Is kunrei-shiki romanization ("Funabasi") actually considered official? I see Hepburn romanization ("Funabashi") pretty much everywhere (including the official city website [1] in this case). Plus, it's better aligned with how it's actually pronounced.
For these classes of problems that LLMs struggle with, a more reliable way to go about them seems to be to ask them to solve them using tools, e.g. writing and executing a Python script to count the "R"s.
This is something I've been wondering about with regards to museums, live music, tourist sites, eating foreign food in their places of origin, etc.
Sure, ideally I'd go for all the real stuff, but traveling to faraway places for that requires lots of planning, vacation time, money, and putting up with discomfort along the way. Some of the museum-visiting and sightseeing can probably be replaced by something like a Vision Pro without much loss in the quality of the experiences, with some upsides in the factors I just mentioned.
Whenever I'm on a trip and visit an art or history museum I feel like I'd be able to better enjoy and appreciate the stuff if I weren't so tired from the walking/standing/travel and didn't have to go through the entire collection within the time constraints, and maybe a high-end VR headset at home can offer a higher quality experience. I still haven't paid for a Vision Pro though.
Right now I do try to experience a lot of the aforementioned things (live music etc.) in person, but to be honest I'm not 100% sold on their appeal given the more affordable/convenient/comfortable substitutes we have in the modern world. So far the value for me has been more about the memories I'm making with others than the actual content of the experiences themselves.
I can say work 100% certainty that the low resolution and limited colour reproduction of Vision Pro is no replacement. We're still a long way from that visually. And even if we do get there we've not considered the vibe and atmosphere. Particularly with live music you can physically feel the vibrations.
I don't read articles about autocrats or mass shootings or whatever because I don't enjoy them, and me reading them doesn't make the world a better place.
> the models they do release are probably toys in comparison to their internal models.
I'm not sure if that's true. They did say they're going to make Llama 3 400B public and if they follow through, that's no toy and I doubt they have something significantly better internally.
I have a newbie question: Can't we embed a hardware key into a phone, and that'd be just as good as a Yubikey? Do we already do this, or is there a reason why we don't?
[1] https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p0427...