This is because currently deep learning is not a science, but engineering. There is no underlying theory why deep neural networks generalize as well as they do. Classical learning theory (VC) actually states that large models with millions of parameters should not work.
There are some academics working on this, but it pales in comparison with how much money is being poured into generative AI.
So today's state-of-the-art models are trained with trial and error, and experts who are building some intuition why some methods work and others don't.
There’s very little storage cost as the fuel can be burned til there is nothing radioactive left.
Nuclear doesn’t produce radioactive materials it reduces radioactivity. If you mix the spent fuel from a heavy water reactor back into the ore, it’s radioactivity will have been reduced.
While you can burn the fuel until very few long-lived isotopes are left we don't do that currently. Nuclear reactors also turn relatively harmless Uranium into much more active elements. Just mixing the waste back into the rocks you got the Uranium from is not a safe storage method.
We don't do that currently because there hasn't been a new plant built in 50 years and the designs of the old plants were specifically engineered to make materials for nuclear weapons.
If there wasn't a huge stigma against nuclear energy they would be making advancements, but nobody is going to fund advancements while there is no guarantee they will be allowed to apply them.
What would happen to the JavaScript language if every year half of congress gave speeches condemning JavaScript and calling for a prohibition against any new JavaScript code? How many new people would bother learning JavaScript.
A dice is rolled and you're born in the world in some country, borders drawn on a map centuries ago by a person from another country. A world sliced and diced by imaginary lines, making groups out of people that in the best case share some common "culture". You are saying that in this world, everyone needs to live in the little territory that they were born?
> You are saying that in this world, everyone needs to live in the little territory that they were born?
Of course not. I'm saying that in this world you are not entitled to live in other people's territory and you must first gain their permission to live in their territory. If you are able to make the prerequisite arrangements you should be free to live wherever you want.
I should have qualified my statements a lot more. I'm just reading up on research in deterministic multithreading, and I've only seen American universities on the papers I'm reading for a long time and I was being hyperbolic. Yes, there is lots of interesting research and development in Europe. For example, static analysis of actor systems is a mostly European thing.
There are some academics working on this, but it pales in comparison with how much money is being poured into generative AI.
So today's state-of-the-art models are trained with trial and error, and experts who are building some intuition why some methods work and others don't.