I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.
Sergio
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“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)
- symbolic AI
- traditional AI
- GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI
Kinda sounds like you're talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I'm pretty sure they're all having funding problems too.
But wat if you're indoors and have limited room for maneuver?
great (and brief) article.
there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do"
lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.
The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn't have to make a lot of quick decisions.
Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they're only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.
Same energy as an unhoused cat choosing its new home.
I suggest you hold out for a Scooby-snack.
A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!
Tournament's over! And I don't plan to post til the next one, tho you're welcome to post stuff if you want obv. You can search youtube and the web for fun sumo stuff til then, but I thought I'd recc some sumo movies and shows:
- @jeena@piefed.jeena.net recommended SANCTUARY, and indeed it's a great series. Looks like it's a Netflix-exclusive: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/129120
- SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T (1992) - pretty cool movie, about a college kid who gets involved in his college's Sumo team. this isn't available on a corporate stream in the US, but there's a youtube video where a couple Texas sumotori do a watch-through of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aij5PTNHdvY
- SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T (2022) - a miniseries that's kind of a "next generation" of the movie. Looks like it's on Disney: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22187310/
- HINOMARU SUMO (2018-2019) - an anime about a high-school sumo wrestler. Typical sports anime plot, but fun bc it's about sumo! You can watch most of the first two seasons here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CISA3X2cJw but I think it's missing the last episode, so if you get that far you can look for that here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10066026/
Another fun thing to do is check out local amateur groups. If you're in the US, you can look here:
- https://www.ussumo.org/map Most people I've met at sumo clubs were really cool, there's usually some mix of interest in martial arts with interest in Japanese culture. This post's image (via https://grandsumobreakdown.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/american-sumo-newsletter-february-2024/) shows a bunch of those clubs, they usually welcome newcomers, and they generally do local tournaments and exhibitions, so support your local sumo team!
Finally, it's a lot of fun to add some sumo-related exercises to your workout. Here are a couple of the basics that I like:
- Shiko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvHesbDZUQ&t=30s
- Teppo (I use a punching bag against the wall): https://youtu.be/wN2GtAVYSpM?t=109
Hakkeyoi!!!
The best bouts that just happened last night in Japan! With post-fight sumo move analysis in English.
Here’s the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6C7RUswGwA
Here are the rest of the Day 10 bouts in Japanese:
- https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/p781bLebx4/bp/pqnmPDBoPw/
- https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/p781bLebx4/bp/p3gojQRX03/
If you're not familiar with sumo this is a great video to watch, it’s a summary of all the top action of the day and the commentary is in English.
If there are words you don't recognize...
- some words refer to the sumo wrestler's ranking: yokozuna, ozeki, sekiwake, komosubi and finally maegashira (which also have numbers.) These rankings change after every tournament. See the current rankings.
- the rankings are different from the tournament's leaderboard.
- other words like yorikiri and oshitaoshi refer to the techniques used. There's a lot of pushing, tripping, and throwing!
- finally there are various other terms bc this endeavor has been around for several centuries.
Here's the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iM96X4vFQw
Sounds interesting. Glad those topics are still being investigated. So important to remember that even those neural methods labored for decades in the shadows before they finally found the answers they needed.