"Just imagine those guys, but with armour, masks, weapons, and the DoJ on their side."

Now imagine they're people of colour.

"But relevancy"

If you can't see the relevancy, no one can help you.

Am I the only one who remembers we're supposed Save the Chickens???

"I am the code" sounds like a plot twist revelation in a science fiction novel.

"Spending a few years, or a few decades, opposing the everything Trump has done strikes me as a good use of time"

I almost flagged this as funny, but it's really just too sad. You're admitting that someone you hate owns and controls your behavior and that he can troll you into opposing anything, no matter what it is. All of your time and energy belong to him now.

"BILL is a sick man. He'll never lt himself understand how sick."

You and Bill have a lot more in common than either of you would like to admit.

How Important and Urgent Was the Deal?

Geopolitically High (The Arctic Race): Proponents and security experts argue the deal is highly important due to the rapidly changing security environment in the Arctic. As polar ice melts, the region is becoming a hotbed for new maritime trade routes and untapped critical minerals. Because Russia has aggressively militarized its Arctic coast and China has declared itself a "Near-Arctic State," locking down Greenland's security and resources was seen by Washington as an increasingly urgent priority to protect the U.S. homeland.

Strategically Low (No Immediate Threat): Conversely, critics point out that the threat was never actually imminent. Adversary activity directly around Greenland remains virtually non-existent. Denmark"a fiercely loyal NATO ally"was already in complete alignment with the U.S. and would never have permitted a Russian or Chinese military base on the island anyway, making the "urgent" legal ban more of a formality than a response to an active crisis

Could This Have Been Done Sooner?

Critics, including former diplomats and political opponents, argue that the agreement absolutely could have been achieved much earlier and without the severe diplomatic fallout.

Manufactured Crisis vs. Real Diplomacy: Critics like former Ambassador Michael McFaul note that Denmark has always been a cooperative democratic ally. They argue previous administrations (like Obama or Bush) or even Trump's first term could have quietly negotiated these same expanded basing rights and investment screenings through standard diplomatic channels.

Aggressive Tactics Slowed Things Down: Rather than the deal being "delayed" by past presidents, critics argue it was President Trump's own aggressive tactics"such as threatening to forcibly "take" or annex Greenland"that created a massive diplomatic rift with Denmark. In this view, the months of quiet negotiations leading up to the September 2026 pact weren't solving a long-standing geopolitical puzzle, but were rather an effort by U.S. and Danish diplomats to clean up a self-inflicted diplomatic crisis and find an elegant way for Trump to claim a "victory".

The claim that President Trump's Greenland agreement is completely identical to the 1950s arrangement is partially true in its framework, but inaccurate because the new deal adds distinct and practical changes.

The Core Framework Is the Same

Built on the 1951 Treaty: The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark, and Greenland builds directly upon the historic 1951 Defense of Greenland Treaty between Washington and Copenhagen, which has long given the U.S. broad military access to the island.

Danish Sovereignty Maintained: Just like past decades, the agreement explicitly reaffirms that Greenland remains under the territorial sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark and rules out U.S. outright ownership or annexation.

What Actually Changed in the New Deal

Greenland Is at the Table: Unlike the bilateral 1951 treaty signed solely by the U.S. and Denmark, Greenland's own self-governing leadership is a direct, formal signatory to this agreement.

New Military Bases Authorized: The deal explicitly greenlights the process for the U.S. military to build and operate two new major defense sites/bases at Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland and Mestersvig in the east, alongside upgrades to the existing Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base).

Blocking Adversarial Investment: The pact introduces specific security-screening provisions and investment bans preventing non-NATO competitors"specifically China and Russia"from establishing military footprints or acquiring sensitive infrastructure and critical mineral/mining assets in Greenland.

Future Independence Planning: It includes political commitments ensuring that these defense arrangements and NATO alignment will remain legally binding and intact even if Greenland transitions into a fully independent nation separate from Denmark

A lot of people who go on crusades on what they perceive as wrongs in the world have what I call Anton-LaVey syndrome.

