I've been using the Vector API in Java to get some massive speedups for flowfield generation. There's no guessing with that approach - if the hardware supports SIMD, you get it.

Now with Valhala finally getting merged, he can hope the end of preview releases for the Vector API is coming to an end, probably it will take at least until Java 28, though.

The field has been called Artificial Intelligence for what, 60 plus years now. Why is it a problem now?

what has that got to do with what we name the field?

I'm a New Zealander. Farmers here are disliked by a large percentage of the population

Because its dominated more by businessmen than engineers c.f. early days of IT

"History" is generally used to mean when humans were around writing stuff down. And no, CO2 levels have never been this high during the entire history of human civilization, and likely the entire existence of Homo sapiens

Yeah, but they're not going to expand by taking on coal and fossil fuels. The third world is taking on green energy alternatives at a great rate. Not least because it's cheaper and more convenient. These countries can grow without the damage that marked the Western world through the industrial revolution onwards

They can have Russell Crowe. But you'll take Lamingtons from my cold dead hands!

how do you know?

The author admits it in the discussion of one of their other submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799568

Apparently, the disclaimer was "put as a joke". Must be an eclectic sense of humor.

Wikipedia suggests hundreds of deaths in various regions around the world - more common in the past, which suggests, I think, more wolves = more deaths.

Yeah, me too. Java always seemed to consider design a lot more than C# which seems to have taken more of a kitchen sink approach to language design. That stuff piles up over time (see c++)