This kind of music is my jam.

A popular hit that's semi-recent...well I guess not anymore is "Pumped Up Kicks" which was about a school shooting but was written with this carefree tone that really makes it all the more deranged.

There's a band I listen to called HIM and they have a dancy 80s rock vibe mixed in with gothic music tones. Their shtick lyrically is playing with goth romance cliches so you get a lot of "I'll love you to death" kind of stuff. Other Finnish rock bands that were around in the early 2k have similar stuff (69 Eyes, The Rasmus, Negative) but it varies whether or not it hits what you're looking for.

I, personally, think a lot of post-grunge music does this as well. So Cold by Breaking Benjamin, Saferwaters by Chevelle, Deftones plays around with this quite a bit as well (I know they're nu metal but whatever subgenres are nuts).

You'll find it littered throughout a lot of other rock music as well but that's mainly a consequence of it having dark lyrics while trying to have a type of dancy vibe for commercial viability. I think the more esoteric you get in rock the more this goes away. Prog rock seems to be a good vein for this kind of stuff too (Tool, Pink Floyd, Rush) but they tend to flip through a lot of themes so it's hard to condense a single song into "happy but sad" in the specific way you're seeking.

Back to more pop stuff - Save Your Tears by The Weeknd is a good one. Maneskin's cover of Beggin' I feel does this as well.

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Well of course they are. Google knows this game pretty well at this point. They're playing for second intentionally. Let ChatGPT take the lumps for being the first to try and scale and whether they make it or not is irrelevant because Google can take a fair chunk of the market with relative ease. No reason for them to rush in.

I'd be extremely surprised if Google got honestly caught unawares. Perhaps they were surprised by how quickly ChatGPT grew, but I have to imagine they're pretty well positioned to handle this.

But, this is a very promising sign. ChatGPT is one tool and it shows that, if done right, a small company can still put some pressure on the larger companies. Hopefully we see a few more like ChatGPT in the next 4-5 years to add some diversity to the tech markets.

Oh I gotcha

I think it's hard to tell.

I see this being most applicable to some brain and nerve damage, and maybe reduce the effects of decaying brain function in old age eventually.

It could also be a step towards better research of the brain. Since neurons are one of the building blocks of the brain, they might be able to create their own artificial synapse networks and learn more about how to treat, repair, or even augment complex neural networks inside of a real brain. Hell, if you push it far enough it might even be a means for them to build mimics of (or even totally new and useful) neural networks for people.

I'm getting ahead of myself though. I think the big step in this is that it's a fundamental piece of doing those crazy brain and CNS things we want to do. On its own, it's probably not going to be any thing super crazy. But it is a big piece of the puzzle.

Got it. Thank you for explaining!

Can someone explain how depreciation and amortization yielded a positive flow? I know depreciation to be the loss of asset value and amortization to be repayment of debt. Just not sure how that category generated money in.