Take Capitalism, for example. The Far Left will only ever focus on the negative aspects and excesses of it and never have a nuanced argument about it. They won't acknowledge that some of the historical reactions to it were criminal and terroristic. Meanwhile, the Far Right will try to paint every attempt at regulation for the collective good to be the equivalent of Communist regimes.

"Typical Liberal narratives are that primitive peoples are seen as good and moral"

Liberals aren't the only ones who do that. Both the left and the right like romanticize simpler times to promote their narratives, whether it's collectivism or "rugged individualism". There has always been a problem with presenting a Single Story as a narrative, so much that it devolves into Two-Wrongs-Make-A-Right territory.

"Pool's Closed"

"It's the only reason people vote for Trump"

Derp.

I don't know why you post stuff like this, since I've posts from you sometimes that suggest you're capable of being more intelligent than that.

I guess you're just trolling, like LegallyMyDead and others. Have fun.

Paul Stanley told me that Heaven's on fire.

Belinda Carlisle said we could make Heaven a place on Earth.

Hence, global warming.

"Suffice to say the 2 terms are deeply intertwined. My 2 tier distillation works via transfer learning because a self driving car doesnt have to know how to fly. End result is small, efficient models with low RMSE. Or not small, if the thing needs expansive platform specific sensor fusion and datalink processing.
I should just add some of you to the repo."

You're just digging yourself deeper here. You might fool some of your clients with this guff, but you're conflating at least two completely different concepts to try to sound more clever than you are.

In this context, distillation changes how big the AI's brain is. It is fundamentally a form of compression. Domain narrowing is another concept. Regardless, you're not going to get anything useful in the real world with just 384 parameters, apart from maybe a demo to impress middle school students.

"And Carya Cluster is more like a fraction of a single row in an actual data center. Calling it one diminshes the scale of what they are."

No it doesn't. That's like saying a million dollars isn't a lot of money in comparison to the trillions of dollars that governments are now spending.

" When bad actors team up with AI, it creates a force multiplier effect that accelerates threats much faster than we can build defenses. Instead of humans helping AI bypass scientific bottlenecks for good, malicious users use AI to bypass the traditional bottlenecks of crime, cyber warfare, and disinformation."

You could just replace the word "AI" with "technology" in that paragraph and it would be equally true.

" Compression has nothing to do with this."

2-tier distillation is absolutely a form of compression. You're taking something that was created on a larger system and filtering things out so it can run on a smaller one.

" Very small models you can train on a laptop."

It goes without saying that if you simplify and narrow the task that it will require fewer nodes.

"Well, you mentioned it in #22."

Great job illustrating how AI bots hallucinate. :-)

"2 tier distillation"

This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right?

"But my question is, what mechanism for lack of a better word, allows it to learn and improve? Is it simply a programming language?"

They use Artificial Neural Networks, which is basically a set of algorithms that simulate the connections of neurons in a human/animal brain. Basically, it's a prediction engine that gives different mathematical weights based on inputs and expected outputs. Every time it gets retrained, it adjusts those weight values.

Remember that there are over 80 billion neurons in a human brain. That's why data centers require so much power to process this stuff.

"related:
Google Gemini also escaped its testing environment and hacked three companies
The model escaped due to a misconfiguration by Google's testing partner, Irregular."

It's highly misleading to say it "escaped". The programmers testing it screwed up, since they wrongly assumed it was properly sandboxed without internet access before giving it simulation instructions.

Taco Tuesday and Taco Wednesday

"Talarico '28!"

You may joke about that, but sources say they've already secured the rights to adapt the Karol G song that rhymes with his name.

Gotta love those unfunded mandates, eh?

One person's colonizer is another person's immigrant.

"IA" is how Hispanics and Cthulhu enthusiasts spell it.

OTOH, maybe the other poster was talking about Iowa?