few years and people were saying it was going to be everywhere and clearly it’s not. I think LLMs will have many more uses than blockchain ever will.

I really don’t think it’s an overreach. In the same way that their used to be IT companies and now basically every company uses IT to do something, I believe AI/ML will continue to grow. It won’t be “we are an AI company” it will be “every company uses different kinds of AI everywhere to do things.”

Whether you believe the 90% claim or not, this is definitely the way things are going for tech support roles and probably many others. The real issue is even if a competitor didn’t want to lay off all that staff they will be forced to do so to remain price competitive. My recommendation for anyone, but especially IT, is to learn how to use LLMs as they will be pervasive before you know it.

That seems fair. Stroll rejoined like it was bumper cars and fucked Gasly’s race.

As always this season, I will be hoping Max doesn’t win, but I am excited to see what McLaren can do.

Well I’m sure if they thought there was more money to be made they would change the rules.

All aboard the Williams hype train! Choo choo. But seriously I would love for them to have a great performance in quali.

I think 11-12 teams on the grid would be perfect. Any more and it starts to get a little crowded in my opinion, especially for some of the smaller circuits.