What is the linux app endgame in an ideal world? Imho that is true linux on mobile. With painless, secure, efficient downloads from app stores. (This way the FOSS impact will skyrocket and the promise will be fulfilled)
Work backward from that requirement and constraint. Solutions and designs that barely work for the linux desktop will never bring a revolution...
We do have a "superconductor" but its not the one we wanted. It is the best description for the behavior of online (social) media: no longer exhibits any resistance and the tiniest spark leads to amplification and a system meltdown.
These collective hysterias are a combination of people desperate for technological solutions to (typically) social problems and a system that eagerly exploits that for the benefit of a few.
Of course there are countless mysteries still remaining to be uncovered in materials science, just like there is an infinity of algorithmic advances to be made in processing information.
But the more important invention of all might be to find the checks and balances, feedback loops and regulators that will prevent people from behaving like panicked apes. At best this uncontrolled lemming instinct of ours is a huge waste of time. At worst it undermines society and our welfare.
No matter what the true combination of reasons, this is a massive endorsement of the python ecosystem.
Its an interesting dynamic: popularity draws attention, attention helps adress pain points, this makes the platform more attractive and the popularity increases...
There is a PostgreSQL extension (Apache AGE) [1] that provides graph database functionality, implementing the proposed SQL:2023 specification for property graphs queries might be easier in that context?
Well if you hate what the EU stands for I don't think there is any "evidence" that would sway you in any direction.
That people in Europe have concrete and non-trivial views about important matters is fairly evident if you simply check what kind of laws and regulations they are passing. So there is a distinct vision.
That there is plenty of research talent that is educated to cutting-edge level with citizen tax money is also pretty evident if you check who has been behind some important such AI "innovations". So there is also capability to execute on the vision.
The weakness of the EU is that it can't (not fast enough anyway) build the structures (internal markets etc) that will overcome nativist instincts. To accumulate the resources and critical mass where it is needed. Brexit made everything just a little bit harder.
The UK leaving the EU means, for example, that its cutoff from academic research networks. People are by now even studying this effect quantitatively [1]
Brexit also means that the entire financial system in the EU (which was very London centric) is in shambles. London as a financial center is declining [2] with implications for the shape of Europe's capital markets, the developments around new forms of digital finance, fintech etc.
So, yeah, go on with your livid denial of how disastrous that fateful decision.
Imagine how people might feel about the "departed AI train" in any lesser European (or other) country that would not even remotely dream of having an Alan Turing Institute.
It is such self-inflicted misery. The bright future for the UK would have been as a core member the EU, helping shape a large economic space with massive amounts of talent, happily moving around the wonderful cities, taping the endless cultural heritage and building a digital society congruent with the European way of life and values (which in various important ways differs from the US). While the nationalistic reflex is not as strong elsewhere in Europe it is still a hindrance that shows up in countless frictions.
In any case, LLM's are just another stop of the journey. If people stopped digging while in a hole there is always a way out.