"Farming is hard, let's go viking"

Farming in Scandinavia has got to be harder than farming somewhere further south.

Maybe the climate and landscape turned them Viking?

'It is the great north wind that made the Vikings' as Will Antonio Zeppeli told Jonathan Joestar.

I'm curious about the "created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts". They didn't pay?

They violated TOS

Are you sure about that ? Because the very next tweet says:

  > Distillation can be legitimate: AI labs use it to create smaller, cheaper models for their customers.

That's just in reference to the technique itself. They're basically saying it's okay for Google to use distillation to train Gemini N Flash using Gemini N-1 Pro (which they do).

> "Previously, this level of ire and targeted defamation was generally reserved for public figures. Us common people get to experience it now too."

Foaming-at-the-mouth as a service, at affordable prices. Perfect together with verified-ID-required-for-everything

I'll have an apotropaic inscription to go, please.

Back in the peak-paper days - when the Sunday newspaper was for the man "smart enough to read it and strong enough to carry it", and the Computer Shopper magazine vied with phone directories for thickness - you could go into a gas station and pick up a paperback copy of the CIA World Factbook, usually from a shelf also sporting the Rand McNally road maps.

Tears in rain, sic transit, etc.

> Its a demonstration of wealth. This is called Veblen good

Just the other day I was reminded of the poor little "I am rich" iOS app (a thousand dollar ruby icon that performed diddly squat by design), which Apple deep-sixed from the app store PDQ.

If misery loves company, Veblen goods sure don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia Area • Total 45,335 km2 (17,504 sq mi)

Some people are just oblivious to six orders of magnitude mistakes, and then go off about "folly, mistake, calamitous hubris, neglect, and plain stupidity" ...

Assuming this is about Harju, it seems the author read "245 million sq m" and assumed the m was miles, not metres.

So the already large 24,500 hectare farm became a ludicrous 245 million square mile multi-planetary behemoth.

Reading sq m as square miles is a surprisingly common error in the US, but usually gets caught before production or publication because the result is orders of magnitude out.

Quoted straight from the piece, as written by dude who just made one of the smallest countries around have abandoned farms larger than the whole world ...

But many people are really like this, no notion whatsoever of order of magnitude plausibility. Has to be beaten out of engineering students, but I suppose the majority of the population is untreated.

(LLMs are going to be a lot of fun too)

> who is too special

"Fans are slans."

LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)

It seems to refer to the previous paragraph:

> The naive extrapolation of this exponential trend predicts that the 21st century will see cheap computers with a thousand times the raw computational power of all human brains combined

i.e. putting an upper bound on the exponential with solar system mass